I can tell you that, yes, it's on mine, but I did not think I would ever get the opportunity to play unless I won the lottery. I just can't see shelling out ten grand of my own money to play. So when I won the FPN National Championship tournament, Pete asked me, do I want the cash option or the seat in the WSOP main event, it was an easy answer. Of course I'll play!
Here are the latest winners for this month - Barbara Perricone from Roneoville, IL turned in four 7's to get qualified for Nationals. Sue Hauglid from Detroit Lakes, MN was drawn for the 2 pair or better. Andy Lagarde from St. Paul, MN won the spring regional tournament online and Mike Marek from East Grand Forks was the first of the month winner. Mike has now double qualified for Nationals getting two starting stacks. Last, but not least Jason Zuchara from the Leader Bar in Minot, ND was the perfect attendance winner and won himself a $150 buy-in to a local tournament. Congrats to everyone!
We are a little behind and will be drawing this months winners shortly, but last month the big winners were Tom August from Oak Lawn, IL and Larry Hoffman from Norfolk, NE. Tom was the 2 pair or better drawing winner and is now qualified for the Rounders National Championship. Larry was drawn for the perfect attendance in June playing all four weeks at Uncle Jarrol's. Tom won a $100 tournament buy-in of his choice.
Three very lucky people have turned in four of kind scratchcards recently to get themselves qualified for the National Championship. Congrats to Larry Green of Warrenville, IL, Jennifer Gladue of Fargo, ND, and Mike Marek of East Grand Forks, MN.
National Champion David Kalet has made it through World Series of Poker Main Event day 3 and is now in the cash. The least amount David can win is $15,000, but hopefully he can get some double ups and keep going for more! David had kind of a rough day 3 when he got tangled up with a couple big stacks. The first hand he had A-K of clubs when the flop came with two clubs, but couldn't catch the third one. The other one was he had his Aces cracked against the big stack when the flop came Q high. The big stack kept betting into him as David was trapping him, but unfortunately the river came a 6 to give the big stack two pair and crack his aces. They played an extra hour last night until the bubble burst and in that hour David was stingy and just absorbing the blinds folding good starting hands like K-J and A-Q until it finally broke. He is sitting with 64k and will be starting day four with a 1k ante and blinds at 3k-6k. Wishing him some quick double ups!
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