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WSOP Update - Day 10

The Winner of Event # 8 - $2000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB Zack Zwerner, founder of the biggest bingo enterprise in America and former high-level casino executive, is the latest gold bracelet winner at the 2006 World Series of Poker, (WSOP) capturing $341,426 after three grueling days of Omaha High-Low 8/OB...read more

Poker Pros Lurking Around WSOP Satellite Tables

Even if you're not planning on playing in one the featured events of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), there's still a chance to face a familiar professional if you decide to play in the satellites or cash games. Poised around the rails of those tables are televised pros, eager to grab the buy-in money needed to enter the bigger tournaments...read more

Hellmuth Sets New WSOP "In The Money" Record

The 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is proving to be a re-birth of sorts for poker's most famous brat. Phil Hellmuth, owner of nine WSOP gold bracelets, set another benchmark in the event's opening week by cashing in his 50th WSOP tournament...read more

Gambling Beyond Nevada: By-The-Sea Change

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- Atlantic City has taken a page from the Las Vegas playbook. With last week's soft opening of The Pier at Caesars, a $200 million high-end retail-and-dining venue adjacent to Caesars Atlantic City, the southern New Jersey destination continues to morph into more than just a day-trip, gambling-intensive city. Competition for its traditional visitors, which numbered almost 35 million in 2005, is expected to intensify in the coming years as neighboring New York and Pennsylvania make plans to open large slot-machine casinos. Out of necessity, Atlantic City's casinos have been forced to invest financially in their plants beyond the gaming floors to give customers more than just gambling. "It really comes down to Atlantic City needing to reinvent itself," Deutsche Bank gaming analyst Bill Lerner said. The seaside gaming community dominated by Atlantic City's famous Boardwalk needs to give its customers other reasons to visit, he said. "The typical Atlantic City casino customer, a high-frequency and convenience-oriented gambler, is going to find the same slot machines in closer proximity to their homes...read more

Nevadan At Work: When Change Happens, Executive with Station Casinos Embraces It

After nine years at the heart of the Strip, Scott Kreeger wanted a change of pace. What he got was an education. Kreeger has held seven jobs with Station Casinos since joining the company in 2000. He is general manager of the $925 million Red Rock Resort, overseeing operations of the Las Vegas-based casino company's newest property, which opened April 18. Once the 450-room second phase of Red Rock opens by February, Kreeger knows the company -- which has six potential casino sites around Las Vegas, two projects planned for Reno, and four possible American Indian casino management deals -- could move him once again. "I'm a utility player...read more

Rebecca's Recommendations - June 30, 2006

I am off to Paris for a wedding this weekend. Can you believe this? The fun never stops, I swear. However, this time around I will not have the luxury of VIP tables, unlimited Cristal champagne, and fine tequila, and I will not be in the immediate presence of Dennis Rodman, Costa Rican escorts, or any billionaires who make People's hottest bachelors list...read more

California Casino Proposal Rejected

CALIFORNIA – A California legislative committee late Wednesday dealt a blow to the prospects of side-by-side tribal casinos opening in Barstow, but proponents of the venture some 120 miles from the Nevada border aren't ready to fold. The Assembly Governmental Organizational Committee, after a daylong hearing in Sacramento, rejected a bid by two Indian tribes to operate twin casinos near Barstow's outlet malls off Interstate 15. The tribes, one from San Diego County and one from Humboldt County, have signed compacts with Gov...read more

Negreanu Pupil Becoming a Master

Daniel Negreanu gets hundreds of e-mails from people who believe they are on the threshold of making a big splash in the poker, but need the 2004 Player of the Year to help them reach their potential. "Of course I can't help everybody," Negreanu says...read more

Column: 'F'in Ridiculous

The logistical nightmare of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) makes for an interesting scene that is best described with the word "zoo." Basically, it's a bunch of poker starved animals caged inside a box not equipped to handle them. It's quite a hilarious picture, with grown men and women shouting about "fairness" and people generally berating each other for mistakes in play...read more

Hellmuth Record Under Review

For now, news from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has Phil Hellmuth as the all-time leader in cashes with 50 after he made the money in WSOP Event # 2 and received an appreciation ovation for his accomplishment. The announcement was made late on Tuesday in front of the player and spectators filling the Amazon Room of the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino, but a record review is underway and it may be that Hellmuth has only have 49...read more