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!
:cool:
congratulations resh!
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.
well done! :thumbsup2:
(looks like an urn for ashes tho;)
Congratulations, Louis! And that's a nice shirt, BTW :)
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 (8): 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).
http://www.chicagopoint.com/results.html (http://www.chicagopoint.com/results.html)
congratulations resh. i wish i was there. hope one day :happy:
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)!
Get yourself to Fibs! :yes: When you do, download Javafibs as your client!
Congrats on your wins! ;)
socksey
Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps. - unknown
left: BEGINNERS: 2C-Adam Lusk (CO)
right: BEGINNERS: 1C-Dale Kerr (Australia)