Month: June 2011

North Dakota

Federated Sports + Gaming Acquires Heartland Poker Tour

Federated Sport + Gaming (FS+G) has acquired the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT). FS+G Chairman Jeffrey Pollack and HPT co-founder Todd Anderson spoke exclusively with PokerNews to discuss the acquisition and what it means for both FS+G and the Heartland…

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Nevada

The Poker Brat is Still a Poker King

On Saturday, June 12, 2011, I sat in the Amazon Room of the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, eagerly anticipating a new chapter in poker history. Phil Hellmuth had just eliminated Richard Ashby in third place in Event #16 of the 2011…

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