Heartland Poker Tour

Budding Pro Golfer Wins Heartland Poker Tour in Indiana

July 30, 2008 - No Comments The Majestic Star Casino in Gary, Indiana was the site of a Heartland Poker Tour Event that ended in a victory for a 23-year-old budding professional golfer. the $2,500 NL event wrapped up yesterday with the winner, Shane Sigsbee, winning over $200,000.  Today, the young’in is participating in a 36-hole U.S. amateur qualifier in Indiana. The young man won the final table in decisive fashion, with the last nine participants only battling it....

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Jesse Green Wins at Heartland Poker Tour

March 14, 2008 - No Comments The Heartland Poker Tour’s fourth season continued onto the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel in Tama, Iowa over the weekend. There were189 total main event players. Over 700 players played in the HPT qualifiers for the opportunity to have a seat in the main event. Jesse Green, a local farmer, won the HPT title and a large first prize of $80,664. Jesse Green was supposed to be in Cancun, Mexico. Instead, he decided to spend his vacation near his....

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Dusty Hamers Wins at Heartland Poker Tour

February 27, 2008 - No Comments The Heartland Poker Tour’s fourth season got under way last week as players traveled from the four corners of the U.S. to play in the real people poker tour. Grand Casino Mille Lacs, a regular HPT tour stop and located 90 miles north of Minneapolis, was the host of 2008’s first HPT event. In all, there were five no-limit events and over a 1400 entries for the week’s tournaments. The main event got under way Sunday morning with....

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Heartland Poker Tour Makes Arizona Stop

November 21, 2007 - No Comments The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) made its first stop in Arizona this past week and crowned a new HPT champion. Andreas Foulias, fifty-three years old from Gilbert, Arizona, won the Texas No Limit Hold’em poker tournament and close to $60,000. Foulias has proven to be the player to beat in Arizona this year. Besides winning this weekend’s Heartland Poker Tour title, Foulias also won the Arizona Poker Championship held in the Phoenix area in August. “This....

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U of Iowa Graduate Pockets $85,000

November 7, 2007 - No Comments Hundreds of players converged on central Iowa this past week for the Heartland Poker Tour’s Iowa State Poker Championship, held at Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel, near the town of Tama, Iowa. In the end, Donny Carlton, a 23 year old professional poker player and recent University of Iowa graduate, took down the latest HPT championship and won over $85,000. The main event prize pool was $307,280. Carlton returned to the state of his alma mater to....

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Painting Contractor Takes HPT Crown in Deadwood

October 22, 2007 - No Comments In a town famous for lawlessness and gun slinging cowboys from the Old West, six poker players filled the Heartland Poker Tour’s final table at the Lucky Nugget Card Club in what can only be described as a good old fashion shootout. When the smoke cleared after only 64 hands of final table action, Scott Eckert, a painting contractor from Fargo ND, took down the championship, leaving with a first place prize of $64,133, plus a prize package worth....

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Colorado’s Largest Tournament Ends

October 16, 2007 - No Comments BLACK HAWK, COLORADO – October 15, 2007– The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) at the Golden Gates Casino comes to end with Michael Evergreen winning first place. HPT arrived with a vengeance to Black Hawk, Colorado on October 1st. The qualifying poker tournaments were quickly sold out with 1545 poker players in the qualifying events. On Sunday, the HPT final table was dominated by Colorado residents with five of the six poker players from Colorado.....

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Mark Sandness Shines at Northern Lights

September 19, 2007 - No Comments WALKER, Minnesota – September 18, 2007– The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) returned to the Northern Lights Casino over the weekend. Mark Sandness became the newest HPT Champion on Monday, September 17th. Sadness won the Northern Lights title, $53,000 and a seat into the HPT Championship Tournament. The main event prize pool totaled $192,998. The Northern Lights Casino is a historical landmark for Heartland since they hosted the very first HPT....

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