$200 Tag Team Championship
Jour 1 a débuté
2025 FPN Desert Dash-for-Cash National Championship
$200 Tag Team Championship
Jours 1
Event Info
Résultats
Event Info
Info Niveau
Info Joueurs - Jour 1
2025 FPN Desert Dash-for-Cash National Championship
Buy-in
$200
Entrants
149
Niveau
15
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
30,000
Entrants
149
Joueurs Survivants
1
PokerNews coverage of the 2025 Free Poker Network (FPN) Desert Dash-for-Cash National Championship at Las Vegas' Golden Nugget continues today with the $200 Tag Team Championship.
Each contestant will put up $100 as duos will face off in the Nugget ballroom starting at 5 p.m. local time.
The event will see each team beginning with a 20,000 starting stack and late entry open through Level 6. The final table will also pay out $2,500 in cash.
The teams that make the final table will advance to 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.
Last year, Phil Wilburn and Darren Sneed of Mr. G's & Joe's Older Than Dirt (KY) won the event for $1,500, while Team PokerNews finished in 6th place represented by Chad Holloway and Connor Richards. Sneed is off to a hot start this year and finished second in Thursday's WPT Passport event.
2024 FPN Tag Team Championships Final Table Results
| Rank | Team | Poker Club | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phil Wilburn - Darren Sneed | Mr. G's & Joe's Older Than Dirt (KY) | $1,500 |
| 2 | Mike Yoder - Marla Smith | Palet Bar (NE) | $800 |
| 3 | Jamieson Smith - Becky Ogrodny | DC Cobbs & Mugs n' Manor (IL) | $300 |
| 4 | Eugene Brandsrud - Boyd Brandsrud | Woody's (SD) | $200 |
| 5 | John Zellich - Jeff Kochersperger | Mr. G's (KY) | $200 |
| 6 | Chad Holloway - Connor Richards | PokerNews | $200 |
| 7 | Catherine Stuart - Theresa Carlson | Stillins (IL) | $200 |
| 8 | Sam Jacob - Jim Perugini | 6 Paupers (DE) | $200 |
| 9 | Russ Neil - Al Buhr | Across the Trax (NE) | $200 |
In addition to live updates from PokerNews, fans can follow the action on the FPN YouTube live stream.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is on-site and ready to provide updates on the Tag Team action.
Niveau: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Niveau 1
: 100/200, 200 ante
Cards are in the air and action is underway in the FPN Tag Team Championship.
Niveau 1
: 100/200, 200 ante
Action started with an early position raise and a call from the next seat before a middle position player three-bet to 1,600. Dawn Gideon then four-bet to 4,000 in the hijack and only the three-bettor called.
The flop of J♠J♥5♦ checked through and the same action took place on the 3♦ turn. The opponent then bet 1,500 on the 3♠ river and Gideon called.
The opponent showed A♣Q♠ for ace-high and Gideon showed 10♥10♦ to win the pot with a pair of tens.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 |
Niveau: 2
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Niveau 2
: 200/300, 300 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.
Niveau 2
: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
A big heads-up pot brewed in the Nugget ballroom as Heath Bird moved all in for 10,700 on a board of 9♦4♦5♠2♣ and was called by a bigger-stacked opponent.
Heath Bird: 5♦5♣ 
Opponent: 4♠4♣
Both opponents had flopped sets and Bird had the best of it as the 10♠ bricked off on the river to earn him a double.
"Set over set!" the opponent cried.
"Jesus! Wow!" someone at the table reacted.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
40,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
Niveau: 3
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Niveau 3
: 300/600, 600 ante
The 2025 Free Poker Network (FPN) Desert Dash-for-Cash National Championship is in swing at the Golden Nugget in North Las Vegas and saw a one-day tournament play out Thursday in the form of $200 WPT Passport. Craig Ashley of Office Bar in Illinois battled through the final table to win a $5,000 WPT passport, $200 in cash and entry into Sunday's Championship event.
The $200 WPT Passport, which awarded a $5,000 passport to any 2025 WPT stop, drew 89 entrants and offered $200 cash and Championship event entry to players who made the final table.
Less than a year ago, Ashley won the FPN 'Step in the Ring' National Championship for $12,500 in this same venue. It was a clash of champions as he defeated heads-up opponent Darren Sneed, who won last year's Tag Team event.
“I’m pretty excited," Ashley told PokerNews in a winner's interview. "I wasn’t even sure I was going to play it.”
2025 FPN WPT Qualifier Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize (In USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Craig Ashley | $5,000 WPT Passport + $200 + Championship Entry |
| 2 | Darren Sneed | $200 + Championship Entry |
| 3 | Jim Knight | $200 + Championship Entry |
| 4 | Barry Nelson | $200 + Championship Entry |
| 5 | Jeremy Anderson | $200 + Championship Entry |
| 6 | Russell Neil | $200 + Championship Entry |
| 7 | Justin Page | $200 + Championship Entry |
| 8 | Isaac Thompson | $200 + Championship Entry |
| 9 | Robin Stene | $200 + Championship Entry |
