Well it was another great time at the Western BCA Regional 8-ball event. Its always nice to run into so many great people and players congregating in one venue. This tourney, besides a couple of Pechauer Tour stops, is one of the few times that we have a large event in the Northwest. Here is a recap of my progress throughout the tourney.
Approximate player counts for the mens events: Masters - 81 ; Open A - 180 ; Open B - 250. Quite a few.
Tuesday: Drove down to Lincoln City after work. I checked into the hotel and then went to the casino to get some practice in. Everyone that I knew was already eliminated from the scotch doubles tourney. However the tag team of Queen Linda/Mike Zimmerman were busy battling it out with Glenn Atwell/Andrea Saenz-Maes for the championship. Glenn/Andrea won the match and Masters Scotch Doubles title..I am not sure of the score. I then went to play some limit $3/$6 holdem and left the night up a whopping $29. Luckily I won the high hand for the hour with Q's full of 10's, paying me $50.
Wednesday: Well since I had checked the board and had a first round BYE I did not have to play until 4:00pm. I won that match 7-2. That was the only match that was scheduled that day with the other events starting. I went downstairs to play poker again..this lime leaving up $115.
Thursday: Won my opening match 7-4 to see my next opponent to be Dan Louie. Jumped up 3-2 on Dan and easily could have been 5-0. Can't make mistakes versus a player like Dan. After dry breaks on my last few cracks I lost 3-7. So it was off to the losers bracket. I won my next two matches 7-4, 7-5 and that was it for the day finishing at 2AM and having a 9AM match.
Friday: I showed up tired but ready to play. Won my opening match 7-2. I then played Kenny Dodd and it was a tight match the whole way. He took advantage of my inability to finish off a few racks. at 6-6 I came up empty on the break, he ran to his last few balls left but had a tight squeeze of a ball between a few of mine and missed. I ran out for the 7-6 win. I then played Mike Zimmerman and played a great match missing one shot and taking advantage of Mike's mistakes, won 7-2. My final match was littered with my own mistakes versus Darrold Crane and led to my demise. It was me and him versus me, losing the match 7-4 to come in 4th place.
Approximate results that I know about:
1st - Dan Louie ~$1500
2nd - Todd Marsh ~$1150
3rd - Darrold Crane ~$850
4th - Me $590
5/6th - Mike Zimmerman ~$390
- Steve Linglebach
7/8th - Kenny Dodd ~$275
- Darren Walding
I think Atwell lost two hill-hill matches to finish at the low end of the money. There was a $100 ring game with 7 players that Atwell and someone else chopped some way at the end. Our team did okay and got 7th/8th out of the 22 teams good enough for $60/ea.
After teams was over we preceded to get sloshed and somehow got talked into playing a friendly 10-ball ring game $2 on the 5 and $3 on the 10 with 5 other players. I was up $85 when they kicked us out at 4AM.
Another regional tourney in the books. This next Thursday-Sunday is the ACS regional tourney in Shelton, WA at Little Creek Casino. Should be a fun time also.
Approximate player counts for the mens events: Masters - 81 ; Open A - 180 ; Open B - 250. Quite a few.
Tuesday: Drove down to Lincoln City after work. I checked into the hotel and then went to the casino to get some practice in. Everyone that I knew was already eliminated from the scotch doubles tourney. However the tag team of Queen Linda/Mike Zimmerman were busy battling it out with Glenn Atwell/Andrea Saenz-Maes for the championship. Glenn/Andrea won the match and Masters Scotch Doubles title..I am not sure of the score. I then went to play some limit $3/$6 holdem and left the night up a whopping $29. Luckily I won the high hand for the hour with Q's full of 10's, paying me $50.
Wednesday: Well since I had checked the board and had a first round BYE I did not have to play until 4:00pm. I won that match 7-2. That was the only match that was scheduled that day with the other events starting. I went downstairs to play poker again..this lime leaving up $115.
Thursday: Won my opening match 7-4 to see my next opponent to be Dan Louie. Jumped up 3-2 on Dan and easily could have been 5-0. Can't make mistakes versus a player like Dan. After dry breaks on my last few cracks I lost 3-7. So it was off to the losers bracket. I won my next two matches 7-4, 7-5 and that was it for the day finishing at 2AM and having a 9AM match.
Friday: I showed up tired but ready to play. Won my opening match 7-2. I then played Kenny Dodd and it was a tight match the whole way. He took advantage of my inability to finish off a few racks. at 6-6 I came up empty on the break, he ran to his last few balls left but had a tight squeeze of a ball between a few of mine and missed. I ran out for the 7-6 win. I then played Mike Zimmerman and played a great match missing one shot and taking advantage of Mike's mistakes, won 7-2. My final match was littered with my own mistakes versus Darrold Crane and led to my demise. It was me and him versus me, losing the match 7-4 to come in 4th place.
Approximate results that I know about:
1st - Dan Louie ~$1500
2nd - Todd Marsh ~$1150
3rd - Darrold Crane ~$850
4th - Me $590
5/6th - Mike Zimmerman ~$390
- Steve Linglebach
7/8th - Kenny Dodd ~$275
- Darren Walding
I think Atwell lost two hill-hill matches to finish at the low end of the money. There was a $100 ring game with 7 players that Atwell and someone else chopped some way at the end. Our team did okay and got 7th/8th out of the 22 teams good enough for $60/ea.
After teams was over we preceded to get sloshed and somehow got talked into playing a friendly 10-ball ring game $2 on the 5 and $3 on the 10 with 5 other players. I was up $85 when they kicked us out at 4AM.
Another regional tourney in the books. This next Thursday-Sunday is the ACS regional tourney in Shelton, WA at Little Creek Casino. Should be a fun time also.
Good job out there against some fierce competition!