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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

Michael Gaughan to join Gaming Hall of Fame

LAS VEGAS, Nevada –- South Point owner Michael Gaughan will join his father as a member of the Gaming Hall of Fame later this year. Gaughan, who built the Coast Casinos brand before selling the properties to Boyd Gaming Corp. in 2004 for $1.3 billion, will be honored in November during the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. "For more than 40 years, Michael has been a major figure in the gaming industry, and the casinos he has developed and operated have helped to make Las Vegas what it is today," American Gaming Association President Frank J...read more

First week of WSOP breaking records

The 40th World Series of Poker kicked off last week at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and it didn't take long for records to be broken. Event #2, the $40,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em tournament, set the record for the largest prize pool in a non-Main Event field, with 201 players paying $40,000 each to create a prize pool of $7.7 million. Event #4, a $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em tournament billed as a "stimulus special," set the largest non-WSOP Main Event tournament ever played with 6,012, entries and 621 spots being paid out...read more