Rio Hotel & Casino News - Page 49

Two World Poker Tour tournaments sandwiched the World Series of Poker this summer, allowing professionals to arrange their Las Vegas playing schedules around several events with championship-caliber buy-ins.

The final “Day 1” of the World Series of Poker saw 1,783 players begin a quest for the Main Event final table, bringing the entry total to 6,358.

Former Sen. Alfonse D’Amato and Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) brought their fight to repeal the UIGEA and legalize Internet poker to the World Series of Poker. And while they were there, the two made time to sit down and talk with Casino City.

The Amazon Room at the World Series of Poker transforms itself from a sedate card room into an electric, tension filled tournament when the sun sets. Take a journey inside the room, and see what tales it has to tell.

Casino City reporter Ryan McLane reports the amusing and interesting happenings from World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1D.

The second largest Main Event in World Series of Poker history will pay $8.25 million to the winner.

Phil Hellmuth redefined being fashionably late for a tournament today, arriving for the World Series of Poker Main Event in a racing uniform and flanked by eleven beautiful women, one for each of his gold bracelets.

It took nine minutes for Luke Staudenmaier's dreams of poker greatness to come to an abrupt end Friday afternoon.

Everest Poker has sent 39 players to the World Series of Poker Side Event #49, held at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Watching poker (without hole cams) over a long period of time can be a boring proposition. That's why one of the featured tables Sunday at the World Series of Poker was such a welcome relief. The table had Mike Matusow and T.J. Cloutier -- and they know how to entertain.

Poker's power couples dominated the scene on Day 1C, but most of the Amazon Room was focused on an ongoing fight between Mike Matusow and Mr. Peanut. And Norway’s Dag Martin Mikkelsen led the Day 1B field by accumulating $236,000 chips.

David Singer will not receive a refund or be allowed to play in another Day One despite threatening to go to the Nevada Gaming Commission over a rule dispute on his bust-out hand early Sunday morning, World Series of Poker Tournament Director Jack Effel said.

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.

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.

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.

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.