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Heartland Poker Tour

Chick Wins Poker Tournament

by Wicked Chops Entity on 3.12.2013 in Poker Tournaments | no comments

No, seriously, WHO won the tournament?

No, seriously, WHO won the tournament?

Teresa Hemingway, a woman, won a poker tournament.

Hemingway captured HPT‘s largest annual event, the Golden Gates tournament in Black Hawk, Colorado. Golden Gates had over a $1M prize pool, and Hemingway, still a woman, banked $226,463 for the win.

Had Hemingway pulled this feat off last summer (or as we like to call it, the “Summer of Bath Salts! Zombies!”), we would’ve surely known the apocalypse was near.

As is custom when a woman wins a poker tournament, all males who entered had to go home with their pants at their ankles and their genitalia tucked between their legs.

Or at least that’s what they make you do in Afghanistan.

Speaking of Afghanistan, Osama Aweida finished 37th and Jassim Al-Ansari came in 38th, each earning $4,630.

Get full results here.

Or we can save you the trouble of clicking and just let you know that Stan Jablonski finished 62nd for a min-cash.

Tagged as: featured, Heartland Poker Tour, HPT, Poker News, Teresa Hemingway, Zombie Apocalypse

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Wicked Chops Podcast: Fred Bevill on Saved by the Bell, Federated/Epic, and HPT

by Wicked Chops Entity on 2.10.2013 in Poker News | 1 comment

Back to posting, back to podcasts.

First up: a long overdue cast with the HPT‘s Fred Bevill. In between talking about the Season 9 changes to HPT, Fred discusses his stint on Saved by the Bell (go to 1:22 in the above clip), the shitshow that was Federated Sports+Gaming, and more.

Listen below or download on iTunes.

Working on a few more podcasts for later in the week and next week as well.

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Tagged as: Epic Poker, Fred Bevill, Heartland Poker Tour, HPT, Podcast, poker podcast, Saved by the Bell, Wicked Chops Podcast

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There’s a Ho in the Booth

by Wicked Chops Entity on 12.10.2012 in Poker News | no comments

Maria Ho is the new HPT expert commentator.

Maria Ho and the Heartland Poker Tour made history of sorts on Monday. Ho has joined the HPT team to become the first female commentator in poker broadcast history (apologies to whatever potentially show did this first that we don’t remember).

Says Maria:

“Broadcast journalism was an interest for me before poker, but it wasn’t something I thought I could segue into from poker. I have a good idea what the general poker viewing audience wants. I can bridge that gap between people who are recreational players looking to get better and the poker professional that wants to watch programming that has a little more substance to it.”

From our perspective, the real intrigue here is that Ho technically becomes the most exposed poker player if not in in the world, then definitely U.S. America. HPT is broadcast about 24/7/365 in the U.S., so the “brand impressions” she’s getting are pretty significant.

Read more about the signing here.

Tagged as: featured, Heartland Poker Tour, Maria Ho, Poker News

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Greg Raymer Wins HPT Championship Open, Fourth Title of Year

by Wicked Chops Entity on 11.21.2012 in Poker Tournaments | 1 comment

Greg Raymer can afford to buy everyone who played the HPT Championship Open a lifetime supply of turduckens after taking down his fourth event of the year.

Holy smokes.

You can hate the player, but don’t hate the game. Greg Raymer is absolutely crushing the mid-stakes scene this year.

Raymer won his FOURTH Heartland Poker Tour title of the year (and fourth in last five events) on Monday, bagging the HPT Championship Open.

Raymer entered final table play as the short-stack. Within nine hands, he was chip leader and never looked back.

For the win, Raymer banks $106,030. He’s now over $7.2M in lifetime earnings. Raymer previously won the HPT Route 66 July event ($71,875), September River City Casino event ($121,973), and Prairie Meadows Iowa event ($72,089).

Jacob Bazeley finished second for $59,706.

Other notable event finishers include and are certainly limited to Iverson Cotton Snuffer (real name) (4th - $32,941), Nick Phillips (14th – $7,000), and Darvin Moon (28th - $2,306).

Get full results here.

Tagged as: featured, greg raymer, Heartland Poker Tour, Poker News

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Greg Raymer Defeats Two Women, Wins Second HPT Title of 2012

by Wicked Chops Entity on 10.1.2012 in Poker Tournaments | 5 comments

We’re not big fans of open borders, but we’ll take a few more Alona Sushynina’s immigrating to the U.S. any day.

Greg Raymer defeated a final table that contained not one but two women (somewhere Ty Stewart is balling) to capture his second Heartland Poker Tour title of 2012.

Back in July, Raymer won HPT’s Route 66 event. Just math math math two months later, he came and conquered a field of 336 to capture the HPT River City Casino tournament in St. Louis. For the win, the ex-WSOP Main Event champ banks $121,973.

Also final table-ing were 21-year-old hottie Alona Sushynina (above), a woman, and 121 year-old Penelope Banhidy, a woman. The two women finished third ($43,908) and fifth ($29,272) respectively.

St. Louis resident, salt-of-the-earth, regular working stiff and all-around good guy Dennis Phillips just missed the TV final table, finishing 7th.

Get full results and payouts here.

Tagged as: Alona Sushynina, greg raymer, Heartland Poker Tour, Poker News

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