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BARGE 2013

This year’s expanded BARGE was held at Binion’s Casino. This year’s speaker was Stanford Wong, who gave his talk at the Symposium on Friday night. The lowball tournament moved again, this time to Monday night where it was won by Andy Hughes. Chris "Rev. Tom Bayz" Mecklin finished second, and Rich "Omaholic" Bremer finished third. The Tuesday tournament this year was Chinese poker. It was won by Caryl Aronson with Patti Beadles in second and Paul Gibbony in third. The blackjack and video poker events saw a resurgance this year due to their inclusion into the new triathlon of gambling. Barbara Garrett won the blackjack tournament and Derek Gomez finished first in video poker. The winner of the triathlon of gambling was Michael Patterson. The limit 6-game event moved to Wednesday this year. David Lawful won with David Aronson in second and Paul McMullin in third. Ten teams competed in the CHORSE event this year. The winning team was the Arrogant Bastards. Thursday saw a new event, pot-limit Omaha. The winner was Rich Strauss, followed by Tom White and Paul Fischman. Gillian Groves won this year’s TOC style event. Derek Gomez and Don Rieck finished second and third. Maria Caldes won the significant others' hold’em tournament. In the no-limit hold’em championship, David Lawful was victorious, followed by Bob Lauria in second and Gerland Peterson in third. This year at BARGE we held a Binion’s dealer appreciation tournament. George Kouselas won. ...

September 1, 2013

BARGE 2013 Results

Complete results for 2013

August 13, 2013

EMBARGO 2013 Results

Complete results for EMBARGO 2013.

February 1, 2013

2013 Chips: Unlikely Events

From the announcement for the 2013 chips: This year’s set, designed by 2012 Champ Paul McMullin, and created by Michael Brennan commemorates truly unlikely events. How else can you explain a victory by Paul other than Pigs must be Flying? What next? Nolan getting religion? QB finding some gamble? Interstellar ARG events? Elvis playing Barge? Foldem drinking nonalcoholic beverages? Scottro accepting a deal? (really…like he could ever get that close) ...