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Ivey adds sixth bracelet to collection

Phil Ivey said in 2005 that he thought that he could win 30 gold bracelets by the time he was done playing poker. After taking home his sixth bracelet last night, he is 20% done. The 32-year-old superstar outlasted a strong field of 147 to win the $2,500 Deuce-to-Seven No-Limit Lowball event at the World Series of Poker. The win was Ivey's first at the WSOP since 2005, when he won a $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha title. He defeated John Monnette in heads-up play at a final table that lasted nearly six hours...read more

IGT hires former Microsoft exec

LAS VEGAS, Nevada –- Reno-based slot machine giant International Game Technology dipped into the ranks of Microsoft Corp. to the company's newly created chief technology officer. Chris Satchell will join IGT after 17 years with Microsoft, most recently as the chief technology officer for the Int...read more

Deal Me In: Just whose ace is it anyway?

Dear Mark: Recently at a Reno blackjack table, I placed a bet in the betting circle and the dealer missed me and didn't give me a card. The card, an ace, was given to the next player and I said, "you missed me." The dealer said "you'll have to wait till the next hand, I'm not giving you HIS ace," even though she hadn't even given herself a card yet...read more

Casino City WSOP fantasy draft

The World Series of Poker is a huge event. It's the greatest poker festival in the world. And it features the game's best players on its grandest stage. But it's also a very long event. And by long, I mean loooooooooooooooooooong. By the end of the WSOP's 56.85 tournaments (have to factor in the break in the Main Event), the players who have filled the Rio for 50 days look like zombies ready to keel over from exhaustion...read more

The stars are out at the WSOP

Poker superstar Daniel Negreanu just missed out on his first World Series of Poker final table of 2009, but the talk of the event revolved around the 74-year-old winner. Freddie Ellis, a real estate broker who outlasted 141 other competitors in the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud tournament to win the gold bracelet, is more than twice Negreanu's age...read more

Champions Invitational victory has Tom McEvoy thinking Hall of Fame

Tom McEvoy's career has been impressive enough that you wouldn't think he would need to validate himself as a poker player. That's typically the kind of thing reserved for fringe players or those who have never won a bracelet, not a former World Series of Poker Main Event champion...read more

LV Sands reaches settlement in Macau suit

LAS VEGAS, Nevada –- Three men who were suing Las Vegas Sands Corp., for payment for assistance they provided the company in its acquisition of a Macau gaming license seven years ago, reached a confidential settlement with the casino operator Wednesday. Financial terms of the settlement, which was announced the day before the trial was scheduled to begin, were not disclosed...read more

Enjoy history of gambling -- it's full of colorful stories

Often, when visitors arrive in Las Vegas, they want to know a little bit about the history of the city as well as the games they'll soon play. Cab drivers, dealers, casino hosts and tour guides are queried about many facets of the industry...read more

LV Sands trial delayed amid settlement talks

LAS VEGAS, Nevada –- The start of a civil trial concerning how Las Vegas Sands Corp. earned a Macau gaming license has been delayed until Thursday amid reports the sides may be in settlement talks. Three men are suing Las Vegas Sands, saying they helped connect the company with its eventual partner in the 2002 Macau licensing process...read more

Heard it on the river: Pearl River Resort worth the trip

A visit to PEARL RIVER RESORT, deep in the heart of Choctaw Country in central southeast Mississippi is one worth taking as this gem has it all. Things you might enjoy on a weekend trip, which I did recently, was make waves at GEYSER FALLS Water Theme Park, play golf at DANCING RABBIT, one of the nation's best, dine fine at superb restaurants like MIKO, under new chef FREDRICK GORDON, and ECLIPSE, and take a safari through thousands of slots and table games...read more