Event #25 of the Southern Poker Championship attracted a nice field that included the likes of Bill Edler, Nick Binger and Chad Brown. In the end, the final table would be a stacked table. In the end, one player would mow the competition over in his quest to be champion. Liv Boeree got all-in and [...]

9th place went to Gene Bauerlein who was all-in (Q-Q-3-5) versus Seamus Cahill (K-10-9-5). The flop and turn came K-5-3-J and both players made two pair. However, one of the last two Q’s came out giving the straight to Cahill. Gene Bauerlein finished 9th earning $3,405. Scott Clements (5-6-7-7) and John O’Shea (K-K-A-2) are both [...]

Nicole Williams of Dallas, Texas, got her short stack in against Bruce Van Horn. Nicole held A-7 versus the A-Q of Van Horn. The board failed to improve either hands and Nicole Williams finished 10th earning $1,827. Adam Lippert made a raise from 10k to 51k and action got around to Michael Usakowski, who moved [...]

Preflop, we had Yuval Bronstein (J-J-7-6) all-in, Warren Davis (A-9-5-2) all-in and Robert Wachtel (A-A-K-2) calling the two down. The board ran out A-4-9-9-K. Robert’s full house beat both players, which meant Yuval Bronstein finished 9th earning $803. Warren Davis finished 8th earning $1,205. Jordan Stone got all his chips in on a flop of [...]

In late position, Anthony Bruno got all his chips in and got the call from Morris Barrett and Phillip Wads. The flop was Q-9-4, Phillip moved all-in and Morris folded. Bruno turned over A-2 versus the A-Q of Wads. the turn was a 7 and the river was a 9. Anthony Bruno finished 10th earning [...]

Lori Bender moved all-in and got the crying call from Linda Keenan. Lori was ahead with K-J versus the K-2 of Keenan. The flop was 4-5-10, the turn was a 7 and the river was a 2. The pair of 2′s by Keenan sent Lori Bender of Houston, Texas home in 7th earning $1,478. Under [...]

David Kruger made a raise to 25k and action got back to Dwyte Pilgrim. Dwyte decided to raise the action enough to put Kruger all-in and Kruger called with A-5, versus the J-10 of Pilgrim. The flop was 10-3-9 giving Pilgrim the lead. The turn came a 7 and the river was another 3. David [...]

Our first victim of the tournament was Charles Barnes of Houston, Texas. For his 8th place finish, Charles earned $1,474. In Omaha 8 and on a flop of 8-K-2, James Newberry made the 4k bet. Ernest Vidal moved all-in for his last 10k and Timothy Burt called. James and Timothy made a small side pot [...]

The 17th event of the Southern Poker Championship was held with 343 players gathering a prize pool of $166,355. Once we got to a final table, action slowed up a bit as players jockeyed for position to take down the top prize of $49,904. Three players saw a flop of 5d-7d-3d, action checked around to [...]

Our first seven card stud event attracted 110 players with a total prize pool of $11,349. The field would dwindle down over the course of two days. The final five players would be in the money and that’s where we pick up the action. The money was made when we got to 5 players and [...]