Las Vegas Sun – The 45th annual World Series of Poker kicks off the day after Memorial Day, culminating with a November main event worth $10 million, organizers announced today. With 65 WSOP events on tap this year, players will fight for a piece of an expected $200 million in winnings between May 27 and July 14. Here’s a look at the highlights of this year’s WSOP schedule at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas: CLICK HERE FOR SCHEDULE

The Conversation – “Aboriginal gambling” has become something of a hot-button issue in recent years. A number of academic research articles have documented the “risk factors” for Aboriginal people that increase their likelihood of develop gambling problems – enough to justify a recent overview paper by the Centre for Gambling Education and Research at Southern Cross University. Governments have not been lax in responding to the perceived evils of Aboriginal gambling. Gambling was one of four goods and services that the 2007 Northern Territory Intervention explicitly banned for the purposes of income management. Police in one remote NT community reportedly…

Yahoo – Planning a trip to Vegas to party and strike it rich? Here’s a tip: you’ll have a better chance of winning if you avoid roulette. That’s because casinos have a big advantage in roulette. There are 38 numbers on a standard American roulette wheel: 1 though 36, plus 0 and 00. That means you have a 1 in 38 chance of picking the right number. But, if you bet a dollar and win, you don’t get $38 – you win $35 and keep the original dollar you bet, for a total of $36. That $2 difference between $36…

Gaming Today – One man’s life was changed forever last Saturday night as New Jersey’s first-ever Next Poker Millionaire was crowned in a momentous online tournament that culminated in a televised championship event played live at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. Myroslaw Woroch (online screen name “onetime99”) had never won more than $7,000 playing poker until last weekend when he flopped a straight in the definitive hand against his heads-up opponent, Steven Edwards. “It was truly a surreal experience when I knew that I had him beat,” said Woroch. “When that final card came out my emotions…

Daily Mail – A 39-year-old man who leaped from a second-floor balcony to his death inside a Queens casino yesterday was on a winning streak. Sayed Alam was up by about $1,200 on the slot machines when he plunged 30-feet inside the Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Race Track just before 6pm. Dozens of people were standing in the main lobby of the gambling hall on Rockaway Blvd in South Ozone Park when the man jumped, New York Daily News reported. The reason for the man’s death is not known. However sources told The New York Post that Alam was…

Digital Journal – In April 2011, the FBI and the Department Of Justice changed on-line poker for good. Where do we stand nearly three years down the line? Poker has changed dramatically since the Black Friday domain seizures; true, there have been winners as well as losers, but some of those losers have literally disappeared. Among those that are no more are UltimateBet and its sister site Absolute Poker. The site where the stars come to play is now the site where the stars came to play. The collapse of Hollywood Poker does not appear to have been related to…