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Around the WSOP: Players to watch in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

For an event that has been around for just two years, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship has certainly made its mark on the World Series of Poker. And this year's third-annual edition of the event – which begins on Wednesday evening – will carry even more reverence for a couple of reasons...read more

A full house at the right time

Winning a World Series of Poker event for the first time was a monumental achievement in the career of David Singer. But if his pregnant fiancee, Erin Warner, had gone into labor during the final table, Singer was ready to pick up his chips and walk away from the game. Luckily, Samuel Koster Singer waited a day for his arrival, allowing dad to collect $214,122 by winning the $1,500 buy-in pot-limit hold'em event early in the tournament, topping a field of 713 players. "A lot of people were betting that Erin would go into labor, wanting to see if I would really do it," said Singer, 41, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. Singer is a former environmental law attorney who moved to Las Vegas two years ago to be closer to his 5-year-old son, Anton. "I was her Lamaze coach...read more

Herbst taps new directors

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Herbst Gaming appointed two independent directors to oversee any potential restructuring opportunities for the financially troubled casino operator. Attorneys John O'Reilly and John Brewer will entertain, evaluate and negotiate all restructuring proposals for Herbst Gaming, which is facing a potential bankruptcy because of mounting debt...read more

U.S. Response to I-Gaming Probe Stings EU Operators

The European Commission, as part of its investigation into whether United States policy on Internet gambling violates international trade rules, sent a questionnaire to various government offices and agencies in the United States. The document poses 32 questions, but Susan C...read more

Around the WSOP: Woo 'The Manificent ' hauls in a bracelet

David "The Magnificent" Woo finally has a World Series of Poker bracelet to help him back-up his nickname after the 30-year-old native of South Korea captured the ultra-popular $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em championship on Monday night. David Woo earned his first WSOP bracelet by outlasting a massive field of 2,720 entries...read more

AsianLogic in J.V. with Parent Co. of Cagayan Freeport Master Licensor

AsianLogic Ltd. is seeking to further extend its reach into Asia through a joint venture with Leisure and Resorts World Corporation, a company that operates bingo parlors in the Philippines and also happens to control the master licensor for online gambling in the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport. Leisure and Resorts, a public company, has disclosed to the Philippine Stock Exchange that it will "enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with AsianLogic ...read more

Top-10 WSOP Main Event champions

This week's list of Top-10 Main Event champions isn't an effort to determine the ten-best poker players since the World Series of Poker began in 1970. Instead, it's an attempt to assess the importance and role of each player in the larger history of the Series...read more

Around the WSOP: Benyamine adds to an already impressive resume

Not that David Benyamine's career needed any validation, but the 35-year-old Frenchman's victory in the $10,000 Omaha High-Low Split World Championship helped make what was already an impressive resume even more daunting. While Benyamine has long been known as one of the world's best high-stakes cash game players, he has carried the label as one of the greatest players never to win a WSOP bracelet...read more

Inside gaming column: What, him worry? Not Trump

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Finalizing the sale of more than 250 condominium units on the Strip since April would seem sufficient, especially during these daunting economic times. When the condos are inside Donald Trump's $1.2 billion Trump International Hotel & Tower and carry prices between $700,000 and $5 million, there's a higher level of scrutiny attached. Trump, the opinionated billionaire developer, crowed over how quickly units were being sold at his noncasino Las Vegas venture...read more

Around the WSOP: Germany's Ruthenberg stares down Jesus for first bracelet

All things considered, there really isn't a better way to win your first World Series of Poker bracelet than the manner in which Germany's Sebastian Ruthenberg went about it in the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split World Championship...read more