Plainridge Park Casino, the first licensed gaming facility in Massachusetts, is scheduled to open doors for visitors on June 24.

Penn National Gaming executives gave a tour around Plainridge on Friday. The $250 million casino is built on the site of the Plainridge Racecourse, which will continue offering harness horse racing and wagering. Although there are gaming machines yet to be installed and certain other finishing touches to be put, Mike Thoma, VP of Operations, and Lance George, General Manager of the facility, promised that it will be fully functional on the scheduled opening 24 hours a day.

“It’s pretty exciting,” said Thoma. “Everybody’s looking forward to getting to the endgame here.”

Besides the 28 electronic table games, the Plainridge casino will also feature 1,250 slot machines, as well as video casino games such as poker, blackjack, and baccarat.

Macau Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On published a recorded speech with an optimistic message on the future of the Macau gambling industry.

Chui, for the first time, shared his thoughts in an audio file available on the government’s website on Sunday. The Chief Executive’s Office website added “Chief Executive Reflections,” a new form for the residents to share and express their views on social, economic and livelihood issues.

In the speech, Chui encourages the residents to stay positive and patient despite a collapse in gaming revenue, pointing to low unemployment rate, strong financial position, and a number of large investments.

Chui also cited the Lonely Planet study that rated the city as one of the top ten regions of the world to visit this year as a sign of a positive trend of overall development.

World Poker Tour and Tiger Woods will once again join forces as the annual Tiger Jam kicks off Friday, May 15 with Tiger’s Poker Night.

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If you are in Las Vegas, and have a few pennies to give to a good cause, you are in luck. The World Poker Tour (WPT) and the most celebrated golfer in the history of the game, Tiger Woods, will be joining forces for the annual Tiger Jam.

The festivities will begin on Friday, May 15, with the fourth-annual charity poker event known as Tiger’s Poker Night. The MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, will host the event. WPT cameras will be on hand to pick up the footage. The lens will focus on the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari, and Tiger himself.

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A quartet of professional poker players has beaten a form of artificial intelligence in a series of Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em contests. Scientists claim the narrow margin of defeat was a statistical tie.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will not take over online poker rooms quite yet. The quartet of Doug Polk, Bjorn Li, Dong Kim and Jason Les have beaten Claudico – the AI program created by a Carnegie Mellon University team – by $723,713, over a period of 80,000 hands.

Les called the event ‘historic’, and said he was happy to be involved and ‘be part of the winning team’. The scientists have a slight problem with the use of the word ‘winning’. With $170 million available on the table, during the two-week event, the white suits are calling this one a ‘statistical tie.”

Li gathered most of the haul ($529,033), Polk second ($213,671), Kim third ($70,049), and Les was actually beaten by Claudico (-$80,482). All the action was streamed live on Twitch. Viewers from over 100 countries can breath a sight of relief. Online poker has not been solved.

The World Series of Poker has released the full schedule for the World Series of Poker Europe in Berlin, and there will be a record 10-bracelets up for grabs.

It started out in London town; switched to the playground of the rich and famous in Cannes; had a raunchy one night stand in Paris, and now finds itself in bustling breathtaking Berlin.

The World Series of Poker Europe is back. The Australians can go back to throwing shrimps on their barbie. Europe loves you. Europe misses you. Europe welcomes you back with open arms.

The hotly anticipated schedule is out. It has not disappointed. Owners of skinny wallets will love it. Owners of fat wallets will too. The range of buy-ins spread far and wide between €550 and €25,600. Spielbank Berlin (Casino) will host the event. They can’t wait to get this thing rolling.

Poker Central sign up Antonio Esfandiari to be a brand ambassador ahead of the $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl, and PokerStars release teaser trailer for the forthcoming story of Daniel Negreanu.

Antonio Esfandiari has joined Poker Central, and immediately confirms his intention to play in the $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl in the summer.

The Magician is the second player to sign up to represent the new poker TV channel. Only last week, Team PokerStars Pro, Daniel Negreanu, agreed terms to help promote the network, and participate in the $500,000 buy-in event.

It’s a fantastic scoop for Clint Stinchcomb and his team. The Poker Central CEO has now signed the top two players in the Hendon Mob All Time Live Money Leaderboard. Between the pair they have won over $56,000,000, and taken down some of the most prestigious competitions on the planet.