webfact Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 Bangkok player leads the way after day one of Senior World Scrabble Championship Our picture features Pattaya resident Graham Buckingham of the UK in action at the World Senior Scrabble Championships in Bangkok yesterday BANGKOK: -- A Bangkok based Scrabble player is leading the way at the World Senior Scrabble Championships being held at Central. Bang Na until Friday. Former international school teacher Gerry Carter representing Thailand is in first place after winning all eight games on day one on Wednesday. The event is for 55 year olds and over and has attracted participants from the UK, United States, India, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia and Myanmar. Thursday will see the players play eight more games before four more on Friday when a new senior world champion will be crowned. Gerry made short work of number one seed David Webb of the UK - a former Countdown winner - in game two winning by 488 - 321. He scored a bonus of 50 points for three words in that game - PEONAGE, STEPSON and TOASTER. Thai representative Gerry Carter's winning game vs David Webb of the UK. Against Tony Sim of Singapore he was able to spot and play REWETTED for 89 points and against Pui Cheng Wui of Malaysia slotted down TALLYMEN for 90 points on a double word score. Pattaya resident Graham Buckingham from the UK is currently in seventh place with four wins. Below are the latest standings with number of wins and points difference (between winning and losing scores) 1 Gerry Carter Thailand 8 634 2 Tony Sim Singapore 6 805 3 David Webb England 5 512 4 Pui Cheng Wui Malaysia 5 288 5 Sanjoy Gupta India 4 285 6 Karen Richards Australia 4 95 7 Graham Buckingham England 4 -33 8 Ron Baginski Australia 4 -41 9 Tan Jin Chor Malaysia 4 -115 10 Daniel Milton USA 4 -352 11 Sunny Wright Australia 4 -359 12 Olga Visser Australia 3 -259 13 Kay Anderson Australia 1 -673 14 Khin Saw Khine Myanmar 0 -787 -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-11-24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritsSikkink Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 (edited) Senior World Scrabble Championship 14 people playing, are you serious? Edited November 24, 2016 by FritsSikkink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkGM1957 Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 Hope the Police don't raid and jail them for gambling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJKT2014 Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 4 hours ago, FritsSikkink said: 14 people playing, are you serious? Big event, located at the bottom of the escalators 5th flr Central BangNa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 4 hours ago, FritsSikkink said: Senior World Scrabble Championship 14 people playing, are you serious? I am sure the prize is not as high as it is for The World Championship Of Poker. Its a fun game no monetary prize allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritsSikkink Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 (edited) 51 minutes ago, elgordo38 said: I am sure the prize is not as high as it is for The World Championship Of Poker. Its a fun game no monetary prize allowed. 100 US to enter and they expected the main prize to be 1000 US, so they are actually playing for money Edited November 24, 2016 by FritsSikkink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 (edited) 1 minute ago, FritsSikkink said: 100 US to enter and they expected the main prize to be 1000 US World Championship of Poker move over. I thought playing for prize money here is Verboten. Edited November 24, 2016 by elgordo38 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane Dough Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 (edited) Scrabble tournaments in Thailand are always played for money. The government charges 5% tax on winnings. It is not gambling, it is playing a professional sport for money. Albeit not much! Edited November 24, 2016 by Jane Dough Spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritsSikkink Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 14 hours ago, Jane Dough said: Scrabble tournaments in Thailand are always played for money. The government charges 5% tax on winnings. It is not gambling, it is playing a professional sport for money. Albeit not much! For playing a professional sport for money, you need a work permit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowsdawdle Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Judging by the photo, they are using the same transliteration dictionary made up by TV that insists on spelling the NE provinces collectively as Isaan, despite the grammatically correct spelling Isan, as displays in Khon Kaen museum demonstrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane Dough Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 On 25 November 2016 at 1:15 PM, FritsSikkink said: For playing a professional sport for money, you need a work permit. Just to let you know that you don't need a work permit to play Scrabble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane Dough Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 7 hours ago, arrowsdawdle said: Judging by the photo, they are using the same transliteration dictionary made up by TV that insists on spelling the NE provinces collectively as Isaan, despite the grammatically correct spelling Isan, as displays in Khon Kaen museum demonstrate. Scrabble does not use a transliteration dictionary, whatever that is. There is not a transliteration made up by TV. The NE provinces are collectively known as Isan or Isaan. There is no right or wrong way except the Thai spelling. Isaan shows the long vowel and purist may prefer it. Apart from that your post was largely correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritsSikkink Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 3 hours ago, Jane Dough said: Just to let you know that you don't need a work permit to play Scrabble you do when you play a professional sport for money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now