Euchre Hall of Fame
2006:
2007:
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In the Beginning...
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The tournaments were started by Harvey (the Rabbit) Lapp and Tom ("Tommy D.") Midzinski, both originally from the Buffalo, NY area.
There was no Spring Session during the innaugural year. The first tournament was held in March and counted toward the Summer Session.
Tournaments were originally held at Moon Doggies (Decatur near Desert Inn), then moved shortly thereafter to Money Plays (Flamingo near Decatur). By Fall of 2006, with more players joining us, we moved once again to Grillo's (across the street from Money Plays).
2007: With the sudden closure of Grillo's in January, we happened upon a venue that would fill the bill for quite some time; MVP's (Tropicana near Jones). The bar formerly known as Time Inn had just opened under new management.
In 2006 & 2007, all players were automatically ranked. There was no membership. The scoring was different; first place was worth 3 points, 2nd was 2 and 3rd place got 1 point. Nothing below third place counted until the LVEA was formed in '08.
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2008:
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2008 Spring Session
Dawn Ralston
2008 Summer Session
2008 Fall Session
2008 Special Induction
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
Euchre Hall of Fame
2008: The Las Vegas Euchreplayers Association was formed. Members paid only $5 to become ranked throughout the '08 season. Our first ever season- end X-mas party/tournament, "Las Vegas Euchre Invitational" took place on December 18th, 2008.
Janet
Bartholow
J.D. Thomas Sr.
1940 - 2008
Mike
Reese
Kurt Meisel
2008
2009:
2010:
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2009 Spring Session
2009 Summer Session
2009 Fall Session
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
2010 Spring Session
2010 Summer Session
2010 Fall Session
2009
2010
Bob Cuffia
Mike Reese
Mike Reese
Bob Cuffia
Janet
Bartholow
Bob Cuffia
Bob Cuffia
Ida
2009: The year was dominated by Bob Cuffia. Always the strong player, he easily took two sessions and the overall championship. By this time, Euchre was being played at MVP's on Thursdays (which counted toward points), Wednesdays at Jackson's (W. Flamingo & Jones) and for a while on Mondays at the Cavalier (E. Desert Inn & Sandhill).
2010: In 2010, Dawn Ralston began keeping stats/treasury for the LVEA and all tournaments counted toward ranking points; Wednesdays at Jackson's and Thursdays at MVP's biweekly. Mike Reese scored a record 76 points under the new system and won the championship tournament amoungst the top 8 finishers on Dec. 15.
Points were scored as follows; 5 points to first place, 4 to second, 3 to third, 2 to fourth and 1 to fifth. This became the standard method, but only Thursdays counted in 2009. The Wednesday games were partners tournaments for most of the season and the Monday games on the east side were progressive 8X8 games.
2011:
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2011 Spring Session
2011 Summer Session
2011 Fall Session
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
2011
Mississippi Dave
Mississippi Dave
Cliff Frye
Mississippi Dave
2011: A very interesting rule was implemented -- scores exceeding 10 points were counted (ex. a loner at 9 points = 13 points), severely cutting down on ties. Jackson's and MVP's ended their deals with us, and after briefly revisiting Money Plays, and a short stint at Rhythm Kitchen (6435 S. Decatur Blvd) the LVEA made its home at Spectators (S. Durango).
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2012 Spring Session
2012 Summer Session
2012 Fall Session
Mississippi Dave
Phil
Kimberly
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Las Vegas Euchre Champion
2012
Phil
2012:
2012: Our group and the restuarant manager at Spectators weren't seeing eye-to-eye by the end of the summer. For 10 weeks in the fall, the LVEA continued their weekly tournaments at Bounty Hunter. Shortly thereafter, the manager was relieved of his duties and the games were back on at Spectators.
2013:
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2013
2013 Spring Session
2013 Fall Session
2013 Summer Session
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
Uncle Phil
Uncle Phil
Blackcat
Blackcat
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2013 Special Induction
L.T.
2013: A new venue meets Euchre. The "7777" at the same address on W. Sahara.
- We were all stunned to hear of the passing of our friend; LT. "Very sad. LT was a former Marine, avid hunter and made the best mac and cheese for our Christmas parties!"
2014:
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2014: As the weekly games continued at 7777, the Euchre games became associated with "meetup.com." Also, Kurt M., now known as "Blackcat" came out off retirement to beat the pants off of everybody. He could have taken the last couple of months off and still walked away with the title.
2014 Spring Session
Sweetie Bear
2014 Summer Session
Blackcat
2014 Fall Session
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
Blackcat
2014
Malman
2016:
2015:
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2015 Spring Session
2016 Spring Session
2015 Summer Session
2016 Summer Session
2015 Fall Session
2016 Fall Session
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Las Vegas Euchre Champion
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
2015
2016
Pat
Pat
Uncle Phil
Pat
Matt the illest
Uncle Phil
Uncle Phil
Uncle Phil
2017:
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2017 Spring Session
2017 Summer Session
2017 Fall Session
Uncle Phil
Why????
Pat
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
2017
Pat
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2018 Fall Session
Pat
2018 Summer Session
Wes
Blackcat
Alan Westbrook
2018 Spring Session
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
Blackcat
2018
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Robert
"Bob"
Cuffia
2018 Special Induction
It is with a heavy heart that I share that Bob Cuffia lost is battle with cancer on December 31, 2018
--Dawn
Bob loved euchre and his adopted city of Las Vegas. He was competitive but kind, and led the group for several years. He was lways happy to help teach new players some of the finer points of the game, was an avid sports fan. He will be greatly missed!
Wes
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G-Wiz
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2019
2019 Spring Session
2019 Fall Session
Wes
2019 Summer Session
Las Vegas Euchre Champion
2018:
2019:
