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Men “the Master” Nguyen topped a field of 150 of the world’s best poker players to claim the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud World Championship (Event #10) at the World Series of Poker for his seventh career WSOP gold bracelet and $394,807 in the early-morning hours on Sunday.

Pascal Lefrancois, a 23-year-old college student from Montreal, Quebec, won $568,974 and the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #8) at the World Series of Poker in the early morning hours on Saturday, then promptly removed his shirt in celebration.

Peter Gelencser, a 22-year-old professional poker player from Budapest, Hungary, won $180,730 and the $2,500 Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball Championship (Event #7) at the World Series of Poker in the early-morning hours on Friday.

Hotel room upgrades will include 42 inch high-def tv's, luxury bedding, new carpets and wallpaper.

Unions give strike notice at Casino Regina, casino responds with lockout notice.

Software glitch means woman's win turns out to be worth $20.18, not $43 million.

The Pala Casino Spa and Resort's poker room celebrated its first anniversary over the weekend and is offering a number of tournaments this month.

The casino giant says it has begun the process of paying subcontractors involved with the construction of the CityCenter project in Las Vegas.

Casino mogul Steve Wynn is blaming CityCenter for dragging down room rates that "has by and large blunted the effects" of a possible Vegas recovery.

Joshua Tieman won $441,692 and poker’s most coveted prize — a WSOP gold bracelet — with a win in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout (Event #6) on Thursday.

Aadam Daya, a 31-year-old business analyst from Mississauga, Ontario, won the $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #3) at the World Series of Poker to collect a whopping $625,872 and his first WSOP gold bracelet. Daya topped a huge field of 4,345 players in the tournament, played over Memorial Day weekend.

The Connecticut casino is offering players the chance to qualify for the World Series of Poker Main Event during the month of June.

Praz Bansi, a 32-year-old professional poker player from London, England, won $515,501 by claiming the title in the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #5) at the World Series of Poker on Wednesday.

Michael Chow, a poker pro from Honolulu, Hawaii, won $237,463 and his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the $1,500 buy-in Omaha High-Low Split tournament (Event #4) on the day of his 33rd birthday early on Wednesday morning.

Isle of Capri approved to buy Rainbow Casino.

Just three weeks after the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel wrote a story about Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi’s tax troubles, the well-known professional poker player captured one of the most coveted titles in poker and claimed a prize of more than $1.5 million.

The Mardi Gras Casino has upgraded to the Game King poker software by IGT and also converted 10 nickel slot machines with new themes.

Fantasy Springs Casino has added 20 new slot games to its casino floor, including one based on Jeff Foxworthy.

The Las Vegas-based company, which operates two casinos in the state, suggessted the license owned by the President Casino should be transferred to Cape Girardeau.

The five free applications are dedicated to Las Vegas and allow gamers to review casinos, learn rules of the game, and log into the Player’s Club to earn rewards.