Many Feel Harrah's Can Make Poker Tournament Even More Popular - 2004-01-26
Las Vegas poker players and fans including those out-of-towners conditioned to an annual springtime pilgrimage to the granddaddy of poker tournaments
can rest assured that the World Series of Poker not going anywhere.

Harrah's Entertainment executives confirmed their intent to keep the event in Las Vegas this year, at its regular Binion's casino location, after they announced a definitive agreement to buy the troubled downtown hotel-casino for an estimated $50 million in assumed liabilities.
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Shinnecock Casino Case Begins - 2004-01-26
The word 'casino' was spoken but once during a pretrial hearing as lawyers for the Shinnecock Nation assembled on one side of a U.S. District courtroom and attorneys for the federal, state and town of Southampton governments sat on the other.

The 90-minute hearing, before Judge Thomas Platt, was a preliminary step before a trial that will determine whether the Shinnecocks should be allowed to open a casino on their land in Hampton Bays.
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