We catch up to the action on a board of 7♠3♥A♦9♠ and Justin “JD” Daniels moves all in for 11,750. A short stacked player is already all in and with the action on the button he stands up out of his seat. “I have a double gutshot straight draw and a flush draw, I think […]
The Texas Poker tour is proving the saying “Everything’s Bigger in Texas” to be true. A sea of red shirts is filling the poker room here today in our Championship Event. The group from Killeen Texas sure has it’s fair share of players in the field ready to battle it for the first place prize […]
Last years Bar Poker Open Championship took place at The Borgata Casino in Atlantic City New Jersey. There were 682 total entries but in the end just one man was left holding the trophy. Fritz Barnes came into heads up play with nearly a 4-1 chip deficit and after an epic comeback he earned the […]
It is still in the very early stages of Day 1A but we have already had several players double their starting stack. Two of those players are Terry Kuberski and Jennifer Swanson. Both are playing stacks of over 50,000 and we’re just getting started. “Can you see her behind all those chips” joked one […]
There has been no shortage of action at table 52 that’s for sure. Just after Tim McPhillips was involved in a massive pot that sent one to the rail, we saw another big hand. We arrived at the table just in time to see John “Big Dog” Dowling raking in a large pot. On […]
We catch up to the heads up action on a flop of A♠8♥2♦ and Tim McPhillips checks. His opponent tosses out a bet of 1,825 and McPhillips makes the call. The turn brings the 3♠ and he checks again to the player who bets 2,000. This time McPhillips check raises making it 6,000 and […]
The tournament room here in the convention center has mostly been filled with the sound of shuffling chips and poker talk. That all changed when one the center tables broke out into song, singing Happy Birthday. Gennah Leonard of Pikes Peak Poker is celebrating her birthday today and her table mates certainly made her […]
While most players are just getting into their seats here in the Championship Event, Leo Stankus is already putting his chips to work. As we walk past the table we see Stankus has already nearly double his starting stack just minutes into the tournament. He tells us of the hand where he held pocket […]