Damn, I’d love to drink beer in the Caribbean.
While winning $18,000 (12,000 Euro). And playing beer pong.
And that’s exactly what a SunPoker user, Matt Osborne (SunPoker username Noseyboy), won at the 2nd annual Beer Pong Championship. No joke, there’s a beer pong tournament. Even more amazing is that this is the second year of it, so it’s obviously doing well. Guess I gotta brush up on my beer pong skills - I’m sure my college buddies won’t mind “helping me out” with practicing.
The SunPoker Beer Pong Championships were held in St. Kitts during the 2007 Caribbean Poker Classic (CPC). What made this year’s beer pong tournament better and more intense was that SunPoker put up a seat to the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Poker Tournament that was worth 12,000 Euro.
There were 32 Beer Pongers going at it, drinking hard and ponging hardcore. At first, everyone was ponging fast and furious. But then, the double elimination came up. Imagine the hot Caribbean sun on your shoulders and head. Picture the oncoming inebriation from massive amounts of beer in your system. Yup, you guessed it, some of the competitors couldn’t “keep it together”.
“I’ll say this much, the guys from the UK can certainly drink their fair share of beer”, said Rob Gallo, founder of SunPoker.com and self appointed Beer Pong Tournament Director. “And Matt certainly has proven his skills as a true Beer Pong Champion. I guess with the number of pubs in the UK, it’s not a surprise they would have an advantage in any drinking game. We’ve confirmed that this was the biggest prize ever awarded for a beer pong match and it’s going to be even bigger next year. SunPoker.com is all about having fun with our players on and off the poker tables, and this certainly was fun.”
You didn’t HAVE to pound ridiculously copious quantities of beer to win at the Caribbean Poker Classic. They also had the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool as the poker tournament main event. The lucky winner of the main event was Brian Jensen (SunPoker user name MagicBJ) who grabbed a cool prize of $237,500 coming in first.
Beer Pong wasn’t even the craziest thing at the 2007 Caribbean Poker Classic. A 55 second earthquake rocked the island - try keeping your beer down during all that shaking.
The festivities finished off with a badass SunPoker farewell pub crawl… so yeah, there was a lot of beer drinking at the CPC.
Ever played Beer Pong?
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