Current Champ: Steve Hoisington on July 19, 2024
Multiple Wins:
Single Wins:
Most plays without a win: Harish Chander - 25 attempts
Challenges: 66 as of July 19, 2024
Rules: The complete rules as approved in February 2001 and amended May 2006 and October 2012 are in the files bsdrules.txt at this link.
$100 Entry Fee in 1999 dollars, up to $120 in July 2006 | |
No Limit Betting | |
Alternating Rounds of Hold'em and Omaha/8 or all Hold'em | |
All Rounds 20 (or 30) Minutes Each | |
Blinds increase every round | |
Initial Stack of T$100 ($2500 starting 12/02/2006) | |
Winner Takes All (unless negotiated) | |
Winner get trophy and is responsible for engraving their name on it | |
Two blinds, small and big where big blind is twice the small blind | |
Small blind order is 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 25, 40, 50 then halve the chips every round after the 50-100 round if necessary (multiplied by 25, roughly, when starting chips went to $2500) | |
Chip round up instead of chip race | |
When heads-up the button has the small blind | |
$25 taken from prize pool toward initial trophy costs until paid off (12/02/2006 - first tourney with no trophy rake, Derek says it is paid off) |
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