PartyPoker is now the second-biggest online poker room, according to PokerScout.com, averaging 4, 150 cash players during any given time.

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Harrah's showgirls appeared outside the main poker room luring spectators to casinos by offering free tickets to comedy shows and comps for food.

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The Beau Rivage, built as the Bellagio of the East, is the cream of the crop and has the largest and nicest poker room on the coast.

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Foxwoods, CT: As the home of the very first World Poker Tour event, and the largest casino in the world, Foxwoods has very big and big time poker room.

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One night, when he was caught playing poker in his room, against the rules, he said the guards brought him and his friends to the bottom floor of the dorm and threatened to fire them.

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Several looked around the room and at the judge, poker faced as usual, but all appeared to avert their eyes from Simpson.

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In the crowded conference room at Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, TV cameras are rolling as the 35th annual World Series of Poker reaches its sweaty two-man climax.

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But with the popularity of poker across age groups, the meaningful integration of TV and phone and the promise of natural sociability both in-room and online, this is exactly the kind of game that Smart TV needs for people to go all in.

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