The Heartland Poker Tour's stop at Ameristar East Chicago is always one of the biggest on the tour, and it drew 541 runners over the weekend for the $1,650 Main Event. Casey Carroll continued a string of recent success on the HPT by winning the event for $174,469, beating a final table that included World Poker Tour champ Andy Hwang.
Carroll's two biggest previous cashes, for $28,200 and $10,586, respectively, came when he won a preliminary HPT event last November and got 10th in this very tournament last September.