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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.

IGT's STAR TREK(TM) Against All Odds rewrites the rulebook with the online industry's first arcade-style skill-based bonus and unforgettable movie footage.

Caesars Entertainment Corp. said in a regulatory filing Friday it closed a $610 million sale of its Harrah's St. Louis casino to Penn National Gaming.

Maryland voters will determine if the state becomes a multimillion-dollar gambling jurisdiction or a multibillion-dollar casino-resort destination. We'll also find out whether MGM Resorts puts the bully in its place, or if Penn National is still king of the school.

Boyd Gaming hopes to close its $1.45 billion acquisition of Peninsula Gaming by December, which will give the company ownership of five casinos in Kansas, Iowa and Louisiana.

For the third quarter 2012, Boyd reported a net loss of $15.8 million, or $0.18 per share, compared to net income of $3.1 million.

Winning the $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em World Championship might have seemed like a minor task compared to how Merson had turned his life around.

Despite major damage suffered on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, industry officials have indicated that gaming properties have not experienced the type of physical damage that would prevent their re-opening over the next few days.

Casino City's Vin Narayanan and Aaron Todd are joined by Pokerati's Dan Michalski to discuss this week's conclusion to the World Series of Poker final table, including what happened on the felt, what happened off the felt, the impact this tournament will have on the game and ESPN's coverage of poker's showcase event. Aaron and Vin also try to talk Dan into picking every NFL game on this weekend's NFL slate.

The victory came at 5:35 a.m. today after 16 hands of heads-up play between Merson and Jesse Sylvia.

Greg Merson survived 11 hours of three-handed play and then beat Jesse Sylvia heads up early Wednesday morning to win the World Series of Poker Main Event and $8,531,853. Sylvia won $5,295,149 for finishing in second, while Jake Balsiger finished third and won $3,799,073.

EiG comprised a three-day program of conferences, featuring no fewer than 108 speakers who shared their insight and expertise with delegates representing 55 countries.

Play in the $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em World Championship resumed after a 103-day layoff when the remaining nine players out of the starting field of 6,598 began a marathon night, with the winner seeking an $8.53 million payout.

The action on the 136th hand early Tuesday morning sealed the final three players in the $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em World Championship.

The action begins around 6 p.m. at the Rio and will be shown on a 15-minute delay on ESPN and espn3.com.