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One major Las Vegas, Nevada poker room cut its hourly comp rate this week. Another one will follow suit next week. The 26-table Wynn poker room cut its comp rate from $2 to $1.50 per hour in the past week. These comps are paid when players are clocked …

As Matthew Pitt showed us earlier this week in “Road to the 2016 WSOP: The 300-Day Grind Begins,” it's never too early to start thinking about next year's World Series of Poker Main Event. If you count your pennies — about 3,000 of them a day, which …

As it does for a lot of people, Batista's troubled nature seemed to come out more online than in person; there were several times he went on bizarre rants on social media, and in online poker circles he was known as much for talking trash in chat as …

"For example, for the last series of this they had us sitting around a table pretending to play poker and pulling loads of faces. It's the kind of stunt that they do rather than just having a normal photograph and then a note of when the programme is …

Richard Gryko's lifetime live tournament winnings are now close to $1 million after he added £30,000 to his tally by winning the 2015 Sky Poker 6-Max UK Poker Championships (UKPC) High Roller event at Dusk Till Dawn (DTD) on Thursday night. Gryko …

In the early stages of the Millionaire Maker at this year's World Series of Poker — a tournament with a $1,500 buy-in, a field of 7,275 and a top prize of more than $1.2 million — I found myself in a great position to take advantage of an opponent's …

Of course, there will be plenty of coverage of poker tournaments and the same kinds of televised cash games we've seen before, but there will also be some original content filling out the programming schedule, and we're finally getting a peak at what …

The online poker market in Europe has not grown at the pace most EU countries expected and one of the main reasons for the slowdown is due to the stringent regulations imposed by EU countries. Spain, Italy and France have witnessed a significant …

Former world number one, Christopher “NigDawG” Brammer, returns to the top of the PocketFives.com UK online poker rankings this week following his victory in the PokerStars Super Tuesday on August 11. Brammer added $106,780 to his lifetime winnings …

Considering that New Jersey's iGaming industry generates approximately 85 percent of its revenue from online casino games, The Deal will likely be effective at drawing a segment of the Garden State's gambling horde to the sparsely-populated poker tables.

Each week, the Global Poker Index releases a list of the top tournament poker players in the world using a formula that takes into account a player's results over six half-year periods. For a look at the entire list, visit the official GPI website …

The majority of the poker world considers the winner of the World Series of Poker Main Event the “World Champion of Poker.” While the WSOP Main Event is the premier event in poker, it is not the only major poker tournament played during the year. The …

Now, Poker Central, which previously partnered with Antonio Esfandiari and Daniel Negreanu, is set to launch their own around-the-clock poker channel on October 1, and according to a new press release, poker fans can look forward to two original shows …

Multi Action Poker has announced a partnership with multi-bracelet winner and online pro Brian Hastings. "Multi Action Poker is a fun new variant of live poker," Hastings said of the poker table that allows multiple poker hands to be played separately …

The hearing will be held at the behest of Senator John Bonacic, who proposed online poker legislation (S 5302) in May that has yet to gain any traction. The bill will get a look-see by the committee, which happens to be chaired by Bonacic. As of this …

A North Peter Street resident reported he was robbed early Wednesday as he arrived home with $800 in winnings from a poker game he participated in on the west side of town, Athens-Clarke County police said. He was exiting his car at about 3 a.m. when …

The 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open once again failed to hit its guarantee, coming up about 100 entries short of what was needed to build the prize pool to $5 million without forcing the casino to kick in some of its own money. But that didn't stop …

According to a recent report in Gambling Compliance, New York State Senator John Bonacic, the chairman of the Senate Racing, Gaming, and Wagering Committee, will be scheduling an online poker hearing this September. Bonacic, one of the biggest …