Spooky Cards at North Dakota Gold Rush 2 Championship Tournament
Halloween weekend brought good times (and spooky cards) to the North Dakota championship tourney held in Jamestown, ND. The Quality Inn & Suites was the sponsor location, with 111 players from all corners of the state vying to win one of three seats to the Gold Rush 2 $20,000 Cash Finale in Las Vegas, NV. A bonus heads-up tournament awarded the winner a direct entry ticket to the first Sin City Showdown online championship (to be held Nov 1st).
If you weren't at Running Aces Harness Park in Columbus, MN, this past Saturday, October 23rd for the Minnesota Gold Rush 2 state championship, you seriously missed out on one of the best finals we've ever had! With only a handful of qualifiers who couldn't make the event, nearly 215 players flooded the Atrium to see who would end the day with the FIVE national championship prize packages. So ... who were the big winners? You'll have to read the rest of the story to find out!
Brandon Dosch can now add a title of Heartland Poker Tour Champion to his list of accomplishments after taking down the HPT's 150th televised event this past Sunday, Oct. 17th at Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen, MN, for a cool $40,601. Brandon is a poker league regular at The Bowler in Fargo, ND, and also won a trip to Las Vegas last summer and a seat in the WSOP Event #54, in which he cashed for more than $3,000. 
On a sunny, 80 degree October day in Hoskins, Nebraska, 52 players from as far as North Platte came together to play their best poker to see who would become Nebraska's new state champion for our Gold Rush 2 promotion. There were a lot of familiar faces in the crowd as most players competed in at least one state championship before.