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WSOP update: Retiree, 24-year old philosopher win bracelets

Alan Smurfit, a 64-year old retiree from Miami, and Alexander Borteh, a 24-year old professional poker player who recently graduated from college with a degree in Philosophy, won bracelets last night at the World Series of Poker. Two more final tables were also determined, with Nam Le the most well-known player set to make a bracelet run tonight, and T.J...read more

WSOP update: Lisandro wins first bracelet

The Iceman Cometh Jeffrey "Iceman" Lisandro won his first bracelet Thursday in the $2,000 Seven-Card Stud Event (#32). The 41-year old Italian poker pro and highly-regarded cash-game specialist collected $118,426. Lisandro won the WSOP circuit event in Lake Tahoe last year and has five WSOP final tables on the books since 2004, including a second place finish this year...read more

Industry reaction to WTO compensation claims muted

Antigua and Barbuda asked the U.S. government Wednesday to pay $3.44 billion to settle a World Trade Organization dispute over online gambling. The European Union filed a compensation claim against the U.S. on Tuesday, asking the U.S. government to open up other financial sectors as payment for retroactively eliminating online gambling from its General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) schedule...read more

Crafting WSOP gold

Comfort was the idea. When Corum, the official designer of this year's 55 World Series of Poker gold bracelets, took one look at the massive bracelets of old, they decided to create something players could actually wear in public. "The old bracelets are great because they mean something, but they look like a heavyweight boxer's championship belt," said Stacie Orloff, president of Corum USA...read more

GAMING COMPANIES: MGM shares take a wild ride

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Investors weren't sure how to handle MGM Mirage on Wednesday. Two announcements a half-hour apart played havoc with the company's stock price, but also signaled a significant development move on land MGM Mirage recently acquired on the Strip's northern end. Early in the morning, the Las Vegas-based casino giant announced an intent to form a 50-50 joint venture with Kerzner International Holdings to develop a multibillion dollar resort on 40 acres across from the Sahara. Details of the project are being planned, but a definitive agreement could be announced by the end of September...read more

Rebecca's Recommendations - June 22, 2007

Dear Casino City Readers, My life is not as exciting as you think. Want to know what I did this past weekend? I watched family vacation slideshows with my parents, my sister and her boyfriend. Slideshows. Both nights. This is not a joke...read more

Convincing Congress to change its stance on Internet gambling

I met with Jim Gordon, a staffer for my Congressman, Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), this afternoon. My Congressman has been holding "Open Office" hours for the last two weeks to let his constituents voice their opinions on issues we feel he should be addressing. I talked about Internet gambling...read more

Strip development: Echelon gets off to cool start

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- A decade ago, Boyd Gaming Corp. executives put aside plans to redevelop the company's Strip land holdings in favor of moving forward on an opportunity to build a hotel-casino in Atlantic City. On Tuesday, the Strip became the company's foremost priority. Boyd Gaming unveiled details and renderings for the $4.8 billion Echelon, which will have five hotels surrounding a multiuse resort destination on 87 acres, much of which once housed the now-imploded Stardust. Instead of a formal "shovels-into-a-pile-of-dirt" ground-breaking, Boyd executives kept several hundred guests out of the 100-degree temperatures and inside an air-conditioned tent on the Echelon site...read more

Casino Profit Share launches slots tournament tool

Casino Profit Share has unveiled a new slots tournament tool for affiliates. The Dynamic Slots Tournament Scheduler tells players when slots tournaments are running within the CPS brands. CPS is offering the code to all its affiliates...read more

Thater first woman to win an open bracelet since 2004; Hellmuth notches another record

Katja Thater won World Series of Poker Event #29, a $1,500 Razz tournament, to become the first woman to win a non-special event since 2004, to win $132,653. Kathy Liebert and Annie Duke won open events in the 2004 Series, but since then, only three women have captured bracelets, Jennifer Tilly, Sally Boyer, Mary Jones and Clair Miller...read more