PLAYER OF THE YEAR STANDINGS

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POKER NIGHT IV - RESULTS

A new champion was crowned and “the Blender” mixes up the POY standings…

Twenty-Five guys attended the Summit City Poker Club – Poker Night IV on Saturday October 22, 2005. It was an exciting night of poker with the largest tournament field to date.

With the most points ever at stake at a SCPC tournament current POY leader Shaun “the Blender” D. had high hopes of making a deep run and extending his lead over his rivals but instead “the Blender” went out in 20th position and the door was left wide open for a new name atop the leader board.

“Handsome” Rob, in only his second tournament, was able to take advantage of that open door and vaulted from 8th place to 1st place by taking home the trophy. Rob placed second in the previous tournament and holds a slim 12 point lead over Derek “the Toaster” B. who held onto 2nd place by making his third final table in as many tournaments.

Also moving up were Mike “Dead Money?” E., Mike “the Mouth” B., Kevin “the Rock” H. and making the biggest jump in the standings was John “Brick” Wall who went from 19th to 10th place.

Defending champion Jeff “3 hand” J. made his third final table but slipped from 3rd to 5th place. Shaun “the Blender” D. dropped down to 6th place. Chad “Peaches” S. dropped down from 4th to 7th and Jim K. dropped from 5th to 9th.

Josh K. had the dubious honor of going out first and was awarded the “Dealer Visor” joining Derek “the Toaster” B., Brendon A. and Jim K. in the “First One Out” Club.

Here are the results of the tournament.

CHAMP: “Handsome” Rob A.
2. Mike “the Mouth” B.
3. Mike “Dead Money?” E.
4. John “Brick” Wall
5. Kevin “the Rock” H.
6. Derek “the Toaster” B.
7. Brady E.
8. Jeff “Three Hand” J.
9. Cory “Yoshi” Y.
10. Jordan H.
11. Chad “the Hammer” S.
12. Kory C.
13. Justin
14. Brendon A.
15. Casey
16. Aaron
17. Jim K.
18. Rex B.
19. Ken
20. Shaun “the Blender” D.
21. Matt B.
22. Scott J.
23. Kendall B.
24. Chad “Peaches” S.
25. Josh K.

Please check back next week for updated Player of the Year standings and for the date and time of the next tournament.

POKER ETIQUETTE

Some general rules regarding Poker Etiquette to make the tournament more enjoyable for all:

1. Act in turn. Do not fold, call, bet, raise or re-raise until it is your turn to do so.

2. One player to a hand. Don't ask for or give advice during a hand. You are not allowed to show your cards to another player. If you show your cards to 1 player then you need to show them to all players, whether during a hand or after.

3. Keep your bets and raises in front of you and don't put them into the main pot until all betting is done and the table is ready for the next card.

4. No string betting. String betting is defined as placing an amount of chips out to bet and then reaching back for more chips. It is best to announce your intentions - "I'm going to raise another $500" - IF you don't set out out the correct amount after announcing your bet you can and must reach back for more chips and place the correct amount.

5. Dealer must shuffle cards a minimum of 4 times and then cut the cards for each hand.

6. If a card is dealt face up by accident the Dealer continues to deal all of the hole cards as usual. The Dealer then replaces the improperly dealt card with a new one and the improperly dealt card becomes the first burn card.

7. If two cards are miss dealt in a hand the hands are dead and the dealer will reshuffle and deal again.

8. Raises must be equal to or greater than the previous bet.

9. If 2 or more players tie, the pot will be split between the players who tied. If there is an odd chip, it will be left in the middle and become a part of the next hand's pot.

10. Player's chips and cards must remain on or above the table at all times.

11. Blinds go up at the end of the next hand, not during a Dealer shuffle.

12. Cards Speak: the value of a hand is what the cards show, not what the player announces.

13. Keep quiet once you are out of a hand. Don't entice another player to make a call, bet, etc. Don't ponder outloud about who might have what hand, etc.

14. It is important to make change with other players and not from the pot.

Also, players will be moved during the tournament to keep the tables as equal as possible. The player to the right of the dealer at the end of the hand in progress from the full table will be moved to the table that is short handed. When we are down to 9 players left at 2 tables the blinds will freeze, and they will be dealt hand for hand until we are down to 8 players and a final table.

PAST RESULTS

Saturday is almost here & we are anticipating the largest field to date for a Summit City Poker Club tournament. Listed below are the results from the previous three tournaments:

June 19, 2005 - First Tournament

1. Chad "Peaches"
2. Nathan
3. Kory
4. Gary
5. Jim
6. Shaun "The Blender" D.
7. Jeff "Three Hand"
8. Mike "The Mouth"
9. Christy "The Hostess"
10. Rev. Brendon*
11. - 15. Chad "The Hammer", Rob, Josh, Brian, John
16. Bill
17. Matt
18. Derek "The Toaster" B.

* Tournament Position Sheet was thrown away at the end of the night. Positions 10-15 could not be accounted for from memory. From the names that were left, Brendon was randomly selected as the 10th place finisher.

July 29, 2005 - Second Tournament

1. Derek "The Toaster" B. (from worst to first!)
2. Matt
3. Jim
4. Mike E.
5. Shaun "The Blender" D.
6. Chad "Peaches"
7. Mike "The Mouth"
8. Shannon
9. Jeff "Three Hand"
10. Rob
11. Timmy
12. Rev. Brendon

September 10, 2005 - Third Tournament

1. Jeff "Three Hand"
2. Rob A.
3. Derek "The Toaster" B.
4. Shaun "The Blender" D.
5. Kevin "The Rock"
6. Mike E.
7. Shane
8. Rob
9. Mike "The Mouth"
10. Matt
11. Scott
12. Mark
13. John
14. Brendon
15. Jay
16. Jim

IN ACTION

Shaun "The Blender" in action.

STANDINGS

Player of the Year standings (Click here for better view):

BEGINNINGS...

The SUMMIT CITY POKER CLUB grew out of a home game that was started by a group of friends a in 2001. In late 2003, I (Derek) moved back to Indiana after living in the DC area for 7 years. My best friend Shaun invited me over to his house to play Texas Hold 'Em Poker with him and some of his friends. I was hooked.

Games were played about every 5th or 6th Friday night but due to a conflict in Shaun & I's work schedules I was not able to attend too many games during the beginning of 2004. Later that year I decided to host a poker game at my house and invited Shaun and his group of friends as well as inviting some guys that I knew. After hosting 3 Poker Nights at my house Shaun and I decided to try and invite as many guys as we could think of to hold a multi-table poker tournament.

Our first tournament was held on June 17th 2005. We have held 2 more tournaments since then and our fourth is scheduled for Saturday October 22.

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