resh wins beginners in vegas

[rollingfool]

our friend, resh lakish, easily sweeps field to take beginner trophy 11/08 in las vegas backgammon tourney

here is the proud owner of a trophy!

[cassandra]

 

congratulations resh!

[spielberg]

Notice resh's cunning use of the colour blue in the second photo. Team goooo have style and are here to mess with your minds.

[stog]

well done! 

(looks like an urn for ashes tho;)

[Zorba]

Congratulations, Louis! And that's a nice shirt, BTW 

[cassandra]

Updated: November 20, 2008

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ABT - LAS VEGAS OPEN BACKGAMMON TOURNAMENT
November 12-16, 2008; LasVegas, Nevada

CHAMPIONSHIP (98+22 rebuys): 1-Stacy Turner (GA), 2-Matt Cohn-Geier (CA), 3/4-Perry Gartner (FL) / Alvaro Savio (Brazil); 1C-Richard Munitz (NY), 2C-Gary Bauer (NJ), 3C/4C-Pia Jeppesen (Denmark) / Zoran Maric (France); 1LC-Stepan Nuniyants (WA), 2LC-Malcolm Davis (TX).

INTERMEDIATE (88+28 rebuys): 1-Jonathan Bennetts (Canada), 2-Larry Taylor (GA), 3/4-Elli Nache (CA) / Bob Sahagian (NV); 1C-David Olson (TX), 2C-Evan Etter (FL), 3C/4C-Fred Dardashti (CA) / Julius High (NY); 1LC-Tom Duggan (England), 2LC-Michael Derylo (CA).

BEGINNERS (21+5 rebuys): 1-Louis Gordon (CA), 2-Yehuda Hodara (NY), 3/4-Susan Lee (AZ) / Don Thompson Sr. (NV); 1C-Dale Kerr (Australia), 2C-Adam Lusk (CO); 1LC-Vergine Kouleyan (CA), 2LC-Cherie Owens (AZ).

SUPER JACKPOT (16 @ $2,000): 1-Ian Macfarlane (Brazil), 2-Jeremy Bagai (CA).

LIMITED JACKPOT (16 @ $1,000): 1-Jeff Acierno (NJ), 2-Ken Bame (CA).

OPEN JACKPOT (16 @ $400): 1-Stepan Nuniyants (WA), 2-Steven Keats (NY).

SENIORS (128): 1-Ed O'Laughlin (VA), 2-Steven Keats (NY), 3/4-Wolfgang Griese (Germany) / Marc Steyvers (Spain).

BLITZ EVENT (256): 1-Ted Chee (CA), 2-Gary Tong (MI).

MINI-MATCH EVENT (64): 1-Walter Trice (MA), 2-Alex Katchikian (NY).

DOUBLES (32 teams): 1-Susan Randall (FL) & Stacy Turner (GA), 2-Pedro Carvalho (Brazil) & Alberto Chreem (Brazil).

OVERFLOW DOUBLES (8 teams): 1-Mark Antranikian (CA) & Ted Chee (CA), 2-Matvey "Falafel" Natanzon (Israel) & Arkadiy Tsinis (NV).

SATURDAY $300 JACKPOT (10): 1-Ed O'Laughlin (VA), 2-Mike Corbett (FL).

SATURDAY $100 JACKPOT (34): 1-Art Grater (CA), 2-Akiko Abe (Japan).

SATURDAY $50 BEGINNERS JACKPOT (: 1-Cherie Owens (AZ), 2-Michael Groff (CA).

$50 AFTER TOURNAMENT TOURNAMENT (25): 1-Kit Woolsey (CA), 2-Tom Wheeler (TX).

$20 AFTER TOURNAMENT TOURNAMENT (14): 1-Dale Kerr (Australia), 2-Jonathan Bennetts (Canada).




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[luya]

congratulations resh. i wish i was there. hope one day 

[kerr]

Congrats mate! I too entered the Beginner's section and didn't lose a single match! How so? I won my 1st round, but slept in for my 2nd round match (late night of poker) and forfeited, so was put in the Beginner's Consolation draw, which I won. I then managed to win one of the After Tournament tournaments, defeating Jonathan Bennetts who won the Intermediate Main event.

To say I was greatly surprised to win more than a match or two would be an understatement. I only took up the game last year and have never played on FIBS. As you can see, I'm an Aussie and the Las Vegas ABT coincided with a wedding that I had to attend. I'm now hoping to get to Vegas in 2009 to win the Intermediate event (highly unlikely)!

[socksey]

Get yourself to Fibs!      When you do, download Javafibs as your client! 

Congrats on your wins! 

socksey



Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps. - unknown

[kerr]

left: BEGINNERS: 2C-Adam Lusk (CO)
right: BEGINNERS: 1C-Dale Kerr (Australia)