We have our winner
December 21, 2007
Battle of the Blogger Tournaments 2 is in the books. Huge congrats to jeciimd for crushing the challenge and earning the trip to Australia. I’m half tempted for shits and giggles to go back and find some of the things which were written about him during the first challenge but why rub it in. The guy obviously has a method to doing well in the blogger events. He topped the leaderboard, almost lapped the field in money earned, 7 final tables, 8 cashes, and winning the big daddy of blogger tourney prizes. Noone can argue that he didn’t deserve it. Congratulations sir, now start blogging regularly so we can follow your progress down unda.
Yesterday I was saying to my friends that the blogger who was going to feel the worst today would be the second place finisher. That honor goes to huntsvegas who could probably taste the vegimite sandwiches. Well done sir and my condolences.
Congrats go to Lucko for winning the $1k freeroll that he steamrolled through. I hung around long enough to finish third with my chip stack yoyo-ing all over the place. Maybe the tightest freeroll in history. At least no freerolling trolls popped up to ask a million question about how to enter. Good job to everybody who cashed in that as well.
Just some quick numbers thrown together.
27 events were played
341 players participated in at least one event
2,250 players entered events during the challenge
Kajagugu had the highest average points amongst those who played at least half the events
Alceste and Donkeypuncher get the heehaw award for most events played without a single point
I actually managed 3 final tables through no particular skill of my own
$39,958 in prize pool money (just short of $40k is impressive)
$1,493 was the average prize pool across the events
The feelings after the challenge are the same as they were after BBT1. Thank god it’s over and we can get back to playing regular donkey events and having some fun. A little healthy competition is good for the soul but only in short burst when playing with your invisible internet friends. Now you can save the competitive spirit for the big field MTT’s and look for a big score.
A lot of posts have been put up thanking me specifically but I’m just one of the guys who should be thanked. I’m just the schmo who knows the right people. Hoy, Mookie, and Don deserve just as much thanks for throwing their hosted events into chaos for the rest of the players. They were willing to try a little experiment which would not have worked without them. Bigger fields and bigger stress is something they had to deal with on a weekly basis.
Thanks to Jim from Riverchasers (riggstad) for letting me run with his events and listening to my hairbrained ideas when no one else thought I’d be able to get these kind of payouts from FTP.
The staff at Full Tilt gets a ton of credit. The first BBT was thrown together between myself and couple of their guys to see what could happen. The second go ’round involved a bunch of emails and conference calls with the bigwigs who could make these decision. To their credit, they jumped all over the chance to offer us some pretty sweet deals and took the chance that we could make it successful.
Thanks finally to everyone who played, pimped, cashed, busted, and supported our private tournaments. When I first brought up this idea to Hoy while sitting over a couple of drinks at the Borgata, we were only looking to see how big we could make our events. Now we seem to have created a vehicle that we can use to offer to great opportunities now and in the future. So if you guys don’t play and support them, then I don’t get to make the deals of the future.
Cheers, thanks, and start thinking World Series of Poker.
Where’s that damn bar at?
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