by Doyle Woody | Nov 20, 2023 | Poker
When last we checked in with poker pro Adam Hendrix of Anchorage, about a month ago, he had just cashed in big. Hendrix pocketed his seventh career victory, winning $172,000 for taking down the PokerGo Tour Pot Limit Omaha Progressive Bounty tournament in Las Vegas...
by Doyle Woody | Oct 24, 2023 | Cover Story, Poker
The difficult position Anchorage poker pro Adam Hendrix faced Monday quickly turned delicious when the final card was revealed in the PokerGo Tour $15K Pot Limit Omaha Progressive Bounty event in Las Vegas. Playing heads-up against Daniel Geeng after the field of 101...
by Doyle Woody | Jul 19, 2023 | Cover Story, Poker
Adam Hendrix is a high roller on a roll. The Anchorage poker pro closed the 54th annual World Series of Poker, a 50-day run of 115 tournaments – 95 live, 20 online – in Las Vegas as by far the most accomplished, flush Alaskan among the 42 folks from the 49th state who...
by Doyle Woody | Jul 2, 2023 | Cover Story, Poker
What Adam Hendrix coveted most Sunday was to earn his first bracelet as a World Series of Poker event winner. That did not happen. Hendrix’s consolation prize, though, will surely salve that wound — $570,671 buys a lot of Band-Aids. The poker pro from Anchorage...
by Doyle Woody | Jun 25, 2023 | Cover Story, Poker
Been tracking Alaskans at the annual World Series of Poker for most of the last decade, but until recently Nicholas Ronalds of Anchorage never crossed my radar. When he did, he lit up the laptop screen in a big way. Ronalds recently recorded the top Alaska placing at...
by Doyle Woody | Jun 21, 2023 | Cover Story, Poker
Mario Fata of Juneau first nudged his way into World Series of Poker money in 2022, when he cashed in twice in Las Vegas at the world’s most lucrative and prestigious house of cards. This time around, he’s making a bigger statement. Fata has cashed five times already...