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5th May 2009
53 Entries, 10 Tournaments, 38 Players, £1645 Prize Fund,
Michael Michael wins Jackpot. |
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Considering that The Arsenal were playing Man United in the second
leg of the Champions League Semi-Final over in Highbury I didn't
expect a huge turnout in Camden this evening. Wrong again Mike.
The 1st Swiss Tournament was full and draw done by 7.00pm by which
time 14 players had express an interest for playing for at least
£25. So we moved to the Camden Auction and it was only when then
entry fee reached £150 that just 8 players remained. Fees paid,
draw done, off they went to play. The 6 that had dropped out were
joined by another 2 so we had a £25 entry 8 player ready to go by
7.15pm. A second Swiss filled up by 7.20pm and off they too went
to play. We also had 3 non-doubling cube players with us so they
tucked into the corner behind me and played a 3 round Tric Trac
Tourno. A few more players would join us during the evening and
were slotted in as and where as they arrived making a total of 38
players.
We had a number of first timer Bg in London players with us this
evening. After a quick chat with each of them as to their
knowledge of the game they were slotted in at their appropriate
level. 4 were confident and good enough enough to go for the
£25er, 3 played Swiss, 3 played TTT and one late arrival who
played a Knockout. Their final placings didn't set the house on
fire though Graham Carson (now there's a name established players
should know) did win a Mini-Jackpot and Sofyjane on the 3 round
TTT by winning a gammon in round 2 and a backgammon in round 3 for
which she was awarded a backgammon board to practice at home on.
In the big Tournament Raj stormed though to the final to later be
met by Michael Michael who made, or whose dice made, quick work of
beating Raj. Tournament 2 was won by Nicky Check, Graham R and
Monica B won the Swiss Tournaments, Martin Hoffmann was over in
London from Germany for 2 days and walked away as winner of
Mini-Jackpot 2 and David Potter was chalked up as winner of
Mini-Jackpot 3.
What the above doesn't portray is the buzz that was going around
the Lockside Lounge. Even though the kitchen was being refurbished
and the fare available this evening was via a barbecue on the
terrace players were mingling well and having laughs, good play
and lessons were being freely given to those that could use them.
At the end of this month we've
The Casinorip.com London Open 2009. This will be one of our
largest events of the year, it has a £1000 Added Prize Fund and it
has something for everybody because it'll be a 3 Flight affair -
Championship, Intermediate and Casual. Seats are still available
so drop us an
email of call us on 0207-700-1798 / 07985-941729 and we'll gen
you up on it. There are also 2 more
Online Qualifiers on Wed 13th and 20th May.
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