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The WSOP 2019 State Tournament was held on Sunday, October 28, 2018 at Running Aces Casino in Forest Lake. This event was attended by 99 players who qualified for the event through one of the Regional Tournaments, the session bar winners (WSOP 2019 A and WSOP2019 B), and eligible Tournament Directors.

1st Place: Tommy Yanez
2nd Place: Patrick Tima

Prizes for the State Tournament:
1st: Roundtrip Air and Hotel stay in Las Vegas, Buy-in to Colossus V Event ($565) and a personalized Straight Flush Hoodie or Polo – Tommy Yanez
2nd: Roundtrip Air and Hotel in Las Vegas, Buy-in to Tournament at ARIA Resort & Casino ($120 value) – Patrick Tima
3rd: Roundtrip Air and Hotel in Las Vegas, Buy-in to tournament at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino ($70 value) – John Nash
4th: $100 Running Aces Tournament Lammer – Julie Halvorson
5th: Running Aces Cold Hard Cash Qualifier Event Seat ($75 value) (held in December) – Mike Nelson
6th: Running Aces Cold Hard Cash Qualifier Event Seat ($75 value) (held in December) – Greg Zerwas
7th: Running Aces Cold Hard Cash Qualifier Event Seat ($75 value) (held in December) – Joel Thurber
8th: Running Aces Cold Hard Cash Qualifier Event Seat ($75 value) (held in December) – Ray Ostertag
9th: $50 Running Aces Tournament Lammer and a Straight Flush t-shirt ($12 value) – Alyssa Ulrich
10th: $50 Running Aces Tournament Lammer and a Straight Flush t-shirt ($12 value) – Tiffany Schmidt

Final Table of the WSOP 2019 A/B State Tournament

The WSOP 2019 State Tournament will be held on Sunday, October 28, 2018 at Running Aces Casino in Forest Lake. Registration for the event will open at 10am and the tournament will begin promptly at 12pm. This event may only be attended by players who qualified for the event through one of the Regional Tournaments, the session bar winners (WSOP 2019 A and WSOP2019 B), and eligible Tournament Directors.

The full list of those who are qualified to participate in the event will be placed below the prize pool information following the regional tournaments held during the week of July 22nd (WSOP2019 A session) and October 14th (WSOP2019 B session).

Prizes for the State Tournament:
1st: Roundtrip Air and Hotel stay in Las Vegas, Buy-in to Colossus V Event ($565) and a personalized Straight Flush Hoodie or Polo
2nd: Roundtrip Air and Hotel in Las Vegas, Buy-in to Tournament at ARIA Resort & Casino ($120 value)
3rd: Roundtrip Air and Hotel in Las Vegas, Buy-in to tournament at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino ($70 value)
4th: $100 Running Aces Tournament Lammer
5th: Running Aces Cold Hard Cash Qualifier Event Seat ($75 value) (held in December)
6th: Running Aces Cold Hard Cash Qualifier Event Seat ($75 value) (held in December)
7th: Running Aces Cold Hard Cash Qualifier Event Seat ($75 value) (held in December)
8th: Running Aces Cold Hard Cash Qualifier Event Seat ($75 value) (held in December)
9th: $50 Running Aces Tournament Lammer and a Straight Flush t-shirt ($12 value)
10th: $50 Running Aces Tournament Lammer and a Straight Flush t-shirt ($12 value)

WSOP2019 A session Bar Winners:
Biffs Wednesday – Justice Calane
Biffs Friday – Nate French
Biffs Sunday – Grizz
Carbones CG Sunday – Jennie Peterson
Carbones CG Thursday – Deanna Olsen
Country Nites – Bob Davis
Jerseys – Sam Shenouda
Park Place Wednesday – BBQ Dan
Park Place Friday – Nick Sachs
Detour 19 Sunday A – Mick M
Detour 19 Sunday B – Debbie Arens
Pourhouse – Alyssa Ulrich
Chanhassen Legion – Steve Buechler
Medina Thursday A – Mike Miller
Medina Thursday B – Ruth Breen
Barnboard – Tiffany Schmidt
White Bear Bar Sunday – Deanna Olsen
White Bear Bar Tuesday A – Justice Calane
White Bear Bar Tuesday B – Justice Calane
Big Guys BBQ – Nick Sachs
Schuggys Tuesday – John Nash
The Tilted Tiki – No Bar Winner
Cedarvale/Fitz – Myke Zurn
Caspers – Jason Forde
Palmer Lake VFW – Paul Neuburger

Qualifiers from WSOP2019A Regionals:
Hearts Region:
Dave Rasmussen
Brandon Switch
Jeremy Strauss
Deanna Olson
BBQ Dan
Mark Haynes
Bob Davis
Joel Thurber
Broberg
Bill Sylvander

Diamonds Region:
Kurt Cosman
Ed Kerber
Greg Zerwas
Leroy Graunke
Al Wuori
John Pollock
Dale Lange
Jan Haase
Natasha S.
Shane Cameron

Spades Region:
Chris Funk
Mercedes M. Waggoner
Deb O’Connell
Jannell Brown
Lorraine Hamilton
Matt Husnik
Sarah Nau
Bill Wermager
Carol Brown
Marcy Noodell

Clubs Region:
Michael Mattson
Matt Husnik
Shawn Arneson
Ray Ostertag
Keith Johnson
Zach Ostertag
Jake D
Heather Carland
David Todd
Larry L.L.

WSOP2019B Bar Winners:
White Bear Bar Sunday Anthony Nordquist
Carbones CG Sunday Bonnie Woodbeck
Medina Thursday B Bud Abbott
Detour 19 Sunday B David Rathke
Carbones CG Thursday Deanna Olson
Medina Thursday A Debbie Arens
Chanhassen Legion Dick Krueger
Biffs Wednesday Ernie Christensen
Caspers Jason Leurquin
Cedarvale/Fitz Jeremy Strauss
Park Place Friday Kirk Woodbeck
White Bear Bar Tuesday B Kristi La Valle
White Bear Bar Tuesday A Lee Price
Jerseys Mark Haynes
Big Guys BBQ Melissa Steiner
Detour 19 Sunday A Mick M
Park Place Wednesday Nick Sachs
Country Nites No Bar Winner
Willies Hideaway No Bar Winner
Biffs Friday Paul Neuburger
Biffs Sunday Paul Neuburger
Palmer Lake VFW Paul Neuburger
Barnboard Ray Magnuson
Pourhouse Russ A
Schuggys Tuesday Tiffany Schmidt

Qualifiers from WSOP2019B Regionals:
Spades Region:
Brandon Schultz
Bill Schultz
Phyllis S.
Ed Lemke
Jane Neuburger
Dan Witt
Bryan Stanton
Jason Leurquin
Greg Born
Elaine Wedel

Clubs Region:
Keith Hines
Graham Oas
Chris Funk
Nick Sachs
Shane Cameron
Dave Rasmussen
Tiffany Schmidt
Keith Johnson
Mike Schoeder

Hearts Region:
Nate Muller
Patrick Timor
Carolyn LeDuc
Matt Husnik
Holly Wilson
Bob Davis
Bill Sylvander
Kansas – Sue Kaszas
Jennie Peterson
Pete Verhulst

Diamonds Region:
Scott Shelton
Julie Halvorson
Phyllis Pollock
John Kunik
Didn’t sign out, nobody could remember who he was.
Ty Brown
Nic McBride
Michael P Nelson
Bud Abbott

Welcome to November and to the start of our new session WSOP 2017A!!! Take a moment and review info below regarding Fall 2016 regionals, the Winter State Tournament, as well as WSOP 2017 State info.

Links to the Regional qualifier lists for Fall 2016 are at the end of this post. Regionals will be held as follows:
South: Monday, 11/14 at Neisen’s 7p
West: Tuesday, 11/15 at Chanhassen 7p
East: Wednesday, 11/16 at White Bear Bar 7p
North: Thursday, 11/17 in The Cellar at Cork 7p

The Winter State Tournament will be held on Sunday, December 4th. Registration will begin at 10a and the tournament will begin promptly at 12p. We have decided to do things a little differently this year and in addition to a significantly larger prize pool, we will also be having drawings for additional prizes during the event.

1st – Big Stack Avalanche Main Event Seat ($500 value), personalized hoodie, $100 in tournament lammers.
2nd – Big Stack Avalanche Main Event Seat
3rd – Big Stack Avalanche 20% satellite, $100 in tournament lammers.
4th – Big Stack Avalanche 20% satellite
5th – $100 in tournament lammers
6th – $70 in tournament lammers
7th – $25 cash and a SF hoodie
8th – $25 cash and a SF t-shirt

Next session (WSOP 2017A) begins 11/1 and will run through 1/15/17. WSOP 2017B will begin 1/16/17 and run through 3/31/17. Regionals will be held the week of January 22nd (WSOP 2017A) and April 9th (WSOP 2017B) and the WSOP 2017 State tournament will be held in late April or early May.

This years WSOP trip is tentatively set for June 1-4, 2017 as the winner of the tournament will be awarded a Colossus $565 Main Event Buy-in. Additional info regarding prizes for WSOP State will be released in the coming weeks. Please let us know if you have questions.

Fall 2016 Bar Champions

 

Fall 2016 South Region Qualifier List

 

Fall 2016 West Region Qualifier List

 

Fall 2016 East Region Qualifier List

 

Fall 2016 North Region Qualifier List

Congratulations to our Fall 2016 session Bar Champions! The Bar Champions receive an automatic entry to the Winter 2016 State Tournament, however, they are still eligible to play in any regional qualifier events that they qualified in. Additionally, if a player wins more than one bar, they receive a $500 bonus chip for each additional bar they won. Congrats Bob Watson for winning three bar championships this session and earning an extra $1,000 for Winter State!

State will be held on Sunday, December 4th at 12pm and we will be paying out a prize pool of approximately $2000 including TWO Main Event Seats to the Big Stack Avalanche event at Running Aces in January!

Mama T’s – Al Mercado
Maxx’s- Tuesday – Alex Ahyai
Park Place – Bob Beran
Cellar at Cork – Wednesday – Bob Watson
Detour 19 Sunday B – Bob Watson
Medina Thursday B – Bob Watson
Neisen’s – Cory Hassel
Running Aces – Craig Tekse
Pourhouse – Darrell Grams
White Bear Bar Sunday A – David Chapa
Casper’s – Dean LeMieux
Maxx’s- Sunday – Duane Farness
Palmer Lake VFW – Jason Dalrymple
Medina Thursday A – Jerry Scharlemann
Barnboard – Jerry Wold
Juniors- Thursday – Kimmy Naylor
White Bear Bar Tuesday B – Kristi La Valle
White Bear Bar Tuesday A – Lee Price
Detour 19 Sunday A – Mick M
Jersey’s – Mike Beberg
O’Malley’s – Mike Schoeder
Opinion Thursday – Mike Schoeder
Mainstreet- Monday – Murray Herstein
Juniors- Tuesday – Myke Zurn
Cellar at Cork- Friday – Nate French
Opinion Monday – Pete Verhulst
Cellar at Cork- Tuesday – Rick Golden
Chanhassen Legion – Teri Abbott

Congratulations to our Fall 2016 session North Region Qualifiers! The North qualifier will be held on Thursday, November 17th at The Cellar at Cork. Registration will open at 6:30pm and cards will be in the air promptly at 7pm.

The top 10 from the regional qualifier will move on to our Winter 2016 State Tournament. State will be held on Sunday, December 4th at 12pm and we will be paying out a prize pool of approximately $2000 including TWO Main Event Seats to the Big Stack Avalanche event at Running Aces in January!

If you cannot make your designated regional and wish to attend an alternate, you may contact us via Direct Message on Twitter, Facebook message, by emailing straightflushpokertour@gmail.com or by calling Crystal Kempf at 651-295-6854. You MUST notify us at least 24 hours in advance if you wish to attend a different regional event. Same day requests will NOT be approved.

Duane Farness Maxx’s- Sunday
Steve Larson Maxx’s Sunday
Kevin Schroeder Maxx’s Sunday
Alex Ahyai Maxx’s- Tuesday
Jeremy Maxx’s Tuesday
Carol Brown Maxx’s Tuesday
Hooker Maxx’s Tuesday
LaDon Urban Maxx’s Tuesday
Bob Watson Cellar at Cork- Wednesday
Brenda Lewis Cellar at Cork- Wednesday
Rick Golden Cellar at Cork- Tuesday
Carol Brown Cellar at Cork- Tuesday
Nate French Cellar at Cork- Friday
Paul Neuburger Cellar at Cork- Friday
Justice Calane Cellar at Cork- Friday
Duane Farness Cellar at Cork- Friday
Jannell Brown Cellar at Cork- Friday
Glenn Brown Cellar at Cork- Friday
Ty Brown Cellar at Cork- Friday
Don Androsky Cellar at Cork- Friday
Jason Dalrymple Palmer Lake VFW
Ty Brown Palmer Lake VFW
Gina Kosek Palmer Lake VFW
Carol Brown Palmer Lake VFW
Dale Lange Palmer Lake VFW
Chuck Moses Palmer Lake VFW
Sara Kosek Palmer Lake VFW
Mike Menth Palmer Lake VFW

Big News for Straight Flush


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Schedule Changes


The Cellar at Cork has switched from a Tuesday game at 7p to a Wednesday game at 7p. Friday’s game will remain at 8p.

Maxx Bar and Grill in Ham Lake has joined Straight Flush and will be hosting two games per week at 7p on Sundays and Tuesdays.

Running Aces will resume their Wednesday night games on September 14th at 7p.

Team Tournament October 8th


Registration is now open for our Fall Specialty Tournament. We will be having a team tournament where 8 teams will battle it out for pride, prizes, and of course, bragging rights. BarnBoard Bar and Grill will be putting up $200 cash for this event.

Teams of five players can register by having the Team Captain email SFPTSpecialtyTourney@gmail.com and including the names of all five team members. The team tournament will take place on Saturday, October 8, 2016 at BarnBoard Bar and Grill in Roberts, WI. Cards are in the air at 1pm.

This event is limited to the first 8 teams to register. You may not register any other way than via email. You may not register without a full team commitment. When the event is full, we no further registrations will be accepted as we have space limitations.

Featured Bar Tournament November 5th


Beginning September 11th, there will be 2-3 bars featured each week. Players who make points at the Featured Bar will receive entry to our Featured Bar Tournament on November 5, 2016 at Junior’s Sports Cafe. The max prize pool of $200 will be paid out for this event. The schedule of the featured bars is below:
9/12/16 – Palmer Lake VFW
9/15/16 – Medina Entertainment Center
9/17/16 – Neisen’s Sports Bar and Grill
9/18/16 – Detour 19
9/19/16 – Chanhassen American Legion
9/26/16 – Opinion Brewing Company
9/28/16 – Running Aces
9/30/16 – The Cellar at Cork
10/2/16 – Mama T’s Castle Tap
10/3/16 – Casper’s
10/6/16 – Junior’s Sports Cafe
10/11/16 – Jersey’s Bar and Grill
10/12/16 – O’Malley’s Irish Pub
10/17/16 – BarnBoard Bar and Grille
10/19/16 – The Pour House Pub
10/23/16 – Maxx Bar and Grill
10/25/16 – White Bear Bar 10 p.m. Tournament
10/28/16 – Park Place Sports BarNews

The South Regional qualifier tournament will take place at Park Place Sports Bar Sunday, August 07th at 1pm. Players will compete for ten spots to the Winter 2016 State Tournament in addition to prizes from the host location. The State Tournament will take place on Sunday, December 4, 2016 at noon.

The South Region includes: Casper’s, Jersey’s, Junior’s, Neisen’s, Opinion, Park Place

As usual, if a player cannot make it to their designated Regional, they can attend a different location, but THEY MUST NOTIFY me (via Facebook message, email: info@sfpokertour.com, or text/phone: 651-295-6854) to ensure they are added to the appropriate regional registration list.

Casper’s

Teresa Shaw
Deb O’Connell
Jason Forde
Dean LeMieux
Steven Dircz
Steve Pearson
Jason Rafnson
Bob T
Christian Marin

Jersey’s

Mike Beberg
Jon Beavers
Becky D
Brad Kruse
Tony Casey
Peter Taft
Nick Dorn
John Shively
Mark Kraus

Junior’s – Thursday

Myke Zurn
Sever
Bryan Stanton
Kimmy Naylor
Paul McDonald
Kin
Sean P
Bob King
Deb O’Connell
John Moe
Jarrod Loerzel
Ryan “Reaper” Rinabarger
Mike Gilman
Teresa Shaw
Jason Forde
Jeff Gleason

Junior’s – Tuesday

Dwayne Garwood
Kimmy Naylor
Myke Zurn
Barb Kaisto
Chad Morris
Kin
Tom Schmoll
Liddy
Teresa Shaw
Macario M
Michelle Tell
Scott Martin
Sam Anderson
Steve Pearson
Greg Born
Donna Burns
Paul Kuplic

Opinion – Monday

Bob Beran
Peter Taft
Mike Schoeder
Mike Horner
Pete Verhulst
Dogger

Opinion – Thursday

Mike Schoeder
Jon Beavers
Mike Horner
Dogger
Cameka McCreary
Grizz
Amanda Kroll
Michael Cobb
Joey Nyberg
Steve “Qball” Broberg
Clint Christiansen

Park Place

John Baugus
Bob Beran
Bryan Stanton
Erin Juen
Cameka McCreary

Neisen’s

Rick Baker
Shane S
Phyllis Pollock
Deb O’Connell

The West Regional qualifier tournament will take place at The Pour House Pub Monday, August 08th at 8pm. Players will compete for ten spots to the Winter 2016 State Tournament in addition to prizes from the host location. The State Tournament will take place on Sunday, December 4, 2016 at noon.

The West Region includes: Chanhassen American Legion, Detour19, MainStreet, Medina, The Pour House

As usual, if a player cannot make it to their designated Regional, they can attend a different location, but THEY MUST NOTIFY me (via Facebook message, email: info@sfpokertour.com, or text/phone: 651-295-6854) to ensure they are added to the appropriate regional registration list.

Chanhassen Legion

Bud Abbott
Chris Wilson
Kevin Tendall
Mike Whaylen
Jan Haase
Tim Savik
Rachel Tendall
Shorty
Robin Kerber
Dean Morin

Detour 19 Sunday A

Erwin Kump
Laurel Smith
Mike Miller
David Dorn
David Rathke

Detour 19 Sunday B

Mick M
David Rathke
Lowell Lewin
Al Wuori
Laurel Smith

Mainstreet

John H
Merik Haile
Jeremy C
Paul Neuburger
Phyllis Pollock
Bob Watson
Michael P Nelson
Sarah Nau
Bjorn
John Dooley

Medina Thursday A

Mick M
Paul Neuburger
Jerry Scharlemann
Al Wuori
Mark Eldridge
Dale Lange
Debbie Arens
Mike Miller
Ross Davis
Bob Schneider
Bob Watson
Rita D

Medina Thursday B

Rick Gunderson
Mick M
Bud Abbott
Rita D
Tom R
Laurel Smith
Coni Ingham

The Pour House

Derek Refsland
Dan Mueller
Bill Anderson
Razz

Regional Tournaments for Summer 2016

As the Summer 2016 session wraps up (May 1 – July 31, 2016), we prepare for our regional tournaments. The top 20% of players from each Straight Flush tournament will qualify for regionals. Qualifier lists will be posted by Tuesday, August 2, 2016. The locations of each regional qualifier are as follows:
 

South: Sunday 8/7 @ Park Place 1p (Includes: Casper’s, Jersey’s, Junior’s, Neisen’s, Opinion, Park Place)

South Regional Qualifier List

West: Monday 8/8 @ PourHouse 8p (Includes: Chanhassen American Legion, Detour19, MainStreet, Medina, PourHouse)

West Regional Qualifier List

North: Tuesday 8/9 @ Cellar at Cork 7:30p (Includes: Palmer Lake VFW, Ham Lake VFW, and Cellar at Cork)

North Regional Qualifier List

East: Wednesday 8/10 @ Mama T’s 7p (Includes: BarnBoard, Mama T’s, O’Malley’s, Running Aces, White Bear Bar)

East Regional Qualifier List

Poker at Mainstreet
 
If a player cannot make it to their designated Regional, they can attend a different location, but THEY MUST NOTIFY Straight Flush Management IN WRITING (via Facebook message Straight Flush Entertainment, LLC., email sfpokertour@gmail.com, text 651-295-6854) to be added to the appropriate regional qualifier list.
 
The Fall 2016 session will begin on August 1 and run through October 31, 2016.
 
The top ten players from each regional (for both Summer 2016 and Fall 2016 sessions) will advance to the State Tournament at Running Aces on December 4, 2016 at noon. Prizes for State will be announced closer to the event as the 2017 tournament schedules are still being determined.

New Games

We have TWO new Friday night games beginning today, July 1, 2016.

Park Place in St. Paul Park begins tonight at 6:30 p.m. Be there by 6:15 p.m. for your early bonus chip and don’t forget our social media share bonus chip for those of you on Facebook or Twitter.

The Cellar at Cork adds a Friday night game to their line-up this week at 8:00 p.m. Be there by 7:40 p.m. for your bonus chip and don’t forget about the social media share option too.

Holiday Weekend Schedule

The following games have been CANCELLED in celebration of the 4th of July Holiday:
Sunday 7/3/16: White Bear Bar

Monday 7/4/16: BarnBoard, Chanhassen Legion, Casper’s, MainStreet, Opinion

Summer Point Spectacular Tournament

The Summer Point Spectacular Tournament will be held on July 23rd at MainStreet Bar in Hopkins at 2pm! MainStreet will be paying out the maximum prize allowance ($200 value) for this event: $100 cash for first place, $50 gift card for second place, $30 gift card for third, and $20 gift card.

This tournament is limited to 50 people who will qualify for the event. Straight Flush Management will be tracking all players points from June 19th through July 16th and the 50 people who earn the most points across ALL VENUES will be qualified for the event. Meaning the more venues you play, the more chances you have to earn points in order to qualify for the tournament.

The list of the top 50 point leaders will be posted every Monday. This list will ONLY be updated weekly. Please do not ask your TD’s about it as the owners will be keeping track and keeping the list current. Again, it will only be published once a week, on Mondays. The FINAL QUALIFIER LIST will be published July 18, 2016.

Here are the Top 50 Point Leaders as of 6/27/16:

Bryan Stanton 629
Jon Beavers 491
Kin 435
Jason Dalrymple 393
Kimmy Naylor 342
Joey Nyberg 329
Derrick Iehrke 326
Mick M. 311
Mary Hopkins 289
Mike Schoeder 272
John H 258
Steven Ficken 249
Chris Riser 244
Jordan Ales 244
Kevin Tendall 244
Paul Kuplic 242
Ashley Hasse 232
Cameka McCreary 226
Buddy X 224
Dan Lund 215
Shorty 212
Justice Calane 211
Laurel Smith 211
Bob Beran 204
Todd Rachwal 195
Sam Foust 186
Brett Hansen Begg 185
Clint Christansen 185
Gina Kosek 185
Jennie Peterson 184
Mike Beberg 175
Paul McDonald 175
Tom Schmoll 171
Bob Rich 167
David Windmeier 167
Debbie Arens 167
David Read 165
Bill Woodworth 159
Garrett Blanchfield 159
John Shively 158
Myke Zurn 157
Bob Topinka 151
Bryce Weston 150
Steven Dircz 150
Tom Sudheimer 150
Brian Schlegelmilch 147
Ed Savard 145
Joan Tennis 144
Mike Hazzard 144