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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

Around the WSOP: Minieri helps Italy claim another WSOP bracelet

Dario Minieri is best known for the orange and maroon scarf he wears in honor of his beloved soccer team, AS Roma. But after the completion of Wednesday night's $2,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em championship, the flamboyant 23-year-old Italian has something else to flaunt at the poker table: a World Series of Poker bracelet...read more

MGM announces nongaming hotel project in China

CHINA -- MGM Mirage and its Chinese joint-venture partner announced their first nongaming hotel project in mainland China on Wednesday in which construction is expected to begin later this month. No financial details were released but one analyst thought the project could be worth $200 million in annual cash flow for MGM Mirage once the development opens. The deal with the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse calls for MGM Mirage, through its MGM Mirage Hospitality subsidiary, to provide development and management services for Sinosteel International Plaza, a mixed-use project in Tianjin, China. Tianjin, which has 10 million people, is a gateway city to Beijing and is also a port city in Northern China. MGM Mirage will develop and operate the 350-room MGM Grand Tianjin, which will include 50 separate suites and 60 condominium residences, along with a spa, restaurant and other amenities...read more

Debt-strapped Herbst Gaming shuts small Northern Nevada casino

NEVADA -- Financially troubled Herbst Gaming closed one of its small Northern Nevada casinos this week. The Las Vegas-based company, which told investors in late March it was facing possible bankruptcy over a mounting debt load, closed the Red Hawk Sports Bar in Dayton, laying off an undetermined number of workers...read more

Around the WSOP: Phan gets his gamble on

For all the math, percentages and odds involved in playing poker, the fact of the matter is you don't become a poker player unless you have a little gamble in you. And that gamble was on full display last night in the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournament (Event #29) at the World Series of Poker. The final table started about 20 minutes late because John Phan, who thought the final table was starting at 3 p.m...read more

Sweden's Mattsson eyes third straight cash at WSOP Main Event

As far as Stefan Mattsson is concerned, you can keep your copy of Doyle Brunson's Super System and all of those instructional poker videos. He doesn't want to hear about "poker theory" and he certainly isn't going to be seeking out a coach or poker lessons any time soon...read more

Around the WSOP: Galfond takes down star-studded final table to win WSOP bracelet

Go ahead and score one in the win column for the Internet poker player generation. In a high-profile event that resulted in a final table with players who have won a combined 27 World Series of Poker bracelets, two players who honed their skills online make it to the head-up portion...read more