Designer/Developer Poker Tournament Results

Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 in the Poker category.

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.