Harrah's, ESPN Create Poker Circuit
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc. and ESPN are aiming to capitalize on poker's best-known event by beginning a series of high-profile tournaments across the country next year.
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Harrah's to transform Bluffs Run into the newest Horseshoe property, aiming squarely at Ameristar's market share lead.
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The company is taking radio frequency identification technology to casino gaming tables.
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Updated casino games combining new technology and mechanical reel games.
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Television and poker make unlikely bedfellows. At heart, poker isn't a very visually arresting game: The players sit still, shifting occasionally and struggling to look like Madame Tussauds statues. Eye contact is exchanged; silent calculations are made; emotions are stuffed. While most TV crazes these days involve psychedelic journeys into colorful cadavers or obsessive-compulsive housewives wielding berry pies, Texas Hold ...
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In the spirit of Texas Hold &#39;Em, The Breeders&#39; Cup is raising the stakes. Horse racing&#39;s richest day is gambling on an untested racetrack tomorrow for the second time
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By Michael Hiestand  Tonight, ESPN has an opportunity: show that TV sports can deal with real-life epics.  ESPN lavishes Super Bowl-like pregame shows on all its Monday night NFL games this season.
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Card game's popularity is fanned by a combination of television, technology and, for some, the allure of big money.
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Like much of the country, trainer D. Wayne Lukas appears to have gotten caught up in watching the World Series of Poker on ESPN. On Tuesday, he pulled an ace out of his sleeve.
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The battle to dominate the red-hot wireless gaming market is on.
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NEW YORK &#151; ESPN is relaunching its shuttered cell phone service through Verizon Wireless, this time delivering its flashy feed of sports scores, news and video highlights through a top industry player instead of competing for subscribers with its own full-blown wireless brand.
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The board of Harrah's Entertainment Inc.  plans to meet on Wednesday to consider buyout offers, sources said on Monday, with bids expected to come in higher than a $15.5-billion cash offer.
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Private equity firms Apollo Management  and Texas Pacific Group  appeared set to win a bid for  Harrah's Entertainment Inc.  with an offer of at least  $90 per share for the casino company, The Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Sunday.
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"Tilt," the new ESPN drama offering a behind-the-scenes look at the world of poker, debuted higher than the sports cable network's average in the time slot but rated lower than the 2003 debut of its football series "Playmakers."
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A comeback for Internet gambling may be in the works.
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc. , the world's largest casino company, has agreed to a $16.7 billion buyout offer from two private equity groups, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said.
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PageSix - GREG Raymer, ESPN's   2004 World Series of   Poker champion, apparently knows how to wield more than a stack of chips when everything is riding on it.