The month of May is “guaranteed” to be an exciting one at Beau Rivage, so start making your plans for a visit now! We’ve got $120,000 in guaranteed tournaments, starting off on Saturday May 2nd with a $20,000 Guarantee event. During the week days we’ll be running Super Stack Tournaments, where for a $100+$20 buyin [...]

Tournament Director Johnny Grooms wanted to end the Spring Break Poker Classic giving back to the community, in keeping with the frequent benefit tournaments held in the Beau Rivage poker room throughout the year. Event #22 benefited the Gulf Coast Women’s Center for Non-Violence, an organization who’s mission is to provide counseling and shelter to [...]

100 players, $26,940 prize pool. The top two finishers in Event #21 were both repeats. Nekoda Foster played his 3rd Spring Break Poker Classic final table; his ranking in earlier events having moved up a notch each time. Event #6 he finished 3, Event #15 he was 2nd, so naturally for event #21 he had [...]

It’s all the fun of HORSE, without that nasty Razz getting in the way and messing things up. No desire to throw things, pull your hair out, kick the cat. Just a smooth Hold’Em and Stud combo. 25 players took a seat for Event #20 and played for a share of the $7,275 prize pool. [...]

86 players signed up for Event #19. Once again in this series our tournament final table was loaded with players who already had impressive cashes under their belt. Some had already added to their tournament tally with previous Spring Break Poker Classic events – William Souther, Champion Scott Standridge, & Carl Miller. Scott Standridge has [...]

6 max play is an action junky’s game. Less players means you can push your margins more. Those cards you’d toss away in a full ring game suddely become playable; worth a raise even. 68 players signed up for some short-handed action, building a $19,788 prize pool. For Gregory Owen his 5th place finish would [...]

34 players signed up for this event, and rebought for a total of 87 times. That’s some serious action! When the dust settled 5 players would walk away winners. Brian Jordan would make his second final table appearance in this series, finishing 4th for $3,589.

The big one.  122 players ponied up $2,500 for a chance at tournament greatness. With a prize pool of $290,700 plus a $5,150 buyin to the Gulf Coast Poker Championship Main Event waiting for the winner, this was the tournament to be in.  Every final table player had a previous tournament cash under their belt. [...]

The somewhat challenging nature of this game was reflected in the small field that signed up – just 20 players, for a $5,820 prize pool. Several  notable players made the final table, including Hoyt Verner, John Womack, & Greg Giannokostas. Also back was Will Souther, making his second final table appearance in this tournament series. [...]

105 players bought-in for Event #15, for a total prize pool of $25,795. Nekoda Foster was back for another cash, and Eric Kaplan was the Champion and took the $9,285 grand prize.