Action is moving quickly in the Tag Team Championship. The event is down to the final three tables with 26 players remaining.
There will be a 15-minute break at the end of the level and the live stream will begin when players return. Follow the action as FPN looks to get past 1,000 YouTube subscribers.
In the front corner of the Nugget ballroom sits a 91-year-old man with an envelope stuffed with painted rocks and a handful of business cards. He's a regular on the FPN Circuit and when he isn't playing he's looking to improve the days of those around them.
Minnesota's Robert "Bob" Schreiner is known for gifting his custom-painted "Wow Girl" rocks to women dealers and players, believing that every woman deserves that kind of small yet meaningful recognition.
Bob Schreiner's Wow Girl rocks
The Marine veteran shows his support in other ways. During Wednesday's $200 WPT Passport event, "Str8 Flush Bob" wore an "I <3 Dana Castaneda" apron, paying tribute to the league's executive poker director running the show here at the Nugget.
Though Schreiner shies away from publicity, he has nearly a century of stories to tell.
"Isn't that something?" Schreiner said proudly as he showed PokerNews a photo from the 1970s with 38th Vice President Hubert Humprey. He repeats this phrase as he scrolls through photos of eight of his 11 grandkids and playing a Tag Team event with his son, Steve Schreiner, in custom t-shirts he made for the event.
If you're playing in a Las Vegas daily or bar league event and spot a woman using a rock with a red heart on it as a card protector, be sure to think of Bob Schreiner.
Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.
In the 20th episode, Connor speaks with PokerNews Podcast co-host and Game of Gold contestant Kyna England about the Chicago poker scene, going to the same high school as director John Hughes, winning 2021 MSPT Player of the Year, going to Korea for Game of Gold, podcasting, and being a part of Team Hot Dog with Jamie Kerstetter.
England also talked about her victory in the 2023 NAPT Women's Event and going to London for the upcoming PokerStars Women's Winter Festival.