Posted by Johnnymac 11:57 AM


Let's wrap this up... for now.



Thanks to everyone who played in the tournament and supported us either through the website or by coming out to watch or lending us their homes or other material help. It was all very appreciated. I am sure that Padilla will represent us well in Las Vegas and I am anxious to get to be able to say that I have a piece of a guy at the WSOP and that this little 'ole website is "sponsoring" someone at the biggest tournament of all. Goodness.

It was nice meeting all of the nice guys (and a few girls) who played with us, too. A lot of people have asked to get on our distribution for future tournaments and for any friendly games, so you definitely will be added. I don't know how Junell's marriage will affect his regular poker game, but I'm sure he will get started up again, and then there's always the garage game, which itself will resume once I live up to my promise to Mrs Johnnymac to finish remodeling our guest bathroom before I play poker again.

Besides blogging Padilla's participation in the WSOP next month, there are two more posts I want to do about this tournament: 1.) I need to publish the final "shares" of Padilla's winnings in Vegas, if there are any, (I am waiting for my calculations to be second checked first) and 2.) If we do this again next year there are a few things that can probably be changed for the better and there's enough of them that I have thought of and that other people have suggested that we could make a whole post out of the topic. So I will. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions yourself before then, please shoot me an email.

As far as my participation yesterday, I can't complain. I got all of my chips into the pot preflop with a high pair (QQ) versus a lower pair (99) and he had to catch up by making his set on the river. Had I doubled up I would have been close to 2nd place in chips and the dynamics of the game would have changed a lot, but that's poker. I'm glad it was the eventual winner, which is good, and at least I didn't have to deal with the awkward circumstances of winning my own tournament. (Not that it would have stopped me or anything.)

Anyway, the tourney is done now. It was fun and it was very successful and for the umpteenth time, the four of us here at IAG appreciate your help and support.

And to the nice anonymous guy who left the "This is never going to happen" comment within 10 minutes after we first announced this tourney... I invite you to go back and read all of the posts over the past 2 months and then accept my sincere invitation to fuck off.

Thanks guys. We'll do it again next year.

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