Hello all. Marie here. Many thanks to everyone for their congratulations and for a great weekend - I can"t believe what a friendly tournament it was & thank the casino, the dealers and the APAT "people" for making it such a good event.
@ Cundallini - I"m sorry that I was your "peeve". I think the support you gave your friend was fantastic and from a personal perspective I have no issue with calls like "good luck" & cheering if he won the hand. And if he had called for the cards, that"s fair enough because it"s his tournament life on the line and no-one likes to be in that position. It"s just that, in the venues where I have played most of my poker, I"ve always been taught that"s it"s not good etiquette to call for cards for someone else, especially to effectively bad beat someone. But if the tournament directors had ok"d it, I would of course have sucked it up. It wasn"t personal...
The highlight for me, other than winning, was managing to get to (I think it was) 5th place without actually having been in an all-in showdown with my tournament life on the line. Don"t get me wrong, there had been a few hands where it it had gone the other way I"d have been left with next to nothing & other times when I went all-in with no calls from bigger stacks but I can"t remember another tournament with so few all-ins. I"d like to say it was good play but in reality it"s just the cards you"re given plus a number of other factors which I imagine are unlikely to be repeated...
thanks again to everyone who made it such a great tournament, best wishes, Marie