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September 26 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pmFree Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament at Taconite Canteen!
October 5 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pmFree Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament at Yesterday’s Gone Bar and Grill!
October 12 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pmAnnual HALLOWEEN DRESS UP Free Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament at Pillager Community Center!
October 19 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pmFree Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament at Taconite Canteen!
November 2 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Current 2026 "Tournament of Champions" Qualifiers:
Al Wikstrom +2
Mark Secora +2
Jeff Elder +2
Mike Pitts
Craig Wendstrand +2
Joe Palmer “Master of Ducks” +2
Shawn Robin
Mary Williams +1 (L+1)
Jodi Pittman (D) +3 (+1 LJD2)
Scott Larson +2
Eli Olson (D)
Bob Sauerwein
Mike Naillon +2
Josh Ikola (D) +1
Abe Mrosla +4
Falicia Flynn +1 (L+1)
Brittany Fox (D)
Don Williams (D) +2
Tom Weber
Shayla Heuer
Mark Vikander
Brent Prueser +1
Cheryl Olson +1
Russ Jensen +2
Holly Rose (D)
Larry Maxwell
Mike Ellis +1
Anthony Robinson
William Welcher +2
Kib Wiedell +1
Rick Anderson
Jared Klabo +5
Tim Bosch (D) +3 (+1 LJD3)
Jim Caughey +2
Kent Klingensmith
Rashad Nordstrom
Ben Abear
Emalia Varner
Cindy Davis (Dice#2) +2
Cole Popp
John Peters
Lori (Doc) Olson (D) (L+1)
Mylez Deck
Nick Hall
Taylor Thiery
John Jensen
Chase Pratt +2
Sarah Cox
Louie Longo
Crystal Nuijens
Thomas Lyshoj
Kevin Kleinschmidt
Trevor Tobin
Bridgette Robinson (L+1)
Tadina Ikola (L+2) +3 (+2 LJD1+2)
Vickie Zell (L+1) +3
Carrie Jones (L+1)
Angie Wegener (L+2)
Val Zaborowski
Ken Slama
Gene Davis
Perry Erickson
Gary Tank
Leonard Raddohl +1
John Cluever
Susan Olsen
Butch Rhoades
Douglas Johnson
Cindy Occhino (LJD1)
Jason Thiesse (LJD1)
Isaac Dowdey (LJD2)
Brian Shields (LJD3)
Cory Kaun (LJD3)
Kaitlin Sauer
Candi Maras
Patrick Wussow
Matt Squires
Harvey Allen
Roger Britton
Jamers Kane
Sandy Demorett (L+2)
Bev Bosch (L+1)
Jeanne Brastad (L+1)
Katie Peterson (L+1)
Kimberly LaBarthe (L+1)
Michele Meyer (L+2)
Joseph Dubel
Heidi Erickson
Brady Seidl
Bob Beltran
Scott Gutierrez (D)
Sydney Pastor (L)
Cindy Nissen (L)
Michelle Pejka (L)
First Out @ TOC 2026:
Tadina Ikola
“Charmed” Guests:
Legacy (Tattoo):
Tadina Ikola (D)
Holly Rose (D)
Updated September 8th, 2026
Legend:
(D) Dealer
(L) Ladies Night Game
(LJD) Lakes Jam Day # Game
Current 2026 "Rounders Cup" Point Qualifiers:
Current Top Point winner Overall:
Tim Bosch 3380
First Quarter Top Points Winners:
1) Tim Bosch 1410
2) Jodi Pittman 1080
3) Bridget Robinson 1010
Second Quarter Top Points Winners:
1) Jared Klabo 1220
2) Val Zaborowski 1150
3) Joseph Palmer 940
Third Quarter Top Points Winners:
1) Christy Tobin 1080
2) Tim Bosch 980
3) Kaitlin Sauer 870
Fourth Quarter Top Points Winners:
~Updated in December~
Updated 8/8/26
8th Annual "Tournament of Champions" Winners:
8th Annual T.O.C. Winners:
First Place: Roger Britton
Second Place: Mark Secora
Third Place: Matt Squires
Fourth Place: Gary Balsimo
Fifth Place: Josh Secora
Sixth Place: Tom Caughey
Seventh Place: Shawn Robin
Bubble: Angie Wegener
Other Prizes and Winners:
First Player Out: Tadina Ikola
First Dealer Out: Tadina Ikola
Dealers Horse Race Winner: Roger Britton
Mini Tournament Winner: Chase Pratt
Golden Ticket Winner: Christy Tobin
Previous "Tournament of Champions" First Place Winners:
Year One: Linnea Ann
Year Two: Don Williams
Year Three: Cole Cameron
Year Four: Ryan Nelson
Year Five: Brent Prueser
Year Six: Kevin Kleinschmidt
Year Seven: Ken Linn
Year Eight: Roger Britton
Year Nine: TBD
The Creators
Shawn & Jodi Pittman
One Badass.
One Femme Fatale.
We’ll let you decide who’s who.
Don Williams
We can’t decide if he’s a better dealer or player.
Either way he’s a force to be reckoned with.
Assuming a standard 52-card deck:
* There are 52! possible arrangements—about 8.07 × 10⁶⁷ different deck orders. That’s a 68-digit number.
* If the deck is thoroughly shuffled, the exact order you’re holding has almost certainly never existed before—anywhere, ever.
* If every person alive shuffled one deck every second since the universe began, we still wouldn’t come remotely close to producing every arrangement.
* Even if a machine generated one billion new arrangements every second since the Big Bang, it would have explored only about
000000000000000000000000000000000000000005% of all possible orders.
* If you tried every arrangement at one per second, it would take roughly 2.6 × 10⁶⁰ years. The universe is only about 13.8 billion years old.
* The chance of correctly guessing the complete order of a shuffled deck is approximately 1 in 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.
* Mathematicians found that about seven ordinary riffle shuffles are needed to make a new deck reasonably randomized. Fewer than that can leave detectable structure behind.
* A perfect faro out-shuffle alternates the cards exactly. Do it perfectly eight times, and a 52-card deck returns to its original order.
* Human beings are generally terrible at creating randomness. We tend to shuffle in patterns, avoid obvious-looking sequences, and unconsciously spread similar cards apart—even though genuine randomness naturally contains clumps and streaks.
* A shuffled deck containing something like four aces together isn’t “less random.” In fact, every specific deck order is exactly as unlikely as every other order.
* If you shuffled decks until you expected to encounter the same arrangement twice, you’d need roughly 10³⁴ shuffles because of the birthday-paradox effect—and that is still an incomprehensibly huge number.
* Every time a dealer shuffles before a BLAPL game, they are probably creating something genuinely new in the history of the universe! ...
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A HUGE Thank You to our Lakes Area Valor Lions Club and American Legion Brainerd Post 255 for hosting our Ladies Only Poker Night! It was an amazing time!! Let’s do it again soon!!
Special thanks to:
Susanna Wissman Lamusga
Crystal Nuijens
Lori Olson
And
Michael Nuijens for dealing! ...
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What a GREAT night of Ladies Poker with our friends at the American Legion Brainerd Post 255!! Thank you for hosting!! We had prizes for top 7 finishers, First Lady that won wth pocket queens and, of course, our High Hand Jackpot Board! Here are your winners!!
1 Sydney Pastor (Congratulations!)
2 Angie Wegener
3 Cindy Nissen
4 Michele Meyer
5 Sandy DeMorett
6 Michelle Pejka
7 Tadina Ikola
Pocket Queens (winning tickets to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival!!): Lori Olson
King - Three (Red Stool Comedy ): Tadina Ikola
Thanks to everyone that came out!! Keep your eyes peeled for our “Split Decision” Free Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament! ...
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This coming Thursday is our Ladies Only Poker game at the American Legion Brainerd Post 255!
Come early for a burger bar and bag pull! Also, the First Lady to win with pocket queens will win a fun prize too!!
Come join us!!
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Ladies!!
This coming Thursday at American Legion Brainerd Post 255 is our Ladies Only Poker Night!!
Come early to have great food including a burger bar! AND a bag pull which includes extra chips and coupons!!
Hope to see you there!!
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