Level 3
: Blinds 300/600, 0 ante
Players have been sent on their first 20-minute break of the day.
2025 FPN Desert Dash-for-Cash National Championship
FPN Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
2025 FPN Desert Dash-for-Cash National Championship
Prize Pool
$100,000
Entries
404
Level
24
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000
Entries
404
Players Left
1
Level 3
: Blinds 300/600, 0 ante
The wildfires around Los Angeles has caused devastation to the area, impacting the lives of thousands of people, including two prominent entertainers within the poker community.
Actor James Woods, in a video on CNN, broke down in tears describing the fire that left his Pacific Palisades home in shambles. Jennifer Tilly, actress and poker player, along with her significant other Phil Laak, shared on Instagram that the couple left home to avoid the fires while staying at Commerce Casino.
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Tilly, a regular on High Stakes Poker and a Hollywood star, referred on X to the Pacific Palisades area, which is right in the heart of the fires, as a "really beautiful area that never lost its small town feeling."
Level 3
: Blinds 300/600, 0 ante
In a four-way pot on a flop of 9?5?4?, Bob Schreiner bet 3,000 and Ryan Herr and Jessica Peca both called.
Schreiner then bet 5,000 on the K? turn and both opponents again called. Schreiner then checked on the 2? river and Peca bet 25,000. Herr and Schreiner both folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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70,000
70,000
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70,000 |
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30,000
5,000
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5,000 |
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7,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
Level: 3
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 0
Level 2
: 200/300, 0 ante
Life Outside Poker is a 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 23rd episode, Connor speaks with Hollywood producer and 2006 Main Event champion Jamie Gold about growing up in New York City, learning poker from his parents and grandparents, playing poker with Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey and Johnny Chan in the 1990s, the early days of televised poker and his memorable 2006 Main Event run.
Gold also talked about his charity poker events that have raised more than a half-billion dollars for various causes, the future of poker content and what poker players can expect from GGPoker's $500 million purchase of the World Series of Poker.
The Life Outside Poker podcast is available on major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio. You can also watch the interview with Jamie Gold by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.
Level 2
: 200/300, 0 ante
There was an opponent all in in a three way pot that got to the river on a board of 8?10?7?5?5?.
Neal Peterson showed J?J? to scoop the pot with jacks and fives, beating out the K?Q? and 8?7? of his opponents to send the opponent with the counterfeited two pair to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
40,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 0
Level 1
: Blinds 100/200, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000 | |
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25,000 | |
|
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20,000 | |
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|
15,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 100/200, 0 ante
Last summer, the Free Poker Network Step Into the Ring National Championship saw John Mizeur, Wendy Adamczyk-D'Andrea, and Craig Ashley claim the FPN trophies and a $12,500 Main Event prize package.
These three champions outlasted a field of 324 to score the top prizes.
“I knew it was going to happen, I really did,” Mizeur said in his post-win interview, and the two other winners nodded in agreement.
"I'm feeling really shocked, and great. I really don't know how I did it, I just got lucky when I needed to," said the Illinois native Adamczyk-D'Andrea after claiming her biggest cash.
It was actually all three winners' biggest cash, and they were definitely excited about using the money to fire in more tournaments.
2024 FPN Step Into the Ring National Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Qualifying Bar | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Craig Ashley | Office Bar, Illinois | $12,500 |
| 1 | Wendy Adamczyk-D'Andrea | Town Bar & Grill, Illinois | $12,500 |
| 1 | John Mizeur | Danny's Dugout, Minnesota | $12,500 |
| 4 | Randy Onstad | Route 65, Minnesota | $1,000 |
| 5 | Keith Wahl | Misfits, Las Vegas | $1,000 |
| 6 | Jim Carroll | DC Cobbs, Illinois | $1,000 |
| 7 | Skyler Sands | Cando Bar, North Dakota | $1,000 |
| 8 | Roy Winkelman | Muddy Low, Minnesota | $1,000 |
| 9 | Jennifer Bezhig | Route 47, Minnesota | $1,000 |
Level 1
: 100/200, 0 ante
Cards are in the air and action is underway in the FPN Desert Dash-For-Cash Championship Main Event.
