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Yahoo!, one of the biggest search engines and Internet portals, has entered the online poker world Thursday with the addition of real-money poker to the games section of its UK operations.

888.com is breaking boundaries as the first online casino to enter the booming in-flight entertainment industry by joining forces with in-flight entertainment (IFE) software developer DTI.

A bill was proposed Thursday by a senior House Democrat, which aims to lift the ban in the United States over online gambling.

Chilco River Holdings, Inc. announced that it is changing the name of its prestigious Bruce Hotel and Casino to the Miramar Hotel and Casino.

The Stratosphere casino in Las Vegas, along with three other casinos in southern Nevada will be sold for $1.3 billion by billionaire investor Carl Icahn to an affiliate of the Goldman Sachs investment firm.

In the first 48 hours of it being live the Internet gambling petition to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act has reached the 1,000 signature bench mark.

Talks between two of the biggest online gambling companies in the world about a possible buyout, ended on Monday.

A 35-year-old Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to running a credit card scam and stealing nearly $2 million at the Foxwoods Resort Casino.

Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort, the smallest casino in Atlantic City is facing a major upgrade. Rumors have circulated for months and the Hilton revealed on Wednesday its plans for a massive $1 billion renewal.

A professional poker player from Las Vegas was stabbed to death on Friday in his Panorama Towers apartment, west of the Las Vegas Strip. His wife faces murder charges.

Fontainebleau Resorts, a Florida-based resort-hotel company, on Monday, April 16, that it is planning a $2.8 billion casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

China has closed more than 100 casinos operating along its borders as part of an intensified crackdown on gambling, according to a Tuesday report by a state-run newspaper.

Atlantic City now has much cleaner air since yesterday, April 15, when a new smoking law went into effect and limited smoking to no more than 25 percent of casino floors in the city.

777.com, the leading gambling portal is putting a date on the end of the U.S. online gambling ban. Members of the gambling community are predicting the law's fate and they are clear about what they want and when they want it to happen.

Yesterday, April 11, the Tropicana Casino and other defendants settled lawsuits in the 2004 collapse of a garage being constructed for their themed entertainment center ‘The Quarter’.

PartyGaming, one of the largest online gambling companies in the world, said Wednesday it will no longer permit clients from Turkey to bet at the company's gambling site, following a recent anti-gambling legislation in the country.

The Trump Plaza Casino filed an objection with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in regards to the Dealer Union election held Saturday March 31, Claiming ‘laboratory conditions’ had been spoiled.

On Wednesday April 4, a benefit was held for Vincent Rennich, the Tropicana floor supervisor discharged from the casino in the recent reductions of the workforce there.

Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd., which belongs to the richest man in Australia, James Packer, agreed to buy gambling venues in Canada for $1.2 billion, in a joint venture.

More than $17,000 was found under old slot machines at the former Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, when workers collected the change that found its way there over the years.

On Saturday March 31, dealers at Trump Plaza voted in favor of the UAW representing them as a bargaining agent.

A Viennese businessman who was banned from a casino in Vienna is suing the casino for allowing him to enter and place bets, after he bribed security staff to let him in.

The World Trade Organization said on Friday, March 30, that the U.S. was defying a WTO ruling made in 2005.