On Wednesday night Econsultancy hosted its inaugural poker
tournament, called Digital Nuts. It was a great event, if we ignore the
fact that nobody at this end made it onto the final table!
The game was Texas Hold ‘Em, and it turns out that the internet industry knows how to play it. There were five tables, 50 players and a £2,000 prize pool up for grabs.
The event kicked off at around 7.30pm and three hours later a winner emerged.
Congratulations in particular to Quirk’s Nic Ray, who scooped the big money and has the honour of being our maiden champion. Cue another blurry iPhone picture:
Well done to all who finished in the top six. They are as follows…
1st Nic Ray - Quirk eMarketing- £800
2nd Carlos Menezes - Quirk eMarketing - £500
3rd Nick Dugdle-Moore - £250
4th Jack Hubbard - Propellernet - £200
5th Matthew Evans - Solid State Group - £150
6th Paul Bidder - Red Ant - £100
The real winner was Quirk eMarketing, if you look at the first and second places.
We limited the first Digital Nuts event to 50 places, but it quickly sold out and was oversubscribed, so next time around we’ll increase capacity to 100. That will allow more of you to come along and join in the fun. Pray you’re not on Quirk’s table if you do.
So it turns out that light entertainment is where it's at. Maybe we can expand our range of social events. Does anybody fancy a Digital Dude bowling night?
Reader comments (6)
Commercial Director at Red Ant
12:32PM on 12th March 2010
Nic Ray was lucky on getting a 2 on the river.... next time I'll have his chips :-)
Great night, no complaints from this happy winner....
12:35PM on 12th March 2010
I'd love to get involved in the next Poker night. Let me know when that will be. I'll be sure to bring some wannabe superstars from Media Contacts!
Director, New Product Innovation, EMEA at Media & Advertising Solutions, Adobe
1:37PM on 12th March 2010
Great event Chris, thoroughly enjoyed by the Efficient Frontier contigent, even if we were crying into our beers by the end.
5:38PM on 12th March 2010
Yes Paul, I was lucky. Very lucky. That said, I only played 12 hands the entire evening, and rode my luck to the minimum. Sorry that you were on the wrong side of it! See you at the next one.
6:43PM on 12th March 2010
That was a great night. I paid for it on Thursday.
Nic definitely played it cool. I'll be watching him at the next one.
Also, my bar bill came to around £80. Seems that round of tequila at the end was a bad idea. So was going to the empire casino after...
See you all next time.
M@.
7:44AM on 15th March 2010
An amazing night guys - thanks to everyone who helped organise. I'm already looking forward to the next one!
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