The 2025 Free Poker Community (FPN) Desert Sprint-for-Money Nationwide Championship in Las Vegas reached its finale tonight with the Desert Sprint-For-Money Championship Foremost Occasion as Marion Massmann gained $25,000 and introduced one other title to Billy’s Bar & Grill in Vergas, Minnesota.
Massmann gained her seat in July 2024 in an occasion commemorating the twentieth anniversary of a poker raid in Minnesota. It was becoming that her run got here as FPN celebrates an anniversary of its personal.
In a winner’s interview, 78-year-old Massmann advised PokerNews her youngsters had been watching her from afar and rooting for her. In the meantime, she had a supportive rail of Minnesotans within the Golden Nugget ballroom cheering her on.
“It was superior,” Massmann mentioned concerning the assist she acquired. “The cheering that they did, I simply cherished it.”
The occasion had 404 qualifiers, the largest-ever area for an FPN championship occasion, and battled right down to a ultimate desk that included John Ford, Elisabeth Walker, Fred Morales and runner-up Skyler Sand of North Dakota. Massmann was down to simply 1,700 in chips at one level within the occasion however got here again to earn the greater than 10 million chips in play.
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Schaefers Hits Quads
The Golden Nugget ballroom was electrical regardless of the early begin time as lots of of gamers vied for a shot on the champion title.
Inside the first orbit, South Dakota’s Glenn Schaefers hit quads twice after twenty years of enjoying poker in Sioux Falls bars like Shenanigans, The Thirsty Duck and Woody’s in Sioux Falls. Schaefers advised PokerNews he has gained $4,000 this journey together with with back-to-back victories within the Nugget nightly event.
Invoice Easson went out on the cash bubble in thirty seventh place in a three-way pot in opposition to Jessica Peca and Massmann. Motion sped up from their as remaining gamers locked up a minimal money of $720.
Closing Desk Motion
Everybody was joyful to see 5 girls on the nine-handed ultimate desk, however two of them had been the primary to go as Sue Liskunas and Wendy D’Andrea had been eradicated in ninth and eighth place.
Subsequent to go was Joe Manno adopted by Illinois’ Suzanne Barsalow and John Ford representing Pennsylvania’s Windbur Lodge and Pub, who had been eradicated in a double knockout by the hands of Sand.
The sphere narrowed additional as Elisabeth Walker and Fred Morales bowed out earlier than a quick heads-up battle that noticed Sand’s ace-four being outflopped by Massmann’s king-five.
“The king-five is now the Marion hand!” some yelled on the rail.
Wrapping up FPN on the Nugget
The tip of the Foremost Occasion wraps up PokerNews protection of the FPN Desert Sprint-for-Money Nationwide Championship at Las Vegas’ Golden Nugget.
Earlier within the collection, lat yr’s FPN ‘Step within the Ring’ Nationwide Championship winner Craig Ashley took down the $200 WPT Passport occasion because the Illinois resident earned a $5,000 passport to any 2025 WPT occasion.
On Saturday, the father-son duo of Brett and Austin Emerick gained the Tag Crew Championship after getting via a ultimate desk that included the mother-son duo of Susan and Lester Hauglid.
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Connor Richards
Editor & Reside Reporter U.S.
