Month: July 2008

Compete in the Tampa Bay Poker Challenge at the Silks Poker Room at Tampa Bay Downs to see if you’re the best poker player in the bay area and win up to $100,000 in cash prizes. Double-point days are available to increase your chances. Receive player of the year points based on performance in multitable […]

Tallahassee’s Pruitt Rainey, serving a 15-month tour in Afghanistan with the 503rd Infantry Airborne, was killed on July 13 by Taliban insurgents. He was hoping to get back in time to attend the World Series of Poker with his dad, Frankie Gay, who taught him to play poker. His father recently talked to Tallahassee’s WCTV. […]

<span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ee;"><a href="http://anteupmagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/glen_chorny4.jpg"><img class="alignleft alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-111" style="float: left; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;" title="glen_chorny4" src="http://anteupmagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/glen_chorny4-150×150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></span>It’s been a great few months for Glen Chorny, who frequents One-Eyed Jacks thanks to giving up on his college career and moving in with his parents in Sarasota. The native Canadian won the […]

<img style="vertical-align: bottom;" src="http://anteupmagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/leonelalberto_danlebatard.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="390" /> The turn card gave Leonel Alberto of Miami the winning straight and a very successful first-ever Dan LeBatard Celebrity Poker Tournament came to a close on July 16 at Dania Jai-Alai in Dania Beach. The tournament drew 309 entries, the largest crowd to ever play in a […]

David "Chino" Rheem, one of the so-called "November Nine" who have made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker’s Main Event, has Florida roots. The 28-year-old Rheem lists Los Angeles as his hometown now, but as Nick Sortal of the Sun-Sentinel reports in a <a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flrheem0716sbjul16,0,1615750.story">story</a> today, Rheem learned to play […]

Alfredo Fernandez of Miami, the second-highest placer from Florida in the World Series of Poker’s Main Event, paid nothing to enter the tournament, the WSOP reports. Fernandez won his seat through AOL’s Games.com Web site in a free online tournament series, beating 2,396 other players for his seat. He lasted until Day 6 of the […]

Cheer on the Cleveland Browns, win some cash and help out a good cause at the Browns Backers of Pinellas Texas Hold’em Tournament on Aug. 24. The $35 buy-in tournament benefits the Mason Dixon Christmas Wish Foundation. Maximum of 300 players, spread over two seatings – 1 and 3:30 p.m., with the final four tables […]

No true Floridians made the "November Nine" – the final table participants in the World Series of Poker’s Main Event who will return in November to crown a winner, but the state did well in the last WSOP tournament of the year. Here are the Florida cashers, including ones previously reported: 48. Adam Levy, Orlando, […]

Being dealt pocket 4s in July at Derby Lane can win you some cash. On Thursdays and Fridays, win at showdown with pocket 4s (with a $10 pot and $1 jackpot rake), and Derby will match the pot up to $200. On Saturdays and Sundays, pocket 4s that win get Grab Bags of $5, $10, […]