King of the Zoo Final Standings

[eMarkM]

I owe Fmonti an apology. The night of the championship event I told him he just needed 2nd to win the overall points race. Then it turned out he only needed 3rd. Well, I was wrong again. I did not compute how much Sheriff Fatman would get by winning the event and when I did the calculations today I was stunned when his name appeared at the top. I should have know he had a shot, but I didn't bother to figure out his score that night for some reason.

I've held back the final standings, because I don't want to screw this up again. So I waited until Simon and I did our own separate tallies before presenting the official final standings for King of the Zoo 2004.

That's right, by winning the final event outright, Sheriff Fatman takes over the lead in the final standings, just edging out Fmonti by a slim three point margin. He had to win the final event to take the crown and his accomplishment is spectacular given that he had to win it all to have a chance. If only he knew at the time...

I wish I had realized Sheriff had a shot there. It's tough, since I'm playing in the event and trying to keep everyone up to date on their chances to win. I don't know how things will shape up until an event starts since the number of participants is a major factor in our calculations. I punch various scenarios into my spreadsheet while I play and on this occasion I never fiddled with Sheriff's score to see what he needed. So again my sincere apologies to you Fmonti for getting your hopes up, I really feel like crap having to snatch this away from you like this.

Congratulations to Sheriff for a remarkable finish to a fantastic 2004 season. Sheriff, much like myself, played in most all of the events, but came up short of the money several times. He maintained good position in the standings all year by finishing in the top half in most events with four final table appearances. The championship event was only his 2nd in-the-money for the year, but it was enough to put him over the top. Congrats again, I will be in contact with you to get your name and address info. One thing that I ask you do is to send me a digital picture of yourself holding the trophy so that we can post it on the web site in the upcoming "Hall of Champions".

I've already sent the schedule for 2005 to Stars and I will be posting that to a response to this thread. Thank you all for playing this year and I look forward to playing with you all next year as we begin a new season of King of the Zoo.

So here then are the final standings:

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Sheriff Fatman 17 1345.6 $803.05
Fmonti 13 1342.6 $890.55
eMarkM 17 1317.0 $216.00
VinnyTheFish 18 1314.9 $729.75
KurnsonofMogh 17 1266.1 $282.00
mrbaseball 15 1195.8 $776.00
AAmaz0n 13 1187.5 $652.80
William 12 1140.2 $585.20
ohkanada 17 1111.4 $399.00
wayabvpar 17 1096.2 $263.00
CCass 13 1086.9 $332.40
dogsballs 11 1073.3 $510.40
C M Burns 15 1066.5 $294.75
MicroBob 11 1063.5 $429.60
CrackerZack 9 1061.9 $1,225.80
jedi 10 1026.7 $416.20
Lori 17 1023.4 $102.30
Rob Blackburn 9 871.6 $445.20
skaboomizzy 12 860.4 $203.40
mosch 11 849.5 $721.80
morgant 10 841.0 $162.00
ZeeJustin 9 820.6 $190.80
Simon Diamond 10 819.6 $501.15
ClemsonAce 7 794.2 $872.00
steeser 10 790.7 $241.20
Nottom 11 784.2 $233.70
Myrtle 11 777.4 $200.00
DrSavage 8 763.7 $285.60
bubu 7 762.3 $467.00
Jim Kuhn 8 735.0 $303.60
dogmeat 9 729.9 $211.20
davidross 6 688.2 $536.40
Al_Capone_Junior 6 686.2 $624.15
Joe Tall 9 658.2 $0.00
TylerD 7 640.1 $231.20
Stagemusic 9 619.4 $222.75
jpg777 10 603.5 $0.00
Toro 9 599.7 $456.00
David 7 585.2 $51.45
DougBrennan 5 569.5 $540.00
Acesover8s 7 453.1 $0.00
jek187 7 452.3 $68.80
TheGrifter 6 451.2 $65.60
Havanabanana 7 445.9 $144.00
whiskeytown 5 434.3 $0.00
sawil 5 425.0 $0.00
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Note: the top ten is "official". Any other standings I still need to confirm with Simon.

[eMarkM]

Here is the schedule for 2005. I mixed a couple events from last year up, but we are playing the same mix of games in 2005. The points system will remain the same (despite the controversy my initial post here may stir up). I'm negotiating sponsership to pay for the trophy for next year and I hope to have an annoucement on that before the first event next year.

Our kick off event will be NLHE on January 6th. See you there!

$30 No Limit Hold'em, Jan 6th

$30 Pot Limit Hold'em, Jan 27th

$20 Pot Limit Omaha/8, Feb 17th

$30 Limit Hold'em, Mar 10th

$30 No Limit Hold'em, Mar 31st

$20 Stud, Apr 21st

$30 Pot Limit Hold'em, May 12th

$30 Limit Hold'em, Jun 2nd

$20 Pot Limit Omaha, Jun 23rd

$30 No Limit Hold'em, Jul 14th

$30 Pot Limit Hold'em, Aug 4th

$20 Stud/8, Aug 25th

$30 Limit Hold'em, Sep 15th

$10 No Limit Hold'em with Rebuys, Sep 29th

$20 Limit Omaha/8, Oct 20th

$30 Pot Limit Hold'em, Nov 10th

$20 NLHE Heads up Matches, Dec 1st

$50 No Limit Hold'em, Dec 15th

[VinnyTheFish]

Congrats! Sheriff Fatman

Sorry ... Fmonti.
Sorry Emark.

it was fun, looking forward to next year!

[CCass]

Firstly - Congrats to Sheriff, what a way to close out the championship.

Secondly - A big thanks to Ed for taking the time to head this up, you do a great job.

Lastly - my goal was to finish in the top 10, and I just missed, didn't get to play in all the events 'cause Thurs is a bad night for me.


Looking forward to 2005.

[lorinda]

Shall we have the Brits turn up this year, or would you guys like a chance?

Huge congrats to Sheriff, and a big [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] for Fmonti too, but even Sheriff didn't seem to think he could win going in, so I don't think you should be too harsh on yourself for overlooking it.

Lori

[jasonHoldEm]

I think fmonti deserves a runner-up trophy, 3 points is a ridiculously small margin considering the competition. I'll donate $10 to the cause if we can get some other people on board.

J

[MicroBob]

I am right with CCass on everything (including just missing on my goal to finish in the top 10).

thanks again emark.
congrats to the King SherriffFatman. fmonti, emark and vinny all had great years as well.

Looking forward to getting clobbered by you guys in 2005.

Where I can find info on the points structure? could find it on the website but I might not have been looking in the right place.
Sorry for the stupid question.

[daryn]

nice one sheriff. have fun being the king!

i want to get into this but i can never bring myself to play seriously [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img].

next year baby...

[Sheriff Fatman]

OMFG!

Just stumbled across this while bleary eyed before work and it all feels a bit surreal!

I suppose I have mixed feelings at the moment. Thrilled as I am to have won it feels a bit like I've snatched the title away on a technicality, similar to an athlete who gets the gold after a failed drug test. Commiserations to fmonti for all the confusion.

I do need to point out one correction in Ed's post - I cashed 3 times, not 2, over the year (KotZ 1, 16 and 18) but in the end it looks like playing the extra events made the difference!

At least all those 2am starts weren't for nothing!

Big thanks once again to Ed &amp; Simon for their efforts. I look forward to being shot at by you all over the next 12 months!

Sheriff

PS: Thanks to all who have posted for their good wishes.

[whiskeytown]

since I went to graveyard shift on Thursday nights, for work, I was unable to participate as much as I wanted in the zoo tourneys, and will be doing so much less in the future as they won't let me sign on and play at work [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

good luck to all in 2005 - I'll watch from the sidelines.

pax
RB