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
The Hollywood Poker Open regional in Lawrenceburg, Ind., recently concluded with Jesse McEuen coming out on top of a record field. He earned a seat
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
The Hollywood Poker Open kicks off this month in Lawrenceburg on Nov. 13-24. The main-event winner will be awarded a seat to the $500K guaranteed
Aaron Massey worked his way through a Chicagoland-record 538 entrants during the Heartland Poker Tour at East Chicago and won $177K after a lengthy heads-up
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 Greaves’ first WSOP cash is one he’ll always remember, winning $565K for finishing 12th in the main event. Greaves, from Zionsville, Ind., plays poker locally, attended Purdue University, works as […]
The Chicago Poker Classic, one of the largest non-branded tournament series in the United States, had a bit of a downturn this year as the
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,
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