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News Brief: Today is the first day you can reserve a room at the MGM Grand's permanent Detroit hotel, which opens in October.

News Brief: Boomtown Casino representatives will ask the Biloxi City Council today to rezone 11.25 acres surrounding its Back Bay property from single-family residential to general business waterfront.

News Brief: Concerned that its annual jackpot from the Caesars casino could disappear some day, Harrison County's commissioners are taking steps to sock some of it away.

News Brief: Another expansion of the Cache Creek Casino Resort is planned by the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians.

D-Link has teamed with Honeywell to implement a fail-safe video surveillance infrastructure for the $550 million post-Katrina renovation of the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association released figures today showing a 26.3 percent decline in live horserace betting at Philadelphia Park for the month of April.

Our daily World Series of Poker roundup features an Irishman who made his first WSOP cash a big one and some big names who will play at final tables today.

Harrah's Entertainment officials don't expect the 38th World Series of Poker to attract the record-shattering number of players reached a year ago.

News Brief: Sean Sullivan is the new general manager of Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa.

News Brief: Security workers at Bally's Atlantic City on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to unionize, a day after dealers at the casino did likewise

News Brief: Carolee Zuercher, player development manager for Acoma Business Enterprises and the Sky City Casino Hotel, has won the top direct mail award at the New Mexico Marketing Awards..

Gaming Partners International Corporation has completed an order valued at approximately $1 million from the new Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

Powerball will climb to an estimated $32 million for Wednesday's drawing as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening.

No ticket matched all six numbers to win the $12 million jackpot, so the jackpot for the Tuesday, June 5 Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated $16 million.

Casino City is providing updates from the 2007 World Series of Poker. In the first weekend of action, 21-year old Steve Billirakis becomes the youngest player to win a bracelet and Event #3 sees the largest player field of all time for a non-Main Event.

Sure, poker players are interested in bracelets and cash. But they want prestige too. That's where the Casino City World Series of Poker Player of the Year comes into play.

Senator Joseph L. Bruno, Deputy Director of the New York State Lottery Susan E. Miller and Saratoga Gaming and Raceway executives were at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway to officially open its expansion Friday.

Binion's in downtown Las Vegas has been the subject of sale speculation for months and a recent remark by the chief executive officer of MTR Gaming Group that owns the historic casino added fuel to the rumors.

The 2007 World Series of Poker begins today with the first two events in a 55-bracelet tournament schedule. First on the list are the $500 employees-only event and the $5,000 Mixed Hold'em World Championship. Mixed Hold'em combines limit and no-limit action.

Ameristar Casinos, Inc. reports a proposed approximately $100 million expansion project at the Company's Council Bluffs property.