Current Champ: Mike Donnellan on February 01, 2025
Multiple Wins:
Single Wins:
Most plays without a win: Harish Chander - 25 attempts
Challenges: 67 as of February 01, 2025
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 |
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| No Limit Betting |
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| Alternating Rounds of Hold'em and Omaha/8 or all Hold'em |
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| All Rounds 20 (or 30) Minutes Each |
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| Blinds increase every round |
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| Initial Stack of T$100 ($2500 starting 12/02/2006) |
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| Winner Takes All (unless negotiated) |
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| Winner get trophy and is responsible for engraving their name on it |
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| Two blinds, small and big where big blind is twice the small blind |
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| 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) |
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| Chip round up instead of chip race |
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| When heads-up the button has the small blind |
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| $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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