After two days of preliminary play at the 2008 Legends of Poker, 248 players returned, all with their eyes on the $1,116,428 first-place prize… or at least surviving to the final 36 players to finish in the money. With the blinds starting at 200-400 with a 50 ante, even the shortest stacks......
Amit Makhija is known online as "AMAK316," where he has won $352,265 in online tournaments. His live winnings have climbed to match that amount during 2008 ($354,903) as he has cashed a total of seven times in the first eight months of the year on the tournament trail. His largest cash......
The River Poker Championship took place Sunday, Aug. 23, with Jim Carroll of Richardson, Texas, taking home the $700,000 first-place prize.
He topped a field of 1,450 entrants, who were all looking for a piece of the $3 million prize. Only 144 would claim some of the prize pool, and Carroll got his large chunk, plus a $20,000 bracelet for his win.
"I knew I could win it!" Carroll said. "The staff was great, the tournament was well run and it all gave me a good feeling."
...Is bigger really better? Well, in terms of deep-stacked poker tournaments it is, and it's the big rooms on The Strip that are offering them. The Bellagio, Venetian, Caesars Palace, and brand-new Hard Rock poker rooms are now all offering regularly scheduled deep-stacked tournaments, proving......