Three tales from the lands of live tournament poker including Blake Bohn equalling the record number of wins in the Mid-States Poker Tour Main Event, Sam Weiss taking down the Commerce Poker Series Main Event in LA, and a look ahead at the live tours set to close out a quieter September period.

September is online poker month.

Hands down.

But as poker players from Vauxhall to Vancouver compete for over $180 million in online prizes in PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and partypoker’s POWERFEST online series, a few old-school ilks are still squeezing felt underneath fingernails that smell of sweaty feet.