September 03 2004

The Oregon Poker Tour started the month of September with two normal sized games for the OPT. The first game of the night had eleven players in it. Would Josh Cowan take back third place on the OPT Leaderboard, or would someone else keep him from that goal? Could Co-founder Dugan extend his lead over the rest of the field? Would Jerry Pickering win his first game this year?

The Winner ($26.50):

Silas Tsang

PLACE	Name:	Busted By:
11	Josh Cowan	Luke Shortridge
10	Jerry Pickering	Silas Tsang
9	Tony Hartford	Cory Stevenson
8	Jeff Hartman	Chris Rutkowski
7	Emily Bean	Luke Shortridge
6	Tim Dugan	Cory Stevenson
5	Sara Ritter	Silas Tsang
4	Luke Shortridge	Silas Tsang
3	Cory Stevenson	Chris Rutkowski
2	Chris Rutkowski	Silas Tsang

Silas won his second game in two weeks, placing himself third on the OPT Leaderboard, bumping Cory down one spot by $1.

The second game of the night was played a little differently. The second game of September 3 was:

A Shotgun Tournament

To put it simply, all the tables in play (in this case, two tables of 6 players), played down to one player. In other words, unlike our normal tournaments where the players are moved to keep the tables balanced, and then the final 6-8 players combine into the final table, each table was left alone to play down to one player each.

Table #1		Table #2
Seat #1	Shawn George	Seat #1	Emily Bean
Seat #2	Adam Bloomfield	Seat #2	Jerry Pickering
Seat #3	Luke Shortridge	Seat #3	Silas Tsang
Seat #4	Casey Schwab	Seat #4	Tony Hartford
Seat #5	Tim Dugan	Seat #5	Cory Stevenson
Seat #6	Jenell Armstrong	Seat #6	Chris Rutkowski

Twelve players...all one has to do is beat the other five players at their own table before taking out the winning from the other table to claim the victory. This means one only had to play against six players.

The game played down to two winners of each table. Here was the layout:

Table #1		Table #2
Player:	Busted By:	Player:	Busted By:
Shawn George	Tim Dugan	Emily Bean	Cory Stevenson
Adam Bloomfield	Tim Dugan	Jerry Pickering	Cory Stevenson
Luke Shortridge	Casey Schawb	Silas Tsang	Cory Stevenson
Casey Schwab	Tim Dugan	Tony Hartford	Cory Stevenson
Tim Dugan		Cory Stevenson
Jenell Armstrong	Tim Dugan	Chris Rutkowski	Jerry Pickering

The Heads Up Battle

Tim Dugan vs Cory Stevenson

Co-founder Dugan against Cory: A battle that was meant to happen between these two. This friendly rivaly was about to come to a head.

Second Place ($5.00)

Cory Stevenson

The Winner ($24.00):

Co-founder Tim Dugan

PLACE	TABLE	Name:	Busted By:
12	#2	Chris Rutkowski	Jerry Pickering
11	#2	Silas Tsang	Cory Stevenson
10	#2	Emily Bean	Cory Stevenson
9	#1	Adam Bloomfield	Tim Dugan
8	#1	Luke Shortridge	Casey Schwab
7	#1	Shawn George	Tim Dugan
6	#2	Jerry Pickering	Cory Stevenson
5	#2	Tony Hartford	Cory Stevenson
4	#1	Jenell Armstrong	Tim Dugan
3	#1	Casey Schwab	Tim Dugan
2	FINAL	Cory Stevenson	Tim Dugan

NOTE: The placement is based on the time the player busted out.

Dugan won the tournament he proposed...kind of makes you wonder about that, doesn't it?