And the Winners Are

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi Everyone:

Ed and I have made our decision. It's a little different than what we first indicated, so here goes.

The selected cover is Akmoose.

Akmoose Cover

So Akmoose gets a Two Plus Two Shirt, a complete set of books, and $300.

We thought the three covers by traceone were also terrific and have decided to also make him a winner and plan to use at least one of these for a future book. So traceone gets the same prize as Akmoose.

Traceone covers

Alternate traceone cover

We also thought the pokeropus cover was terrific and it was a tough decision. So we're going to award Mr. Opus four shirts. (The Two Plus Two logo shirts come in four colors.)

PokerOpus cover

Two other great covers were by illunious and Leavenfish. They will each get two shirts.

Illunious cover

Leavenfish cover

Other winner ups who will each get one shirt are RobMonge, jdl22, Nagoo81, Obliky, deaner03, nolanfan34, glitch, and jackwilson.

A special cat award that is worth one shirt goes to smiely,

And the worst cover award which doesn't deserve anything but which will get a shirt anyway goes to BusterStacks.

By the way, the shirts come in four colors: Ash (which is a grey), maroon, light blue, and black.

I'll sent a PM to all winners so that we can get your address. I'll also be talking to our two big winners Akmoose and traceone.

Best wishes,

Mason and Ed Miller

[i wanna be me]

Congratulations Akmoose - looks like I should stick with AQs a little longer than I'd like!

wanna

[partygirluk]

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And the worst cover award which doesn't deserve anything but which will get a shirt anyway goes to BusterStacks.



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Great line!

[AngryCola]

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And the worst cover award which doesn't deserve anything but which will get a shirt anyway goes to BusterStacks.



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Great line!

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I can't believe he gets a shirt. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

I want one.
Maybe I should get one for... umm... hmm.

All of the time I spend helping out these great forums?

Bah.
It was worth a try.

[BusterStacks]

Heck yeah, I knew mspaint would come in handy one of these days. w00t!

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi AC:

It will be a few days but you will have an opportunity to get one. It won't be too expensive.

Best wishes,
Mason

[AngryCola]

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Hi AC:

It will be a few days but you will have an opportunity to get one. It won't be too expensive.

Best wishes,
Mason

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Ha!

Thanks, but it's just not the same.

[Jack of Arcades]

I don't think I'm alone when I say that I believe you've made an error.

[k_squared]

Nothing personal, but I also think this was a poor choice... I showed two friends who know nothing about poker the two covers and asked them which they would buy... and one response was - 'the pretty one' and the other was 'the one with the cool cover' both referring to trace's designs...

that being said, the cover won't determine
if I buy the book... but then again I am already a poker enthusiast.

It would be interesting (although also a bit silly) to print the book with both covers and see which sells better! I'd buy the pretty one.

-k_squared

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi k_S:

I think you're missing what happening. We do intend to use the traceone covers on new books which will be coming in a few months.

best wishes,
Mason