Champion Turns Two Chips and a Chair into WPT History
The inaugural Gulf Coast Poker Championship was the setting for one of the most amazing comebacks the poker world has ever seen. With 17 players remaining in the tournament and the blinds at $4,000-$8,000 with a $1,000 ante, Bill Edler was crippled down to his last […]
With 11 Casinos, July Revenue Almost Breaks All-Time Record
Today marks the start of the Gulf Coast Poker Championship, a 10-event series at the Beau Rivage that’s capped by a $10,000 championship that will be filmed and broadcast by the World Poker Tour.
It also marks the two-year anniversary when an estimated 90 percent of Biloxi’s buildings […]
BILOXI — The World Poker Tour will bring its televised high-limits poker tournament to the Beau Rivage in Biloxi on Aug. 29 to Sept. 9.
The event, the first televised poker tournament on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, is one of 19 stops in Season VI of the World Poker Tournament.
“The timing is just perfect” with the […]
I was picking up a pack a cigarettes for my girlfriend last night, and I noticed in the back of the pack they had a little 07-07-07 insert. It isn’t just casinos and gamblers that are taking note of this amazing day. It is going to be crazy! Here is the pic
A little update on […]
BILOXI, Mississippi — As reported by the Biloxi Sun Herald: “In Mississippi, problem gambling has not increased since Hurricane Katrina and the number of people seeking help for gambling addiction has stayed unchanged even as more casinos open on the Coast.
“Betty Greer, executive director of the Mississippi Council on Problem and Compulsive Gambling, said calls […]