Thousands of poker players from around the world have been descending for the past month on Las Vegas for the 39th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), the popular card game’s top tournament.

Entry fees for the WSOP are expensive, so many of the WSOP competitors earn free seats by first winning less expensive, qualifying tournaments on the Internet. (more…)

You could call it Snow White and the 54 dwarves.

There are 55 separate poker tournaments making up this year’s WSOP in Las Vegas, but to many, the only one that matters is the 55th and last of them–the Main Event. (more…)

Germany is having an Oktoberfest in July!

Julyfest? (more…)

Only in Las Vegas!

In a town where gambling, booze and strippers are available 24 hours a day, and the mayor doesn’t mind if anyone sees him playing a one-arm bandit, it can be hard to be judgmental of others and their actions. (more…)

Has NBC no shame?

Just weeks after featuring a child molester as one of the participants in its popular late-night poker show “Poker After Dark,” the American television network NBC this week is featuring a drug trafficker on the same program! (more…)

Call it the Buckeye State Battle of the Ex-Civil Servants.

That’s what Event #42 at the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas came down to. (more…)