Get ready for our most
exciting contest yet! How does
21 WSOP seats
sound? We are once again putting more players than any other
league into the biggest tournaments!
Oh, and did we mention these will be given away at the
$15,000/night "Kingpin" Suite in the Playboy Fantasy tower
at the Palms? Don't miss this once in a lifetime chance to "Party
At The Palms"!
FIVE $3500 Grand Prize
packages will be up for grabs at the MN/WI State
Championship to be held at the St. Croix Casino and Hotel in Turtle
Lake, Wisconsin this coming February!! All the details for the state
andregional playoffs have now been finalized and posted to the
leaderboard so be sure to check out when and where you play to have a
shot at an unbelievable Grand Prize.
For those of you who haven't been to the St. Croix Casino it is a great
place to play poker and they offer 1/2 and 2/5 No Limit in their poker
room. We will be having special poker tourneys for league players
as well so even if you don't qualify come on down for the great poker
action. Rooms for poker league players are only $35 if you
mention the "Free Poker Network" so book early! Call
1-800-U-GO-U-WIN (846-8946) and ask for Reservations.
80 GB Sony Playstation 3's
Vegas Invasion Perfect
Attendance Drawings
The Vegas
Invasion "Perfect Attendance"
winners were drawn on October
27th at the Orleans Casino
during the National Championship
tournament. Any player that had
perfect attendance during either
session one or two at any
location had their name entered
in the drawings. The first
drawing took place right before
the final table of the
Championship and the Session 1
winner was Vance Barta
who qualified at Borrowed Bucks
in Fargo, ND. Coincidentally,
Vance was in Vegas playing in
the Championship Event and had
just busted out with only 2
tables remaining. We decided to
let Vance draw out the winner
for Session 2 and he pulled out
Robert Huseby
who plays at the Audubon Liquor
Store in Audubon, MN. Both
players will receive an 80GB
Playstation 3 valued at $399
each.
Minnesotans
Dominate Vegas Invasion Main Event!
Minnesota
Poker League players made up 7 of the final 10 players in
the Vegas Invasion Main Event recently held at the Orleans Casino.
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 all the big 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, Gina Bushey from
Mr. G's in Fargo, ND, Troy Sjostrand from Champp's in Eden
Prairie, MN, Reuben Sufka from Ultimate Sports Bar in Waite Park,
MN, Thomas Eaglestaff from the Bismarck VFW, and Dave
Halverson from Sharkees in Luverne, MN.
Congratulations to Travis Hartwig
from Bayside in Excelsior, MN and Peter Hettwer from Mr. G's in
Fargo for taking down the "LAST CHANCE" freerolls online.
Each won a $650 package to compete in the upcoming Vegas
Invasion Main Event.
ONLINE $100 CASH FREEROLLS
Try our online poker software and have a chance to win
weekly prizes. We are hosting 2
$100 cash freeroll tournaments, first on Sunday, October 12th at 5pm and
then Thursday,
October 23rd at 8:30pm.
ALSO, we are also running "Weekly Championship" tournaments to test our
sit-n-gos.
Simply win a 6-player "Weekly Championship Qualifier" to earn
a "gold token" for entry to one of the weekly championships!
Dates: Oct 25-29th
Location: Orleans Casino, Las Vegas
Who: Anyone can come!
What: 2 great parties, 12 private
tournaments, 1 national championship
(qualifiers only), and 1 really
great time!
10 Players from
all over the state of
Minnesota
went to Vegas
on June 27th to participate in the
"Destination
Las Vegas" National
Championship tournament.
The 25 person tournament was
at the Orleans Casino and up
for grabs was a $10,000 main
event WSOP seat.
Clay Lipke stole the show as
he was one of the chip leaders
all day and ended up taking
the tournament down. The
other nine players and Clay still had the next day to look
forward to. All 10 Minnesota
players played in the WSOP
event #52 a $1,500 buy-in on
Monday June 30th. By
winning the National
Championship Clay also played
on Thursday July 3rd in the
WSOP Main Event!
MPL
Championship Weekend
Congrats to the winners!
218 players made
their way to Fargo for the Minnesota
Poker League Championship, and in
the end 10 were left standing.
Each player earned a $2,500 package
to play in the 2008 World Series of
Poker as well as a seat in the
national finals...
Here are the
winners! Clay Lipke, Primetime, Breezy
Point Dave Chaput, Z103, Fergus
Falls Ryan Aldrich, Primetime,
Breezy Point Joe Bushlack, Echo Lanes,
Austin Linda Ralidak, Thirsty Moose,
Hibbing Mark Moench, Z103, Fergus
Falls Terry Dusterhoft, Fat
Daddy's, Alexandria Tim Johnson, Moorhead VFW Anthony Hendricks, Rusty
Nail, Thief River Falls Jason Hauf, JC's Corral,
Dilworth
Live blog & photos from the 2008 Bay 101
Tournament hopes and dreams of cashing in on the $1
million first place prize for the poker league crew
vanished at the end of day one of the main event. The
scene at the Bay 101 is a great experience, and
definitely the most fan-friendly stop on the World Poker
Tour that we have seen.
League
Players Cash Big in
HPT
Scott Eckert
(runner up in the
Summer Poker
Challenge-$10k
Freeroll) took down
the Heartland Poker
Tour Deadwood Event
for $64,133!!
Way to go Scott!
Also, congrats
to Alison Kelley
from the Old
Broadway for
winning $11,100 in
the Heartland Poker
Tour! Alison
won her seat in the HPT at the Summer
Poker Challenge
finals. Alison
proves once again
that playing in the
league can be quite
profitable!
Free poker leagues offer great
practice opportunities
Playing in free
poker leagues is a
good introduction to the world of
Texas Holdem. By playing
free poker you can
learn the rules, and pick up some
useful strategies. This will be very
valuable if you start to play Holdem
or some other poker game for money
later on.
Minnesota
Poker League players made up 7 of the final 10 players in
the Vegas Invasion Main Event recently held at the Orleans Casino.
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!
Report
From
The Bay 101
League
Players Cash Big in
HPT
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