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Three additional women’s world title matches top fight card with four-man Big 8 North American Welterweight Qualifying Tournament.

Atlantic City's newest millionaire is the third person to hit for $1 million playing Three Card Poker 6 Card Bonus at Caesars.

Baseball Hall of Fame’s Jim Palmer is among several celebrated athletes who will sign autographs.

Grand Victoria Casino is a new client for NEWave and is now one of seven major casinos NEWave serves in Illinois.

Community ambassadors will welcome Symetra Tour players June 29, and will earn gifts and privileges for their support.

Brandon Schaefer, a 31-year-old former online poker pro, won a WSOP gold bracelet and $311,174 just a week before he will head to Alabama to begin flight school in the U.S. Army.

There's an old saying that goes: "Never play poker with a man named 'Doc." At the World Series of Poker, apparently no one listened.

Brian Hastings, a 23-year-old professional poker player from Hanover Township, Pa. won his first WSOP gold bracelet in the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em championship on Thursday night at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, collecting $371,498 in prize money. But this victory wasn't at all about the money.

Jim Connelly experienced something this weekend most sports and horse racing fans only dream of -- a VIP day at the track for one of one of racing's biggest events, the Belmont Stakes. Connelly recounts his Belmont experience, including his roller coaster day of wagering and the "New York jinx", in this special diary for Casino City.

The four-time Grammy winner will perform at the Special Events Center on September 15.

The casino will add a massive LED video screen to the roof, which will host the words CASINO on it.

Healthy-sized crowds turn out to embrace the newly opened Oxford Casino during its first weekend.

Rock Ohio Caesars to add video lottery terminals (VLTs) to Thistledown racetrack.

Casino operators want Michigan expansion proposal rejected.

Vincent Van Der Fluit became the fourth Dutch-born World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner on Wednesday night, besting a field of 970 players in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament to claim first-place prize money of $265,221.

Ashkan Razavi, a 30-year-old professional poker player from Maple Ridge, B.C., won $781,398 and his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event on Wednesday at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Lambert will take the Fantasy Springs stage for the second time, having performed there to a sold-out crowd in February 2010 in his first solo concert after coming in second on American Idol.

The $500 million casino project opens to huge crowds, boosts local economy and introduces a new class of gaming and entertainment to the Mid-Atlantic gaming region.