We’re kicking off the New Year with incredible giveaways, awesome horse racing action and the biggest events! All while filling your pockets with tons of cash!
Welcome back to Best Bets, a monthly feature in which we run down a few of the major happenings at Canterbury Park. Let’s dive into January!
New Year’s Eve
We’ll be flexible and include New Year’s Eve this month–especially when we’re giving away $2,018 in cash at table games throughout the night!
Plus, poker players can get in on our Splash Pots, an extra $50 added to random hands!
Three Card Poker Tournament
This January, players who hit a straight flush in Three Card Poker will qualify for our Three Card Poker Tournament, coming in February with a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool!
Related: How to Play Three Card Poker
$100K Xtreme Sled Giveaway
Play. Win. Ride. That’s all it takes in our $100K Xtreme Sled Giveaway!
This January we’re giving away three Ski-Doo snowmobiles prize packages that include a trailer and a $500 gift card, plus cash–lots and lots of cash! All you have to do is hit a Hot Hand at table games to qualify to win or take home your share of $70,000 in cash prizes!
Championship Snocross Racing
See the world’s top professional and amateur snowmobile racers compete Jan. 5-6 during the Pirtek Snocross National!
Canterbury Park will welcome AMSOIL Championship Snocross and the high-flying stunts and exhilarating racing that comes with it.
Tickets for Canterbury Park’s Pirtek Snocross National, presented by Jimmy John’s, are on sale now. Tickets start at just $15. Save $5 on GA tickets by purchasing in person at the Mystic Lake Box Office.
Cheap & Deep
An affordable $275 buy-in… and a chance to turn your mega stack into a mega prize!
With a $50,000 guaranteed prize pool, our Cheap & Deep No-Limit Hold’em tournament is going to be a blast!
The first Day 1 flight kicks off on Jan. 10, but there will be $70 satellite events in the preceding days. With 20,000 in tournament chips, you will have plenty of room to play!
Big Game Tickets
We’ve been qualifying players in table games and poker for two pairs of tickets to the big game, coming up in February at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis!
As the Vikings begin their march toward glory, be here on Jan. 13 to enter a last-chance drawing and find out who scored the tickets!
Oaklawn Opening Day Bonus
In celebration of Opening Day at historic Oaklawn, we’re giving away 50,000 MVP Reward Card points on Jan. 12!
Head to the Racebook, wager $100 and get your share!
Road to Kentucky
We’re counting down to the year’s biggest horse race, and, ahem, our own Opening Day, with our $25,000+ Road to Kentucky handicapping contest!
Each week features a new track and a new chance to win!
Beat PA
Each week as we count down to the Kentucky Derby features a special bonus to Beat Paul Allen for your chance to win a $25 Derby bet!
Simply follow us on Facebook and Twitter each week and look for the PA video with the special “Key Word” and insights to the week’s contest track. To qualify for this special prize bonus, you must have the keyword on your contest form.
MMA
More than 25 action-packed mixed martial arts fights are coming Jan. 20 for Mecca XI, featuring Muay Thai bouts!
The card includes:
- Ben Locken vs. Vlad Domozurov
- Thomas Jenkins vs. Jacob Rodriguez
Pool and Dart Tournament
If MMA isn’t your thing, you can get in on the competition during the 33rd MOMA State Pool and Dart Tournament!
Featuring more than $10,000 in prizes, the event runs from Jan. 24-28. Have what it takes? Come Play!
Pegasus World Cup
Canterbury Park is the No. 1 place in Minnesota to watch the $16 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational!
Breeders’ Cup winner Gun Runner is expected to be in the field, as well as Gunnevera and Sharp Azteca, joining a group of some of the world’s fastest horses. The race is set for Jan. 27.
Coming Up/Catching Up
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Canterbury Park In case you missed it, our 2018 live racing season schedule has been approved! Live racing returns Friday, May 4!
- Have you heard of Skijoring? We will have Extreme Horse Skijoring at Canterbury Park in February!
