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by Brian Pempus | Published: Aug 27, '15

Houston-based poker player Mina Greco is coming off a final table at the World Poker Tour main event at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma. The $175,673 score for fifth place is the largest to date for 38-year-old long-time poker player. The $3,500 buy-in drew 1,175 players. She had entered the final table as the […]

by Sean Chaffin | Published: Apr 27, '24

Visitors to Hollywood Casino at Greektown in Detroit now have a new place to bet on the Lions, Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings. The property became the first casino to house an official ESPN Bet retail sportsbook after the venue officially opened for business on Wednesday. The 4,500 square-foot sportsbook includes a restaurant on the […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Apr 23, '18

The 2018 Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw $1,100 no-limit hold’em main event wrapped up early Monday morning in Durant, Oklahoma. After three action-packed days of play, Brad Freeman sat with all the chips at the end for a first-place prize of $170,984. The 29-year-old from Spring, Texas used to play professionally, but now works as […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Apr 22, '18

With a final total of 1,086 entries, the 2018 Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw $1,100 no-limit hold’em main event surpassed its $1 million guarantee to create a final prize pool of $1,053,420. This is the largest ever CPPT main event held at Choctaw Casino & Resort in terms of field size, blowing away the previous […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Aug 05, '15

A number of exciting poker events wrapped up this week, awarding plenty of prize money and Card Player Player of the Year points. Here is a look at the tournaments that made the biggest impact on the 2015 POY race over the past seven days: 2015 WSOP National Championship Loni Harwood has won the 2015 […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Aug 05, '15

The inaugural World Poker Tour Choctaw $3,700 no-limit hold’em main event featured a $2 million guaranteed prize pool, which was easily surpassed when 1,175 entries were made to build a final prize pool of $3,989,125. In the end the lion’s share of that was awarded to Jason Brin, a 42-year-old carpet store owner from De […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Aug 03, '15

The inaugural World Poker Tour Choctaw $3,700 no-limit hold’em main event attracted a huge field of 1,175 players to nearly double the $2 million prize pool guarantee with a final total of $3,989,125 paid out to the top 145 finishers. After three full days of exciting action there are now only six players remaining to […]

by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Jul 08, '12

2012 World Series of Poker Main Event Chip Counts Day 1A Entrants: 1,066 Players Remaining: 657 Average Chip Count: 48,675 Rank Player Name Chip Count 1 William John 266,700 2 Gerardo Lubas 165,825 3 Daniel Strelitz 164,125 4 Dane Lomas 157,600 5 Cary Katz 154,850 6 Benjamin Pollak 144,200 7 Chance Kornuth 141,775 8 Jonathan […]

by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Jul 10, '11

Of the 2,181 players who bought into day 1C of the 2011 World Series of Poker main event, just 1,471 of them survived. Kevin Song bagged up with the most chips, building his stack to 163,325, but he’s still way behind day 1A chip leader Fred Berger (209,500) and day 1B chip leader Ben Lamb […]

by Rebecca McAdam | Published: Jan 29, '11

Australian news site, Herald Sun, has reported that while UK poker player Michael Greco is in Australia for the Aussie Millions, he has stated his wishes to be part of the Ramsey Street cast on Australian soap, Neighbours. The actor-turned-poker player who has over $730,000 in tournament winnings played Beppe di Marco on Eastenders for […]