The past few months have been flooded with tournaments in the Tampa Bay area from Tampa to Sarasota. Now with Derby Lane’s 12 Days of Poker and Hard Rock’s Winter Poker Open ending at press time, the final winter festival will be at the Silks Poker Room in Tampa. This month begins the first of […]
The Seminole Hard Rock in Tampa, after a significant hiatus, has hired a new director of poker, and this is someone with pedigree. Thomas Bates,
The Derby Lane poker room in St. Petersburg, Fla., is reprising a monthly tournament standard with a few twists, including helping the local food banks.
September was filled with some major tournament action in the Tampa Bay area. The Hard Rock and Silks poker rooms had series that attracted some
I recently had a chance to chat with local player Ray Del Cueto, a.k.a. Tampa Bay Ray, who discussed life, cancer and poker. For most
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