February 2020 Ante Up Magazine Article

February's article covers Anthony Dunne winning the Mid-States Poker Tour held at Canterbury Park.  It also covers Becky Anderson winning the $500 Monster Stack at Canterbury and Michael Confer winning the Cold Hard Cash tournament at Running Aces.

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Anthony Dunne

Becky Anderson

Michael Confer

January 2020 Ante Up Magazine Article

January's Ante Up Magazine article covers Jason Sell winning the Big Turkey Tournament at Running Aces.

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Jason Sell

December 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

December's article covers the Fall Poker Classic at Canterbury Park including Justin Thurlow's win of the Main Event and Ian Matakis' win of the High Roller.  It also covers Eric Eelkema winning the Hallow Scream Tournament.  It also features a player profile for Rob Washam.

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Justin Thurlow

Ian Matakis

Eric Eelkema

Rob Washam

November 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

November's article covers Michael Esquivel winning MSPT Canterbury and the Midwest Poker Classic.

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Michael Esquivel

Allan Secord

October 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

October's Article covers Alan Ahmann winning the MSPT regional event at Canterbury Park.  It also covers Jeffery Petronack winning the Great MN Poker Tournament at Running Aces Casino.

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Alan Ahmann

Jeffery Petronack

September 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

September's article features Christopher Nuthak's win of Running Aces' Anniversary Tournament and the Super Stack and Summer Series at Canterbury park.  It also has the final WSOP recap for Minnesota.

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Christopher Nuthak

Chuck Costanzo

Barbara Blechinger

August 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

August's article features a player profile for Jay "Rockets" Melancon.  It also covers Michael Oberembt's win of the Cheap & Deep tournament at Canterbury Park, Steve Wazwaz's wind of the Easy Money tournament at Running Aces and a WSOP Recap.

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Michael Oberembt

Steve Wazwaz

Derek McMaster

July 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

July's article covers Aslan Sahin winning the Mayhem in May tournament at Running Aces as well as Cody Espeseth's win of the $340 Super Stack at Canterbury Park.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/July_2019.pdf#page=40

Aslan Sahin

Cody Espeseth

June 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

June's article covers Mark Jarolawski's win of MSPT Canterbury Park and the Spring poker classic at Running Aces.  Thai Van Dinh won the main event and Gerald Cunnif won the optimum.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/June_2019.pdf#page=32

MSPT winner
Mark Jarolawski

SPC Main Event Winner
Thai Van Dinh

SPC Optimum Winner
Gerald Cunniff

May 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

May's article covers Henry Mlekoday winning the Minnesota State Poker Championship at Canterbury Park.  Joshua Hersch won the $350 Monster Stack.  It also covers Emanuel Evegan winning the Pot O' Gold tournament at Running Aces.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/May_2019.pdf#page=32

Henry Mlekoday

Joshua Hersch

Emanuel Evegan

April 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

April's article covers Matt Kirby capturing his third MSPT title at Canterbury Park ass well as Dennis Petronack winning the For the Love of Money event at Running Aces.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/April_2019.pdf#page=34

Matt Kirby

Dennis Petronack

March 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

March's article covers Andrew Foss winning the Big Stack Avalanche at Running Aces as well as Eric Eelkema's win of the Cheap and Deep tournament at Canterbury Park.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/March_2019.pdf#page=36

Andrew Foss

Eric Eelkema

February 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

February's article covers Ante Up Magazine Cruise give-away and David Gonia's win of the Cold Hard Cash event at Running Aces Casino,  Andy Rubinberg's record setting win of the MSPT Canterbury Park, Rob Maier's win of the $450 Monster Stack at Canterbury Park and Aaron Johnson winning the player of the year in both the MSPT and HPT in the 2018 season.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/February_2019.pdf#page=30

David Gonia

Andy Rubinberg

Rob Maier

Aaron Johnson

January 2019 Ante Up Magazine Article

January's article cover's Blake Bohn's win of the Big Turkey Tournament at Running Aces.

Also of note: Steve Fredlund has expanded the RecPoker Podcast brand to include some training offerings in conjunction with experts like Solve for Why Academy, Jonathan Little and Alex Fitzgerald at an affordable price.  Check out RecPokerTraining.com for more information.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/January_2019.pdf#page=36

Blake Bohn

December Ante Up Magazine Article

December's article covers the Fall Poker Classic which highlights Nghia Le's win of the $1,100 Main Event and Justin Thurlow's win of the $3,500 high roller.  It also covers Shawn Libersky's win of the Hallow Scream tournament.

Also included are the tournament results from October that were accidentally omitted.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/December_2018.pdf#page=34

Nghia Le
FPC $1,100 Main Event

Justin Thurlow
FPC $3,500 High Roller

Shawn Libersky
Hallow Scream

November Ante Up Magazine Article

November's article covers Blake Bohn's win of the MSPT Canterbury, Gerald Cunniff winning the Midwest Poker Classic Main Event and Charles Wiggins chipping the Optimum.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/November_2018.pdf#page=42

Blake Bohn

Gerald Cunniff

Charles Wiggins

October Ante Up Magazine Issue

So this is a strange one.  Because of an accidental editing mistake the September info for Minnesota was repeated in the October issue.  Below is what should have been published:

UPDATE: A shortened version of the results was published in the December issue.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/rw/issues/pdf/December_2018.pdf#page=34

Canterbury Park: Saad Ghanem of Bloomington, Minn. earned the top spot in Mid-States Poker Tour regional event after a three-way chop.  Ghanem held a small chip lead when he agreed to a chop with Alan Thompson and Paul Cross for $39,540 each.  Cross was the defending champion from the 2017 MSPT regional event at Canterbury Park.  This is Ghanems’s second largest live cash and brings his career earnings on Hendon Mob over $400K.  The event had a $350 buy-in, drew 1,065 entries and generated a $308,915 prize pool.

Running Aces: Ramsey Stovall of Rosville, Minn. took home $33,169 after winning the inaugural Great MN Poker Tournament.  This is the biggest career cash for Stovall, a poker dealer at Running Aces Casino.  The event had a $150 buy-in for 10K in chips with an optional staff appreciation add-on for another 10K in chips.  Additionally, an optional $50 stack builder add-on for an additional 20K in chips.  (For a maximum $210 buy-in). The stack builder add-on could be used at any time during the buy-in period.  If a player that had not already used purchased this add-on busted, they had one last option to purchase the add-on to continue play prior to the beginning of the next hand.  From my observation most players opted to purchase the stack builder add-on almost immediately.  The event drew 817 entrants and generated a prize pool of $133,365.

Saad Ghanem

Ramsey Stovall

September 2018 Ante Up Magazine Article

Septembers article covers Mark "Loki" Abboud winning the Anniversary Tournament at Running Aces.  It also covers the Summer Series including the Poker Is Fun Tour at Canterbury Park.  In addition iNinja Poker Tour rises from the dead.  And Ken Warren covered Brian Soja's MSPT victory in Iowa.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/news/minnesota-s-sojo-wins-iowa-state-poker-championship.htm

Mark "Loki" Abboud

Scott Koernig

Trevor Hills

Ben Rock

Blake Johnson

iNinja Poker Tour

August 2018 Ante Up Magazine Article

August's Article covers Tyler Caspers winning the Easy Money tournament at Running Aces.  It also covers Adam Laskey winning the Cheap & Deep tournament at Canterbury Park.  There is also a player profile of Max Havlish.

http://www.anteupmagazine.com/minnesota/news/toledo-s-hollywood-challenge-runs-aug-23.htm

Tyler Caspers

Adam Laskey

Max Havlish