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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!

Gearing Up for the Minnesota State Championship

This weekend nearly 250 poker players from across Minnesota will be heading to the Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen, MN, for our Destination Las Vegas Minnesota State Championship where we will award six lucky players airfare and hotel to Las Vegas and a $1,000 preliminary World Series of Poker buy-in and a seat in our exclusive National Championship for a shot at the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event Seat. The action begins at 12 pm sharp this Saturday, May  22, and with 137 players in the field with previous MN state championship experience it's sure to be a exciting day of poker! As we gear up here in the office for this weekend's event, we're still recruiting volunteer dealers. So if you or someone you know would like to help out, please call us at 701-293-9400! We'll be sure to keep their hands happy with free drinks and food throughout the day in exchange for their help!

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Three Time Minnesota State Champ Clay Lipke Talks Strategy and Style

For a guy who owns a successful seamless gutters and insulation business, poker is just another way for Clay Lipke to keep his mind as sharp as his business sense. And with three Minnesota Poker League state championship prize packages under his belt, one national championship win and a cash-out in a 2007 Heartland Poker Tour event, his poker playing skills seems to mirror his business acumen.To date, Lipke has managed to win more than $16,500 in cash and prizes playing FREE poker in the Minnesota Poker League and this weekend he hopes to add another chunk of cash to that total during our Fall Spectacular National Championship at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. We sat down with the free poker stud earlier this week to find out what makes his poker style what it is.

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Headlines from Minnesota Final

We're not sure what the bigger headline is from the Shooting Star Casino this past weekend for the Minnesota poker league championship...Of the 243 players who qualified for the final, 3 out of the 7 big winners were players from Kandi Bowl in Willmar!! Also, Clay Lipke from Primetime Food & Spirits won AGAIN, the 3rd time he has won a grand prize in the Minnesota Poker League!

Photos from the event will be posted to the Free Poker Network facebook page shortly, as well as a more detailed recap of the event from Shooting Star Casino in Mahonmen. What a tournament! Here are the 7 winners: Jerry Anderson (Ultimate Sports Bar - Waite Park), Julie Hovey, Josh Manley, and Eddie Ozornia (Kandi Bowl-Willmar), Derek Potter (Brothers Bar & Grill - Rochester), Clay Lipke (Primetime - Breezy Point), Nick Wahl (Z103 - Fergus Falls).

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Andrew Thorsen heading to the WSOP

Congratulations to Andrew Thorsen from Hoyt Lake, Minnesota as he outlasted 96 other players Sunday night on FPNonline. Andrew will be heading to Las Vegas this summer to play in the 2010 World Series of Poker!  Another opportunity to win a seat online is scheduled on May 23rd. Earn a gamecard by winning any regular season league tournament to compete in qualifiers online.

Seven Grand Prizes on the Line in Minnesota

Minnesota Poker League players put on your “poker faces” and bring your A-game because a whopping 58 percent of the 243 state qualifiers in this weekend’s MPL Fall Spectacular Championship have qualified in previous Minnesota championships—undoubtedly making for some hot and heavy Texas Hold’em tournament action! Beginning this Saturday, February 27, at 12 pm sharp inside the Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen, MN, the Minnesota Poker League is set to give away seven grand prize packages to those fortunate enough to make the final table as the last seven standing. Those blessed seven will win a seat in our exclusive Fall Spectacular National Championship in Las Vegas—including an airfare and hotel package for three-nights in fabulous Las Vegas and a tournament buy-in to a World Series of Poker Circuit Event at Caesar’s Palace.

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Minnesota Tradition Continues

  • OVer ninety (90) WSOP buy-ins including five (6) $10,000 Main Event seats have been awarded to Minnesota players!
  • Over $338,865 and counting..seats, air/hotel packages, and other bonus prizes have been awarded to Minnesota players since 2005!! This does NOT include prizes given away at nightly events, regional events, and other miscellaneous prizes. This is major prizes only!!!

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