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4th November 2008
57 Entries, 11 Tournaments, 38 Players, £1216 Prize Fund,
Raj Jansari wins Jackpot. |
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A few days before our biggest gig of the year (Bg Live in London
2008) and I wondered what the turnout this evening would be. But
I've given up trying to predict numbers so I just decided to wait
and see. At 6.45pm it didn't look promising but by 7.30pm we had
32 players shaking and rolling and with a few late arrivals we
would build to 38 players this evening.
In the 1st Tournament the entry fee went to £60 with just 8
players interested however there were some players that wanted the
entry fee to be considerably higher. No problem - we ran an
additional Optional Pool of £100 to accommodate them. 3 took up on
this, all monies were paid and the draw was done - the 3 in the
Optional Pool were all in the top half of the draw - ce la vie but
this also shows the adaptability of the Camden Auction format.
A further 4 players took up on a £25 entry, another 8 had already
started an 8 player Swiss, another 8 were in a £10 entry Knockout
and 4 players kicked off a non-money play Tric Trac Tourno. With
numbers looking as they were we elected to run 4 player
Mini-Jackpots for the remaining tournaments of the evening which
this kept things kicking on nicely with very few waits between
matches.
A total of 11 Tournaments were played - 2 x 8 player knockouts, 7
x 4 player knockouts, 1 x 8 player Swiss and 1 x 5 player TTT.
Winners were: Raj Jansari, Farzin, Rod Naghar, Pana, George K,
Monica B, Martin Ba, Roxanna, Mike I, Graham R and Pat O'Mahony
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