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Players who qualify for WSOP 2013 at BetVictor Poker will get buy-in back if they don't cash.

Caesars Entertainment Corp. reportedly offered to sell the off-Strip Rio and the World Series of Poker to PokerStars, a spokesman for the owner of the online gaming business claimed in an email Tuesday.

Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who died Monday at 80, was an active poker player in Las Vegas, especially at the World Series of Poker, where he was a participant for decades.

In the past, several men have entered the women’s event, paying the $1,000 entry fee and citing gender equality, since women are allowed to enter every other World Series of Poker bracelet events.

The 2013 World Series of Poker schedule was released last week, and poker players and fans around the globe immediately started drooling at the prospect of playing in a number of the 62 events that make up this year's slate. Casino City's Aaron Todd found 10 great events to watch for, and if you can, play in, this year.

The world’s biggest, richest, longest-running and most prestigious poker series will run May 29 - July 15, 2013 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Today at 19:00 CET two Double Jackpot Freeroll tournaments will be arranged simultaneously.

The Heads-Up Championship had been sponsored by online poker companies before the federal government’s crackdown on illegal Internet poker. The World Series of Poker is the new presenting sponsor.

The NBC Sports Group will air 12 hours of the 2013 National Heads-Up Poker Championship presented by WSOP.com from Caesars Palace.

Gaming Commission Chairman Pete Bernhard said he signed onto the Caesars Interactive-owned Playtika social gaming website recently to familiarize himself with how the business operates.

Tournament officials announced Monday the seventh annual event will take place Oct. 11-24 in the lakefront Casino Barrière d'Enghien-les-Bains in greater Paris.

Paris will host the 2013 WSOPE at the historic Casino Barrière Enghien-les-Bains as the tournament series returns to mid-October dates.

The $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em World Championship, often referred to as the Main Event, will be contested over 10 days beginning July 7.

Baldwin, the 1978 World Series of Poker champion, thought Drache, who was the annual tournament's director, could give Wynn's poker facility a much needed lift.

The New Year starts with a return visit to the Borgata in Atlantic City for the new $3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open beginning January 27.