Tag: chicago

Michigan

Backstrom, Hamad grab Chitown poker titles

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 organization. Backstrom earned a package of cash and prizes worth $4,500 in an event that featured 30K chips and began at American Legion Post 615 in Tinley Park on June […]

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Indiana

Horseshoe Hammond started it all

For our poker players, 08/08/08 is the most important date in Chicago’s gambling history. Why? That’s when the Horseshoe Casino opened. Just over the Illinois

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