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hi everyone.

Probably wont interest a lot of people but was wondering if there are any blondes heading up to newcy for the next APAT live tourney on the weekend.

Me and the missus are as it just happens to be our 2 year anniversary and fair do's to her-she is still letting me come up to play in the tourney.

But she is doing ok -the hotel has cost me a fortune!

Hope it is as much fun as the last one in brum. Superbly organised by Mel, Tony and Des.

But anyway back to the original query of are there any ppl heading up?

  Ks Gareth aka KingPoker Ks

cough.

There was someone else there organising the teas and coffees!

 ::)


about 30 blondes will be there at the weekend out of the 210 strong field

i will not be traveling up to newcastle as i cant afford to travel round the globe bu i will be  DOWN there

I'm on my way on Friday - I'm going on my own so I'll be on the look out for some friendly blonde faces to perhaps have a game with - I'm only a small stakes player though!!!

I know this has been put on a previous thread but what tournaments are on at Aspers on Friday night?

Greetings, i too will be there.

£20 freezeout, I think Mel is planning to play it. I may do, but there are competing attractions....

The Bigg Market (sp?) ?

What are the registration & start times for the £20 FO?

reg usually £2 ish.

8pm

yeah i fancy playing it enjoying a few bacardi breezers and relaxing, really don't fancy the cattle market of the toon

who you guys fancy to take it down?

unfortunatly i wont b there so u all got a chance lol.

rookie will be there though and is hitting form at the right time online and locally offline so am hoping with a little bit of good fortune (unlike broadway lol) he can do well.

ITB are double represented with tomtom who is a very steady play who i expect to go deep into the tourni.

then again they going up friday and going out into town so both probably be in no fit state at all to play ! rotflmfao

I shall be there Gareth,
Like you it's my 2 year anniversary this week (not married mind) however Hannah wont be accompanying me to Newcastle. Going with a mate instead as he'll appreciate the lap dancers more than she will.

Rookie will be fine if he's on my left again. With 210 playing though I imagine it'll be a reasonably tough field to negotiate.
Good luck all who'll be up there, I'll prob see some of you Friday night when I'll be hitting the roulette tables and then the toon.

Im not married mate. in the same boat as you.

But sorry to tightend fore not includiing him. i recognise you from your profile photo. u stayed in the same hotel as me in brum. didnt see u down with tony for brekky on sunday. had a chat with him about wales being the best country in the world!!! (he didnt agree)

i will be quite easy to pick out. will be in a white APAT wales polo shirt and will be assisted by my gorgeous blonde gf.

So anyone welcome to come up and have a pre tourney stategy talk.

See you up there guys and if i dont gl for second place as i will be taking pole position!  ;D

 Ks Gareth aka KingPoker Ks

:hello: me  ;yippee; ;yippee;

i will be in the toon about 7 30pm friday unfourtunately too late for teh freezeout but once i am register as a member the night and the toon will be right for painting red ( i hear they like red in newcastle)

Make sure you wear (no pun intended!) it only with white stripes, Geordie's to a plain red top has a similar effect to a bull, with a red and white striped top u will be fine though!

only wear red and white stripes if you intend to s-mackem!


groan.....

I'll be there. Been getting some live practice in at the G Casino in Manchester. Looking forward to playing.

I'll be there on Friday evening playing poker, dont fancy any of that "lapdancing" those stilletos play havoc with your meat and two veg!!

Just got here, Tulip Inn seems nice, and their wireless works (all im interested in!) lol. Managed to find it after asking some guy at a bus stop and focusing on his sign language rather than what he said, it was just a noise.

 ;goodluck;
to all blondes playing in apat - I missed out on this one but I'll be following your progress on here tomorrow with interest. All the best lads and lasses, and look forward to meeting up again soon.

Glenn

I arrives at 3.30 and decided to try and qualify for crypto 12 & 8k if I failed i was goin to go to asper's, i qualified in both so in hotel drinking wine, c u tomorrow, hic

gl dewi. Been down to aspers and sorted reg etc, aint stayed for the tournie tho as tomtom not feeling too good.. Just gonna have a night online playing - something i dont do much lol

I'll echo what the Bigfella said and wish all the Blondes good luck this weekend.  Gutted I can't make it, but will checking to see how everyone's getting on.

I'm sure it'll be as good as the first one.

 ;slavedriver;

not going myself gl to playing

I have it on good authority Ironside and M3boy are having dinner together in Aspers as i type  ;D , prawn starter i'll let you know developments as they happen  8) lol.

i never touched that fishy starter i had the pate (never got no toast with it)

paul didnt think much of his main course he thought it was a starter

paul also didnt think much of his stilton cheese it was a little salty

i loved my turkey as i got it with chips rather than the veg and 2 tatties paul got

plus i dont eat as much as paul his lovely wife spoils him

more important while waiting for dinner it took 20 minutes to get a drink

and more importantly nearly an hour in the queue trying to get in

advice for tomorrow get there early

Pauls still playing in a cash game  ::) i had the low down on the dinner  ;D

m3 and iron what a sweet couple  rotflmfao ;nana;

I think it should of been me n Iron , but there you go left on the bloody shelf again  ::)

Any news from Rookie itb ?           

Just back at hotel now. No luck for myself, in the 3 levels i was in i had AK once, which i folded preflop for my oppo to show AA.. I never managed to hit one single pair on a flop - of which i probably saw 15-20. Then i finally have AK on a King high flop and walk into AA ..LOL. Not one pocket pair either lol.

Good News though, TOM TOM IS GOING TO TAKE IT DOWN. 24 players return tomorrow, and tom is on 100k with blinds soon to go 6k/12k. 21 pay. Only other blonde ive seen in is Suited Jock.

Just saw M3 on the cash game as i was leaving lol, a massive £5 down :P Nothing considering he took £1300 last night. I managed to make £360 which pays for the weekend and tomorrows £100 fo at aspers.

Goodluck TomTom  :)up
I hope Ironside had a trip to the lapdancers eventually  :)

Got knocked out very early holding the powerful hand of  Td  6d. Will do a proper write up tomorrow (although I suspect it will be very brief!)

I think you were at my table, did you lose to AK?

I went out with a set of fives against MattyMilnes nut flush, he better bloody win the whole thing now!

i take all the Blondie must be out as there is not allot of new on how it is going or is it no new is good news

Possibly. Although I held AK and lost two thirds of my stack when I called an all-in bet, running into pocket queens. The 10 6 hand that finally got me eliminated happened after the flop. It was almost a family pot pre-flop. On the flop there was nothing higher than an eight showing, and I had a possible straight draw. Small blind made a smallish raise, and I pushed all-in for about 2500 chips. Everyone folded to the small blind who made a very quick call with 10 9 offsuit, which I thought was very strange. Didn't got a pair or draw or anything really. Anyway his kicker was bigger than mine, and I didn't improve. Went up to the Grosvenor after that and entered the £10 re-buy tournament, but my heart wasn't really into it by that time, so I just chilled out afterwards and had a few pints. Managed to introduce myself and have a brief chat to Ironside and Tikay during my visit, amongst other people. Had a great time, despite the poor result.

Just back in the door... no blondes at the FT unfortunately i went out with a dwindling stack on a semibluff in 20th place... I didnt see tomtomITB at the FT neither so unfortunately we didnt get one there afaik :(

See Ironside I still do consider myself a blonde :P

Was a guy called kedster still in he was at my table last night,hes a big guy from essex

Well played Matt, I was backing you to get all the way to the FT

Well done Matty, unlucky there. I wanted you to go on and win after my chips went to you....

As soon as you said 'Oh Jimmy, Jimmy Jimmy' I knew it was either aces or kings. Oh well, stroll on Wales!!

How did Ironside do? He went a bit quiet after a few hours...

Just got home a couple of hours ago.
Think overall I played too tight, kept on turning down those coinflips.

From 4pm till 10pm I never had more than 10*bb, so just treading water waiting for the rush that never happened.
Spent the first few hours at table 12 and was mostly impressed (and gutted) with the quality of player. Two players were even tighter than me mind, so they were obviously too tight / card dead.

Finally got the monster K9 off in the sb, limp by the cutoff, I dwelled up a little, basically deciding whether to go allin there or do the old "stop n go".
Chose the latter and when I saw a flop of 35Q it looked like the choice I made was looking good...allin...cutoff had Q10 and turned another Q.
Hindsight showing the first choice would probably have took it down.

Still, going out day one meant sunday could be spent with my family before returning to the midlands....think that is a silver lining ;-)

Here is the official result, I will be writing a full tournament report tomorrow which will be all over the web!!


Hope everyone enjoyed it, I thought it was a great success...Off to zzzzzzz soon!


AMATEUR POKER ASSOCIATION AND TOUR               

UK AMATEUR POKER CHAMPIONSHIP               

2ND-3RD DECEMBER 2006               

ASPERS CASINO NEWCASTLE               

£75 FREEZEOUT               

RESULT               

1    Max Ward      £3,750   and 2007 WSOP Main Event Package
2    Steve Lacey      £2,500   
3   Thomas Hunter      £1,500   
4   Adam Spratt      £750   
5    Raymond Norton      £750
6   Steve Talbot      £750
7   Leon Rossiter      £750
8   David Groom      £750
9   Ben Passantino      £750
10   Vicky Glynn                      £750
11   Robert Ingoldby      £250
12   Gary Collins       £250
13   Scott Henderson      £250
14   Dan Brown                      £250
15   Caroline Burgess      £250
16   Kevin Shutt      £250
17   Tom Phipps      £250
18   Richard Stevenson      £250
19   Geoff Keddy      £250
20   Matthew Milne      £250
21   Paul Taylor                      £250

Still a sick payout structure.

It was publicised widely before the event with few dissenting voices. It was flattened significantly after Event 1 due to feedback received then

It was universally popular at the event

The package can't be split and goes to the winner, the 23.9% of the pool to the winner of the entry monies is way flatter than any festival. 15.9% to 2nd and 9.5% to third.

10% of the total field was paid and the top ten each received ten times their buy in

If there is negative feedback, we'll of course refine further for Event 3.

I know it was known before hand, still way too top heavy IMO though.

ok, well we'll see in the next few weeks what feedback we get

I thought it looked pretty good this time... I dont think you should go below 20% for a first prize. Glad to hear it was a success

i do believe a blondite made the final that being ben in 9th

unfortunately i thought i would come along and watch final table

it was heads up by the time i got there t the back of 7

i thought it would go on most of the night like broadways

i have to blame my hangover for my late turning up

i bought the whole of my first table a drink

only to get billed for only my drink as they all had soft drinks

should of sent alarm bells ringing so i sent the valet away to get

me a 2nd double as i didnt want to look cheap

think i should of stopped drinking then but 4 doubles at the table

and god knows how many after makes me wonder if i have a drink problem

i think the prize pool was alright this time

1000 times better than last event

not sure how much shallower without

giving everyone there money back

DaMatrix was 9th, tomtomitb 17th, Suited Jock 20th

A lot of experienced blondes left on day 1

and a few drunken ones

Im impressed that leonard rossiter got 7th :)

Leon!

I hope you told DaMatrix to get back and post on here...

Ironside sober

Foggy

Poor Foggy having to deal with ironside at his table and Ironside constantly referring to him as the WSOP2005 champ greg raymer... I didnt really see the resembelance

Several other poor souls at that table were dubbed as the 'boyband' which then deteriorated to 'Westlife'.

I didn't realise that was Foggy at my table.  I still don't after seeing the photo of him!

Sheriff

Heres my trip report x-posted from my blog another excellent weekend where fun was had by all. Shame I got my rush too early but I guess it wasnt called the table of death for nothing.

APAT Newcastle Trip Report


After playing in the Birmingham event I had told myself I was going to play every APAT event I had permission to go to. Whilst I had some difficulties buying my seat (the payment site couldnt cope with the demand) I made it in and was off to Newcastle on the 2/3rd Dec.

Drove down Saturday morning couldn't check into the hotel so dumped the bags and headed to the casino done the whole registration thing and chilled in the bar til start time.

First thoughts on Aspers casino its a bit on the bright side... they look like they copied the Atlantis Orbs in their casino and decided to recreate it with 100w coloured lightbulbs.. but anyway im not there to look at the interior design and the card room itself was excellent and away from all the faux vegas of the main casino.

The tournament itself was on from the word go 10k in chips I was table 3 seat 1 and the very first hand goes like this...

UTG+1 makes it 200 all fold to the CO who raises to 600... back round to UTG+1 who makes it 1200.. CO flat calls.

Flop Q high all clubs...

UTG+1 bets 2500... CO shoves UTG+1 calls... 20075 pot on the first hand!!!!!!!!!!!

black Aces for UTG+1 , Red A King of clubs for the CO... no help for the big slick and he gets knocked out of a deepstack event on his birthday.

It started off frustratingly for me.. my first pot was against a fellow scot sat in the 10 seat. My BB blinds 25/50 two limpers and the small blind completes I look down at 8h 4h and rap the felt.

Flop 8s 8c 6d

Limper 1 bets 150 , SB calls I bump it up to 600.. limper gets out the way SB calls.

Turn Ts

I bet 1200 and it gets called...

river 2s completing the flush draw..

SB leads for 2400... I think I outhought myself in this one.. I can't put him on the flush draw and I hadn't seen him play enough to have any sort of read... I make the crying call and sure enough he has me outkickered with J8 ..

It all gets a bit frustrating after that having to lay down JJ on a Q high board and find myself at a tournie low of 3300..

Raises 99 with the full intention of going all the way with it with the 150/300 blinds. Pilf from the first event flat calls and we see the flop of K9K I shove and he calls with AK and doubles me up pretty cold deck that one.

Double up with KK v QQ and KK v QQ lol and am sitting on a healthy 30k ish for the remainder of the day until the dinner break..

Return from dinner (after nipping out to the burger van because the buffet queue was out the door and up the stairs and then they ran out of food oops) and play one hand in 2 blind levels.. that was raising A2 in late position and taking the blinds.

Tournie supervisor takes the BB and thankfully its me and I move to a new table... this is where the rush begins!!!

I go on a mad rush with AA / KK / AK / KQ / AK / AA busting 5 players in quick succession and amassing a juicy 170k in chips at its high point. Then things started going wrong.. I was raising and being shoved in by short stacks... getting decent enough odds to call i did so and both times had dominated Aces this took me right back down to 120ish this didnt seem to stop people pushing over my raises and found myself having to laydown hands after raising first in and facing allin bets from the aggressive players on my left.

As quickly as I had all my chips with 30 players remaining i was on the 90k mark and with 2000-4000 blinds whilst not in trouble I was going to have to accumulate chips to get to the final table... unfortunately for the last two levels the cards didnt come and with all the big stacks at my table I was unable to getadecent enough hands to try to win big pots enough times to be profitable.. thus at the end of day 1 i had 75k in chips returning the next day with blinds of 5 and 10k meaning my M was about 5 with 24 players and the money starting at 21.

I was absoultely shattered and had no trouble sleeping through my pre-paid for breakfast (doh) however I was feeling refreshed and good about trying to go deep into day 2.

It started off well I took a 40k or so pot in a SB/BB battle with K9 against A3 on a 7AK2K board I shoved the river but my opponent was having none of it.. He knew me better than to pay me off there.

I coast into the money at that point but still having nothing playable and the 15k a round really taking its toll.

We get broken up down to 2 tables and ive got a little less than 90k for the final 20 players. I find 55 in MP and make it 25k MP3 flat calls and the BB shoves for like 200k ... i go into the tank and ham it up but theres noway i can call here and i pass and MP3 passes. Great bet from the BB no matter what she had but I reckon it was a monster.

so with like 50k left after posting my now 12,000 (6k/12k) BB with 8s 4s I get to see a flop as only the sb completes. It went something like K25 rainbow. Check Check. The turn brought a 3s and the SB min bet 12,000 into the 24,000 pot with about 100k behind. I shoved for the following reasons...

a)I have no read on the guy but a half pot bet on a non threatening board does not seem to be strong at all.. even if he has a K i thought he might let me do the betting first.

b) ive got an open ended straight draw and a little bit of folding equity ( i represent just over half his stack inc the BB already in here) and my allin bet can win it in two ways... he folds or I hit one of my remaining outs on the river.

Sadly he had K9 and the 5 on the river was meaningless. I definitely had to make a move and it was only after Claret1 / Tallpaul who busted out in 21st tells me "Oh yer he min bets a lot with a strong hand he did it to me a couple of times" probably meant I coulda passed but hindsight as they say is a wonderful thing. Another great weekend and another cash which will probably be spent on wallpaper or paint or something wonderful like that smile

See you in wales boyos!

Thanks to everyone involved with organising this APAT event. I had a great time but messed up slightly at the final table.

Part of the problem regarding the payout structure is that places 4-10 all paid the same hence the play during that prize level wasn't great. I know it was set out to encourage players to go for first, but when that involves playing like a donk then I'm not sure it's a good thing. There is more chance for the best player to win if an escalating FT prize structure is used.

I'm not complaining though, just giving some feedback on an overall excellent tournament.

Sherrif,

Dont tell me that was you with the 33 that hit the funner -runner flush to say goodbye to old foggy

Some APAT photos on my blog by the way: http://damatrixreloaded.blogspot.com/ (http://damatrixreloaded.blogspot.com/)

No, I only won one hand at showdown and that was early doors from Ironside with QQ.  He called someone Greg Raymer on the table I was playing (table 2, he'll have been about seat 9) but he may have done this to several people after a few double Baileys!

I would like to say a big thanks to Tighty, Des, Mel and Tikay for organising the event.

We all know how hard it must be to pull off events like that ;applause; ;topman;

I had a great time and cant wait for Wales.......

The Baileys over ice not ice over Baileys had definately taken effect as Ironside appologised for calling someone else Foggy, then called me Greg Raymer.

There are massive differences between us and $5.7 million

sherriff you played those queens terrible imagine calling my reraise on the flop and raise on the turn

mind you i out played you the very next hand to make a little profit

cant beleive the way you went out though was horrible

i didnt last much longer

only fault with the comp was there was no nurse in place to give me baileys on a drip

and i kept losing concentration as i was looking for valet

drink finally arrived and i sent valet back for another double

straight away

I enjoyed the event just wish I had got some cards and lasted a bit longer, ended up bluffing all my chips off and feeling embarressed with the whole room looking and clapping.

Spent an enjoyable 4 hours sat next to Bainn, even though I dont talk much at the table enjoyed his company and the fact he was even tighter than me (I think he played 2 hands in that time).  Need to learn in future to have a bit more patience in these slower live events.

Hello stranger!

Didn't realise you were there on Saturday or I'd have tracked you down to say hello.

Sheriff

Didnt realise you were there otherwise would have said hello as well, I have the advantage of knowing what you like like though, well if I rechecked Cheesy poker before I went.

I was downstairs on table 20 right in front of the big screen so was great for watching the matches and keeping up with the live scores.

I still tend to be on 2+2 more with a bit of The mob forum may hang round here a bit as see theres a lot of Mob and Gutshot regulars on here.