A middle position player moved all in for around 10,000 and Jerry Olson called from the next seat.
Middle Position: J?J? 
Jerry Olson: K?Q?
The opponent couldn't survive the flip as the board ran out 10?K?4?5?A? for Olson to score a knockout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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65,000 |
The $200 Tag Team Championship at the 2025 Free Poker Network (FPN) Desert Dash-for-Cash National Championship reached its conclusion with the father and son team of Brett and Austin Emerick of Indiana taking home $1,000 and the coveted Tag Team Belts.
The Greazy Pickle representatives also won entry into Sunday's Desert Dash-For-Cash Championship Main Event, where participants will spar for a piece of the $100,000 cash prize and $10,000 in Mystery Bounties.
Brett Emerick, who owns the Indiana bar and told PokerNews he taught his son poker, started things off before letting Austin navigate the final table, culminating with flopping the nut flush against heads-up opponent David Batzler.
"He's never won an event like this so I (figured) I'd give him a chance," the elder Emerick said in a winner's interview.
The event was a family affair as the final table also included the mother-son duo of Lester Hauglid and Susan Hauglid.
| Place | Player | Poker Club | Prize (In USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brett Emerick - Austin Emerick | Greazy Pickle | $1,000 |
| 2 | David Batzler - Michael Webb | Putters Vegas | $500 |
| 3 | Darin Murphy - Brad Bornburg | Cedar Inn | $300 |
| 4 | Lester Hauglid - Susan Hauglid | Billy Club/Shorewood Bar | $200 |
| 5 | Andrew Vossen - Clyde Johnson | Muddy Cow | $200 |
| 6 | Richard Hoag - Emily Niehaus | Mayfield | $200 |
| 7 | Magdiel Reyes - Daniel Kummrow | N/A | $200 |
| 8 | Ryan Herr - Brandon Timok | N/A | $200 |
| 9 | Luc Ciaranca - Deborah Kinney | N/A | $200 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
FPN's oldest member Bob Schreiner was in the big blind in a heads-up pot against the button on a board of 6?4?5?8?.
The 91-year-old bet about 6,000 on the turn and the button called. Schreiner then bet 6,000 on the 9? river and his opponent laid it down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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75,000
30,000
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30,000 |
The death of musician, recording engineer and poker player Steve Albini hit the music world with a force like that of the incendiary device aimed at Earth pictured on Big Black's 1986 debut album Atomizer. It may have hit one group of Chicago poker players the hardest.
Albini, a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner who recorded landmark works by bands like Nirvana and Pixies and who The New York Times described as "one of the most admired, and most divisive, figures in rock," was a key figure in a friend group that bonded, joked and supported one another over the poker table. For 20 years, they played in a weekly low-stakes Chicago home game often held in Electrical Audio that included bracelet winners like Jason Gola, Eric Rodawig and Brian Hastings. Now, the game is on hiatus after Albini's death in May as the group of poker pros, musicians and audio engineers adapts to a world without its figurehead.
PokerNews spoke with two of Albini's closest friends who were regulars in the game, Brandon Shack-Harris and Andrew Kosinski.
Level: 5
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 0
The under-the-gun player open-jammed a stack of around 7,000 and Deborah Kinney re-shoved from the next seat with a bigger stack.
Under the Gun: 8?8?
Deborah Kinney: A?10?
The flop of K?K?9? kept the opponent in front before the runout of 7?9? counterfeited his eights as Kinney won the pot with ace-high.
"That was a bad beat if there ever was one," said a player at the table.
Last night, Kinney and her partner Luc Ciaranca finished ninth in the $200 Tag Team Championship.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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45,000
45,000
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45,000 |
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.
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
65,000 | |
|
|
65,000 | |
|
60,000 | |
|
60,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
|
45,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
40,000 | |
|
35,000 | |
|
|
35,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
20,000 | |
|
|
8,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 0
