Tech problems keeps us in paradise and tournament results
I hate to repeat myself but this time I have a valid excuse for the lateness of this update. Working on an event like CPC could make reading this blog seem to be a real jolly. Well, the sh-t was about to hit the fan. All week had been going without any major issues. Probably the smoothest poker event I have ever worked on and after ten years in the industry I have been to a few. All 240 players and staff where checked out of the Marriott and checked in at the airport when we got the message that the plane had technical problems in Antigua and was delayed. Ok, a minor delay I can live with. Things got late and we needed to set up an UN food operation and re-negotiate entry to be able to let the smokers out. In the end we got the message that we won’t be able to depart until sometime next day. Back to the Marriott and thanks to the master organiser Deana we managed to get new rooms at the Marriott. For 240 people. We thought.
The check in went smoothly till there where about 2 rooms left. Then we got the news that there where no rooms left. No rooms? This was 2:30 in the morning. Me and my boss that have been like cuddly kittens the whole week pretty much lost our temper and we both started to act up. After standing screaming for a few minutes they finally managed to find the rooms, but they weren’t cleaned. So slowly, slowly they started to sort out our rooms but they didn’t manage to get them done until 4:30 in the morning. Fortunally the players got their rooms in decent time. At this time I would been happy sleeping on the pirate ship that stands in the reception.
And all along we needed to work hard on sorting all the missed connective fligths. A big thanks to Cindy and Tom who where the big heroes here.
Next morning we did manage to get the plane over from Antigua and finally we departed St. Kitts 4 in the afternoon. Absolutely exhausted.
Anyway I’m a little late but I figure you might be interested in the who won what so find all the results from all the tourneys below:
MAIN EVENT
$6,000 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout
PLAYERS: 153
PRIZE POOL: $1,000,000
Final list:
NAME NATION CASH
1 Brian Jensen Denmark $237,500
2 Mihai Manole Romania $145,500
3 Martin Clemmensen Denmark $87,300
4 Jan van der Wal Holland $70,800
5 Leon Yanovsky Israel $56,200
6 Christoffer Sonesson Sweden $45,600
7 John chubb UK $36,900
8 Joakim Garp Sweden $29,100
9 Nikolas Levi France $22,300
10 Matthew Morgan Wales $17,500
Sunday, 2nd December
$1,000 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout
PLAYERS: 65
PRIZE POOL: $63,050
NAME NATION $
1 Richard Anderson Sweden $21,500
2 David Keller Switzerland $10,700
3 Rupert Clark Barbados $8,200
4 Richard Lapwood Scotland $6,300
5 Matthew Hopkins England $5,000
6 Dominic Kay England $3,800
7 Spencer Lawrence England $3,150
8 Mark Winn England $2,500
9 Walter Farina Italy $1,900
Saturday, 1st December
$500 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout
PLAYERS: 143
PRIZE POOL: $69,360
NAME NATION $
1 Anders Kaagh Denmark $16,500
2 Morten Hansen Norway $13,200
3 Richard Chamberlain UK $11,900
4 Rachel Angove UK $5,100
5 Elias Nguyen Sweden $4,150
6 Ognjen Pasajlic Denmark $3,450
7 Ida Lundholm Sweden $2,800
8 Dennis Coulgh UK $2,100
9 Tony Jensen Norway $1,400
10 Fortunato Burdin Canada $1,110
Monday, 29th November
$400 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout
PLAYERS: 141
PRIZE POOL: $54,710
NAME NATION $
1 Clinton Orchard England $18,000
2 Robert Adam Scotland $9,300
3 Timo Tamminen Finland $5,460
4 Dominic Kay England $4,100
5 Stuart Menzies Scotland $3,300
6 Karim Komla St Maarten $2,700
7 Roar Wang Norway $2,200
8 Luke Guest England $1,650
9 Samuel Lehtonen Sweden $1,100
10 Matt Osborne England $870