The World Series is over and everyone has made their way home for the beginning of another fall poker season. This year, notably absent will be the World Poker Open in Tunica, a longtime summer staple that ended with the closing of the Gold Strike poker room. Never fear, there will be plenty of action […]
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
Caesars Entertainment recently announced Harrah’s Casino in Tunica, Miss., will close June 2. The property has been for sale for quite some time, yet the announcement was unexpected by locals and employees alike. “After exploring every other viable alternative, we have come to the difficult but necessary conclusion to close Harrah’s Tunica in an effort […]
I had the pleasure of spending two weeks in Northern Mississippi at the Harrah’s Tunica World Series of Poker Circuit. The closing of Gold Strike’s
The Beau Rivage shattered Mississippi records in the opening weekend of the Million Dollar Heater. The largest field for one event (also a MDH event) was 1,721 in 2012, but January’s $340 buy-in $500K guarantee attracted 1,972 players for the $80K first-place prize. Roderick MacPherson, 76, a professor at the Montevalla School of Business, had […]
As 2013 ends, I’d like to recap the past couple of months and preview exciting things to come in Mississippi poker. At the IP Biloxi,
There sure is a lot going on down on the Gulf Coast. The year begins with a bang at the Beau Rivage on Jan. 3
Pearl River Resort in Choctaw, Miss., will award an Ante Up Poker Cruise package as the grand prize in its 12 Days of Poker holiday promotion Dec. 12-27.
Fall is under way and with it comes exciting promotions and a few more tournaments in Mississippi poker. I’ll start at the north end of the state in Tunica. Gold Strike has moved its annual winter tournament to an earlier time slot, running Oct. 31-Nov. 9. This will conflict less with the holidays and hopefully […]
The Gulf Coast Poker Championship wrapped up at the Beau Rivage, and it was great seeing the thousands of players who made it out to compete. We have the results here for you to check out, but I wanted to recap briefly what ended up being a fantastic 12-day event. Staff and players got a […]
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