2007 WSOP Schedule Released

Posted Jan 10th 2007 3:12AM by Wil Wheaton Filed under: World Series of Poker I’m in Vegas for CES, but I’m staying just down the hall from where I lived during the 2006 WSOP, so it was a little surreal for me …
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    1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino.
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  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
  • The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.