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The conference program for Casino Marketing & Technology, to be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino from July 14-16, will include the first-ever technology program designed specifically for casino marketers.

The company’s first scheduled poker experience will run from May 27 - June 1st, centered around the World Series of Poker’s Colossus bracelet event in Las Vegas with Lee as the host.

Casino City's Aaron Todd looks forward to some of the most intriguing events at this summer's World Series of Poker.

FFP is sending members to Las Vegas this summer for Poker's Holy Grail.

The 46th annual World Series of Poker – a set of poker tournaments open to anyone 21 years of age or older – officially puts cards in the air, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, with nearly $200 million in prize money up for grabs, and several new events and changes in store to provide better value and excitement to poker’s version of Woodstock – including a huge increase in starting chips.

The 2015 World Series of Poker will be held from May 27 - July 14, and this year the tournament series will feature a $565 buy-in "Colossus" with a $5 million guaranteed prize pool.

Jacobson won the World Series of Poker Main Event on Tuesday night, defeating fellow professional Felix Stephensen at the Rio’s Penn & Teller Theater.

Europeans have one key advantage over their American counterparts: Easy access to online poker.

While Vin Narayanan and Aaron Todd report on the World Series of Poker Main Event final table live from Las Vegas, Casino City's Dan Podheiser stayed in Boston to watch ESPN's coverage of the November Nine on a 30-minute delay.

Outside of Mark Newhouse, no one took their exit from the World Series of Poker Main Event final table on Monday night and Tuesday morning harder than William Tonking.

William Pappaconstantinou (aka, Billy Pappas) was carrying the hopes and dreams of the foosball community, the amateur poker playing community and the greater Boston community on his back at the World Series of Poker Main Event final table on Monday night (and into Tuesday morning).

In the quarter that ended Sept. 30, Caesars said its debt was $22.88 billion, down from $24.2 billion at the end of June.

If you watched any of the World Series of Poker coverage leading up to the Main Event final table, you probably saw Andoni Larrabe making what most players would call unorthodox plays.

Most of the time, when you've been in a profession for almost a decade, you've had enough experiences to be prepared for just about anything. That doesn't apply, however, to professional poker players who make it to the November Nine.

We're only 14 years into the 21st century, but saying Bruno Politano got Brazil excited about the World Series Main Event might be the understatement of the century.

Things may have gone differently in Mark Newhouse's second run at the World Series of Poker's Main Event on Monday night, but a river jack presented him with an opportunity to bluff, and William Tonking sniffed it out.

The nine players are from six different countries: Brazil, Norway, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and the United States, representing completely the immense diversity that the WSOP has come to be known for.

Zach Elwood, author of two books about reading tells at the poker table, is hosting a webinar on the subject on Thursday, Sept. 25.

This time around, he’s secured at least $730,725 for himself. But Newhouse won't settle for a ninth-place finish this time around. He wants the $10 million for first.

Mark Newhouse made his second straight World Series of Poker Main Event final table Monday night.