The Poker Brat Classic had a field of 114 entries, easily surpassing its previous largest. The prize pool ballooned to $25,000. After 2 long days of the play, the players decided to chop 7 ways for over $3000 each. The final table featured Brian Breidenbach, Juston Welter, Cory Gompf, Jason Hauf, Cody Billadeau, Charlie Paukert, and Brook Lyter. 

Next week the Abercrombie Community Center is hosting the Triple Shot Accumulator. This event will have three flights and allows you to combine all chips from every flight on Sundays main event. 

On May 19, The Dakota Poker Tour will host it's DPT Championship Freeroll at Bar Nine in West Fargo. The top 100 points leaders will be playing for 3 trips to Las Vegas to play in the WSOP Colossus on June 26-28. The Player of the Year award will also be handed out for the top points for the 2018-2019 season. 

Breakdown of Prizes

1st-3rd WSOP Colossus Buy-In plus $600 for travel

4th-7th $150 buy-in to DPT event 

8th-10th $100 buy-in DPT event

Local DPT player Bob Tweten took down the FPN Cash King championship event in Las Vegas on Feb 10th. Bob was League Champ at El Roco Bar last spring to automatically qualify for FPN's National Championship Series. While there, Bob missed in the League Champ freeroll but qualified his way through the Last Chance Cash Qualifier and went on to win the Main Event for a significant first place of $25,000. Other local players also the made it into the money. Rob Grubbs finished in 10th place playing out of slammers in Fargo, Allen Ziemann finished 15th playing out of the Amvets in Bismarck, Leonard Melgaard finished 17th from the 4 mile bar in Williston , Brandon Schmidt finished 19th from the bowler in Fargo. Steve Kreps finished 29th playing out of Olearys in Moorhead. Congratulations to everyone! The poker league is hosted at several area bars, the format has evolved over the years making it easier than ever for players to qualify for the national event. If you haven't played in the league in years or if you think it's a waste of time, ask Bob how it's going for him! Click here for FPN Locations in North Dakota

The 15th annual Dead Money Open started the week off with a Super Satellite which gave 9 luck players a free buy-in to the yearly event. The main event which moved to Super Bowl weekend ended with 105 entries. The tournament paid the top 12 players and ended in a six way chop with the players splitting close to $9000. The Dead Money Open started in 2004 and has given out more than a quarter of a million dollars in prize money and raised thousands of dollars for sponsor West Fargo Hockey Association.

The Wahpeton Vets Club hosted a tournament Saturday Feb 2 and had 53 entries. Dean Ellingson took home a first place prize of $1500. Congratulations to all the players that cashed in both tournaments this weekend. 

Don't forget that Saturday Feb 9 is the first day of the Cactus Jacks open weekend. Saturday will have a $100 buy-in event and survivor tournament on demand. Sunday will have the $200 buy-in main event and survivor tournaments. This is another yearly event that always brings out a nice crowd. 

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