WRGPT4 is a no-limit Texas Holdem tournament in which all game activity takes place via electronic mail. A program, written by Ron Duursma, acts as dealer and manages all aspects of the game. The tournament rules are similar to most Las Vegas no limit holdem tournaments, such as Binion's annual World Series of Poker main event. The dealer program has a rich command language allowing players to mail in their betting actions out-of-turn; these actions only manifest themselves to the other players in turn. Even with these advanced actions, the game moves rather slowly, with most tables averaging less than one hand a day. This year's game strated in September with 376 players, and should last until Mid-June. There will probably be another tournament next year; keep tuned to rec.gambling for signup details.
We are now playing the final table ot the tournament. Jerry Gerner has set up a web page with who's who, standings, table position and showdowns for the final table.
There is also a showdown by date collection, with one file per date here, containing all that day's showdowns.
Will Hyde has a list of submitted autobiographies of some of the paticipants. Jerry Gerner has taken Will's list, converted it to HTML, and made it available on the web.
