On hand 1, Tyler Smith opened the action to $15,500. Action went to Chad Brown, who made it 45, then Chris O’Rourke moved all-in. Tyler called and Chris got out of the way. O’Rourke had pocket J’s versus Smith’s pocket Q’s. The flop was A-4-6, the turn was a K and the river was the [...]

We are now down to the final table. these guys have played some intense poker over the past 2 days and it will pay off soon! Here is their seat number and chip stack heading into tomorrow: Seat 1 – Chad Brown from Las Vegas, Nevada comes to the table with 207,000. Seat 2 – [...]

there were a total of 143 entrants in the main event at the Gulf Coast Poker Classic. The prize pool total is $683,550, with $225,567 and a $10k WPT main event seat going to the eventual champion. The current big stack belongs to Mark Gallagher who has 168,900. The top ten include: mark Gallagher – [...]

Here is a list of the winners for event 13: 1. Michael Joyce – $3,880 2. Tom Franklin – $2,328 3. Timothy Burt – $1,552

Event #12 of the Gulf Coast Poker Championships was the $550 No Limit Hold’em event. This was the last event before the main event which served as some as a primer for some of the players. The field was 281 strong vying for a total prize pool of $136,285. The final table was down to [...]

Here is the payouts for Event #11: 1. Chad Brown – $32,301 2. Michael Schneider – $17,945 3. Eugene Baverlein – 410,767 4. Arthur Walker – $7,178 5. Gene Timberlake – $3,589

The $340 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack event attracted a crowd of 449 players with an impressive top prize of $ going to the winner. At the end of day 1 there were entrants remaining. The final table was made 3 hours into day 2. 9th place came at the hands of Bruce Lankford’s who [...]

The Seven Card Stud/ Stud 8 mix event attracted 50 players buying in for $340. The event would pay out the final table and the winner getting $5,236. From beginning to end, the players proved to be expert in the mixed game ring! Within a few minutes of reaching the final table, Jim Lewis found [...]

With 455 entrants in the No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Event, there was plenty of ammunition for our final table. From start to finish, there would never be a dull moment. Everyone had their eye’s on the $32,956 top prize as well as an entry into the main event! The short stack of the final [...]

Event 7 of the Gulf Coast Poker Championship was the $340 Omaha Hi/Lo tournament. The event attracted 122 players with the final 17 coming back on Day 2 to duke it out for a spot at the final table and the first prize of $12,782. After the final table was formed, the first victim was [...]