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Michael Ackermann from Lake City, MN Wins $10,000 CASH
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!
MPL Player CAHES BIG at the HPT
Minnesota Poker League player Mark Wadekamper, who lives and plays in Lonsdale, MN, at Flicek's Bar & Grill, CASHED BIG yet again during the Heartland Poker Tour's 150th televised event this past Sunday, October 17, at the Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen, MN. Wadekamper holds one of the best track record on the HPT, managing to cash during each of his four attempts and also made the televised final table last year, finishing fifth for nearly ten grand. Pocket 2s versus pocket 5s got him $8,120 in fifth place again.
“If anyone should follow the tour and play every event, it’s this guy,” said HPT’s On-Air Floor Director Jaymz Larson, “He cashes every time.”
Congratulations and way to represent the league Mark! For the full story on the event brought to you by the HPT, click HERE.
(Photo Courtesy of the Heartland Poker Tour)
Fifty Lakes' Jim Buchite Cashes at the 2010 WSOP
We're excited to announce that Fifty Lakes resident and MPL player Jim Buchite placed 113 out of 3,844 entrants in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #54, cashing out for $3,182!
Buchite had a one in 24 chance to turn his $1,000 buy-in into a $10,000 WSOP Main Event seat during our National Championship on Thursday, July 1st at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, but it wasn’t in the cards for him that day. However, he did manage to make the most of his FREE $1,000 buy-in to Event #54 by placing in the money and walking away a winner.
“Buchite’s run during the first day of Event #54 was like watching a rollercoaster,” said Pete Bushey FPN’s administrator who attended the event. “His chip stack went up and down, but as the end of Day 1 neared he was one of the chip leaders, which helped him to eventually place in 113th. He’s a sharp player, and we were very excited to see him walk away with a nice stack of cash.” Congratulations, Jim!
St. Louis Park Resident Makes WSOP's November Nine
He might be the shortest stacked player when the final nine gather in November for this year's World Series of Poker Main Event Championship, but Grand Forks, ND, native Jason Senti’s decision to quit an electrical engineering job to become a full-time poker player certainly seems to have paid off, especially considering he beat out a field of more than 7,300 players and is guaranteed to take home at least $811,823!
6 New MN Champions Heading to the WSOP
This past weekend at the Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen, MN, six Minnesota Poker League players won their way to the 2010 World Series of Poker! Each one will play in Event #54 while also competing in the FPN National Championship where the winner will be crowned the new National Champion and play in the $10,000 WSOP Main Event! The lucky winners (pictured front row left to right) were Tomi Hamilton from Trackside in Wadena, Nels Peterson from Ultimate Sports Bar in Waite Park, Jon Stern from 50 Lakes Bar in Emily, (back row left to right) Bill Long from Courtney's Comedy Club & JC's Corral in Moorhead and Dilworth, Jim Buchite from 50 Lakes Bar in Emily, and Kevin Rouser from the Whistle Stop Tavern in Lonsdale.