does anyone have the payouts and results of the straight pool challenge at the dcc?? i only found some bits and pieces but would like to know who finished where in the finals. thanks in advance.
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does anyone have the payouts and results of the straight pool challenge at the dcc?? i only found some bits and pieces but would like to know who finished where in the finals. thanks in advance.
HUD
Total winnings per player:
Ralf $2650
Alex $2450
Mika $2000
Schmidt $1600
Appleton $1500
Orcollo $900
Niels $700
Archer $700
Huidji $500
Mats S $100
Total Prize Money: $13,100.00
First and Second was $2600 and $1900 shared by Ralf Souquet and Alex Pagulayan.
Third and Fourth was $1200 apiece for John Schmidt and Darren Appleton. ($1100 was last year)
Fifth through eight was $700 apiece for Johnny Archer, Dennis Orcollo, Mika Immonen, and Niels Feijen.
High run of the event: Mika Immonen $1000.
Dailies:
Sunday:
John Schmidt 127 ($300)
Huidji See 84 ($200)
Darren Appleton 51 ($100)
Monday:
Huidji See-105 ($300)
Darren Appleton-85 ($200)
Ralf Souquet - 83 ($100)
Tuesday:
Ralf Souquet - 108 ($300)
Dennis Orcollo - 73 ($200)
Mats Schjetne -64 ($100)
Wednesday:
Mika Immonen- 156 ($300)
Alex Pagulayan-141 ($200)
John Schmidt- 110 ($100)
My numbers might be a little off. I have the sheets at home. The dailies received $300, $200, $100 for first second and third. You can do the math and figure out what each player received if you are so inclined.
We had 46 paid entries this year, up from our last year high of 28. That means we had 552 filmed attempts for high runs by some of the best players around.
Six matches were filmed this year either on Accu-stats tv table or on Inside Pool live streaming. All of these matches were commentated by knowledgeable 14.1 players. This is also up from all other years.
I am sorry we did not get the finals for you, but Alex and Ralf went deep into nine ball and they were worn out. I left the venue Saturday morning when the scheduled 11 a.m. accustats finals was cancelled and we were told there was no telling when the players would become available. Ralf called me about 7 hours later and asked if they had to play or if they could split the prize. Alex was still playing. I told Ralf that I thought the decision had been made that they would be allowed to split the prize. I asked him to verify with Bill. Bill's phone had broken and I was unable to contact him. I then heard later from Bill that Ralf had went ahead with the split. I wanted Ralf to confirm with Bill that that was the way we had to go, but something may have gotten lost in the translation.
The players went through a lot. While I regret not having the finals decided, I still think we got lots of 14.1 action during the week and I was happy that we were able to stream so much and film everything and accommodate all the players who wanted to try. J.R. Calvert, Alvin Nelson and Inside Pool did a great job streaming our event. Marop, Elvicash, Rich93 and other volunteers did a great job.
We hope to do better next year and bring you more straight pool. Thanks for your support and I am sorry I did not get you the finals.
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Great going Dennis. We appreciate all you did.
just out of curiosity what were the 1st and 2nd place payouts pre split.
thank you dennis for all the information, i was really curious as to what my buddy john schmidt did. i live in wheeling and as u may know or not john ran a pool room here and we became good friends. i used to run the 8 ball tournaments for him. what a class act. i see that you had a lot to do with the challenge by the way your response was written.that being said i thank you again for your time and report.
HUD
Just like it says, $2600 for first; $1900 for second.
So they split $4500 and took home $2250 each in addition to their other daily prizes.
Fantastic, fantastic job to all involved, and especially Mr. Walsh for keeping us all updated.
One thing which really surprised me - the best runs of the qualifying rounds seemed to occur on the fourth day of attempts. Intuitively, you'd expect the opposite as the table tightens up. Dennis or Bill, any thoughts as to why this was?
Thanks again.
- Steve
One thing which really surprised me - the best runs of the qualifying rounds seemed to occur on the fourth day of attempts. Intuitively, you'd expect the opposite as the table tightens up. Dennis or Bill, any thoughts as to why this was?
Thanks again.
- Steve
Steve:
I know that happened last year. I'd like to say it was because of the great condition in which we kept the table and the balls. Last year the room was open early and people had beat it up a little. This year we got the key and locked it down by Saturday. It did not feel to me like the table tightened up as much as last year. I ran a 38 the first day and then did not hit balls until the last day and they still seemed to go in ok. Bill played more than me and probably has an opinion.
This year, Mika arrived on the final day and so that is the only day he played. He is such a great player, he overpowered the table. He had the 156 on his third try and was around 117 or so on his 6th attempt when he was sharked. The room had been promised to Action players when we got done, and they were hanging from the rafters, waiting to play a big money game. Schmidt came in and said "Maybe they want to play Mika some 10 ball for money!"
Alex only tried a few attempts the day before. He made his 141 around 2:00 a.m. the final day and again I think it was just his force of will that made it happen.
John was hitting hundreds all week so the table did not bother him much. After the prelims when he was warming up he had a 188 or something like that.
Mika posted the 156 on day 4. Up until then the main guys were happy with what they had run. John purchased another 12 tries to try to beat Mika, he ran 144 on the 8th attempt, it was late and he had a 9:30 AM nine ball match so he called it quits. Johnny didn't get there until Tuesday and was pretty sick, his 109 also happened on the last day. Orcollo was on the bump with 102 so he tried again and ran 112. Alex was down to his last 4 attempts and the only time he could schedule was late that night, after his first 3 innings he had a high of 29, on his very last attempt at 1:30 AM needing 106 to qualify he ran 141 which bumped out Huidji's 105. The tables seemed to play the same for all week, John ran 188 on Thursday after qualifications were complete and 112 on Saturday just fooling around.
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Quite a change from last year when Mika could only manage a 54 on 12 attempts. I do think the tables were playing a little easier this year.
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Total winnings per player:
Ralf $2650
Alex $2450
Mika $2000
Schmidt $1600
Appleton $1500
Orcollo $900
Niels $700
Archer $700
Huidji $500
Mats S $100
Total $13,100