Category: Florida

Florida

ROAD TRIP: Mid-South – Shreveport and Arkansas

Much of the poker buzz in Louisiana comes from New Orleans, but you can’t forget Shreveport, which has two gems in the Eldorado and Horseshoe. And while we were there we hopped the state line north and looked at the two Arkansas rooms.

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Florida

Tyler Smith owns the Mississippi poker scene

Tyler Smith, born and raised in Smithdale, Miss., has put on perhaps the greatest
run in southern tournament poker history. Since January he’s won Beau Rivage’s
Spring Break Poker Classic, Gold Strike’s World Poker Open and he made the final table

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Florida

In the end, it was Grinder

To determine the Ante Up World Series of Poker Player of the Year we didn’t hire some expensive firm to come up with a formula or have a team of bean counters and actuaries add up the buy-ins and place particular weight to different events. We’re poker players (in the loosest sense of the word, […]

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Florida

Unite to fight for poker

Sept. 30, 2006 On this day, our nation lost a little more of its innocence, as poker players across the country learned a valuable lesson in how easy it is for lawmakers to turn unpopular ideas into law. As legislators lined up “ayes” to the SAFE Port Act, an immensely important national security bill, almost […]

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