Step 1F

 Our sixth and final step one tournament went out with a bang, nine players showed up for a final chance to earn chips for step two.

 The river was unkind to several early exits, and after that the action got even more intense.  Marc was our bubble  but will still be starting with way more chips than the third-place finisher, that would be me, for step two.

Finishing in second after a brief heads up battle was Andrew who could not overcome Jason's big ass mountain of chips.  Both of our top finishers  are also the chip leader's going into step two.   Here are the final counts, I have been very thorough and very careful to make sure that the calculations are correct. But by all means, everyone of you should look through all of the posts and double check that these totals are correct. Remember only your top four scores count.


Jason - 38K (6)

Andrew - 32 (4)

Jeff - 30K (5)

Marc - 28K (4)

Tony - 26K (5)

Eric T - 20K (4)

Chris - 19K (6)

Allen - 18K (2) (paid for 4)

Eric L - 17K (6)

Jerry - 4K (1) (must pay for 3 more Step 1 entries to receive 16K total for Step 2)


And so there it is, I want to say a big thank you to all of you for participating in this experiment. I know no matter who ends up going to the big dance, we all stand to benefit as there is not one of you that I would not feel comfortable staking.

 As of right now we have just over $3000 in our pool, I am not sure if Jerry is still on board or not, I hope he is  as another $300 will help with travel expenses.

 Looking forward to step number two, next Saturday at 1 PM. We will be playing hour long levels with the exact structure of $1500 World Series of poker bracelet events. We will have a dinner break at six, and if for some reason we are still going after 10 PM, I will put it to an anonymous vote – we can keep playing or we can stop for the night and pick it up on Sunday.  If someone can't make it on Sunday then obviously we keep going.

 Look forward to seeing you all there!