Biloxi's Beau Rivage Resort & Casino continues to offers its guests the best in southern hospitality and customer service. The tallest and largest building in Mississippi at 32 floors opened in 1999 to overflowing crowds eager to see the Gulf Coast's latest luxury beacon. But Hurricane Katrina's record setting thirty-foot storm surge closed the Beau Rivage's doors for a year

What do you get when you take America's most revered Indian Nation's already successful casino and cross it with one of the world's most recognizable leisure brands while adding $155 million in renovations? You get the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

More than 130 years after the Cherokee Nation became a sovereign entity, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the early 1970s that gaming was legal in Indian Territory. Another twenty years passed before the Cherokee Nation made the decision to enter the gaming market by opening 14 bingo halls in Northeastern Oklahoma.

Allen Cunningham once again demonstrated his skills and metal when he won the inaugural National Poker League Vegas Open Championship at the Venetian resort in Las Vegas. Cunningham came to the final table the chip leader but watched his lead disappear to eventual second place finisher David Singer after running into a card drought. When the final table action was stopped early Thursday morning Singer had slightly more than a million in chips, Antonio Salorio was close to a half million and Cunningham had a dismal 252,000.

Caesars Palace opened for business in 1966 and instantly established the benchmark for Las Vegas luxury resorts. Jay Sarno, an original Vegas entrepreneur borrowed $10 million from the Teamster's pension fund and set about constructing his vision of a resort so spectacular it would like visiting the home of a King.

Arizona health officials issued a warning that the world's most popular casino chips are contaminated with high levels of lead. Paulson brand gaming chips found in 3 of every 4 casinos are manufactured and distributed by Gaming Partners International Corp. of Las Vegas. A sample of Paulson chips were tested by a private laboratory and all had excessive surface lead while half of the sample exceeded the federal limits for lead by more than 160 times.

Sam's Town Hotel & Gambling Hall is one of the Boyd Gaming Corporation's 18 properties that includes the Borgata. Sam's Town represents the first major Las Vegas casino project to be directed specifically toward the local Las Vegas market. Crowded with locals from day 1 the resort quickly grabbed the attention of Vegas tourists to the Boulder Highway at Flamingo Road location. Sam's Town's wild west style of hospitality has kept the locals and tourists returning for more since it opened the doors in 1978.

Caesars Palace appears to have a winner with the Caesars Palace Classic Poker Tournament. The daily events are proving popular with tournament poker players. The first three events have pulled in almost a thousand players and already has awarded hundreds of thousands in prize money. Event winners get a seat in the $10K Championship event starting on Oct 22. The winner of the Championship is guaranteed a minimum of $1 million dollars.If you're ever going to do it, the time is now, and the place is Caesars Palace Las Vegas.

It certainly isn't the biggest resort on the Las Vegas Strip, in fact, its not even on the strip; but, Maloof's Palms Resort is a most desirable place to be in Las Vegas. Having quickly become the playground for the new generation of hip culture, the Palms is where you go to see the rich and famous, the beautiful people, the sports superstars, movie stars and music giants. Owner George Maloof pulled another coup out of his enchanted bag when he landed the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards at the property and focused the world's attention on the Palms Las Vegas.

"We want to see him removed from the United States," said Virginia Kice, spokesperson for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "ICE has an ongoing initiative called Operation Predator targeting individuals, including foreign nationals, who prey upon and sexually exploit children," she said in an earlier e-mail.

Take a trip back to a different Las Vegas. Return to a time of glamorous people in formal evening wear, croupiers in starched white shirts and black ties, restaurants with real silverware, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, a time when Las Vegas had the only legal casinos in the land. The Riviera has provided Vegas visitors with a truly authentic Las Vegas vacation for more than fifty years.