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The latest poker news, newest first. Poker tournament results are reported with the field, the buy-in and the payout as the organiser published them, alongside the business and regulation stories that decide where Americans can play online. For older reports and the full archive of poker tournament results, open the news desk.
| Date | Desk | Story |
|---|---|---|
| Players | Jason Alexander and Poker: The Seinfeld Star at the WSOP TablesJason Alexander won $500,000 for charity on Celebrity Poker Showdown and later outlasted most of the field in the WSOP Main Event. The man who played George Costanza takes the game seriously. | |
| Players | Scotty Nguyen: The Prince of Poker and His 1998 WSOP Main EventOne sentence at Binion's Horseshoe in 1998 made Scotty Nguyen famous. Five WSOP bracelets and a Poker Hall of Fame plaque made the fame last. | |
| Players | Who Is Dan Bilzerian? Flashy, Controversial Face of Celebrity PokerDan Bilzerian built one of the largest followings in social media on a poker-player image. The public record behind it is one tournament cash, a string of lawsuits and a business that ended up in federal court. | |
| Players | Sosia Jiang Net Worth: Poker Career, Triton Results and Live EarningsBorn in Inner Mongolia and raised in Auckland, Sosia Jiang went from brokerage desks in Hong Kong to Triton final tables. Her live results are public; her net worth is not. | |
| Players | Gus Hansen Career and Net Worth: The Great Dane's Poker LedgerGus Hansen was the face of the first World Poker Tour seasons, a Dane who raised with hands others folded. His tournament record is famous, and so are the online losses that followed it. | |
| Players | Dusti Smith Poker: WSOP Runner-Up and Wynn Ladies High Roller WinIn the first week of June 2025, Dusti Smith took $290,588 for second place in a 1,692-entry WSOP event, then walked across the Strip and won the Wynn Summer Classic's $3,000 Ladies High Roller. | |
| Players | Nikita Luther on The Traitors India: The Poker Habits Behind Her WinNikita Luther was the first player sent home on The Traitors India and one of the two still standing at the end. The way she got there looked a lot like a patient tournament. | |
| Players | Melanie Weisner: Poker Career, Live Winnings and Net Worth FactsMelanie Weisner belongs to the generation that learned poker on a screen and then took it to live tournament floors. Her winnings are partly public. Her net worth is not. |
Player files cover careers rather than single hands: titles with their year, live earnings with the date they were counted, and the businesses some players built away from the table. Each profile shows where its net-worth estimate comes from.
If you are learning, start with the vocabulary and the rules. The glossary groups terms by situation, and the variant guides show how one rule change, such as a third hole card, changes which hands are worth playing.
Every live game has a price. The table below shows the main ways card rooms charge for a seat; the rake guide compares structures in detail and shows how to work out what a game actually costs you per hour.
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| Model | Where you meet it | How it is charged |
|---|---|---|
| Pot rake with cap | Most US casino cash games at low stakes | A percentage of each pot, usually around 10 percent live, up to a fixed cap per hand |
| No flop, no drop | Common rule alongside pot rake | No rake is taken when a hand ends before the flop |
| Jackpot drop | Many US rooms with bad-beat or high-hand promotions | A small fixed amount taken from qualifying pots to fund the promotion |
| Time collection | Higher-stakes live games and some card clubs | Each player pays a flat fee per half hour, whatever the pots |
| Seat or membership fee | Texas social poker clubs | Players pay for membership and time at the table; pots are not raked |
| Tournament fee | Live and online tournaments | A fee added to the buy-in, for example a 1,000 dollar event at 1,100 dollars |
The news desk on this site lists the latest poker news newest first, with tournament reports, industry deals and regulation stories. Each report carries the date of the event it covers.
The WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas each July is the largest by field, with fields of around ten thousand players in recent years. The highest buy-ins are found on the Triton Super High Roller Series and in events such as the Super High Roller Bowl.
A result lists the event, the buy-in, the number of entries, the prize pool and the payouts by finishing place. Re-entries are counted as separate entries, so the field can be larger than the number of different players.
On the live all-time money list the leaders are high-roller regulars, with several players above 50 million dollars in recorded cashes. These are gross tournament winnings, not profit.
Rake is a percentage taken from each pot, usually up to a cap. A time charge is a flat fee each player pays per half hour or hour, common at higher stakes, where pot rake would be very expensive.