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Following a near-death experience, the Belgium native left a flourishing career as a toy company executive to chase his dream of playing poker for a living. Now, with more than $3 million in career earnings on the felt, the 72-year-old is trying to make history as the oldest winner of the World Series of Poker Main Event.

The 2016 agenda, which was published this week, features more than 64 hours of learning opportunities over the three-day ICE Totally Gaming conference.

Social casino revenue will reach $3.3 billion this year and could top $4 billion by 2017, according to gaming analyst Adam Krejcik.

The 2015 Poker Hall of Fame Class has its newest members as Jennifer Harman and John Juanda become the 49th and 50th individuals to be inducted. The induction ceremony takes place on Friday, Nov. 6 at Binion’s Gambling Hall in Las Vegas.

The Idaho native came into the final table with a dominant chip lead before prevailing and pocketing €883,000 at World Series of Poker Europe in Berlin.

The film trailer invites visitors to enter the Gaming Technopolis next February at the Excel Centre in London.

The AIGA is promoting a free trip to the London show on February 2-4, 2016.

Delegates of the EIG can post their suggestions and insight on the wall, which is located in the Arena Berlin.

More than 1,000 attendees registered for the ICE Totally Gaming conference in the first week registration was open.

The 24/7 poker TV network will launch Oct. 1 with a full lineup of prime-time programming.

Filipp Khavin won $47,769 in the WPTDeepStacks-Immokalee $100,000 Guaranteed Main Event, becoming the first winner of the World Poker Tour event in Southwest Florida.

Following a public nomination process, four new candidates and six previous finalists make up the list of this year's candidates for the Poker Hall of Fame, which will induct the 2015 class in November.

The event will take place Sept. 4 through Sept. 13 and will raise money for Special Olympics Southern California.

This month's events include the WPTDeepStacks-Immokalee tournament, the ESPN Billiards Tournament, and live musical acts at the Zig Sag Lounge.

Clarion's Totally Gaming team will meet with clients during the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas.