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Seven Nevada residents - six of whom are associated with the gaming industry - secured spots on the 2011 Forbes 400 list, which was released last September.

Seven Nevada residents - six of whom are associated with the gaming industry - secured spots on the 2011 list.

Las Vegas officially has become the center of the universe, at least for basketball.

If the World Series of Poker holds true to form, the final table of this year's Main Event will include nine unknown players.

For the 16th consecutive month, McCarran International Airport saw more passengers.

The 43rd World Series of Poker began on Sunday with the $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em Event. This year's series is sure to bring plenty of new players to Las Vegas for the first time.

With the World Series of Poker set to begin next week, Casino City's Vin Narayanan and Aaron Todd draft their fantasy poker team and discuss WSOP prop bets, and also discuss the recent attempted robbery at the Bellagio, the plummeting numbers in the World Poker Tour's marquee event and make their best bets.

Implementation of the rule, scheduled to take effect Monday, was delayed until Jan. 31, and it appears that the regulation's proposed standards were eased.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Tuesday, asks for an injunction requiring the domain name registrar, Jiangsu Bangning Science & Technology Co. Ltd., to remove or disable the misleading website.

Allegations of underage gambling by Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina investigated in Nevada.

As an official charity, the WSOP will work with ONE DROP to help educate, raise awareness and direct funds towards the organization that helps provide access to clean water around the world.

Nevada gaming regulators are looking into allegations that Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, was gambling at the MGM Grand last weekend.

Michael Quinn Belton was arrested Sunday morning on three felony charges of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary.

The World Series of Poker is less than a week away. If you think you can predict turnouts for events, bracelet and money winners, you can win big on the WSOP without ever stepping foot in Las Vegas.

The late-night lucky winner gave each of his three fellow players a $500 chip and generously tipped his dealer $20,000.

The player from San Jose clinched her spot in the Eldorado tournament by winning a preliminary tournament. Players from Pennsylvania and Florida finished second and third.

Aliante Station resort reported a first-quarter profit on Tuesday, which the property in North Las Vegas attributed to the success of its current marketing programs.

Total visitor volume was up 3.7 percent from the same month in 2011, marking the 25th consecutive gain in prior-year comparisons for the monthly Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority count.

The Cosmopolitan lost $23.4 million in the first quarter of 2012, compared with $56.8 million last year, when the resort was in its first quarter of operations.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board said Thursday that most of the state's gaming centers saw their revenues decline in March.