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I WAS LAST IN.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..........AND FIRST OUT.,.,.,,.,

i allways find .,.if you want to be remebered.,.,.,either go OUT FIRST,.,.,.,OR LAST.,,.,.,.,

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
 
I GET    Kh   8h   FLAT CALL A RAISE OF 200

FLOP   8c   8s   4c

I CHECK HE BETS 1200 .,,.,.,.,.,I FLAT CALL

TURN     Kc

I CHECK HE BET 2500.,.,.I FLAT CALL

TURN  3c .,.,.,. I FIRE 2000.,.,.,.,HE PUSHES ALL IN FOR ANOTHER 4100.,.,.,,.I CALL.,.,.,.,.,.,

YES YOU ALL KNOW WHAT HE HAD.,.,.,,.B457URD .,.,LOL WP

HOW BAD DID I PLAY THIS ???????????


I THOUGHT THESE GUYS WERE AMATEURS .,.,LOL

He had KK?

Don't think you can blame yourself too much for stacking off with the 2nd nuts. Top heavy prize pool innit.

yip.,.,.,,"""" i thought this will be like shooting fish in a casino.,.,,."""""

UL James,

btw hoa many were on the reserve list in the end, i was sooo very tempted to go on the off chance but a tas too far to go if i did not get in..

there was about.,.,.20-25 on a reserve list. that were there very early  me and martyn were there at 11am.,.casino opens at 12.,.,.,i was 8th on the list martyn was 9th.,.,
it was sad to see me and my good mate having to decide over who goes in.,.,.,so  i said lets flip a coin.,.,i lost martyn won.,.,but fair dooooos to him he said i play .,.,(i said no but didnt mean it lol) hes a top man.,.,.,.,and a good mate.,.,. this comp ment a lot to me and martyn as we were going to do something nice with the all the money .,.,(if we got any lol).,.,.never mind though.,.,i was more gutted about this one than any other big event ive played.,.,,.,.,.,,.and to go out first .,.,well .,.you can imagine martyn.,.,.,,.,.,this is a mate .,.,you know what he text me 

   """""" thats just bad luck mate i will pick you up later and go for a drink"""""""
                                   """TOP MATE""""
martyn cavanagh said,..,. he sends his regards to you and you familly and hope the little boy is well.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,.,

I didn't realise Martyn was an amateur, i thought he was a pro.

no mate he have never ever said hes a pro and he dont play for a living.,.,
he has .,,diffrent intrests to poker .,.,he was a sponsored player by badbeat 18 months ago.,.,but he said he hasnt got the time to play online so he gave them there money back,.,.,.there not many people would have done that.,.,im sure.,.,.,.,..,.,he a top player and a top bloke.,.,.
    i think hed like for everyone to call him a pro.,.,lol,.,.for his skill.,.,but he just aint good enough .,.,.,i hope he dont read this.,.,,, ;hide;

Say Hi to Martin for me please, Yes ..i agree he is a top man...hope you have a good time down there and good luck to remaining Blondes.

anyone else out with any news .,.,.,???

I turned £50 into £158 on one of the cash tables....

surley someone else/...,.,is out ?

yes i am.... reraised dan owsten after his early pos raise- i have been card dead but have woken up with aa- i go allin- knowing he will read me for ak- thats what he says- calls with TT- first card............ nuff said. was great atmosphere- Dan and roberto were bboth going v well as i left.

So far, so good, everything has gone tickety boo today, we had a capacity 220 runners, with many sadly turned away,  & we got the comp away pretty much on time at 2.30, using APAT Rules.

32 remained when we drew stumps at 0030, with M3Boy, Sheriff Fatman, MAF, Jon MW, & EricStoner among the blondes running well. Ginger, Dewi, Kinboshi, KingPoker, Rookie, InTheBelly & a good few other blondes all fell by the wayside.

sofa-king,,,,,////,,,,,lasted 3 hands, though it's gotta be said, there was no getting off his hand, the under house v the over house. But he amused many with range of quite amazing card/sleight of hand tricks.

Cardiff Grosvenor worked miracles - 220 runner in Cardiff!, 10 to a table, & Irene & Sean worked like trojans.

Play resumes at 2pm Sunday.

All the best to the remaining Blondes  ;goodluck;

how many left mate.,.,and any idea what time the final will start  ???

32.

2pm.

Railbirds welcome, under the supevision of the PRO Chairman, Colchester Kev,who has been here all weekend.

when you say martyn is not a pro and has other interest than poker are you saying that these other interest are his main source off income and that poker is not

Good luck to remaing Blondes, and those out just have a ball.....

yes. When Martyn and a couple of other name local players indicated they wished to join APAT and play the event we had several conversations with them in which they gave assurances that this was the case. As it hppens Martyn did not get in, but these discussions were repeated yesterday in which APAT  did its due diligence


in essence the reply was  "I play poker but I do not rely on it to live, I have other income"



for those interested, overnight chip counts are:


James Knox 185,000
Adrian Royle 161,500
Miles Harding 28,000
Richard Davies 127,000
Antony Wolsey..Pilf....35,000
Thomas Stweart 36,500
Chris Barnes 60,000
Kevan Tate 46,500

Dan Owston 49,500
M mottram 66,000
A Jones 30,000
D Heywood 36,000
Jamie Brown 39,000
Jon MW  Woodfield 13,000
Miles Flynn...MAF...96,500
Sheriff fatman 80,000

Linda Iwaniuk 51,000
Jimmy FLYING PIG doran 77,500
Craig Clifford 80,000
Mike Gale 67,000
Mark Donnelly 123,000
M3 Boy 62,500
ericstoner 128,000
Roberto Romanello 158,000

james taylor 17,000
duncan hodgkins 54,500
maRK KILSHAW 53,000
Neil Vicker s 81,000
dan coles 56,500
lee mulligan 31,500
grakam cox 49,500
duncan godfrey 22,500

blinds are 4000-8000 on resumption,  paying down to 22

EPT Dortmund seat  as part of winners prize

2.2m chips in play

the payout structure is flatter than event 1 after we listened to the feedback..24%,16%,9%,4.5% for 4th-10th

thats fine tightend its hard job for you boys to do  but the apat rule is that poker must not be your main source of income not that you play poker but dont have to rely on you poker money to live if that is the case then devil fish could play as i belive he has a shop lol . these guys might have jobs that bring them more money in than poker does then that is fine .gl to all the blonds that are still in

Sofa Fish, the game starts at 2pm SHARP ,,,,,,,,,,,, best you show yer face ya kipper, I will buy you a cup of tea xxx

Prize Money goes down to 22nd. (10% of the field)

Sweet i can play the next APAT then, someone has been silly enough to pay me to write.

poker is by no means his income

I wish poker was my income

i have a few thing to do i may get down there later MATE

thats fine then sofa king if when you say that poker is not his income you meant to say his MAIN income then gl to the lad i just hope that people don't push it 2 far and spoil it for the others tikay and the others have worked hard to get this off the ground for the AMATEUR player and get poker stars to put added prize in for the AMATEUR player i dont think that pokerstars will be very happy if a well known player to them wins this or any other apat event

Evening Argus?

I used to do an Evening Argus paper round as a lad. It's too high brow for Flushy.

lol not the argus.

any new on chips and numbers still in

What price a pro wins it ?

 ;scarymoment;

I can give you details of a spectacular exit within one orbit of the tournament re-starting.

However, you'll only charge me 50p so I won't bother!!

The problem looks to be laptop availability.  Tighty was scribbling things down on paper, Des was taking pictures but I don't think anyone can actually get them online at the moment.

All I can give you is that the 32 were dropping like flies at the start of play.  All-ins were happening everywhere, short-stacks were doubling up left, right and centre.  Therefore, the overnight chips count picture changed rapidly from the word go.  That's about all I can tell you with any certainty.

Sheriff

wont comment on how i did but must say i know mark donnelly (runner up to kinboshi) in brum was still in when i went in for a peak this arfo. He was on my table day 1, class player, and i can guarantee he will place highly again!!!

just got in and its all over,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.i didnt get the winners name but he beat a guy heads up.,.,.,.,.,.,.,....................,,,,,,,,,,,,,

firstly, i would like to say.,.,.,what a well organised tournament,.,i think the
 APAT will grow  bigger and bigger as it moves on.,.as it was a nice clock nice stack 10k plenty of proper poker.,.,.,.,i must congratulate tony and his team for their efforts.,.,,.tony,des,tighty,(kev, he didnt do anything)and all his helpers sorry if i cant remember names.,.,but what a effort by the APAT
(good little baby there let it grow) i hope everyone enjoyed themselves in cardiff,all us,., local boys hope you had a great time and are welcome back anytime,..,., (apart from colchester kev)
SEAN card room manager was fantasic,dealers and waitresses fab.,.,
IRENE the best manager in the country.,.,and yes i would.,.,..,all 10/10 wd guys n gals.,..,.,.
i really dont think people realise how hard it is to do what tony is doing at his
age this guy really is a credit to the game well done mate.,.,and i mean it.,.,,.he deserves APAT on his back,.,.,.,
and the strippers that tony paid for out of his own pocket in the hotel room were fantastic,(well done tony)....and god save the queen.,.,.,.,.,
oh yeah a few people wanted to see who puts up with me 24-7 well here they are.,.,.me,my pride and joy niall,and my darling wife mel.,.,.,.,and mr handsome close up.,.,.,.,

Your wife is beautiful and your son is gonna be a heartbreaker , and you dont look nothing like a fish !!!  ;D

What he said!!

GREAT stuff guys.

Staff at Cardiff did a wonderfull job

Many many thanks Sean who gave a bottle of Bubbly as a consolation prize for the bubble boy - Yes it was me :(

Brendan looked so upset at his 14th place finish - VWD Brendan.

I met a few new faces there, and I must make a special mention to James - aka sofaking . What a top bloke he is!!!!! So unlucky to exit in hand 3 wasnt it??

Kev, I let you win that STT - just being nice to you ;) lol

The tourney was a great success, maybe the clock/blinds could of been better, but I am not knocking APAT at all - it is soooo hard to organise a tourney and they have done a great job.

From 32 places left, it did end up a little bit hit and miss as the average stack had 10xBB - just a comment, and not meant as a critisism.

The standard was again poor which made th first few levels a minefield where you HAD to hit the flop and hit it hard as not many would put down top pair no matter how much you bet. I sat out the first 4 levels and had blinded down to 7500. Managed to quickly get to 20k (as the blinds were 200 400) and then to a comfortable 40k, then 91k (with 9 4 in the BB when I turned 2 pair against the guy with top pair).

32 returned and with 22 getting paid it was going to be tough. Sherrif had 80k and did not manage to make the money. I had 62k and struggled. Finally took a stand (36500) UTG when blinds had got to 6000 12000 with A 5 suited. Got an all in re raise from late position to 80k and the BB woke up with a hand and asked for a chip count of the 2nd all in. By this time I had left the table and stood watching from a distance. When the BB took 5 minutes to decide to call, I wondered back over to the table. The re raise all in guy turned over K 5 o/s and I suddenly felt a bit more confident, until the BB (the guy who took 5 minutes to call) turns over Aces!!!!

He was not slow rolling, he was honestly thinking of passing for fear of being the bubble boy. He need not have worried as his Aces held up.

All in all very pleased with my play, disapointed to be bubble, but ................. what a fantastic weekend away.

TK and co - you are fantastic!!

ty for your nice comments.,.,.

Would like to add was great meeting all our dear friends again , you know who you all are  :) and making some new freinds , Kinboshi and his lovely wife Michelle , who myself and Jane have gotten her to agree to play at the next blonde bash  ;D she really is a very nice , friendly , chatty person   :)
JonMW , a very sweet and interesting man
Kingpoker and Karen with a K lol
Sofa , can do some great tricks
Ash ,gorgous posh bird who drinks like a fish lol
Thank you all for making my weekend so special and i look forward to meeting you all again real soon  :)

Who won it in the end? I came 5th but didnt stick around after, was a great tournament anyway..hopefully get to play another one this year!

I would like to give a big thankyou to all the guys from Blonde who gave me loads of support and advice over the 2 days at Cardiff.

I may be an old geezer at 43 years but so far only played live at Newcastle and Cardiff and only been on blonde for a couple of weeks.

Above all some great new friendships were formed and it was great to talk to like minded people rather than boring my mates down the pub with stories of internet poker that bore the pants off them!!!!!

Was stunned to make the final table and felt 8th was a real achievment though more down to chip conservation than any great play!!

Left before the end so no idea who won but Lee Mulligan was looking good with over 3 quarter of a million chips.

Survived 4 show downs with him as the low stack before he finally got his chips back from me so he was looking good when i left with 6 players still in.

For me the highlight was towards end of first day 38 left in 15000 chips blinds at 3000 6000.  Couldnt book any accommodation had no intention of driving back home and coming back for second day if had so few chips.  Pushed all in with   Jh 9h , Lee called with A K off, K on flop along with 2 hearts and got my flush on the river.   Quick double up again with 5 minutes left on the clock for end of first day and the 4 hour return trip for the second day didnt feel so bad!!!!

Again thanks to all and see you at the tables, 

Hi All,

What a great weekend, and it was good to meet other Blondes such as Sheriff Fatman, InTheBelly, Tikay, Tighty, JohnMW, Bredan & Colchester Kev.  Apologies to Brendan & Kev for not introducing myself.  It’s sometimes a bit awkward when you’re new to a forum.

Here’s my trip report for anyone who’s interested….

Day #1.

What a bizarre day!  I started off on the same table as Brendan & InTheBelly with Colchester Kev as our celebrity dealer.  I was card dead for well over half the day and kept yo-yoing from short stack to very short stack.  I soon dwindled down to 5400 in chips, then back up to 11,200.  Just after the dinner break, my AK ran into Brendan’s KK.  Back down to 3200.  This is when I got the hand of the day for me.

At this point with blinds at 400/800, I decided to push with A4 UTG before the blinds hit me.  I got 2 callers.  Flop was KTx.  One player bet out forcing the other out.  He showed KT for top 2 pair.  I had nada.  As I picked up my jacket, the turn was an Ace, then the miracle river 4 came down to give me a better 2 pair.  I tripled up!  My opponent was visibly stunned (so was I!).

Shortly after this I moved tables and sat next to Sheriff Fatman.  I again went short by making a bad call with KQ against a shortie’s Ace rag.  Then I went on a rush.  I managed to make double ups with JJv AT, AK v JJ, AA v KQ & AA v KJ.  Next thing I knew I was up to ~100k. 

I finished the day in 7th place with 96,500 and chip leader for my table.

Day #2

I don’t mind admitting I was very nervous for day 2.  I certainly wasn’t safe and with blinds starting at 4000/8000, my M was only 8.  All the people on my table that could crippled me were all to my left.  I had to be very careful. 

But I started the day well.  I knocked out the Sheriff when I pushed from the SB with Q5 (his stack had been decimated a couple of hands earlier from a tough beat).  He felt he had the odds to call with his 72, but my hand held up and I knocked him out (sorry mate!).  Shortly afterwards I knocked another shortie out with my AA v 66.  I was up to a peak of around 135k. 

The bubble eventually burst after a while, and I breathed a sigh of relief.  I felt confident I could make the final table from then on.  Unfortunately my dreams were shattered in 2 hands.  At this stage blinds were now 8k/16k.  First a short stack pushed in EP.  I had an easy call from the BB with KK.  He showed A3s and caught his A on the flop.  Back down to 79k.  A few hands later, it was folded round to me in the SB.  I looked down at A6 and pushed for my last 63k.  BB thought for a while, considered his pot odds then called with KT.  My hand looked good until the Ten cruelly came down on the river. 

Out in 17th for a nice £300 payday.  Considering I was almost out in around 170th, I’m very happy with the way things turned out.  Sorry for not hanging around to watch the rest of the action, but I had to rush back to London before hitting the football traffic.

Once again, another great and well run tournament organised by APAT.  I’m looking forward to the next one already!

Mark (not Miles).

DuncTheHat - I think the entire card room heard your  Jh 9h double up, and iirc you got unlucky with the hand you bust out on.. I was pretty gutted I folded AT that hand

And MAF, i was on your starting table and then to your left when the bubble burst, but I must point out I moved tables (for about the 15th time) and wasnt the KT who bust you!

Anyway it was great playing with you all.

My story was just basically 9 hours of being shortstacked on Day 1, just hanging in there, stealing a few blinds and trying to stay alive. Then a couple of hours before the end of Day 1, I went on a rush and doubled up with AJ, AA, KK and KQ(!!) leaving me with 127k chips overnight and so 5th out of 32.

Day two, i was pretty nervous as i've never played a two day event before and so I began to overthink everything. Made it to the bubble, after avoiding a very crazy move, I picked up  Ahrt Th in BB and the Welsh guy who's name escapes me (good lad), raised it up on the button - he had been super aggresive and I did think about shoving as the blinds were so high by now..luckily he talked so much that he kinda put me off and he let me choose which one of his kings to look at.

Bubble burst, so I decided to loosen up..but maybe got too loose when i raised  6c 6s in EP, the raise was around 30k of my 100k stack so im guessing blinds were 5/10 at this point.. 60k stack shoves. I wanted to fold at this point, but with the pot odds being so insane I had to call and just hope he was playing AK, AQ, AJ type hands.. so i call, leaving 3 BB's behind and he flips QQ. Me being the luckbox I did flop the 6. I then won a hand AK v 99 after flopping a king and surviving a turned inside straight draw. At this point I had 300k chips and was told I was chip leader by a marginal bit, but this was pretty much the only action i had until the final table and so i went in average stacked exactly with 250,000, it was very close. Anyway a min raise UTG on the final table when 7 handed I found  Aspades 5s in my BB, it was a minimum raise and while usually I'd avoid a hand like this it was a good oppurtunity to stack someone if he did have a monster that he's min raising UTG. Flop was AKT..check, check... then the turns a K. I bet out 45k and he shoves, I eventually fold and he flips QJo, he'd flopped the nut straight.

From then its a uphill battle being shortstacked, and eventually im down to 1.5 BB (yes I should never get that badly off...), I just didnt seem to get any kind of spots and ended up having to try and quad up with  Qh 9h, but the BB's monster of 82o flops two pair and I bust in 5th place.

Anyway thanks to APAT I really did enjoy it, and cant wait for the next one even though I know I will never do that well again. I did have to win every coin-flip cos the average stack was often 10 BB's so ended up without much room to start playing too tricky.

I'm curious to know who won...it was 3 handed when I left and it all seemed quite even - must admit I was pretty envious !

RichD,  I remember exactly who you are.  I got busted by the guy on your left shortly after you moved tables.
Congrats on your 5th place.

Great to meet you, and from what I saw, you fully deserved to get to the final table.  :)up

Just to say thanks to all the blondes over the weekend.I wont go into my performance in the event it's self as i pressed the self destruct button.The side games on both days were very entertaining,with eyeofsauron keeping us amused with his unusual plays ?.A special thanks to kev who plays on apat as Zukertort for being kind enough to drive me back to my hotel on friday and sat, other wise i dont know where i would have ended up.

A successful weekend for you overall though with those STTs!!

Good to see you, and was wondering if you'd sobered up yet....:dontask:

Think i've got jet lag dan the stt wins almost covered my drink's bill.

rotflmfao

Three in a row wasn't it?  Not bad going for a bloke who could hardly see!!

The being drunk thing was all an act so they would make bad calls against me.Well that's my story and im sticking to it.

(http://www.talklfc.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/scratchchin.gif)

For anybody who was sceptical when I said that I was going to win back my STT loss on the blackjack table - I made a £27.50 profit at Grosvenor, and a £62 profit at Les Croupiers casino - so nearly the APAT cost as well as the STT cost :D

Another great tourney from APAT, hopefully I'll get a satellite entry into another one this year but I'll definitely be back for more next season.

Can't type anymore - too tired.

Was a good APAT event.  A friend of mine finished 4th!  Mr Luckbox (guy who came 2nd at the broadway) Pushed all in on the SB and my mate Dan called.  Lucky box showed A9 and Dan showed AJ.  2 9s on the flop and its all over rover!!

They did a chip count and he just covered my mate so was a little sick!!!

I did nothing all tourney and busted out just after Mr Phillips.  Did not mind as my £450+ profit on the cash tables paid for my weekend :)

Hi Micky!

Glad you got back safely. How did you get on in that last STT we played? I only played 3 hands ( I played 77 when I was in front though!), then said my goodbyes to everyone, as I was getting exhausted. Made a wrong turn on the journey back home the next day, and ended up going through the heart of Wales instead of getting to the motorway. Thought I was going to get into serious trouble with the car as the wheel bearings were making one hell of a noise. Finally made it back home though.

Going to do a proper write up soon, but it's going to be spilt into two halves. That first night was an absolute cracker. That was the funniest, most entertaining live game I've ever played. See you guys up in Scotland for the next APAT event.

Eyeofsauron and mickyp terrorising the STTs in Cardiff at the weekend. ;D

Big congratulations to Dan Coles (4th place) and Graham Cox (3rd place). Two honourary Bristolians from the Bristol South West Poker Group :)

Look forward to reading the event report in Poker Player.

Both played terrific. Graham in particular, changed gear halfway through the final & went for the win, but eventully the winner rumbled him & called his RR. Graham had 5-3 off.....Misreads, eh?