159 Dakota Poker League players will be making their way to the Westside Bar and Grill tomorrow to compete in the Free Poker Network’s North Dakota Championship. These qualifiers will be vying for a chance to win one of six grand prizes that include an airfare and hotel package to sunny Las Vegas for a chance to play in the exclusive 25-player National Championship, where FPN will give away more than $12,000 in buy-ins, including a $5,000 WSOP Circuit Main Event Seat. Those who bust early can join spectators to compete in a fun “Tag Team Re-buy” $200 Freeroll Event. Players will join together in a tag-team format with an interesting twist: Each team will get a “re-buy” card! When a team loses its chips, it will receive a starting chip stack. This should make for a very entertaining event!

UPDATE: The Thief River Falls and Granite Falls regionals have been postponed.  The Thief River Falls regional will be held on Sunday Jan 31st at 3:00pm.  The Granite Falls regional will be held on Saturday Feb.13th at 2:00pm.

The Sioux Falls regional for this Sunday is still on as planned.

After talking with the hosts and bar owners involved in the Jamestown area regional, we have decided to postpone the regional 1 week until next Saturday, January 30th at 2pm. That area has seen a lot of ice already and is already getting power outages according to some of the players.

Thanks and please spread the word.

UPDATED. The Heartland Poker Tour's Red Rock Casino event kicked off with a celebrity-VIP party at Cherry Nightclub Thursday night. Most of the league winners were in attendance and got an opportunity to smooze with various poker celebrities including WSOP players Dennis Phillips, Tiffany Michelle, and others.  It was an open-bar function and as you can imagine we indulged...

John Johnson from MN and Bill Broucek from Aberdeen, SD both made it to day 2 and finished in the top 60 out of over 400 players.  Brian Niemann from Staples, MN just missed the televised final table, finishing 10th place for $6,925.  Kyle Coker from Texas also made a nice run, busting Dennis Phillips along the way.  Poker pro David Singer ended up making the final table.

We posted a bunch of photos to our Facebook page.  See yourself or someone you know?  Be sure to tag them.

The first of 25 trips to Las Vegas for the Fall League National Championship has been awarded online.  Josh Barnes from Bloomington, MN earned his gamecard entries at Sherwood Lounge and Erick's Bar in St. Paul.  He successfully parlayed the gamecard into a trip to Las Vegas in April and a shot at the $12,000 worth of buy-ins for the Caeser's Palace WSOP Circuit Event.