News and events from the New Jersey region.
Don't miss out on the New Jersey Sin City Showdown regional playoffs this weekend at Sidelines in Rockaway. The regional will be played this Saturday April 9th at 12pm. The New Jersey State Championship will be held at Kabob's in Glasser on Saturday May 7th at 2pm. Good Luck!
Jack Jackson reigning champion of the Destination Las Vegas promotion has joined a very select group of winners to ever to win back to back state champions. John accomplished this feet by taking down the Gold Rush 2 New Jersey state championship this past Saturday at Kabob's in Glasser, NJ. By winning Jack has won a seat into the very exclusive National Championship in Las Vegas and will be competing with 25 other players from around the country. There will be $20,000 in cash up for grabs with $5,000 of it going to the winner. We look forward to seeing Jack again in Las Vegas.
Congratulations to Bob Winegar (pictured sitting down in middle) from Kabob's who became the first ever Free Poker Network New Jersey Champion! Bob along with 8 other players from Kabob's came together on Saturday January 30th to play down to one winner to see who would be representing the state of New Jersey. Bob snuck into the playoffs and had his work cut out for him as three people Laura Schauble, Chris Carlson, and Dave O'Hare had double chip stacks.
Not only did Bob have to go through eight great players, three double chip stacks, but when it was heads up Bob was the underdog with a 3 to 1 chip deficit. After battling back and eventually taking the chip lead Bob was able to hang on and win.
By winning Bob won
himself airfare and hotel on the Vegas strip and while in Las Vegas, Bob will join 24 other players from around the country to compete in
the Free Poker Network National Championship at Caesar's Palace at the
end of April. In all $12,000 worth of buy-ins will be distributed to
the 25 players with first place being a $5,000 World Series of Poker
circuit event at Caesar's Palace.
Seventeen qualified poker players arrived at Kabobs in Glasser, New Jersey, on what turned out to be a nice day on the lake for our Destination Las Vegas New Jersey Championship. The game swiftly got started at 2 pm, with 13 players starting with 7,500 in chips and four double qualifiers starting with 15,000. Arnold Sikking from The Rail in South Jersey was the first to exit the game followed by Morgan Dunlap and Dan Marion after about two hours in. Bob Winegar, last season's winner, was taken out of the game by John Jackson who flopped quad 8s shortly after the other three went out.
{sidebar id=8}The league welcomes Kabob's in Glasser, New Jersey! Kabob's will be hosting leagues on Saturdays and Sundays with games at 2pm & 4pm starting the weekend of September 19th-20th. Come out to Kabob's to compete for fun and a chance to win the awesome grand prizes up for grabs.
There are two ways to win grand prizes in the league: 1) Play regularly and climb the leaderboard to qualify and then take down the New Jersey regional championship. 2) Earn gamecards during weekly play for 2nd chance qualifying tournaments online.
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