union pacific  

Updated 11/26/2008

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Paul Bolduc, FL

2008 Champion

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Event History
2000    Joe Lux     67
2001    Jamie Tang     77
2002    Bruce Young     84
2003    Arthur Field     73
2004    Luke Koleszar     64
2005     Jeff Mullet     65
2006    Fred Minard     40
2007     Steve Shambeda     44
2008    Paul Bolduc     32

Euro Quest Event History
2003    Arthur Field     28
 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Arthur Field       SC    06     92
  2.  Steve Shambeda     PA    08     42
  3.  Joe Lux            NY    06     34
  4.  Jeff Mullet        OH    05     34
  5.  Fred Minard        PA    08     32
  6.  Luke Koleszar      VA    04     30
  7.  Bruce Young        SC    02     30
  8.  Jamie Tang         MD    01     30
  9.  Scott Pfeiffer     SC    02     21
 10.  Paul Bolduc        FL    08     20
 11.  John Wetherell     PA    07     19
 12.  Jim Carvin         PA    07     18
 13.  Tom Stokes         NJ    03     18
 14.  Davyd Field        SC    02     18
 15.  Luke Koleszar      VA    01     18
 16.  David Fritsch      VA    00     18
 17.  Cliff Ackman       PA    08     17
 18.  Mike Backstrom     MN    04     12
 19.  Sean McCulloch     OH    04     12
 20.  Debbie Gutermuth   TX    03     12
 21.  Harald Henning     CT    03     12
 22.  Stu Hendrickson    VA    02     12
 23.  Bill Edwards       VA    00     12
 24.  Chris Terrell      VA    05      9
 25.  Cathy Kratz        ID    04      9
 26.  Kathy Stroh        PA    01      9
 27.  Max Jamelli        PA    08      8
 28.  Jed Shambeda       PA    07      8
 29.  Mark Guttag        VA    07      6
 30.  Matt Calkins       VA    05      6
 31.  Rich Zelano        RI    04      6
 32.  Ewan McNay         CT    03      6
 33.  Tom DeMarco        NJ    03      6
 34.  Evan Davis         IN    02      6
 35.  Michael Mahady     TX    01      6
 36.  Mike Hazel         SC    00      6
 37.  Tom Johnston       IL    08      4
 38.  Jeff Senley        PA    07      4
 39.  Thomas Saal        MI    05      3
 40.  Chris LeFevre      AZ    02      3
 41.  Kim Foster         TX    01      3
 42.  Steve Scott        CA    00      3
 43.  Peter Staab        PA    03      2

2008 Laurelists                                               Repeating Laurelists:

Fred Minard, PA
2nd

Max Jamelli, PA
3rd

Cliff Ackman, PA
4th

Tom Johnston, IL
5th

Steve Shambeda, PA
6th


Past Winners

Joe Lux, NY
2000

Jamie Tang, MD
2001

Bruce Young, SC
2002

Arthur Field, SC
2003

Luke Koleszar, VA
2004

Jeff Mullet, OH
2005

Fred Minard, PA
2006

Steve Shambeda, PA
2007

Paul Bolduc, FL
2008
 

 

Brad Sherwood seems content with his hand.

Jason Ley and Keith Levy ponder their next acquisition.

Not So Cutthroat Play

As an ex-winner and frequent player of Union Pacific, I got caught in Don Greenwood's search for volunteers. He asked me to GM Union Pacific at the 11th hour. Actually, it was more like the 13th hour; the deadline for GM commitments had passed and had I said no, there would not have been an event. Hoping to play Union Pacific, of course I agreed. Naturally, 33 players registered for the event - one more than an even multiple of four. Not wishing to force anyone to play an inferior five-player game, I sat out. So much for my incentive to GM the event. However, this gave me the opportunity to watch various games in play. What a skillful event it was! Eight of the 11 highest AREA-rated UNP players attended including three past champions.

The only decision as GM that I made happened in a game I was fortunate to observe. They were making the final payouts. One player passed the banker two 1000s to get a $5,000 bill for a $3,000 payout. The banker took the $2000, and passed $20,000. The player asked what this was for. The banker said it was the payout for UP stock.The player and I looked confused. The player claimed he did not get the $5,000. The banker and another player said he did. Since I was a witness, I had to rule that the player got the $5,000. It determined the winner of the game.

Due to this experience, I decided to serve as banker in the Final. What an amazingly played game.

I ruled that UNP could not be exchanged until after the initial payout. My reasoning is that with more stock collected in the hand, a player may decide that those stocks could yield a greater return than just dividing UNP evenly four ways. These four finalists did not strictly exchange stock routinely, nor did they lay UNP stocks in unison. As it happened, the UNP payments were still equally divided.

Paul Bolduc and ex-champ Fred Minard tied for first with $125,000 each. They both had the same number of UNP stock, so that could not be used for a tie-breaker. Paul had seven other payouts at the end; Fred had six. Fred graciously suggested that the number of payouts be the final tie-breaker. So, I ruled accordingly.

It goes without saying that Fred Minard receives my nod for the Sportsmanship Award. It should also go without saying that someone needs to step up to GM this event next year or you'll lose it.

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