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LAS VEGAS (AP) The crowd of would-be World Series of Poker champions has narrowed to about 1,200 players, each wagering $10,000 each in hopes that some of the $60.3 million prize pool ends up in their bank accounts. The last 1,000 players will win at …

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The crowd of would-be World Series of Poker champions has narrowed to nearly 1,800 players, each hoping some of the $60.3 million prize pool ends up in their bank accounts. The last 1,000 players will win at least $15,000. The final …

Making his debut atop the GPI rankings is Anthony Zinno, who capped off his excellent 2015 World Series of Poker with his first bracelet in Event #60: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller for $1,122,196. All told, Zinno finished the summer with five …

After five days of action in the 2015 World Series of Poker main event, the remaining players in the field are finally ready to begin playing simultaneously as one group starting Friday. Of the 6,420 players who began the tournament, just 1,796 are …

Two more Alaskans cashed in recently at the 46th annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, bringing to 24 the number of Alaskans who have won money this year in the game's most prestigious and lucrative tournament. Andrew Hansen of Anchorage won …

BEYOND BERGEN: A North Carolina man was caught bringing millions of dollars in counterfeit chips to Atlantic City to use in a high-stakes poker tournament at The Borgata Casino when he clogged a pipe flushing hundreds of them down a toilet at Harrah's, …

sealofCalifornia Following the removal of Mike Gatto's AB 9 and Reggie Jones-Sawyer's AB 167 online poker bills from a Wednesday hearing, it's time to start writing the obituary for California's online poker hopes in 2015. Just be sure to end it with …

By making it so that 1,000 people make the money in this year's main event, the WSOP was in a way doing poker pro Ronnie Bardah a huge favor. Bardah had cashed in the $10,000 buy-in tournament five years in a row, and he was still alive early on day 2c …

Chris Moneymaker, who boosted poker's profile with his 2003 win as an amateur, also was knocked out. Player Jorryt van Hoof, among the final nine last year, was eliminated Wednesday night, too. Thousands of players started their second day of poker …

While online poker in Italy has been declining for years, the industry is not as disastrous for online gaming operators as many may imagine, as both online casino and sports wagering verticals are on the rise. To help combat declining online poker …

TRENTON, N.J. —A North Carolina man accused of bringing millions of dollars in counterfeit poker chips to a tournament in New Jersey has been indicted on theft charges. Related. 250K gallons of raw sewage flows into… Anti-racism meeting planned as.

Online poker was not discussed at Wednesday's California Assembly Governmental Organization Committee hearing, as Assemblymen Mike Gatto and Reggie Jones-Sawyer both opted to remove their bills from the agenda. Gatto indicated that he was not …

Two of the three starting fields in the 2015 World Series of Poker main event resumed play at the Rio on Wednesday, but the field did not yet combine. That will occur on Friday when all three starting flights begin day 3. Instead, the 470 surviving …

The 53-year-old contractor and recreational poker player from the St. Louis, Missouri, area won a seat to the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event through a $550 mega satellite on site at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino last week, making it through …

Earlier this summer, ESPN aired a World Series of Poker marathon. If you happened to tune in during the 2004 WSOP broadcast, there's a good chance you came across Gabriel Thaler. Even if your recollection of those episodes go back a decade, that name …

However, there was one table at the Rio yesterday during day 1c of the 2015 World Series of Poker main event that could have been the toughest in the post-Moneymaker era of main events during which field sizes exploded. This year's field was 6,420.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The $10 million winner of last year's World Series of Poker main event won't get to defend his title this year, but plenty of poker pros and a few celebrities are still chasing a $7.68 million top prize. A total of 4,371 card players …

A controversial rule adopted two years ago killing a hand of a player who is not in his seat when the dealer deals the first card instead of the last card dominated this year's two-day Poker TDA Summit, and in the end, the TDA retreated from the rule …