English Amateur Poker Championship - G Casino, Coventry - Live Updates

[MarkTheShark]

Hello All!

Mark the Shark here again, eagerly awaiting the second Season 7 event on the APAT Calendar - the English Amateur Poker Championship, action from which will be brought to you as it happens from the marvellous facility that is the G Casino at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry.

Tonight, commencing at 21:00, we will have Leg 1 of the Cash Tour Championship - an exciting and unique concept that made its initial appearance at the 2013 WCOAP - the eventual winner being Steve Redfern. A maximum of 40 runners will play Leg 1 tonight - still time for you to reserve your seat - please indicate your name on this thread


Or we will see you there! But if you want to play this event, please be there before 21:00 - once play is underway, there are NO late registrations or alternates.

Full details of the event can be found here


Then tomorrow (Saturday June 29), commencing at 14:30, we will see the start of the 2013 English Amateur Poker Championship, where a maximum field of 160 runners will battle it out to see who will become the (new) English Amatuer Poker Champion. At time of writing, defending Champion Mike Hudson is not in the field - to see who is in the running, please see the Player List here


You can also see the full Player Briefing for the event on the same thread also.

Again, still time to reserve your seat in the Main Event - simply click the yellow "English Seat Reservation £5" button at the bottom of that page (Player Briefing/Player List) and you can reserve your seat for just a Fiver - paying your full buy in at the Casino directly upon your arrival on the day.

We expect to see the winner accept his Gold Medal somewhere around 22:00/22:30 on Sunday evening - by which time we will have lost many of the field - but there will be the First Leg of the PLO Championships which start at 14:30 on Sunday June 30 - again a field of 40 players maximum will be in the hunt for a very nice first place cash AND all important APAT Player Ranking Points - which are available across ALL THREE events held this weekend :

Cash Tour - Player Ranking Points for Top 5 placed players
English Championship - Player Ranking Points for Top 18 placed players
PLO Championship - Player Ranking Points for Top 5 placed players

Remember there is a fantastic LAS VEGAS prize package awaiting the eventual winner of the Ranked Events - so heres the chance for you to be among the pace setters in the race for LV!

It should be a fantastic weekends poker played in a great poker facility - and for your ample reporter, none too many stairs to negotiate to bring you all the action - as it happens! Ish anyway......!

So hopefully plenty of you will be here to witness the events as they unfold - feel free to ask for chip counts of your favourite players.....or how they are doing....or if theyre hungover......or anything (within reason!).

As a bit of fun - though ill see if i cant get Leigh to add a prize to this - lets have some predictions for the Main Event...lets have your idea of 3 x Final Tablists AND the first man/lady eliminated from those listed on the Player Listings page.....10 points for each correct Final Tablist and 20 points if you correctly guess the first "Seat Open!" shout!

In the event of a tie.....i"ll let Leigh decide who wins!!

Really looking forward to seeing everyone there....safe trip and good luck to everyone who plays!!

[SirPercival]

Just about to leave to get there for the Cash Tour. Looking forward to that and the Main Event.

good luck to all.

3 Finalists

Brendan Byrne
Darren Shallis
Debjani Duncan

First Out

Stuart Ward

[Sugar_Free]

Tonight, commencing at 21:00, we will have Leg 1 of the Cash Tour Championship - an exciting and unique concept that made its initial appearance at the 2013 WCOAP

Brighton S5?

[AMRN]

Not playing the cash tour event  


3 final tablists:

Tod Wood
Steve Ball
Darren Shallis

First out:

Stu Ward

[fandango]

Tonight, commencing at 21:00, we will have Leg 1 of the Cash Tour Championship - an exciting and unique concept that made its initial appearance at the 2013 WCOAP

Brighton S5?

Wasn"t a tour Matt but a new concept.. It now is a tour so I believe it"s "unique" in that form ..

(confused?)

[AJDUK]

Good luck to all.

3 Finalists:

Dale Macchiarelli
Dave Allan
Warren Carless

First Out:

Joe Carr-Hill (get the bad beats out of the way in this one, ready for full run good in the WSOP ME)

[fandango]

3 Final tablist..

Brian Harland

Gary Phillips

John Murray

......

First out.. Stu Ward (gives him some incentive to prove us all wrong)

[Pears27]

3 finalists - Pilgrim, Trippier, Byrne
First out - me

[bear21]

finalists

Carl Pilgrim, steve redfern, darren shallis

1st out MMMMM
go with the flow !!

STU WARD LOL

[Sugar_Free]

Tonight, commencing at 21:00, we will have Leg 1 of the Cash Tour Championship - an exciting and unique concept that made its initial appearance at the 2013 WCOAP

Brighton S5?

Wasn"t a tour Matt but a new concept.. It now is a tour so I believe it"s "unique" in that form ..

(confused?)

I agree it"s unique Carl, I was saying the initial appearance was Brighton Season 5.

[MarkTheShark]

Tonight, commencing at 21:00, we will have Leg 1 of the Cash Tour Championship - an exciting and unique concept that made its initial appearance at the 2013 WCOAP

Brighton S5?

Wasn"t a tour Matt but a new concept.. It now is a tour so I believe it"s "unique" in that form ..

(confused?)

I agree it"s unique Carl, I was saying the initial appearance was Brighton Season 5.

i stand corrected - apparantly this had already been done pre the WCOAP earlier this year - my apologies - i thought i remembered being told that was the first time it had been ran. Seems not - so apologies for any confusion.

[Fatcatstu]

Finalists jack prime, Paulie d and Rodders

First out stu ward

[adelaidebull]

3 Finalists:
Andy Duncan
Adam Phelan
Warren Carless...

First Out:
Steven Healey....

[MarkTheShark]

We"re underway here in Coventry - 18 players started, so we have slighted altered the format insofar as we will start 9 handed and take a view at the FT as to the cash left on the table to determine what Phase 2 blinds will be. Only fair to give the players as much play as possible.

Starting players in seat positions are :

Table 1    Seat 1   Rob Finch
Table 1    Seat 2   Gordon McArthur
Table 1    Seat 3   Mark Briggs
Table 1    Seat 4   Michael Holmes
Table 1    Seat 5   Michael Richards
Table 1    Seat 6   John Murray
Table 1    Seat 7   Glenn Richardson
Table 1    Seat 8   Dann Williams
Table 1    Seat 9   Stuart Oliver
      
Table 2   Seat 1   Martin Dodsworth
Table 2   Seat 2   Clive Moore
Table 2   Seat 3   Vaino Tiik
Table 2   Seat 4   Stephen Roderick
Table 2   Seat 5   Tony Johnson
Table 2   Seat 6   David Howard
Table 2   Seat 7   Chris Webber
Table 2   Seat 8   Charles Mason
Table 2   Seat 9   Keith Smith

Only a few hands into the tournament - some action hands to follow as we go...and hopefully a photo or two!

[MarkTheShark]

just after Vaino Tiik bullies Charles Mason off a pot, Clive Moore and Tony Johnson get involved in a biggy...

Clive raises to £1.75 to which Tony calls - the flop is a raggy and Clive continuation bets £2.50. Tony has a riffle and raises to £8 to which Clive calls.

The turn is a naughty   - Clive checks but Tony piles on the pressure, firing £15 into the pot.

The river brings a   - both players check - Clive shows   to which Tony mucks his hand in apparent disgust....Clive shows the   also to justify his chase.....and takes the pot.