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 […]
The recently announced Ante Up Poker Tour is filling its schedule quickly, and Michigan seems to be a perfect candidate for the new tour. With three
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago host the seventh annual Chicago Poker Open on Nov. 9. Registration starts at 6 p.m. with cards in
With the change to the qualifying hands for bad-beat jackpots at the major Michigan poker rooms, jackpots have been hitting six digits, driving players to
In August 1997, Hollywood Casino in Aurora was the first in Illinois to open a poker room. Since then, many poker rooms have come and
Summertime traditionally is a slow period for Chicagoland poker rooms, but ask any of its poker room managers and the response may be, “Everybody went
By Dave Lemmon The field was narrowed to six players in the main event of the Isle Casino’s Florida State Poker Championship and discussions of
Dave “Fishy Fish” Backstrom captured the $250 deepstack event July 6 in New Lenox, Ill., the state’s first televised poker tournament hosted by a veterans
This year’s Heartland Poker Tour televised final table was action-packed at Majestic Star. Jerry Gumila, who made last year’s final table, started as the overwhelming
Gov. Rick Snyder has switched the oversight of Michigan charity poker rooms from the Michigan Bureau of State Lottery’s Charitable Gaming Division to the executive
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