Jul 14th, 2005

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Designer/Developer Poker Tournament Results

Wow. All I can say is, I am impressed. This was a GREAT tournament. The play was 10 times better than I could have ever expected. No horrible calls, not many bad beats (other than my Q Q losing to TMeister’s J 10 full house, great hand man). Eventually, the blinds started eating my chips, and my 8 3 suited (a forced call with few chips) lost to kadazuro’s straight.

The Final Table

The final table provided some intense action. Tim ‘stayin alive’ Walling, couldn’t be taken down. At one point, I looked at his chip stack, and he was around 500-700, and then he gets to the final table, and all of a sudden, he’s got 11,000 in chips. When Tim and codetroll were down to heads up, Tim was all in with 89 offsuit, and caught trips on the river to beat codetroll’s K’s. Kadazuro played a monster amount of hands (somewhere in the 80% range if I remember correctly) and somehow kept catching cards to make it to the final 4. NoMoreAllIn tight play, and smart moves kept him in, to the final 3. But, in the end codetroll’s massive chip lead at the final table couldn’t be beaten, although there were a couple times he took a good hit, but managed to stick in there and get it back within a few hands. (James, email me your address, and I will send out your prizes)

The Results

This tournament was a blast from the very start. Congrats to everyone on a great tournament (except Abel… 45th man? tisk tisk :D).

1. codetroll
2. twboston
3. NoMoreAllIn
4. kadazuro
5. Tmeister
6. PreNupCarpet
7. thejoker101 (award: most drunk man at the final table)
8. FrenchDickens (award: best name in the tourney)
9. joshdura
10. K3v0

For the full results, click here

Note: The results aren’t completely accurate, as most of the no-shows didn’t get booted, and finished around the 20’s. So everyone below that, finished about 10-15 spots higher. My computer restarted automatically last night before I could get the FULL results written down. If anyone managed to get it, please let me know in the comments.

Tournament Stats

Running time: 3hr 15min
Final blinds: 1500/3000 100 antes
Total people: 35 of the 51 registered showed up.

Next Steps

The resounding comments from the tourney, was that it was a success all the way around. Seeing the success of this tourney, I am going to be setting up a site specifically for designer/developer poker tourneys. I am thinking we will have bi-weekly tournaments, maybe less, depending on the amount of people that show up. So, for everyone that didn’t show up, forgot to sign up, or got screwed by ultimatebet (sorry majorchamp), there will be more in the future.

22 Responses to 'Designer/Developer Poker Tournament Results'


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  1. well, not that I’m proud of it but I came in dead last. codetroll took me out with a straight flush against my queen high flush. Bah.

    Thanks for setting it up. It was fun. Even if I only lasted 13 minutes. :O)

    Bill Rawlinson

    14 Jul 05 at 9:08 am

  2. Nice write up!

    I don’t think I’ve ever played a better tourney where no money was involved.

    Tim Walling

    14 Jul 05 at 9:11 am

  3. great tournament. looking forward to the next one!

    patrick (nomoreallin)

    14 Jul 05 at 9:12 am

  4. Bill: Yeah, I was watching that. Extremely tough to put anyone on a straight flush. You played it perfectly :)

    Josh Dura

    14 Jul 05 at 9:16 am

  5. hi there.
    what a great time we’ve had yesterday, not to bad for a newcomer as me; it was really fun, sometimes scarry but fun most of the times.
    i play most of the hands just beause i was getting pretty decent hands, but not when i really need it ( stupid set of 10’s)

    thumbs up for the bi-week idea, hope some free-rolls too, I will glad to promote them on my site.
    see ya on the tables ( or in the bar )

    cheers anyone.

    kadazuro

    14 Jul 05 at 9:21 am

  6. Thanks for organizing this! I had a good time. I look forward to more.

    CvilleHoldem

    14 Jul 05 at 9:46 am

  7. I am going to call this one beginners luck and see how I do the next time around. That early straight flush is just one example of many where I got lucky.

    James

    14 Jul 05 at 9:52 am

  8. Thanks for a great tourney! Looking forward to the next one.
    (hobbes8calvin)

    scott

    14 Jul 05 at 10:29 am

  9. Thanks for organizing and for the award (best name)—I was not expecting that ;)

    On a side note though, is there any other online poker establishment that will work with the mac? I had to borrow a friend’s windows machine to participate last night. Just throwing it out there…

    Thanks again, it was great fun.

    -Travis (FrenchDickens)

    Travis

    14 Jul 05 at 11:10 am

  10. Travis: The only one I know of, is pokerroom.com, and that is a Java interface. They were the first place I tried to host this with, knowing the Mac userbase would hate me if I didnt, and they dont allow private freerolls unfortunately.

    Josh Dura

    14 Jul 05 at 11:13 am

  11. Ok, well thanks for looking into it anyway.

    Travis

    14 Jul 05 at 12:19 pm

  12. Ya I also had a great time playing as it was fun to play with fellow designers/developers.

    My only real bad beat was against I believe FrenchDickens (sorry if it was somebody else) who busted my raised pre flop pocket aces against something like 7 10 suited when he sucked out and hit a flush. :) All part of the game.

    And who could forget that one guy who came to our table asking how people got into the tourny. After being told you had to design a webpage he asked how and the classic comments followed. “Get frontpage” for example.

    I’d be up for more of these type of things anyday.

    Take care all.
    LeeUmm

    Liam

    14 Jul 05 at 12:35 pm

  13. Thats ok. It was my own damn fault.

    However, I was going to say, it wasn’t 35 that showed up, it was 36, its just that I couldn’t get seated :)

    It won’t happen again. Think of it this way, everyone gained 1 place because I didn’t play :) haahahha

    Bryan

    14 Jul 05 at 1:56 pm

  14. I just hate that I went out ELEVENTH place. What is that? I couldn’t hold on just a bit longer to get in the top ten? Nevertheless, I had blast. On the table I got seated at, everyone was friendly to each other, giving plenty of handy tips. There were plenty of friendly jabs to go along. If this is how they could all be, I’m all in.

    Ray

    14 Jul 05 at 2:16 pm

  15. 7. thejoker101 (award: most drunk man at the final table)

    Allow me to note, as someone who hang out with James Asher (thejoker101) in the real world, that this comes as no surprise whatsoever.

    Jeff Croft

    14 Jul 05 at 2:26 pm

  16. Allow me to also note that while James Asher was drunk in front of his computer playing poker, I was at the club with his drunk girlfriend.

    Oh! Snap!

    Jeff Croft

    14 Jul 05 at 2:29 pm

  17. 30-something place. jcroft

    Allow me to note, as someone who hang out with Jeff Croft (jcroft) in the real world, that this comes as no surprise whatsoever that he fared as well as he did.

    James

    14 Jul 05 at 2:29 pm

  18. Damn, Jeff is correct on that one.

    I still had fun.

    Sings: James and Red Stripe, sitting in a tree…

    James

    14 Jul 05 at 2:32 pm

  19. Ha! I could tell by the end that James was getting way drunk when he was calling people “Big chipped bastards”. Classic…

    Josh Dura

    14 Jul 05 at 2:57 pm

  20. All in good fun :-)

    James

    14 Jul 05 at 3:01 pm

  21. next time you have the designer/developer game count me in!

    …and does it play O.K. in Virtual PC?

    brian fidler

    15 Jul 05 at 3:44 am

  22. Bi-weekly tournaments are a great idea! I hope you get more press next time so we get the 100+ people you wanted.

    Evdawg

    15 Jul 05 at 5:44 pm

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