If you play poker in Minnesota and don’t know who Everett Carlton is yet, start taking notes.

After finishing 4th at the Minnesota State Poker Tour event at Grand Casino Mille Lacs last month, Carlton has followed up with a victory in the Running Aces $150 weekly POY tourney, and a 4th place finish in… READ MORE

Running Aces Harness Park launched a $1,000 freeroll in March and last night drew an astonishing 539 players.  “Players were lined up out the door.” Tournament Director Manessah Kunkel stated.

This was the 2^nd freeroll this month, last week’s drew 373 players.  The tournament is scheduled for each Monday in March beginning at 6:00PM, registration… READ MORE

Dan Dow continued his sizzling start to the 2010 poker season by winning his second Treasure Island “Island Tournament” in a month. Dow outlasted 53 other players for a $13,800 payday in the $1k buy-in event.

On February 6th, Dow won the $600 buy-in Island Tournament for just under $10,000.

Dow actually had some significant… READ MORE

The Minnesota Poker League held its Fall Poker Spectacular Championship last Saturday at Shooting Star Casino, awarding seven “Grand Prizes” to Jerry Anderson, Julie Hovey, Josh Manley, Eddie Ozornia, Derek Potter, Nick Wahl, and Clay Lipke.

These seven State Champs earned a trip to Las Vegas to compete in a 25-person championship and a share… READ MORE

Jeremy Dresch still sits squarely atop of the Minnesota Poker Magazine Player of the Year Standings, fresh off his $36,000 MSPT victory at Grand Casino Mille Lacs last weekend, but plenty of other players are doing some serious grinding as well.

Geoff Hayes II, Superior, WI, who took 2nd place in a Grand Series event… READ MORE

Just uploaded the March Daily Tournament Schedule Spreadsheet, which, for those unfamiliar, is a one-stop listing for all daily and monthly tournaments at all 14 local card rooms (including Diamond Jo in Iowa and St. Croix in Wisconsin).

The most notable addition to the March schedule is a $200 buy-in deep stack tournament at Running… READ MORE

Ashton “TheASHMAN103″ Griffin, who hails from Florida but wrestles at Southwest Minnesota State University, took down the PokerStars North American Poker Tour $25,000 buy-in Invitational High Roller Bounty Shootout tournament on Thursday night. Including his bounty collections and the first place prize, Griffin took home more than $500,000.

This “high roller” shootout format was invite… READ MORE

For those of you pining for another shot at a Minnesota State Poker Tour title, the upcoming Running Aces MSPT schedule has officially been released.

The qualifier schedule is very similar to the Grand Casino Mille Lacs schedule, but a Wednesday evening $250 qualifier has been added to give players one extra shot.

Qualifiers:
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Troy Graphenteen, known as “stringbend” and “stringbendr” online, recently accomplished a pretty rare feat, scoring two $10,000+ multi-table tournament cashes in one day. On February 10th, Graphenteen won the Full Tilt “Fifty-Fifty” for $11,657 (1,227 entrants), and he took 2nd in a PokerStars tournament for $10,145.

Not a bad day. In fact, getting heads-up in two… READ MORE

If a Fall Poker Classic final table followed by back-to-back Heartland Poker Tour victories wasn’t enough back in October and November, Jeremy Dresch went out and took down the Minnesota State Poker Tour Mille Lacs event for $36,084 on Sunday night.

Dresch’s run probably won’t get as much national attention as it deserves, but he… READ MORE