Month: May 2012

Louisiana

King of the Red, $1 million satellite highlight Horseshoe events

Horseshoe Bossier City hosted its inaugural King of the Red series, and here are some highlights: Event 2, a $550 no-limit hold’em event, attracted 66 players for a $32,010 prize pool, and Dennis Baker of Haughton, La., captured the title. Matt Colvin, who finished runner-up to Baker, won Event 6, a pot-limit Omaha tournament. In […]

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Pennsylvania

Massive bad-beat jackpot highlights Borgata poker

The biggest payday at the Borgata in April was to Brooklyn’s Jia Liu, who won the Spring Poker Open’s main event and $312,483. But it wasn’t long after that another huge payday rocked the Borgata poker room. On April 26, the bad-beat jackpot was nearing February’s record total of a little more than $636K, when […]

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