2018

The story of my twenty-third BARGE. “Hanging in there.”

Complete results for 2018

My seventh EMBARGO. “Minions at Binion’s”

Binions Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas No Limit Six Plus Hold'Em# Thursday, February 8th, 2018 $70 + $20 + $10 buyin 31 players $2,170 prize pool 1 Charles "Boomerman" Natkins $765 2 Monte "hodger" Christensen $500 3 Jodi "Jodi S." Shapiro $350 4 Doug "dgr" Grismore $260 5 Alex "Maverick600" Ziselman $195 6 Kent "kentlbeck" Beck $100 World Chowaha Champioinship# Friday, February 9th, 2018 $70 + $20 + $10 buyin 44 players $3,080 prize pool 1 Steve "Crunch" Daniel $955 2 Peter "ADB Foldem" Secor $675 3 Ken "QB" Kubey $525 4 Lynsy Higgs Iwamoto $400 5 David "dave" Low $310 6 Ronald "HappyRaiser" Nutt $215 Four Handed Pot-Limit Very Big O Eight or Better w/lammers# Friday, February 9th, 2018 $70 + $20 + $10 buyin 26 entries $1,820 prize pool 1 Alex "Maverick600" Ziselman $660 2 Nancy "Nance" Robertson $375 3 Adam "Allknight" Bachrach $370 4 Stephen Blackstock $235 5 Charles "Boomerman" Natkins $180 No Limit Hold'Em (with big blind ante)# Saturday, February 10th, 2018 $110 + $20 + $10 buyin 47 entries $5,640 prize pool 1 Kathy Chang $1,750 2 Dan "ADB smalltalk" Goldman $1,240 3 Patrick Milligan $960 4 Russell "Messenger of Doom" Fox $735 5 Katie "Power of V" Baxter $565 6 Scott "scottro" Harker $390 6 Handed HASTE# Saturday, February 10th, 2018 $70 + $20 + $10 buyin 30 entries $2,100 prize pool 1 Voltaire Ronquillo $600 2 Dan "ADB smalltalk" Goldman $560 3 Bree Goldman $355 4 Steve "Crunch" Daniel $275 5 David Kluchman $210 6 Charles "Boomerman" Natkins $100

(Most of this text was likely from Michael Brennan, and it was liberated from a snapshot of bargechips.org held by the Internet Archive. Some small edits have been made to make it match the rest of this site.) Introducing the 2018 BARGE Chips This was a tough year. The head designer of the BARGE Chip Committee had to veto Chris’s first two suggestions of Non-mastery of Music (Sitar, Key-tar, bagpipes, concertina, moog, didgeridoo, theremin, kazzo and Tibetan throat singing) and a full checkers set of just two chips – red and black. Thankfully, the ghost of Tom Bayes spoke to Chris in a dream or a bar (he is not sure which) and inspired his theme of “The Poker Curriculum” – coming to a university lecture hall near you soon! ...