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  • Sun City Card Club Steps Up: Finally, a True Freezeout Tournament

    Sun City Card Club is stepping up its tournament game by finally giving players something they’ve been asking for—a TRUE Freezeout Tournament. One of the most common gripes I hear at El Paso poker tournaments, amidst the friendly banter, is the lack of a genuine freezeout tournament. “I wish there was a tournament with no


  • The Gamble: A True Crime Tale of El Paso Poker and a Houston Cop

    Section 1: The Plan “Sun City Card Club is a real place. It’s in El Paso, but wow, I can’t believe this is for real,” Detective Johnson said to himself as he went through the Sun City Card Club website that he found on a google search. “Obviously, I have to go. Anyone would do


  • Deebs Goes Back to Back!

    The El Paso Poker headline of the summer is the man affectionately known throughout the El Paso poker community as Freddy Deebs aka DaDeebs aka Chuco Brunson aka El Paso’s best poker player, went back to back winning Sun City Card Club’s $20K GTD tournament and then taking a top ICM chop at House of


  • Last Week to Win $1,100 Seat for High Society’s $20k GTD

    Last week Sun City Card Club ran a very succesful multiday tournament, exceeding their $15k GTD with a prize pool of over $20k, with Andy Khatami being named tournament champion. I covered the final table on my twitter account, @elpasopokerblog, if you would like to see how the action went down. Hopefully I can find


  • Sun City Card Club to Host $15k Tourney Tomorrow

    Being St Valentine’s Day and all, I should be writing beautiful love sonnets for my wife, but instead I have chosen to blog about El Paso poker. Though today’s article is related to St Valentine’s Day. Kind of. Okay not really. But what is true is that Sun City Card Club is firing off its


  • The Magic Man is Back!

    Y’all know I had to do my first player profile article on my baby boo Magic! Recently players have asked me where my very best poker playing friend Magic has been. “Hey Chris, where’s your girlfriend Magic? Haven’t seen him in a while. Did he go back to ‘school’ again?”  Lol. Nah guys he didn’t


  • High Society to Host El Paso’s Most Expensive Tournament, Ever

    El Paso poker players are already getting excited about the next big tournament happening in town. High Society is guaranteeing a whopping $20k to first place on February 25th. And get this. It’s a Freezeout! A true freezeout (that means no add-ons, Sun City). Freezeouts are no doubt the best tournaments. But the buy-in is


  • HOK more than doubles GTD; Paul Johnson wins first championship

    Last night I got to do something I have always wanted to do. No, not play on the Final Table (maybe next time, sad face). But I got to cover Final Table action as a reporter! My wife of course was thrilled when I told her why I would be leaving her at home alone


  • Jack’s Debuts; TRUE Freeroll tonight!

    So Jack’s (Formerly Jack of Hearts) is the new club in town, or at least it has a new name and manager. They kicked it off with a $1k Guarantee tournament with a modest, but respectable, two table turnout.The really admirable thing was that the house had to give a $300 overlay. That’s right, the


  • High Society’s First Tournament has ‘Add-on’ Controversy

    High Society’s first tournament is in the books with Adrian Luna being named tournament champion in what ended up finishing in a three-way chop. While this tournament has mostly heard praise, there was one big complaint on Facebook today from Pete Raya, who has won several tournament championships here in El Paso. He was very