Bar Poker Pros has seat for Sports Legends Challenge
Bar Poker Pros, a popular bar poker league in South Florida, will conduct a charity tournament at 10 a.m. Saturday at Tootsie's Cabaret, at the corner of U.S. 441 and Miami Gardens Drive.
But it isn't strip poker.
The grand prize is a $10,000 entry into the Sports Legends Challenge tournament at Atlantis Sept. 11-14, which is a heck of a tournament (click here for the link). The top prize also includes a five-night stay at Atlantis. All final table players will receive prizes.
Because it's a charity tournament, entries are only by donation. Bar Poker Pros is suggesting it be $65, and is limiting the field to 200, and offering a free breakfast to those who sign up in advance.
The Sports Legends Challenge is Sept. 14-17, as 25 of sports legends join 25 top professional poker players to provide a weekend of exciting action. Featuring poker, golf, blackjack, and slots tournaments. Go to www.SportsLegendsChallenge.com for more info.
And, oh, just so you can concentrate on poker: the tournament will be held in the sports bar.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
