The $200 Tag Group Championship on the 2025 Free Poker Community (FPN) Desert Sprint-for-Money Nationwide Championship reached its conclusion with the daddy and son staff of Brett and Austin Emerick of Indiana taking dwelling $1,000 and the coveted Tag Group Belts.
The Greazy Pickle representatives additionally received entry into Sunday’s Desert Sprint-For-Money Championship Predominant Occasion, the place members will spar for a bit of the $100,000 money prize and $10,000 in Thriller Bounties.
Brett Emerick, who owns the Indiana bar and instructed PokerNews he taught his son poker, began issues off earlier than letting Austin navigate the ultimate desk, culminating with flopping the nut flush towards heads-up opponent David Batzler.
“He is by no means received an occasion like this so I (figured) I might give him an opportunity,” the elder Emerick stated in a winner’s interview.
The occasion was a household affair as the ultimate desk additionally included the mother-son duo of Lester Hauglid and Susan Hauglid.
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The FPN Tag Group Championship drew 149 groups or 298 whole gamers. That is a rise from the 123 groups who performed the Could 2024 Tag Group version that noticed the duo of Noel Batres and Paul Hamann profitable the $1,200 prize.
The duos within the FPN Tag Group occasion Saturday included fathers and sons, moms and sons, {couples} and buddies, and all the pieces in between. Gamers swapped out and in often and anybody who wasn’t on the desk was shut by ingesting, chatting and sweating the motion.
Motion moved so rapidly that the blinds had been adjusted to half-hour. Because the occasion reached the ultimate two tables, one participant revealed that he “took out some buddies,” together with “the man I am rooming with.”
There was a rapid-fire bubble because the groups of Hideki Takafuji and Ayaka Muraishi and Kenneth and Lori had been eradicated in a dramatic double knockout.
Earlier than the clocks might pause, the staff of Luc Ciaranca and Deborah Kinney went out in ninth place because the Hauglid made a full home to go to the streamed ultimate desk in modern type.
The pairings of Ryan Herr – Brandon Timok, Magdiel Reyes – Daniel Kummrow and Richard Hoag – Emily Niehaus had been the primary to go on the ultimate desk adopted by Andrew Vossen and Clyde Johnson representing the Muddy Cow.
Group Hauglid adopted swimsuit earlier than Darin Murphy and Brad Bornburg bowed out to make approach for a brief heads-up battle that noticed the Emericks popping out on prime.
That wraps up PokerNews protection of the $200 Tag Group Championship. We’ll be again on-site within the morning for the long-awaited Desert Sprint-For-Money Championship Predominant Occasion.
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Connor Richards
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