The World Series of Poker has announced its TV schedule for this summer's events in Las Vegas, setting up an exhaustive live streaming service for poker fans across the globe. A full 60 events will feature final table streams with a five-minute delay.

The World Series of Poker has released a new set of verbal guidelines for players participating in the series' many events this summer. For the 2012 edition of the WSOP, players will be a allowed talk at the tables and even celebrate winning hands.

Nevada regulators have reached another milestone in the process of preparing the state for intrastate online poker. New measures that outsource testing of software and equipment were approved this week.

Bwin.party has officially applied for a Nevada online gaming license through its partnership with MGM/Boyd. If approved, the license could mark the return of PartyPoker to the American market after three years' absence.

Doyle Brunson is still going strong and continues to crush the Las Vegas live cash games, he writes in a new blog post. The games are big, juicy and often running for whole days, Brunson reveals.

Wynn Resorts Vice Chairman Kazuo Okada has sued the casino and resorts operator in order to gain access to its financial records. The dispute comes after Okada was denied to see the records, allegedly as he had initiated a competing project in the Philippines.

Phil Ivey's ongoing divorce case continues to create headlines. On Tuesday, Lucietta Ivey filed a lawsuit against her ex-husband, his lawyer and her own attorney for conspiring to cheat her out of her share of the couple's fortune.

Nevada is moving closer to launching intrastate poker for its citizens with a new licensing system set to take off in February 2012. Operators who wish to run poker sites can begin applying from that month.

Jimmy Fricke has issued a harsh criticism of the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas, which he claims is operating with marked cards in major games. Fricke admits to have taken advantage of the flaw himself.

A man who has been missing since 1979 has been found working as a bookmaker in Las Vegas. The man disappeared after struggling with gambling debts and was declared dead in 1986.

After four preliminary days of play, the 2011 WSOP Main Event this night reached 6,865 total players, making the tournament the third-largest Main Event ever. The total prize pool reached $64,531,000.

According to the New York Post, billionaire businessman and poker enthusiast Andy Beal has been hardly hit by his losses in high stakes poker games this year. Rumors suggest losses of up to $50 million.

Anthony Carleo, the so-called Bellagio Biker Bandit, has pleaded guilty to two casino heists, including the robbery at the Bellagio of more than $1.5 million gambling chips. Carleo now faces a long prison term.

Macau is slowly but surely becoming the gambling world's preferred destination, a new report from the American Gambling Association says. The district is generating revenues five times those of Las Vegas.

Despite the shutdown of U.S. online poker, the ongoing World Series of Poker has so far been unaffected by the recent months of turmoil. After nine completed events, only few have seen minor changes.

Legislators in Nevada yesterday approved a preparation bill, which will place the state in the front line if federally regulated online poker is introduced in the USA. The bill will now go into the Senate for a vote.

The State Assembly in Nevada on Thursday passed a revised version of February's attempt to legalize online poker in the state. The passing of the bill will set up a licensing system before next year.

Organizers from the World Series of Poker are confident that the events in the United States will not have a negative effect on this summer's tournament series. The WSOP will go on as always, they say.

ESPN has bumped its coverage of this summer's WSOP in Las Vegas to more than double that of last year's broadcast. A full six days of the Main Event will be shown live, unedited and with hole cards.

U.S. casinos are registering a surge in player numbers after the Department of Justice shut down the country's four largest online poker rooms. Especially in Las Vegas, live play is on the rise.

The WSOP Circuit tournament series has hit the home ground in Las Vegas for the Caesars Palace stop. The program for the poker festival includes 10 tournaments, including the $1,600 main event.

This week Bellagio tournament director Jack McClelland revealed to the online poker magazine CardPlayer that the WPT will host a super high roller tournament with a 100K buy-in at the venue in May.

One of the oldest hotels and casinos on The Strip in Las Vegas, the Sahara, has soon greeted its last guests and gamblers. Due to financial challenges the property has announced its closure on 16 May 2011.

Anthony Michael Carleo could face up to 35 years imprisonment if he is found guilty of robbing the Bellagio Casino for $1.5 million in casino chips in December last year. The case had its preliminary hearing yesterday.