APAT Cardiff - Fri Day 1A Updates/Blog

[IrishTom]

Welcome to Cardiff for the APAT Grosvenor Welsh Amateur Poker Championship here in the Grosvenor Casino, where the poker room manager Kris will be looking after us for the weekend, with Matt Dale/Myself playing host, Lucy Amos providing a live update/blog throughout, and Leigh Wiltshire joining us to Live Stream on Sunday. 

Don"t forget... our Main Event Champion will walk away with the Added Value of an APAT Destination Vegas 2017 package...

and we will also be hosting the "APAT Destination Vegas 2017" £75 + £7 (Max 1 Rebuy OR Add on) on Sunday at 3pm.

A reminder of the weekend events:

APAT Weekend Schedule Of Events

Day 1 structures are as follows:

Fri Day 1A - Levels - Sat Day 1B

18:00-18:45 Level 1 14:30-15:15
18:45-19:30 Level 2 15:15-16:00
19:30-20:15 Level 3 16:00-16:45
20:15-21:00 Level 4 16:45-17:30

21:00-21:15 Break   17:30-17:45

(End of late entry / Alternates)

21:15-22:00 Level 5 17:45-18:30
22:00-22:45 Level 6 18:30-19:15
22:45-23:30 Level 7 19:15-20:00

23:30-23:45 Break   20:00-20:45

23:45-00:30 Level 8 20:45-21:30
00:30-01:15 Level 9 21:30-22:15
01:15-02:00 Level 10 22:15-23:00

Friday 16th Sept 2016

18:00-02:00 (10 levels) or 9 players if earlier - Main Event APAT Welsh Amateur Poker Championship (NLHE Freezeout) Day 1A - £75+£7 with 15k chips on a 45 min clock.  Structure HERE with late entry to and including first break.  No Deals Facilitated.  Estimated maximum players 70.

Saturday 17th Sept 2016

14:30-23:00 (10 levels) or same as Day 1A if earlier - Main Event APAT Welsh Amateur Poker Championship (NLHE Freezeout) Day 1B - £75+£7 with 15k chips on a 45 min clock.  Structure HERE with late entry to and including first break.  No Deals Facilitated.  Estimated maximum players 90.

18:00-01:00 - Destination Vegas STTs (On demand on the hour - expected duration 60 mins each) 8-handed Single Table Satellite £10+£2 2k stack 10 min clock - winner gets entry into the Sunday "APAT Destination Vegas 2017" where 1 Vegas 2017 Package is GUARANTEED.

Sunday 18th Sept 2016

12:00- Main Event APAT Welsh Amateur Poker Championship Day 2

12:00-15:00 - Destination Vegas STTs (On demand on the hour - expected duration 60 mins each) 8-handed Single Table Satellite £10+£2 2k stack 10 min clock - winner gets entry into the Sunday "APAT Destination Vegas 2017" where 1 Vegas 2017 Package is GUARANTEED.

15:00- APAT Destination Vegas 2017 NLHE (Max 1 Rebuy OR 1 Add On £75 for 10k to first break) £75+£7 with 10k chips on a 20 min clock - same structure as Main Event with late entry to and including first break, which will be after Level 6.  No deals facilitated.  Buyins retained for "APAT Destination Vegas 2017 Packages" for every £1500 - money for lesser amounts paid out - 1 PACKAGE GUARANTEED

PRIZES/ADDED VALUE

Each event prize pool breakdown will be confirmed at the venue after the event has closed for further entries.  An example of the default APAT prize structure can be found HERE.  APAT do NOT facilitate deals for Championship Main Events nor where Vegas 2017 Packages are on offer. 

The winner of the Amateur Poker Championship will win an added value prize of an "APAT Destination Vegas 2017 Package"  

The top three finishers will receive the coveted APAT National Championship Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.

Season 10 Player Of The Year (POTY) ranking points will be awarded for both the National Championship (Top 18) and Sunday"s APAT Destination Vegas 2017 (Top 5).  POTY details can be found HERE, where the POTY will win an "APAT Destination Vegas 2017 Package".

[Luthee13]

"Shuffle up and deal" across the card room and we are off.

Nice to see many familiar faces here this evening...

Even nicer of the computer to put a nice fix on table 4, seats 1, 2 and 3...



Not the only bit of dodgy seating arrangements, all sure to make for some interesting hands.

Good luck to all of the 40 players starting...

Forename	Surname	Table	Seat
Terry	Evans	1	1
Karl	Powell	1	2
Gavin	Priestley	1	3
Jo	Howard	1	4
David	Owston	1	5
Paul	Mearns	1	6
Joseph	Keegans	1	7
Lewis	Tucker	1	8
Keith	Thomas	1	9
Tyrone	Watkins	1	10
James	Edwards	2	1
Simon	Lawlor	2	2
Tom	Clark	2	3
Anthony David	Jones	2	4
David	Pilkington	2	5
Anthony	Jones	2	6
Luke	Jenkins	2	7
Richard	Edwards	2	8
Karen	Mead	2	9
Wai	Gao	2	10
Richard	Evans	3	1
Tony	Griffiths	3	2
Liam	Winder	3	3
Dylan	Jones	3	4
James	Lewis	3	5
Craig	Dawson	3	6
Brinley	Jones	3	7
JP	Round	3	8
Philip	Buttle	3	9
Michael	Thomas	3	10
Glenn	Laming	4	1
Ger	Smyth	4	2
Richard	Rudling-Smith	4	3
Paul	Barnes	4	4
Frederick	Edwards	4	5
Jake	Dursley	4	6
Darren	Proud	4	7
Gareth	Brideaus	4	8
Stephen	Harrison	4	9
Daniel	Lowe	4	10

[Luthee13]

As more players join, there is a random selection to open a new table...

[Luthee13]

I catch the end of a hand with Simon Lawlor and Karen Mead the only two holding cards by the river.



The board is

The pot looks to be around 3k at this point and Karen, to act first, says "same again" and flicks in 700.

Simon tanks for a moment befor saying "go on then, I"ll pay you off" and puts the call in.

Karen shows the and announces flush.

Simon shows and Karen takes a sizeable pot.

[Bigfella42]

Ger is off to a good start someone tried to bluff him on the river so he went all in and won a 16k pot.

[Luthee13]

Anthony Jones makes it 225 to call.

Jo Howard looks at her cards and says "raise" and makes it 725 to go.

Tom Clarke, directly to her left, makes the call.
Ger folds the button and Craig Dawson makes the call from the blinds.



Anthony checks and Jo continues for 875
Tom Folds, Craig makes the call and so does Anthony.

turn is checked by Anthony and Jo bets again, 2600.

Craig and Anthony both call.

River card

Anthony checks, Jo asks the dealer to spread the pot and makes a roughly half pot sized bet of 6500.

Craig and Anthony both fold reasonably quickly and Jo takes the pot.

[Luthee13]

*Jo Howard would like to make it know that, at this point in the tournament she a) has above starting stack and b) is quite possibly chip leader...ish...somewhere*

This was noted approx 25 mins into the start of level 1...

[Luthee13]

JP, in the small blind...



makes it up to 100 with three callers in front and the big blind, behind, checks.

flop and JP checks.

Phllip Buttle bets 300 and gets called by Richard (Dickie) Evans and JP.

turn gets checked all round.



They all check, and JP declares "straight" and turns over .

Nevertheless, he scoops the pot.

[Luthee13]

Simon Lawlor down to less than 5k following his set of 4"s being busted by a straight and a flush before taking a large chunk of Simon"s chips.

He gets in a pot with Luke Jenkins who makes it 725 pre flop on Simon"s small blind. Simon calls and David Pilkington, in the small blind, folds.

Simon and Luke get

Simon check calls Luke"s bet of 700 and they see a turn of

Luke leads out, after Simon checks, for 1000 and Simon lets it go...

[Luthee13]

It"s all a bit...interesting on Table 2.

6 limpers see a flop...turn...and river, all checked -

Two split the pot with and


Then, next hand, several players call a small preflop raise, including David Pilkington and Karen Mead from the Big Blind.

They flop is checked round to David. He makes it 1k to go.
All the others fold, except Wai Gao.

He and David see a turn and Wai calls David"s 1500 bet.

The final card down is the and David bets 2k

Wai tentatively makes the call and David announces "Ace high" and turns over

Wai turns his ... accompanied by his winning and takes the pot!



Elsewhere, over on Table 5, we have our first exit of the evening in Daniel Lowe.

[Fatcatstu]

Update on Ger"s beer to chips ratio please

[IrishTom]

Update on Ger"s beer to chips ratio please

We"re trying to count his chips but in the meantime his beer re-supply has arrived outside...

[Luthee13]

Glenn Laming scoops a nice pot...



I arrive with the board showing

Darren Proud has made the call of Glenn"s visibly sizeable river bet into an around 5k pot but Glenn shows and Darren mucks and Glenn adds a decent amount to his stack.


Rudders caught my attention...he wants to publicise his chip count - 24k+...he does not want to advertise how his and got him to that chip count...

[Luthee13]

Two more exits, one sneaky quiet exit from Brinley Jones...

And one more dramatic exit:

on the flop and betting ensues...
Richard Rudling-Smith bets 225
Frederick Edwards raises that to 525
Jake Dursley re-raises to 1525 and gets called by Gareth Brideaux and Frederick.

The three of them see

Frederick checks and Jake moves all in for 10325
Gareth pauses for a while...and makes the call, he has Jake covered. Frederick gets out the way and the cards go over.

"You"re after the flush, aren"t you?" says Jake as he shows his
"I knew it" Jake proclaims as Gareth tables

River... and Jake is out when Gareth makes his flush.

(Gareth Brideaux)

[Luthee13]

Well...

Ger and Jo have a little dance...

Flop of s

They both end up putting 2100 into the middle.

Turn is and Ger leads out for 3.5k

Jo states "all in" for around 11.5k

Ger tanks...."nice hand" he says as he mucks his cards.

Jo shows and receives a chorus of "again??" from around the table...