Tom McEvoy's name became a household word in the early summer of 1983 as hundreds of newspaper articles across the United States trumpeted his success at the just completed World Series of Poker. He was billed as an accountant from Grand Rapids, Michigan who took a shot at immortality by playing in the biggest poker game in the world. He was an unknown, a hick with a cowboy hat. A nobody.

Eventually the story caught up with the truth, he wasn't exactly an amateur. He wasn't like the 1979 Champion, Hal Fowler, who really was new to the poker scene.

Chances are just about even that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will have a baby in 2006, Ananova reports.

Chances are 8/1 that the baby will be named Paris, and 50/1 that it will be called Nicole.

The celebrity couple announced their engagement in Paris last week Friday.

The world’s biggest online poker company, PartyGaming, has said it expects that proposals for US legislation to ban credit-card companies from dealing with online casinos would fail. Leading U.S. senators plan to attack online casinos by blocking banks and credit-card companies from allowing US customers to use their accounts for online bets.

This move would seriously hinder Party Gaming’s access to most of its online customers as the company prepares a controversial £5.5 billion flotation on the London stock market.

Poker Night Live is the new late night entertainment bonanza on pokerzone SKY CHANNEL 226. Poker Night Live introduces multiple live poker tables, two all seeing poker pros and one groundbreaking entertainment channel that directly fuses online poker action with all the excitement of live television.

Every evening, from 9.30pm to 2.30am, pokerzone brings poker into thousands of homes across the country with clued-up and off-the-wall commentary from show hosts “Dr.” Tom Sambrook, Greg ‘The Axxeman’ Winters, James Browning, Nick Wealthall and Casper Berry.

With their latest eBay purchase, online casino GoldenPalace is well on their way to overtaking the name “Smith” in the telephone book. The casino spent $15,000 to name another child after the company.

The bouncing baby boy’s official name is GoldenPalace.com Silverman and he is the latest in a series of eccentric advertising campaigns by the casino.Other babies also share the casino’s name, as well as Tennessee resident Terri Illigan, who sold her naming rights on eBay for $15,199

This week, an investment group that includes the Hooters founders were doing some early site work on their us$130 million casino project. They are redeveloping the 700-room Hotel San Remo, which is a relatively small casino/hotel just off the Las Vegas Strip, into a Hooters-brand resort.

The Hooters Casino Hotel will be modest in scale by Las Vegas standards. The massive 5,000-room MGM Grand is across the street. Just a stone’s throw away are the spectacular New York-New York, with its faux New York skyline, the Luxor’s shimmering black pyramid and the medieval- themed Excalibur.

Austrian Gaming Industries(AGI) informed that the company has supplied a substantial order of it’s broad product range to the new casino Bad Wiessee, whose doors will open on June 5th after two years of construction work.

The new games and gaming machines that are going to feature in Bad Wiessee range from the very popular games like Book of Ra, Riches of India, Roller Coaster, Queen of Hearts, Dolphin´s Pearl, Bananas go Bahamas, Columbus, Knight´s Quest and Venetian Carnival to the favoured Multi-Gaminator-machine, on which casino guests can choose between 10 different games

NEW YORK — Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc Friday said it has emerged from bankruptcy, changing its name to Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc.

The company, which entered Chapter 11 protection in November, also said it has issued 40 million shares of new common stock, after a one-for-1,000 reverse stock split.

Real estate magnate Donald Trump, who is the company's chairman, said in a statement that he is looking to hire a chief executive officer.

United States.- High-tech chip within a chip is helping casino operators learn more than ever about every move made by high rollers. Computer chips embedded in the plastic gambling chips communicate via radio frequency with sensors placed under the table.

The reason involves a this technology that gives the casino’s operators a trove of knowledge, including a player’s average bet and where each high-denomination chip is at all times.

There were no long-legged showgirls or slot machines as the city celebrated its centennial Sunday along a stretch of downtown known as Glitter Gulch. Instead, Sin City wrapped its neon arms around its less-than-flashy railroad history, remembering how the booming desert metropolis got its start.

Dressed in a cowboy hat and vintage clothes, Mayor Oscar Goodman kicked off a mock auction by taking on the persona of former Senator William Clark of Montana, who founded a railroad depot where the city now lies.