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The gambling mecca of the world might see another visitor record this year as 24.4 million visitors already have flown there this year - almost the same 7-month span as last year. Close to 40 million people flew into Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport in 2012 and broke the previous record of 39.2 million, which was set in 2007.

Read more » Las Vegas Could Set New Record in Visitors...

Phil Hellmuth has just won Event 18 ($2,500 buy-in Seven-Card Razz) and laid hands on his 12th WSOP gold bracelet and $182,793 in prize money! The tournament attracted 309 players and not less than 6 former bracelet winners were among the top 8 finishers, so you can just imagine how tough it was for Hellmuth to reach his 12th WSOP bracelet - the most bracelets by any player in history!

Read more » Phil Hellmuth scores his 12th bracelet!

We are just hours away from the biggest and most prestige filled tournament in the poker world, the World Series of Poker Main Event! Most of the big names in poker are going to take part this year and we can expect a huge prize pool since the 2011 WSOP has seen many record fields. The Main Event is a 13-day event with 4 starting days.

Read more » 2011 WSOP: The Main Event starts today

The 42nd annual World Series of Poker at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino reached the halfway point yesterday. Even though many thought Black Friday would affect this year's WSOP negative, the participation is up 11.7% so far with 33,173 entrants and 8.6% bigger prize pool than 2010 WSOP. Not less than 11 WSOP tournament records have been broken so far. They are:

Read more » 11 new tournament records at the 2011 WSOP

A massive field of 557 players packed the ballroom at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Berlin as the second starting day of the EPT Berlin Main Event kicked off. Out of the 557 players who started the day, roughly 300 players made it to Day 2 of the tournament.

Among them we find PokerStars PRO's William Thorson (133,100), Vadim Markushevski (93,800), Jude Ainsworth (138,100), Noah Boeken (54,100), Florian Langmann (134,000), Julian Thew (71,600), Johannes Strassmann (100,700), Marcel Luske (75,400), Thierry van den Berg (36,200) and Chad Brown (45,400)

Read more » EPT Berlin - Main Event: Massive field in Day 1b of the tournament!