I walked in Friday night, and Strong Arm was playing Lutman for 3 dimes. Watched George playing some one handed with a guy for a dime on Sat.... One guy loses his first match, forfeits out of the tourney, {payed the guy who bought him in the calcutta back his money} and was matched up for 5 dimes on the Diamond barbox. That was the main action table, for all you barbox haters. Strong Arm John didn't play in the tourney and was in action a large part of Sat. night.... Yes, there was a ton of action going on. There were games played, games woofed, and plenty of money around. I bet the next one is even stiffer than this field.
For anyone interested, Brian Groce did the calcutta. Great job Brian.... I've been to a lot of tourneis where they had 128 players and didn't get as much in the calcutta. $6750 total, for 64 players..... Only $450 for Justin Bergman in the first blind bid. But managed to get $700 for Shannon Murphy half way thru the field. {who by the way, failed to cash} There was a woman in the field named Terri, don't recall the last name, played really good pool. She got 2 games going to 9, and took Justin to the hill. Then beat Mark Jarvis a couple of matches later, 9 to 4. Overall, this was a really tough field. Congrats to all the players, Especially Frankie Bruce, who is rated as a "C" player at the Indy handicapp tournies. GREAT JOB FRANKIE!!!!!!!.
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