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Harrah's Winning Hand

Stock quotes in this article: HET , WYNN , BYD , MGM  

With a record 8,773 players having entered the World Series of Poker this year, the event continues to be a big success for Harrah's Entertainment(HET Quote), which held the tournament at its Rio casino in Las Vegas.

Not only did the world's biggest poker tournament make the Rio the place to play poker on the Las Vegas Strip over the past month and a half, it also helped the property dominate all table game usage in Vegas.

The Rio had a 30.9% share of the Las Vegas Strip poker game usage during the June 25 to Aug. 11 period of the WSOP tournament. That's up from 22.3% the prior year, according to Majestic Research, an independent firm that uses proprietary data to forecast company revenue. ...

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