News and events from the North Dakota region. The original since 2005.
Rick Adams from Dilworth, MN locked in his spot at the Vegas or Bust National Championship by taking down the JC Corral's Super TOC. This was the second promotion in a row Rick has won JC's Super TOC going back to back. Dan Craft (pictured) from Fargo, ND won his spot in the Vegas or Bust National Championship by taking down the Bowler's Super TOC. Way to go guys!!!
Lonnie Hillen of Fargo, ND recently scratched off four tens to qualify for the Vegas or Bust National Championship on July 4th. Lonnie took all seven attempts to get the quad tens, but in the end it worked as he becomes the 15th qualifier for the Vegas or Bust National Championship.
66 of the 100 players who qualified to play showed up, and was would be expected, most tables, including the final table, were stacked with great poker players. In the end it was Curt Hoffart besting Brian Breidenbach heads up for the $1500 WSOP package. Curt will represent the Dakota Poker Tour this summer in a WSOP event.
Final table was a great representation of some of the best players throughout the year:
2nd - 5th received a buy-in to the next day's DPT Event #3, while 6th - 10th received a satellite to win their way into that event. Also, in an interesting twist, the eventual champion Curt, knocked out the regular season points leader, Ron Olson, on his way to victory. This coming year should be even more hotly contested for the freeroll, as the total prize pool will be bigger and 1st will start with a 3x stack, while 2nd - 10th will start with 2x stacks!
We look forward to being able to report on hopefully a very successful run this summer for Curt Hoffart!
Jeff Sickler from Dickinson, ND has made the Vegas or Bust National Championship an even dozen by scratching off four eights. It took all seven attempts, but he still got it done and now will be qualified to play in the National Championship in Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 4th.
Poker Pro Champ Brandon Dosch has his sights set on his next tournament, the LA Poker Classic. The LA Poker Classic runs for over two weeks with many events. Brandon is still trying to narrow his decision down to which tournament or tournaments to play in. Right now the early favorite is on Monday, February 20th event number 38. It is a two day event, $1,070 buy-in, and of course no limit hold'em. There are three other events still in the mix and we will keep you posted.
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