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10th May 2010
39 Entries, 5 Tournaments, 35 Players, £610 Prize Fund,
Graham Read wins Jackpot.
Graham Read (winner Jackpot 1) and Kenroy Brown
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Our 4th Bg in
Fulham evening and player numbers are picking up; 35 came along
this evening and the buzz was good because of that.
Swiss 1 was up and running by 6.30, at 7.00pm we were 1 player
short for the Jackpot 1 so we held a seat open for a late arrival
which was taken by 7.30, Swiss 2 kicked of at 7.20 and by 7.30 we
had a further 4 looking for another Swiss so it kicked off as a
"Round Robin might become a Swiss." A few late arrivals left scope
for a 2nd Jackpot once the first round of Jackpot 12 was played.
The "Round Robin might become a Swiss" built up to 6 players then
a 7th, but we never found the 8th so it remained a Round Robin
with 21 matches to play - yikes that's a lot for one evening so I
made matches 3 pointers. This would have been fine had not so many
players decided they wanted to eat (no worries there) and matches
took as long as they did (an age in some cases but no worries
there either... sort of!) Truth be told players were just as
interested in chatting and drinking as playing - no worries there.
Graham Read has been a regular Bg in London player for about 3 or
4 years now. He used to play in £10 Knockouts, then keyed into £10
Swisses when they were created a couple of years ago and has
recently been flirting with £25+ Knockouts. With a good number of
lesser money wins under his belt over the years, this evening he
join the few who have won Jackpot 1 by soundly beating John
Broomfield in the final. Bravo Graham. Simon Gasquione likes the
Fulham hunting ground and bagged in a clock play final over Martin
Barkwill Jackpot 2. A couple of old hands (Simon Morecroft &
Monica Beckerson) took Swiss 1 & 2.
By 9.30 the Round Robin was running way behind schedule with no
chance of ever finishing by 11.00pm. so I pulled in some reserve
players to play for those who were running way behind schedule.
Simon became Sarah, Kenroy became Lucy, Eric became Jafar, Simon
became Sarah again, Kenroy was Lucy again, Orsin became Kash, Eric
was now James, Simon was now Colin, Ali was James and so was Eric!
Clearly 7 seats in a Round Round of 3 pointers was too many and
the last few matches became 1 pointers as well. The prize fund
split was clearly wrong so when all was played Jafar (a Chartered
Accountant) applied his skills (thank you) and the prize fund
split was re-calculated to give a fair share to the top 3 actual
players. Did it all get a little messy? Yes but everybody seemed
ok with it so no harm done and I'm sure players will be back for
more.
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