The Forest County Potawatomi Community held a traditional ground blessing ceremony Thursday to proceed with a $20 million expansion of the Northern Lights Casino in Carter. The construction project is the largest ever in Forest County and will generate hundreds of employment opportunities while promoting area tourism.

"It is an exciting day for the Potawatomi and Forest County," said Tribal Chairman Harold "Gus" Frank.

A ground blessing prayer began the ceremony, including the customary sprinkling of tobacco onto the new soil.

World Poker Tour created a televised sports sensation and fueled the current poker explosion. An estimated 60 million people in the U.S. now play and poker’s popularity continues to skyrocket.

Bringing the heat to DVD, World Poker Tour Season 2 is an eight-DVD set stacked with cunning poker stars, fierce competition and record-breaking prize pools.

Tournaments are set in some of the world’s most glamorous locations. With millions at stake, each of the 14 episodes offers skilled card playing and action on the felt.

After an intensive search for a partner to develop casino´s projects, SX Networks finally find in MediaGambling Networks the perfect complement that they were looking for.

The skills required for the new partner were the following: the Company should have a strong presence at the Internet to support SX Networks’ sites promotion and it should be capable and disposed to work among them in the future projects.

Coffee, danish, and No Limit Hold 'Em. What more could you ask for? Well, how about 50% more chips. The Breakfast Club Poker Shootout at the Aladdin is pretty damn hot right now.

The $25 Buy-In gets you $1000 in chips, and if you add on the $5 Bonus card, they'll give you $500 more chips. Everybody is doing it. It starts at 10 a.m every Monday - Thursday.

"We get over 100 players a day," said Alex Christoff, the Graveyard Shift Manager, "and tons of tourists.

Are actors better bluffers or will the poker professionals sweep the celebrities in the high stakes game of No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em?

The question will be answered when GSN premieres Poker Royale: Celebrities vs. Poker Pros, a seven-episode series debuting as part of GSN's weekly Casino Night, Friday, May 6 at 9:00PM ET/PT.

The announcement was made today by Ian Valentine, Senior Vice President of Programming, GSN.

John Slavin, 30, has been playing poker since he was a teenager in Rancho Bernardo. Back then, he could hardly find a game.

But many players, like Slavin, get bored with low-action home games and move on to higher stakes at professional venues. Two years ago, Slavin got serious about poker.

He plays Hold'em at local Indian casinos at least three times a week, he said. The buy-ins are higher: $50, $100, $200. Winning those rounds gets a free ticket to higher-stakes tournaments.

Do you believe in destiny? Arnold Spee does.

Whether you believe him or not, last year he told some fellow players that he would win a WPT event in 2005 -- this WPT event, the 2005 World Poker Challenge at the Reno Hilton.

How confident was he? At his lowest point in this tournament, he was all in with pocket jacks up against pocket queens, and he had the shorter stack, facing elimination.

The flop brought no help with three rags on the board, and Arnold Spee had to catch a jack to stay in the tournament.

With the popularity of online casino games spreading like wild fire, companies are trying new ways to cross promote their products along with popular gambling games. Let´s face it, when you imagine a private poker game, you usually think of a smoky, rowdy room full of people sitting around a table playing cards and drinking.

Well it seems that Absolut Vodka is trying to tap into that image by featuring online casino style poker games you can play right on their website.

There are a handful of proposals in the Indiana Senate that would help raise money for Indiana. On Tuesday, hearings will be held on a proposal that would allow counties to raise the local income tax as a way of collecting more money and capping property taxes. Also being bandied about are ideas of increasing gambling availability to raise revenue.

Like the first time the tax plan was voiced, we need more details before we can weigh in with an opinion. When it comes to gambling, we feel as though Indiana has gone far enough.

ATLANTIC CITY, March 9 - Calvin France sat at the bar playing video poker for a quarter a game and casting a glance now and then at Sylvester Stallone, who was putting the muscle on a deadbeat on one of the big flat-screen TV's overhead.

When one of the Borgata cocktail waitresses stepped up to the bar to get an order, he stole a glance her way, too. After all, he had just been talking about the waitresses.