Once again, the entirety of BARGE 2011 occurred at Binion’s Casino in beautiful downtown Las Vegas.
The Tuesday tournament this year was one of the rarer games spread in tournament form these days: limit hold’em. It was won by a late-arriving David Kluchman followed by Len Greenberg and Sharon Goldman. On Wednesday David Heller won the blackjack tournament with Michael Maurer emerging victorious in the video poker event. That evening in the draw lowball tournament the finishing order was Chris Mecklin, Scott Byron, and Joe Long. On Thursday "Team I Don’t Give a Damn" won the team CHORSE event, and that evening it was Spencer Sun winning the 6-game event with David Low and Arthur Goltz winding up in second and third, respectively. On Friday it was Steve Lewin-Berlin winning the Tournament of Champions-style tournament, followed by John "JRX" Reed and "Timmer" Stine.
Our banquet speaker was Mori Eskandani.
The winner of the BARGE main event, the no-limit hold’em tournament, was Rich "Omahalic" Bremer ahead of second place Rodney Chen and third place Dave Tahajian.
This was the last BARGE as organizer for Peter Secor, who continues as an honored organizer emeritus.