Puccio fights nerves, wins HPT Ameristar
Mike Puccio, a landscaper from Deerfield, Ill., won the Heartland Poker Tour’s main event at Ameristar East Chicago, earning $164K and he said his first
Mike Puccio, a landscaper from Deerfield, Ill., won the Heartland Poker Tour’s main event at Ameristar East Chicago, earning $164K and he said his first
Gregory Johnson won Horseshoe Southern Indiana’s largest World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event in history. A Columbus, Ind., pediatric dentist, Johnson won $124K in
Ameristar East Chicago reopened its poker room on July 24 and Jeremy Smith, who has been involved with every northwest Indiana poker room opening, again
This year’s World Series saw three Chicagoland players win bracelets and a guy from the Indianapolis suburbs who just missed making the November Nine. Christopher
Chris Karambinis, who started playing poker at Rockford Charitable Games, topped a field of 3,092 entries to win the Chicago Poker Classic’s $350 opener, walking
The Heartland Poker Tour will be in Chicagoland on Aug. 7-18 at a new venue, Ameristar East Chicago. Since its inaugural event in August 2006,
After 43 years of the World Series of Poker, the only main-event winner that had lived in Chicago was Greg “Fossilman” Raymer. Raymer started playing
New regulations are in effect for charity poker events in Illinois. Volunteer dealers are allowed to work 12 events per year, an increase from four
Lance Garcia was visiting his girlfriend when he heard about the Horseshoe’s monthly $500 tournament. The 23-year-old poker pro, who has one World Series of
Not many people know the history of Chicagoland poker, and even fewer know Nick Gullo’s passion for poker was what transformed Chicagoland into one of
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