The price of poker is going up! In advance of the Championship, Event #14 featured our biggest buy-in yet. 93 players stepped up and took their chance at a $90,210 prize pool.  It seemed like to get to this final table you either needed to be a tournament pro, with several large cashes already under [...]

Often a source of contention among female poker players, Ladies’ Events are nevertheless a mainstay of any tournament series. The Spring Break Poker Classic was no exception, offering an event that appealed to many familar faces from the Ladies’ tournament circuit. 46 players bought in for a combined prize pool of $13,386. Nancy Berman of [...]

A slighty bigger buyin in this event led to a much bigger prize pool. 218 players fought their way through suck-outs and cracked Aces to get a share of the $100,970. Travis Smith would emerge victourious, collecting $32,332 as his prize. Also at the final table was Terry Garner, a WPT and WSPOC winner with [...]

With one of our largest prize pools to date, Event #10 had 170 players taking their seats for their piece of $44,710. The final table saw three players from Texas, 2 players from Georgia, 2 from Arkansas – one of those being Scott Standridge, winner of the 2008 Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge – and one [...]

Like HORSE but never been good at Stud? Really hate Razz? [I'd imagine that one gets a big yes from most of you.] Consider checking out a Hold’em/Omaha hybrid game then. They’re becoming popular with offerings popping up all over the country. For Beau Rivage’s version, 68 players turned out for a combined prize pool [...]

Donald McClure had such a good time cashing in Event #7 that he decided to do it again. He was first out of the final table, finishing 9th for $870 in prize money. Event #8 saw a total of 116 players and a $28,996 prize pool. Mike Cordell was out next, adding to his long [...]

No-Limit Hold’em may have been the game that ignited the poker boom, but these days many players look for a little more variety in their game. Omaha is growing in popularity, as evidenced by the 58 players who made it out to Biloxi on a Thursday to try their luck playing with four cards in [...]

The winner of Event #6 is no stranger to the final table. Mark Wilds has racked up an impressive number of tournament cashes, with lifetime winnings exceeding $750,000. This was his second tournament win of the year, the first having come in Event #3 of the WPT Southern Poker Championship (which if you recall was [...]

133 players decided to finish off their March with a little game of poker and ponied up the cash to play event #5 of the Spring Break Poker Classic. Half of those seated at the final table were no strangers to that position; most notable being Johnny Landreth who has nearly a quarter million in [...]

Event #4 proved that No-Limit Hold’Em is still the Cadillac of poker. Just 34 players turned out for this limit event, a dramatic change from the numbers we’ve been seeing for our No-Limit events. With a combined prize pool of $9,894 just five places paid out. After a chip equity deal it was all settled [...]