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Players waited in three-hour-registration lines the day before the World Series of Poker Main Event began as throngs tried to secure seats the moment they arrived at the Rio Thursday afternoon.

Watch out Golden Tee. PokerTek has you squarely in its sights. PokerTek unveiled its automated World Series of Poker heads-up table at the WSOP this week. And it’s drawing rave reviews.

Between more players -- 1,545 players bought into Day 1B with another 1,606 expected for tomorrow – and the appearance of several well-known pros, the Amazon room was electric.

A little more than 1300 players participated in the first day of the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, a near 40 percent drop off from the same day last year.

According to Jennifer Lynn, director of the new Qua Bath & Spa at Caesars Palace, spas a becoming a crucial part of the gaming industry.

The World Series of Poker flexed its social conscience Thursday evening as 170 celebrities and poker pros played a charity tournament to raise money and awareness for the human rights catastrophe in the Darfur region of Sudan.

While Joe the Pro (a professional Internet poker player well known for his YouTube advice) isn't playing in the Main Event, he's got plenty of advice for those of you thinking about playing in the $10,000 poker tournament, which begins tomorrow. We just hope you'll take it with a grain of salt.

Station Casinos isn't discussing how its business strategy may change after, as expected, the company goes private by year's end in a management-led buyout.

The Small Town Poker Tour Pro Am Championship will be held July 13, at the South Point Hotel Casino and Spa in Las Vegas.

For the first time ever, the World Poker Tour will host a booth at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino's Gaming Life Expo.

A closer look at the weekend action in the World Series of Poker.

I have been to Vegas over ten times throughout my life, but this might be the most excited I have ever been for a trip to Sin City. I am ready in every way, and here is why.

Jeff Simpson spent an hour last weekend at Wynn Las Vegas talking with Steve Wynn about the ongoing controversy surrounding the property's tip-sharing system.

Nearly 4.2 million passengers hustled through McCarran International Airport in May, an increase of almost 7 percent from the same month last year, and it comes as airline flights nationally are more crowded than ever.

In today's installment, Freddy Deeb takes home the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. bracelet, Saifuddin Ahmad wins event #43 and Jamie Gold makes the money for the first time since winning the big one.

University of Macau gaming management students have been in Las Vegas attending workshops at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' International Gaming Institute and touring local gaming properties.

After winning the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. tournament in the wee hours of Friday morning, Freddy Deeb didn’t hold anything back. "I played great and I got what I deserve," Deeb told the crowd of nearly 100 observers who watched the end of the tournament at 5 a.m. -- 14 and 1/2 hours after the final table began.

For a while, I thought Mafia-related books, including histories and biographies, were done, as if publishers had their fill and didn't want to produce more. Maybe the fact this is the 60th anniversary of Bugsy Siegel's demise in Beverly Hills (1947) that's brought renewed interest in The Mob.

Organizing the World Series of Poker is a year round project, requiring hundreds of employees and more than a year of planning. The event's major leaders spend countless hours creating a game plan, only to find out that putting out fires is an inevitable part of the job. Still, the WSOP is the largest and most successful tournament series in the world.

The National League of Poker will make its national debut at the Gaming Life Expo at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, July 5th through 8th, during the World Series of Poker main event.