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After four seasons NBC has decided to move Poker After Dark away from the South Point Hotel and Casino.  Hosting the 2009 Season’s 60 episodes will be the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino’s newest event center, “The Grand”.  Poker fans need not fret; host/model Leeann Tweeden will be moving with the show.  Past participants Phil […]

The ease and comfort of online poker may be coming to a card-room near you soon! At least two different U.S. card rooms are electing to use “PokerPro” software which electronically deals cards to poker players at a traditional-style card table. Chip counts and pot sizes are also kept electronically with each player […]

Casino files lawsuit against NBA. Wynn Las Vegas is attempting to force the payment of a $50,000 bill that was created back in 2007 for an NBA All-Star game. During the All-Star weekend that year, NBA Properties, NBA Entertainment, and Alonzo Mourning Charities all used meeting space and convention space, but they never paid their […]

Vincente Perez, 57, of Macon, Georgia pleaded guilty over the fatal stabbing that took place at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic city.
Perez and Arthur Price, 61, got into an argument over a seat at a poker table. The disagreement continued outside to the valet parking area.  Prince then proceeded to hit Perez with […]

In quite the unprecedented move, Poker Stars opened its very own live poker room in Macau, China today. Not only is the first ever live poker room ever opened by an online poker room, but Poker Stars in doing so, is spreading the game of poker across the world.
Despite the surprising nature of this news, […]

We’ll start this tale of sorrow and woe with the story of Tropicana Entertainment, an operator of eleven casinos including one famous location on the Las Vegas Strip. They have recently filed for bankruptcy protection and they have blamed their financial troubles on tight credit markets and their Atlantic City location. In January 2007, Tropicana […]

As a Vancouverite (the Canadian version), I feel the need to write an article featuring the first ever Coast to Coast Poker Championship, a series of tournaments that will start tomorrow at the River Rock Resort and Casino (a mere 10 minute drive away from my house). The WPT Canada has scheduled seven events to […]

Woman steals $39,000 to play video poker. Diata Demanje Rhodes, a former Multnomah County employee, stole nearly $39,000 from the county she worked for to fund a video poker addiction. She was forced to resign from her position after officials found money missing from an account she worked with. Upon being discovered, she pleaded guilty […]

Smokers Banned from Casinos in Atlantic City. Smoking was still permitted in casinos even after New Jersey banned smoking in most public buildings just two years ago, but that could soon change. Next week the City Council should be giving final approval to a ban that would see it illegal to smoke on casino floors. […]

When you think of Las Vegas, one of the first hotel chains that pops into mind is Caesar’s Palace. That is apparently what Harrah’s Entertainment also thought. Harrah’s Board of Directors agreed that the company would be better off known as Caesars Entertainment Corporation.
In 2005, Harrah’s first obtained Caesars Entertainment through a merger, but […]