Wednesday April 28

Today we had an amazing turn out – 26 players for the first time ever and yet more new members to join the group.

 

Albert Erfan, one of the new players, was drawn as the jackpot player but was not successful.

 

Because of the increase in numbers, Gary has changed the prize structure to add an additional prize – see part of his email below..

 

With 24 or more players we can expect all three prize-winners to have won all three of their matches.
That means that anyone who has lost one match has no chance of winning a prize.
I don’t like that situation as these people would lose incentive.
I want the one-match losers to have a chance at a prize (as was the case when our numbers were below 24).
Therefore as of next week there will be four prizes instead of three.
To achieve this there will be two changes.

1. The jackpot will be reduced from 10% to 5% of the pot.
With more players the jackpot will go off less frequently so it will still accumulate well.

2. 5% will be shaved off 1st prize, bringing it to 45% of the pot.
Again, the pot being larger will hardly affect the prize total.

So, to summarise, the top four scorers will receive 45-25-15-10% of the pool and the jackpot will be 5% of the pool.
Gary

 

Final results were:

 

1^st    Jim Bean

 

2^nd   Hammon Mans

 

3^rd   Andrew Scarf

Three happy chappies -Alec Barr and  Kee Yio Wan in a friendly battle, with David Reitzin on the sidelines

Ben Anderson and a very chuffed Steve Clarry - that double one must have been pretty special

Jenny Saunders and Peter Koorey in the first round

Hammon Mans and Andre Marootians arm wrestle for the match - maybe- maybe not.

Wednesday April 21

 Tonight's draw started with 21 players, which meant a bye – always unpopular.

 

The bye player, David Stubbs, was then selected as the jackpot player, meaning he only had to win his next two matches with a good margin to be in contention to take the pot....

 

However we then found that one  registered  player had not been put in the player list – balance restored!!

 

After an intense 3 or so hours, we had a result.

 Jackpot was safe...

 Placings were :

 1^st    David Reitzin

 2^nd    Angelo Voulgaris

 3^rd    Steve Clarry 

This week saw the start of an inter-club challenge between us and Bucharest, Romania. Each club is represented by a team of eight players. The tournament consists of four rounds. Running results will be posted on our Online Tournaments page.

Garry Byrne is in a spot of bother with two on the bar aginst Angelo Voulgaris

If Gary Stavrou leaves a blot Mohammad Nejati is all set to pounce, and David Reitzin is on  hand to see the carnage

In a re-run of their battle at Castle Hill on Monday night Kee Yio Wan and John Symon

A four for one shot with Jim Bean and Giancarlo Yannoulis competing at the rear and Steve Clarry taking on Susan Wan in the foreground.

 

Wednesday April 14

 Today was a red letter day – a lady at the top of the honours, another new member, welcome Andrew Scarf, and a record 22 players on the list to play .

 David Reitzin was drawn as the jackpot player, which made a few of us nervous, but it was not his night – unusually – and the pennies are back in the bank.

 

The Giantslayer match was played, and David Reitzin held on to his points, again!!

 

Final results were:

 

1^st  Jenny Saunders, one of our newest recruits, and one of the very small band of ladies in the group – well done Jenny!

 

2^nd  Mohammad Nejati    

 

3^rd   Peter Voulgaris

 

 See you all next week!!

Everybody is watching David Reitzins match against TD Gary Stavrou because he's tonights jackpot contender....

A happy match in the foreground between Rafael Chattah and Breck McCormacck, with a slightly more serious tussle between Mohammad Nejati and our newest player Andrew Scarf in the background

Hammon Mans seems to have tucked all his counters away, Wally Weiderman not so much.

Breck McCormack studies his position in the final round with eventual winner Jenny Saunders

Wednesday April 7

 We were 19 players tonight and the opening item was the draw for the Player of the Month, who was TD Gary Stavrou.

The jackpot player draw followed and Robert Coote had the honour for the night, however he was not successful on this occasion.

 

The Giantslayer draw was next and Garry Byrne was offered the opportunity but he declined and the redraw gave Peter Voulgaris the chance to wrest 149 of David Reitzin's hard-won points from him.

 

The final results were:

 

1^st  Jim Bean

 

1^st Gary Stavrou

 

3^rd David Stubbs

Kee Yio Wan is up on the bar and Garry Byrne is looking for he next chequer to hit

David Stubbs and Peter Voulgaris battle it out

David Reitzin and John Symon study the board with Andre Marootians watching from the sidelines

Wednesday March 31

  A robust group of 20 players tuned up for the pre-easter battle, and the first item on the agenda was the drawing of the jackpot player.

 

Peter Koorey got the gig, but at the end of the night the pennies were still in the bank.

 

We also gained another new player – welcome to Wally Weiderman!

 

One of our players had a beautiful new board to debut , and there were many envious glances ….

David Reitzin remains Ladder Leader and next week a Giantslayer will be chosen to take him on.

 

Final results were:

 

1^st      Kee Yio Wan

 

2^nd     Gary Stavrou 

 

3^rd     David Reitzin

John Symon and Susan Wan playing nicely together

Four happy chappies - in the background Hammon Mans and Angelo Voulgaris and in the foreground David Stubbs and David Reitzin

Peter Voulgaris and Breck McCormack having a post match chat

Hammon's new Galaxy Earth Board - wish it was mine!