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News Brief: Jacob Entertainment, a national gaming company, that runs three casinos and a horse track is interested in buying bankrupt racing track Vernon Downs.

News Brief: Two casinos are better than one, and Tulalip Casino and the Quil Ceda Creek Casino are committed to making entertainment wishes a reality.

Unlike Steve Wynn's previous hotel unveilings, when man-made volcanoes, dancing water fountains, pirate battles and pyrotechnic building implosions signaled a new beginning, the lifting of the wall of silence surrounding the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas won't be any more than a simple countdown on the resort's marquee.

Play to Win reports that Ken Einiger from Las Vegas is this year's World Champion of Blackjack.

John G. Brokopp: Zucker’s first round was a video poker player’s dream.

News Brief: Churchill Downs will become the latest track in a growing list testing every horse entered for excess alkalizing agents when the Louisville track’s spring-summer meet opens on Saturday.

News Brief: About 1,500 other women of a certain age converged on MGM Grand casino Monday for Red Hat Day, a party celebrating the over-50 women's group spreading like a red and purple virus across the country.

Station Casinos Inc.'s Green Valley Ranch Station Casino has closed a restaurant near its sports book to make way for a new poker room that will open in a few weeks.

Casino Journal's Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products Awards are recognized as one of the most prestigious honors bestowed on gaming products or services.

Isle of Capri Black Hawk has sold all of its shares of Colorado Grande Casino to a wholly owned subsidiary of Nevada Gold & Casinos, Inc. for $6.5 million.

Detroit businesswoman Marian Ilitch has finalized the purchase of MotorCity Casino, making her sole owner.

The real Steve Wynn is a street fighter who has had to orchestrate comebacks from calamities that would have flattened lesser operators.

News Brief: A former construction worker pocketed $630,488 when he won the main event of the two-week New England Poker Classic at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut.

Guests paying either $7,500 or $1,500 will get the first look at the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas as part of a charity fund-raiser Wednesday evening.

It's the fourth week of April, and all eyes are fixed on the Strip for the long-awaited debut of Las Vegas' latest playground for the fabulous, rich and famous

Wynn has again changed the look of the Las Vegas skyline with the resort's 50-story, curved tower covered in bronze glass.

The company responsible for bringing the World Poker Tour to an estimated cable television audience of 5 million weekly viewers now wants to offer a variation of the popular Texas hold 'em game to casino patrons.

GSN premieres Poker Royale: Celebrities vs. Poker Pros, a seven-episode series debuting as part of GSN's weekly Casino Night.

News Brief: Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino owner Stan Fulton gave $2 million to New Mexico State University in January, a donation only recently announced by NMSU.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $54 million.