Day: June 24, 2013

Nevada

Plenty of poker tourney options during lunch hour in Vegas

As the World Series comes to a close this month, things will be returning to normal in the Vegas poker scene, assuming “normal” and “Vegas” ever belong in the same sentence. All rooms running special tournament events revert to their regular schedules of cheaper buy-ins, smaller stacks and mostly hold’em. Finding a deuce-to-7 triple-draw tournament […]

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West Virginia

Shulman and Corcione chop Delaware Park Poker Classic

The Delaware Park Poker Classic $2,500 Main Event came down to two men, T. J. Shulman and Robert Corcione, and that’s the way it ended, too. Shulman and Corcione agreed to chop for $109K each. According to poker room manager Kevin Castora, Corcione had about a 2-1 lead to start heads-up play, but Shulman pulled […]

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Oklahoma

Galey wins Ante Up Poker Tour title at Downstream Casino

Steve Galey’s plan was to play out the World Series of Poker Circuit National Championship in New Orleans, and then drive to Downstream Casino Resort to play in May’s Four States Poker Championship Ante Up Poker Tour event. But it didn’t go to plan. Galey was running so badly in the Big Easy that he […]

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Tennessee

Locals doing well at WSOP; WPO is July 18

The summer is flying by out here in Vegas. We’re midway through the World Series events and planning ahead for upcoming fall tournaments. I’ve seen dozens of our Mississippi players grinding their way through the endless tables of the Rio (Tim Burt, David Nicholson and Stuart Breakstone just to name a few). At the Venetian, […]

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California

Bugayong wins River Card title; bad beat hits at Pechanga

Joselito Bugayong of San Diego won $4,356 from the $26,125 prize pool and the River Card championship after a four-way chop on May 25 at Pala Casino Spa & Resort. There were 209 players as the top 23 cashed. Bugayong also earned a replica of the River Card trophy. His name will be engraved on […]

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