[Talking Poker]

Sadly, the details of this tournament are STILL not finalized. I can not express to you how disappointed I am in the poker sties I've been "working with" on this. Hopefully we'll have something set up soon, but our backup plan will be to play each match at - a small site that allows players to set up Play Money Heads Up matches.

I will post the official rules/regulations/requirements/prizes/etc. for this contest in the next couple of days, but since I've already generated the brackets, I figured I'd post them now. Let the smack talk begin!

It will be the responsibility of each Heads Up pair to contact each other (please use PMs) and set up a time to play within the given time frame (TBD, but Round 1 will likely be the entire week of August 1-August 7th).

If someone needs to back out of the competition for whatever reason (or of they are completely unreachable/unresponsive by, say, August 4th), we will be accepting alternates. So if you are not yet signed up and would like to play, please go post in this thread:


Ok, on to the moment we have all been waiting for. Here are the official brackets for the tournament (I will make a web page to track the results as we go, but for now, here they are - #1 plays #2, #3 plays #4, and so on):


Round 1 Matchups:

1 ahuth3r
2 nutbag
3 kkirk1329
4 BrianSwa
5 rchamberlin
6 robthedlphin
7 yellowcab
8 drewjax
9 JDMcNugent7
10 junYUN
11 kinger230
12 nflchad
13 2Tone
14 ChipFish
15 Pshabi
16 Aequitas58
17 MAYHEM45
18 mister_frank
19 Tony Cheval
20 Quint
21 Windbreaker
22 Zybomb
23 lightfungus
24 Talking Poker
25 omahilo
26 PokerNovice
27 The_Gunt
28 MathBabe
29 greenbuckets
30 Gordogg
31 BlibbityBlabbity
32 GeoffM

In case anyone is interested, here's how I generated these: I took the list of participants and put them into Excel. Then I sorted them alphabitically. Then I went here, and generated a random sequence of 32 numbers:


I pasted the results next to the names, and then resorted to create the bracket. Tada!

Edit: Official Contest Thread: