Happy New Year from Biloxi, Mississippi USA (January 5, 2010) - Being surrounded by stunning décor, free drinks, exquisite dining, poker pros, and seductive nightlife will be great and all that, but I am here for the poker! Herald in the new year with the first World Poker Tour® (WPT) event of the year. There will be 33 events culminating in the USD 10,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Main Event. Which will be filmed for broadcast on Fox Sports Net (FSN) in the United States.

Biloxi, Mississippi 2009- The tournament was held at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino (A MGM property). It had about the same amount of players as last year, 200 players for the USD 300 and USD 500 buy ins on the weekends and 150 players during the week.

(Biloxi, Mississippi USA Jan 2009) - At first I worked too hard writing recaps of the results of each event in this Southern Poker Championship (SPC) which culminated in the final event, a WPT event where the winner won a cool USD 1,000,000. I was up day and night, but Anne, my wife, came and helped after a couple of days. I came to these warm gulf coast sandy shores with a friend, John, and Anne came later.

Biloxi, MS (January 17, 2009) – Poker commonly uses boxing metaphors. All poker players know what it’s like to “step into the ring.” The very best players can “take a punch.” The goal of every tournament player is to “go the distance.” And the sweetest poker victory comes when delivering the “knockout punch.” On January 17th, Beau Rivage Casino & Resort, perched on the shores of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, hosted two enormously popular sporting events -- a World Poker Tour championship and a Don King world title prize fight.

Biloxi, MS (January 8, 2009) – Event #7 was won by a professional player, Russ Salzer, who collected in his third major tournament since 2000. He was heads-up against second place Yuebin Guo who had a much smaller chip stack and it was only a matter of time before the bitter end. Salzer is 49 years of age, was 29th in the 2005 WSOP Championship and has also collected over USD 820,000 in career tournament winnings.

Biloxi, MS (January 7, 2009) – University of Texas student Michael Benvenuti won USD 63,898 at the fourth event of the 2009 Southern Poker Championship. Benvenuti is a fifth year college student majoring in neurobiology.

Biloxi, MS (January 4, 2009) – The World Poker Tour (WPT) started this year in Biloxi Mississippi USA and it promises to be an exciting success. Event #1 (of 15 Events) had a turn out of 1005 entries. The alternates were lined up out the door. But poker managers, Ken Lambert, Johnny Grooms, Eric Comer, and Shawn Johnson got it going in grand style.

Biloxi - Beau Rivage Casino announced layoffs this week of an undisclosed number of employees, primarily assistant managers and managers. "In light of the current economic environment that we are all currently experiencing, Beau Rivage has had to make tough decisions, not unlike other companies," Beau Rivage President George Corchis said. "We continuously evaluate our business and make appropriate efficiencies when needed."

We have quite a few World Series of Poker Events (WSOP), World Poker Tour Events (WPT), and other poker tournaments in the Southeastern USA. The Beau Rivage Resort & Casino hosted the Spring Break Poker Classic and it was wild. With the Rounder Magazine Girls, a Monkey "horsing around", cash games, and a full blown poker tournament, this is an experience to remember. It is offered up Biloxi style, flavored with southern hospitality and warm gumbo stew.