Congrats to Michael Ackermann from Lake City, MN won $10,000 in the CASH KING promotion! He qualified for the national final by scratching off 4-of-a-kind on a Scratch Poker card. Weekly winners in the league get a chance to play the Scratch Card when winning any regular season poker tournament for a chance to win instant CASH and QUALIFY for Nationals!
The great state of Minnesota is the largest region in the league!
On Sunday, November 8th, 86 players took their shot at becoming the last Desert Heat winner to head to the fabulous Red Rock Casino in sunny Las Vegas in January. The tournament was held on our FPN Online poker software and the entry was one silver token. In order to earn a silver, players needed to win a 10 player bronze token sng online. Players can earn the bronze tokens by winning a live league night or by winning various online tourneys.
In Mahnomen, MN this past weekend the Heartland Poker Tour made a stop at Shooting Star Casino. Nine of the 30 players that made it into the cash were players who have played or are currently playing in the Free Poker Network! Altogether the nine players that cashed brought home a total of $20,866. Way to go! Click "read more" to see who the nine players were.
On Sunday, June 28th, 48 out of the 50 players that qualified for the Party at the Palms National Championship gathered in the Kingpin and Erotic Suites on the 25th floor of the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. 21 of the 48 players that participated were going to win a $1,500 package. Players from Minnesota represented 40 percent of the field.
In the end, 7 players from Minnesota went on to win $1,500 packages. Skip Wood from the Moorhead VFW (pictured on left) who also won a $3,500 cruise package during the Ship It promotion became one of two players to have won a grand prize package twice. The other player in the picture on the right was Doug Magee who also won one of the cruise packages during the Ship It promotion. Doug also won the $10,000 Highroller package on the cruise and won one of the $1,500 packages at the Party at the Palms Championship.
The largest region in the Free Poker Network, the Minnesota Poker League, held its championship event at Running Aces Card Club just outside the Twin Cities over the weekend. Out of the 199 who attended, 10 players were former champs, having previously won a grand prize package through the league. Two of them, Clay Lipke from Primetime Food & Spirits in Breezy Point and Reuben Sufka from the Ultimate Sports Bar & Grill in Waite Park, won again! Here are the top 9 players (each earned a $2,000 Heartland Poker Tour-Red Rock Casino package): Jim Ellingson from Silver Moon in Perham, Jason Holter from the Brickhouse in Roseau, Jeremy Porter from the Sherwood Lounge in St. Paul, Clay Lipke from Primetime in Breezy Point, Jeff Karlstad from Z103 in Fergus Falls, Jayson Sheffler from Flicek's Lonsdale, Reuben Sufka from the Ultimate Sports Bar in Waite Park, David Grecinger from the Old Muni in Cook, and John Johnson from Decoys in White Bear Lake.
A big congratulations goes out to Erin Schussler from Lonsdale, MN who cashed in event #51 at this years WSOP. She played great poker for two days and outlasted over 2,500 other players. Erin won $3,036 and ended up taking 196th place. Altogether in the event there were 2,781 players in the event.
Erin was one of our eight winners from last summers Vegas Invasion promotion and used her buy-in in event #51. Erin set league history as she was the first ever grand prize winner in FPN's history to cash in a WSOP event. Way to go Erin!!!
