Ameristar Kansas City hosted its first Heartland Poker Tour (April 25-May 5) and poker room manager Ken Long was happy with the maiden voyage. “We
The Beau Rivage has completed another Spring Break Classic in Biloxi. What amazes me about the Beau is the consistency in turnout. While tournaments elsewhere
It was the first time the Borgata in Atlantic City hosted the WPT World Championship, this time as part of its Spring Open (April 8-26),
To increase daily traffic, many local poker rooms have begun to offer reasonably priced tournaments. A large percentage of the buy-in goes into the prize
Mike Woznicki emerged recently as the last player standing to capture the $9K first-place prize, not to mention $1,320 in bounties, at Potawatomi Casino’s popular
The Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs hosted the World Series of Poker Circuit on April 10-21 as Blair Hinkle of Weatherby Lake, Mo., topped the
A lot of tournament action highlighted the Northern Oklahoma poker scene since our last issue, and some of those tournaments still were running at press time, so we’ll be sure to recap those events in our July issue. The Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa hosted the Mid-South Poker Classic on May 2-11, consisting of 22 […]
April’s Spring Classic at Choctaw Casino and Resort in Durant, Okla., which featured a $50K added Best All-Around player to the top-30 point-earners, saw Ben Perez of Plainview, Texas, grab the main-event title. The $300K guarantee platinum-ring main event drew 356 entries as Perez earned $79,424. I made a somewhat deep run in the main, […]
The beautiful Summerlin area of Las Vegas is home to the Suncoast Hotel & Casino, and its poker room hosts one of the most unusual
The World Series of Poker Circuit at the Lodge Casino in Black Hawk, Colo., ran April 24-May 5, with the main event, which began May 2, going to Eric Blair for $116K and his first circuit ring. Big names such as Dennis Phillips, Bernard Lee and Alexandru Masek, the all-time leader in circuit wins, were […]
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