If you don´t know, @blocktrades and the Steemit Poker league (@spl) are giving away one ticket and accommodation for one lucky - and skillful poker player - Steemian. A ticket to where? To Krakow, Poland to attent the biggest Steem Blockchain event of the Year: The Steem Fest.
If you don´t know what Steem Fest is, check out everything about it in @roelandp´s official announcement, you can also have a look at the offical web page www.steemfest.com. Also make sure to check out the follow up post.
After more than 3 hours played, the tournament reached the point where there were only 6 players left. These players won a ticket for the final tournament and we got some minutes with them to ask them about themselves and their Steemit life.
Meet the winners - and don´t forget to follow them on Steemit:
Username on SPL: Potplucker
Team in SPL: Tequila Sunrise (founding member 4th season)
Username on Steemit: @potplucker
Something you want to add about your Steemit Life: Will be on Steemit 1 yr in Oct. Seems like longer. Guess its been from all the changes in the last 11 months. I don't post very often. Have learned alot about crypto. Poker players on SPL are a great group. Really enjoy playing there.
Where are you from: Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Memorable hands or things to mention about your table: I don't really remember the individual hands. Like everyone else do get bad beats. Its just part of the game. Wish I knew more about the RNG code. With a live game you see the cards shuffled and passed out. You feel fairly certain its a random distribution. On line alot of trust is assumed that all is random. A 3rd party might be called in to validate and certify the code is good at randomly distriubting the cards. All I really see is the results and how often they are aligning with the odds. The situation I notice most is dominating hand that are beat. Its supposed to be a 4:1 distribution in favor of the dominate. The occurance of dominated winning seems to happen more often then the math would predict. But I don't have a 100k hand history to know the averages. A sample size of one session of play is no good to measure randomness of cards distributed.
What place did you finish: I think I finished 3 but after we got to the final 6 and had won our seat we just kept going AI to be done.
Why do you want to go to SF?: I have never won a nice trip like the one offered for SF. I think the travel would be great. Taking part in the activities will be fun. Leaning more about the folks that have great influence in the network. The platform seems to have hit a low. Would be nice to hear about plans to make it better. I think its just the current state of crypto trading that has things down. So many posts I read say that this stagnet time in crypto is normal. Just hodl and believe that better times will be coming back again.
SPL: Hoodish
Team: None
Steemit Username: @michaelluchies
Steemit Life: Started in December of 2017. Curator for Buildawhale, dedicated to the SPL.
Where are you from: Originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, now live in Normal, Illinois U.S.
Things to mention about table: Very tough competition with everyone fighting to make the top six spots. I got pocket kings and aces which helped me stay alive. I finished first after I barely squeezed into the top 6 to make the final table. SF: I'd love to go to learn, network, and share my experiences.
Username on SPL: KingDonkCom
Team in SPL: none yet
Username on Steemit: @alexvan
Something you want to add about your Steemit Life: witness (ro-witness), involved in different communities (eg romania, german)
Where are you from: Romania- Germany now
Memorable hands or things to mention about your table: on this tournament I had a 33 with short stack (due to a donk that killed a trips with nothing and got caught on turn and river) with the same donk raising from SB (like everytime) I pushed he called with nothing. This hand kept me in the game.
What place did you finish: I think 5 as we agreed to go ai when ITM was achieved.
Why do you want to go to SF?: to play life poker and drink tequilla with Eric :P, I wanted to go last year, but decided to use the funds to power up. I want to go to feel how Steem Inc is moving, to meet the persons behind the accounts, as I try to attend a lot of meetups when I travel.
Username on SPL: future24
Team in SPL: No team so far
Username on Steemit: @future24
Something you want to add about your Steemit Life: Im on Steemit since 2016 and love this unique platform. One of my projects is the #monthlyauthorchallenge, initiated in November 2017.
Where are you from: Berlin, Germany
Memorable hands: @hoodish ruled the game and in the middle of the game I thought that I will be kicked out soon and then I made some risk moves. Fortunely they were succesful and I became the second place.
What place did you finish: 2
Why do you want to go to SF?: I already visited Steemfest 1 & 2 and it was awesome. This time I want to come with more friends and this is why I played in this tournament to donate the ticket if I would win.
Username on SPL: Philippe
Team in SPL: Death Punch
Username on Steemit: @philippekiene
About your Steemit Life: Fresh meat...
Where are you from: Aussie family of 7 living in Cambodia for the last 6years.
Memorable hands: I don't honestly remember. It was a good game and for a good portion of it, I guess you could say... The cards just seemed to fall in my favour.
What place did you finish: once we got to the final 6 and were all guaranteed tickets we went all in, I kept loosing and finished in 3rd or 4th from top spot lol... But it was all fun and games after we all got the golden ticket to the final tournament.
Why do you want to go to SF?: I've only been involved with steemit since Feb. It would be a great opportunity to connect with other steamians in person and learn from those who know best!
Username on SPL: Celsius
Team in SPL: N/A
Username on Steemit: @celsius100
Where are you from: Arkansas, USA
What place did you finish: 6th
Why do you want to go to SF?: I don't want to go - just want to win to deny others the chance to go :D