Die WSOP 2008 beginnt am 30. Mai und endet am 17. Juli 2008. Austragungsort ist wieder das Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Damit ist man dem Wunsch vieler Pokerspiel er gefolgt, dass nicht in der heißesten Jahreszeit in Las Vegas das Turnier ausgetragen wird. Laut dem Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas soll es einige Neuerungen geben. Ab der Woche 26 werden zwei Special Events ausgetragen und es wird die Möglichkeit angeboten, sich einige Tage früher zu registrieren.

Las Vegas (AP) -- Some rooms at the Rio hotel-casino owned by Harrah's Entertainment Inc. are being closed to accommodate overdue safety inspections that should have taken place during renovations done in 2004 and 2005, the company has said. Since Thursday, Clark County inspectors have issued six notices of violation for work on the Ipanema Tower, which underwent the remodeling. "As many rooms will be off-line as needed to facilitate the inspection process," said Jan Jones, Harrah's vice president for communications and government relations.

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Las Vegas - Can the Las Vegas Monorail double down to avoid going bust? Three years after beginning operations, the four-mile, USD 650-million private rail line that stretches from behind the MGM Grand to the Sahara hotel-casino is attracting about 22,285 riders a day -- far below the 54,000 predicted when the project was launched. This summer, Fitch Ratings downgraded the monorail's bond rating, already in junk status, and said financial default appeared probable.

Las Vegas (AP) - Hotel and casino workers have moved a step closer to walking out on the picket line at several Las Vegas resorts. In two meetings Wednesday, members of the Culinary Workers and Bartenders Unions voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike at the 14 casinos and two industrial laundries with which the union is negotiating new contracts. The move allows a negotiating committee to call for a strike, or other action, if contract settlements aren't reached.

Unions representing about 1,200 workers at the Stratosphere hotel-casino reached a tentative labor contract with management over the weekend and plan to hold a vote on the deal Saturday. The agreement involving Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 is the latest in a series of contract agreements reached with Las Vegas Strip employers in the last several months.

American billionaire and gaming tycoon Sheldon Adelson said Wednesday he wanted to set up variations of Las Vegas-style strips around the world, with Asia alone having room for several more casinos. "What I'd like to do now is different mini-Las Vegas's, I call them, in different parts of the world," Adelson said after receiving a lifetime achievement award for enterprise at the Forbes Global CEO conference in Singapore.

The third time is a charm. At least, that is what the developers of the proposed Pinnacle Las Vegas are hoping. The Falconi Group recently named its third general contractor for the planned USD 740 million, 1,100-unit condominium-hotel development at Tropicana and Cameron avenues, across from The Orleans. Dick Pacific Construction, a unit of Pittsburgh-based Dick Corp., has replaced Marnell Corrao Associates as builder. Marnell was the general contractor until two months ago. A reason for the change wasn't explained.

Even though the Islamic-steeped government of Dubai rejects gambling, there are striking similarities between Las Vegas - specifically the Strip - and Dubai, one of seven emirates making up the United Arab Emirates. It helps explain why Dubai World, a government-owned holding company, wanted to become a partner in MGM Mirage's CityCenter project. "Dubai has a reputation of really trying to develop much the same way Las Vegas has done but without casinos," said Bill Eadington.

"Should I quit my job and play professionally?" "Should I drop out of school and just play poker full time?" I get these questions all the time and I always give the same answer: "Unequivocally, absolutely not. No way." Clear enough? If you want to explore being a professional poker player, you have to start out doing it part time. Spend your off hours thinking about poker and studying the game. Read and play and learn. Before you even think about quitting your job to play full time, you should be making more money at poker than you are in your current employment.

Ladies and gentlemen, please place your bets. Will the new Gambling Act a) protect the public from ruin b) make us a nation of chancers? The legislation, which came into force on Saturday, creates an industry watchdog but also paves the way for dozens of new casinos. The Yanks know which way the dice will fall. Harrah's, owner of the world-famous Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, has flown in its top card, John Bruns, to oversee ambitious expansion plans.

Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s billionaire Chairman Sheldon Adelson opened the world’s biggest casino in Macau and unveiled ambitions to expand in India and Japan as Asian gambling booms. The new 3,000 room Venetian Macao resort aims to tap China’s 1.3 billion people, and Adelson said he’s also keen on opening in the world’s second-most populous nation. "We are very much interested in, one, attracting Indians to come to Macau, and two, establishing in India, when the government makes the necessary changes,”...