The Brawl is private no more

The official post...

After a good solid run of nine months, the Bmore's Brawl (as a private tourney) will cease to exist.

Starting next week, I will open the tourney up to the public.

This is good for the Brawl. It served it's initial purpose. I wanted to have a tourney in which all the old school grinders could meet up each week and take flops with each other if they wanted to. I think we had some great tourneys and it was a blast.

However, participation is down, and I need to open this up to the public to keep it going.

Everything else will remain the same. And who knows, the public may never get interested in the Brawl. I've got to give it a shot though, as I like hosting the tourney every week.

The next Brawl will be:

Wednesday, October 8th @ 9:00pm EST
Full Tilt Poker, password = omrounders

See you there..

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore

thebmorekid takes down Brawl #38

Yeah, I know...

I slacked off. The last Brawl I posted results for was #33. Unfortunately, the Brawl as a private tourney hasn't been able to keep momentum by itself. I should be happy, it's outlasted The Horsey Ride, and Rocco's Rumble...

It's tough keeping the tournament private. On the one hand, you want to have an event once a week where all of your friends can get together and play each other. It's fun. We've got grinders all over the states at this point. I never counted up the states represented, but there was a lot.

Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New York, Missouri, Las Vegas, California, North Carolina...

So yeah, it was great. We were able to catch up with each week with guys who used to play in our home games. These were guys that we were used to seeing once a week across the table. For one reason or another, they had relocated, and we handn't played cards with them in months.

For the first couple of weeks we were rolling. I think our attendance record was around 35. Very very fun. And then, who knows?

FTP accounts went busto...
Wives started complaining that they were playing poker again every week...
Dart leagues...
I forgot...
FTP is NOT random...
House game got robbed...
New live game on Wednesdays...

We started dwindling down, but we were still seeing 15-20 guys, and I was fine with that. I noticed that when I didn't have time to send the reminder email, the count would drop a bunch. Even though it was always on a Wednesday. Always at 9pm EST. Always the same password.

I don't know. It doesn't matter. It was fun while it lasted, but it's tough to keep the momentum going when I restrict the tourney by making it private.

With that said, I think I'm going to make a post right now officially opening the Bmore's Brawl up to the world...

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore

thebmorekid takes down Brawl #33

Brawl #33 was heads-up between me and pops. Here is the first hand:

And here is the second hand:

Not much of a match. The cards pretty much dictated both hands. So that makes two boats in two hands of the Brawl and a flopped straight flush for me tonight in a five way pot in a 90man SNG when everyone got the money in on the turn. Not too shabby, but I can't mark it up to skill. Final lobby below:

See you next week...

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore

New FTP Guest Pro Profile

I've finally gotten around to adding the Brad Booth profile to the blog. On the left, there is a link to click to get to the profile. This catches the profiles up with the exception of Chris Klecz, which hopefully I will get to tonight. Getting these profiles up finally reminded me of how much fun it was to have these guys (and girls) stopping in to take some flops with us at a private tourney.

To be honest, I've been avoiding the email reminders for a couple of reasons. Mostly, it makes the administrative stuff much easier when I'm running a one-table tourney. However, recently, we've been playing live on Wednesdays and it's definitely had an impact on the attendance of the Brawl.

There's a part of me that likes the small tourneys, but part of me wants to build it back up again to thirty participants so I can get a couple more pros coming through. I'm not sure what direction I'm going to go, but I do know that FTP added a lot more red pros after this last WSOP so there are a ton more options of pros to invite. We'll see...

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore

Profile: "Yukon" Brad Booth

The Brawl was happy to welcome "Yukon" Brad Booth to our private tourney as an FTP Pro Guest. Booth has been one of my favorite pros to sweat online since I started playing years ago. I use to rail him in the high stakes games while he played under the screen name LFISGD. He always engaged the rail birds, quizzing them on poker stuff and shipping $5 here and there to those who got the answers right. Just a cool guy all around.

Booth got a KO or two in the Brawl, talked to many of us in the chat box and made the night one to remember. It takes a special kind of person to play a $10 private tourney while he's multi tabling $20/$40 NL at the same time. We appreciate him taking the time to take some flops with us!

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore

thebmorekid takes down Brawl #32

Yours truly holds the title going into tonight's Brawl. Just wanted to get the post out there in case anyone was wondering why my name was on the trophy. FTP should be getting back to me shortly with the official results from Brawl #32. Once I have them, I'll update the Money Leaderboard.

Good luck tonight everyone...

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore

2008 Money Leaderboard Updated

Moving right along...

The 2008 Brawl Money Leaderboard has been updated to include results from Brawl #31. I inched into 3rd place while purplerain05 and coleman410 made improvements up the ladder as well.

The Money Leaderboard is up to date with the exception of Brawl #32. I played this one on my laptop at a cash game and forgot to get a screenshot of the final lobby. FTP should be getting back to me shortly and I will be all caught up...

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore