Over the previous two years, I organized 7 tournaments at work. The first, with just 26 players, was a complete shot in the dark. At that time, I did not know of anyone at work who played poker and I had little idea whether there would be interest.
It was a massive success in the sense that everyone enjoyed it tremendously. The next event sold out at 32 runners. So, we took a bigger venue and had 88 the next time. After another mini-event (capped at 40), we nearly hit 100 with the next one, and then event 6 had 103, as did event 7.
When I announced I was leaving, there was as much concern over the lack of continuity of poker tournaments as anything else. I agreed to host one last event and had over 120 signed up when the credit tsunami caused us to pull the plug.
However, when I let people know that the "official" firm event was off, many wanted to have it anyway and so - tonight - we have 70 or so runners for what might be considered the 8th wonder of this little world.
Because it is not "official" I have opened it up to ex-employees and also friends etc. but it is still 85% composed of the former crowd.
We are at a different venue (City Bunker instead of Gutshot) and I have not been able to be quite as hands-on in the tournament running as before. Also, I am not funding the whole event and throwing on a free bar as previously. I hope these factors do not detract at all.
One thing will be the same - I will be trying to win it !
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