Earlier this year we ran a series of poker night tournaments in which players would compete for a chance at the final table. We gave away lots of prizes including t-shirts and free downloadable games, such as Westward from Sandlot Games, Virtual Villagers from Last Day of Work, and Eets from Klei Entertainment. We even gave away some memberships to Quadradius thanks to Jimmi and Brad, developers of that fantastic multiplayer online board game. But that's not all.

As promised, today is the drawing for a brand new Nintendo DS Lite among all the weekly champions of tournaments. The pool of qualifying winners for the drawing are:

• Melman2002 (2x qualifier)
• Wisegranda
• slgalt
• Supersasha
• doylew8
• dee2
• Pezzer
• Nadif

This afternooon all names were put into a spreadsheet and assigned a random number. After sorting all names based on that number, a second random number from 1 to 9 was chosen.

And the winner is... Melman2002!

Congratulations Melman2002, your brand new DS Lite will be shipped out to you on Tuesday following the US Memorial Day holiday. My sincere thanks to everyone who participated in our poker tournaments and to all those who sponsored our tournaments by supplying us with games and memberships to give away. We will likely resume the weekly poker nights once the multi-table tournaments at Triplejack go live (the last time I checked, they were still in the beta testing phase).