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!
UPDATED! The Free Poker Network has partnered with the Father Hennepin Festival for a day of fun and poker on Saturday, June 13th. Check in time is at 3:30 and the tournament will start at 4:00. There will be some great prizes given away and it is FREE to play. The festival is located at 651 west river rd in Champlin at the Mississippi Point Park in the BEER tent.
Congratulations are in order for some league players who cashed in on the Heartland Poker Tour this past weekend at Northern Lights Casino in Walker, Minnesota.
Free Poker Network players continue to thrive on the HPT as four of the televised six were regular league players. Free Poker Network players cashed for a whopping $64,290. Forty percent of the entire prize pool was won by people who have played and continue to play in our league!!!
Minnesota Poker League players made up 7 of the final 10 players in the Vegas Invasion Main Event recently held at the Orleans Casino. Out of the 8 big winners 6 of them came from Minnesota. The final 8 survived a field of 94 players to earn their choice of a $2,500 package to play in a World Poker Tour or World Series of Poker event!
Congrats to the Minnesota winners: Ben Blecker from the American Legion in Albert Lea, MN, Dennis Karlsrud from Marie's Casual Dining in Red Wing, MN, Erin Schlusser from Flicek's Bar in Lonsdale, MN, Troy Sjostrand from Champp's in Eden Prairie, MN, Reuben Sufka from Ultimate Sports Bar in Waite Park, MN, and Dave Halverson from Sharkees in Luverne, MN.
On Saturday, May 16th 225 players from all over the state of Minnesota showed up a the Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen to take their shot at becoming on of the exclusive qualifiers for the Party at the Palms Championship.
With such a large field every player had to win their fair share of coin flips and play their best poker. In the end, twenty players would end up qualifying with the last ten players remaining winning $500 towards travel expenses.
The action started out fast and furious as Travis Hartwig was the first player to be knocked out within the first half hour of play. He got all his chips in ahead as he flopped broadway only to be sucked out on by a full house on the dreaded river.
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Regional Championship Tournaments are almost here! Minnesota has been divided into 10 different regions. The regionals will be in Wadena, Alexandria, Waite Park, Moorhead, Stillwater, Eden Prairie, Dundas, Hutchinson, Grand Rapids, Thief River Falls, and Worthington. Each regional winner will receive $200 towards trip expenses to Las Vegas to compete in the Vegas Invasion main event. The regional winners will also get a party badge so they can attend all the parties and have access to the private poker tournaments at the Orleans Casino.
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