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Rhode Island is scurrying to approve a casino crime bill ahead of table games arriving next week.

Davidi Kitai hit several personal and professional milestones on Tuesday night, when he won the $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event at the World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

One of the wildest and most entertaining final tables in recent memory took place at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas when Taylor Paur, a 24-year old professional poker player from El Dorado Hills, Calif., dominated play during much of the final day and ended up winning his first WSOP gold bracelet and $340,260.

J Todd floats in for another week of gambling news, including more U.S. online poker legislation, issues for Zynga, and constitutional issues in Massachusetts.

Hershey’s released details Tuesday of the planned Hershey’s Chocolate World that will occupy 13,000 square feet inside New York-New York.

Anthanasios Polychronopoulos won his second $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em bracelet at the World Series of Poker on Monday, claiming more than a half a million dollars in the process.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Mike Nakagawa extended until June 26 the so-called exclusivity period, during which only the owners of a bankrupt company can propose a reorganization plan.

Since 2007, Mark Radoja has 18 cashes, four final table appearances and two gold bracelet victories at the WSOP. And with the $336,190 first-place prize, his total WSOP earnings now total nearly $1.5 million.

The $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event at the World Series of Poker represented a comeback for sorts for Tom Schneider, one of poker's most well-rounded cash game and tournament professionals.

Margaritaville gearing up for soft opening on June 15, 2013.

The proposal for a downtown Toronto casino may have died, but Mayor Rob Ford wants to return to the proposal of a casino at Woodbine Racetrack.

Lev Rofman won the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em tournament for $166,136 and his first World Series of Poker bracelet.

The bombastic poker pro known as “The Mouth” for his incessant table chatter won his fourth World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the $5,000 Seven-Card Stud High-Low event, taking home $266,503.

Table games arrival sends revenue rising in Maryland casinos.

After Levi Berger became the fourth Canadian-born poker player won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet this summer, there's compelling evidence in support of the contention that Canadian poker players may very well be the most talented national contingent of any nation per capita.

Brent Wheeler won the $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold'em event at World Series of Poker title at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Thursday morning, topping a field of 645 players for his first WSOP bracelet and $191,605 in prize money.

Cliff Josephy's victory came literally in the exact same spot where he won a WSOP title eight years ago in Seven-Card Stud, the first year the series was moved from old Binion's Horseshoe to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

The bill, dubbed the “Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act of 2013,” was introduced by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. and goes beyond online poker.

The World Series of Poker's first "Millionaire Maker" turned into a dream come true for Benny Chen, a 32-year-old restaurant manager from Stratford, Prince Edward Island, who earned a whopping $1,199,104 for first place and collected his first WSOP gold bracelet.

Michael Malm defied all the odds in the $2,500 Eight-Game Mix tournament at the World Series of Poker held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.