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Bluff Europe, Europe’s most widely read poker magazine, has named Europe’s top five poker destinations based on a number of criteria and on the general level of poker enthusiasm in the city.

Macau is Playboy's next adventure as Playboy Enterprises Inc. plan to open a casino in the former Portuguese colony in 2009.

777.com, one of the leading gambling portals, has entered the world of poker. 777 Poker was recently launched to provide the gambling community and the poker community in particular a place to call home.

Ocean's 13 Star Don Cheadle and poker professional Annie Duke are organizing a special poker tournament called Ante Up For Africa Tournament

Despite the online gambling ban in the U.S., gambling revenue is estimated to rise around the world, reaching $144 billion in 2011.

Bluff Europe magazine, Europe’s premier poker publication, is celebrating summer and its crowning of London as “Europe’s #1 Poker City” by holding an afternoon of poker with the World Poker Tour in the heart of London.

A giant Las Vegas casino deal was dropped Wednesday, when the Tracinda Corporation, owned by casino mogul Kirk Kerkorian, decided to end discussions regarding taking over the Bellagio hotel and casino and the CityCenter project from MGM Mirage.

The Tropicana casino and Resort recently in the news for layoffs comprising approximately 15% of its work force launched a new junket program today.

Over the weekend James Perry, the chief executive for Trump Entertainment Resorts, ‘retired’ according to company spokespersons. With the corporation publicly up for sale, Perry would have been one of the first casualties as new management would take over the property.

The popular poker social-networking site, PokerDIY today added an impressive feather to its cap by announcing the integration of their poker league management software with The Tournament Director to make managing your poker league easier than ever.

San Antonio Spurs point guard, 25-year-old Tony Parker, was chosen the MVP of the NBA Finals Thursday, June 14.

As earlier reported, former gaming executive Dennis Gomes and real estate developer Morris Bailey are in position to buy Donald Trump’s Atlantic City casinos.

Tropicana Casino slashed additional positions in the last week. The total was 55 employees comprising mostly supervisory positions were mainly table game and slot supervisors.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. has announced that The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Asia's first fully integrated resort and the anchor property of the company's Cotai Strip(TM) development, will open on August 28, 2007.

May proved to be an unlucky month for the Atlantic City casino industry. Gross win dropped 5% from May of last year.

Bally’s casino on Monday filed a complaint to set aside the results of a recent union election for the casino dealers.

A new WSOP record was broken Monday, June 11, on the poker tournament's 11th day by the "poker brat", Phil Hellmuth, who won his 11th gold bracelet.

Researchers at the University of Alberta in the U.S. are pitting their specially designed poker computer against two of the best professional poker players in the world.

Google announced Wednesday, June 6, that Google Adwords, the biggest search engine's advertising service, will no longer allow advertisement in the UK for free play online gambling websites.

Dennis Gomes, former chief executive of the Tropicana Casino and Resort, is in talks seeking to buy Donald Trump’s casinos. Gomes has been out of the casino business for three years now but wants to get back in.

Indian Casinos in the U.S. have grossed $25 billion in 2006, 11 percent more than the previous year. In fact, Indian gambling is growing in a faster pace than Las Vegas.

888 Holdings PLC, operator of Casino-on-Net and Pacific Poker, is taking similar action to rival PartyGaming by holding talks with U.S. authorities regarding the company's status in the country.

The legendary Sidney H. Radner Gambling Collection and Book Collection go on the block.

PartyGaming, one of the biggest online gaming companies, has initiated talks with the U.S. Attorney's Office in order to clarify its position following the ban on online gambling that the country enacted in October 2006.

Approximately 1200 dealers voted at Bally's Casino Saturday. Actually three casinos, the dealers voting comprised Park Place, the smaller themed Wild West casino and the former Claridge Casino.

The 37th World Series of Poker opened on Friday, June 1, at Harrah's Rio Hotel and Casino, located just off the Las Vegas Strip.