Month: April 2014

California

Anthony Ciorciari wins Ante Up Poker Cruise Main Event

Ante Up Poker Cruises expanded its reach in April, sailing for the first time from the West Coast.

The seven-night cruise aboard the Norweigan Star took passengers, many of them fresh faces to Ante Up Poker Cruises, to Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan and Puer

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West Virginia

Big things happening in Ohio, W.V. poker markets

The Rivers Casino presents the third Pittsburgh Poker Open, which starts April 10 and will have 24 events, including a six-max event, a seniors event, two bounty tournaments and a three-day deepstack main event priced at $1K with a $100K guarantee. This is the third installment of the quarterly event series that is growing each […]

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Indiana

Who could forget Raymer’s Chicago poker ties?

After 43 years of the World Series of Poker, the only main-event winner that had lived in Chicago was Greg “Fossilman” Raymer. Raymer started playing blackjack successfully at tribal casinos while attending the University of Minnesota. After landing his first job in Chicago, he found out blackjack on local riverboats wasn’t really beatable. Raymer accidentally […]

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Nevada

On the Button: with poker pro Tom Schneider

Tom Schneider is a 54-year-old CPA and pro poker player who won two WSOP titles and POY in 2007. He came back to win two bracelets again last summer, taking down both HORSE events. He also works part time as the CFO of Loudmouth Golf, an apparel company,

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Joe Navarro

Reader follows poker tells advice, cashes in

Every once in a while a reader takes the time to let me know of their success using information from my articles, which is what Andy Castro, a longtime reader, did. Andy wrote, “I was playing $1-$2 no-limit hold’em for about two hours and had $350. There are quite a few calling stations at the […]

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