Day: November 20, 2012

Michigan

Big names, big crowds come out for WSOPC Hammond

On Dec. 6, 2002, the Blue Chip Casino’s poker room ran Chicagoland’s first weekly hold’em tournament. Ten years later, the Horseshoe hosted the World Series of Poker Circuit’s biggest event. With the fifth year in the books, the numbers are again the big story. This year’s WSOPC opener was the third largest in history (2,498 […]

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New Mexico

The richness of Southwestern poker

James Williams, a 26-year-old plumber and homeboy, turned $190 into $56,652 on Nov. 5, doubling his lifetime earnings by winning the Heartland Poker Tour Main

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