APAT Cardiff - Fri Day 1A Updates/Blog

[IrishTom]

10 more entrants brings us to 50 so far with 1 hour left for late reg...

Naaman Morris
Gholam Modir
Diane Chevrier
Colin Erison
Nigel McDonald
Justin Cox
Michael Jeffers
Tony Lynch
Paul Davis
Dai Llewellen

A "much happier than expected" PaulieD after 7-8 hours on M4 finally arrives at the Casino...

[Luthee13]

Karen Mead makes it 325 pre flop and gets called by Wai Guo, James Edwards, David Pilkington in the small blind and Anthony Jones in the big blind.

Flop comes down

It is checked in the blinds to Karen, who bets 525 and is called by Wai and James, David and Anthony both fold.

sees Karen slow down and she checks.
Wai has no such intentions and bets 2k.
James calls and Karen thinks for a while and then folds.

River card is the and Wai leads out for 2k again.

James goes into the tank and Wai is on the verge of calling a clock when James makes the call saying "I think he has a queen"
Wai shows and takes the lot as James mucks.

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Karen Mead is down to fewer chips than she"d like, around about 1k, following what sounded like a brutal run in between AQ and Aces...she did not come out of it favourably...



She did, whilst I was stood watching, collect a checked down pot with her and she is now at around 1800.


She is guaranteed to outlast Philip Buttle and Simon Lawlor...as they exit quietly in the background somewhere...

[Luthee13]

Simon Lawlor - exit hand:

He moved all in with

He is called by Wai Gou holding

Flop comes very favourably -

Turn is an ever better and David Pilkington, on the table with them, says "Oh, Simon, you"ve won it now..."

on the river to demonstrate why David was wrong...Simon is out.

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Craig Dawson gets a much needed double up from Jo Howard.

I join with the flop of

Jo bets out for not much less than Craig"s remaining 2100 and Craig says "all of it" and Jo calls.

for Craig

"Nice hand, I thought you had Ace queen or similar" from Jo as she tables

No drama with the on the turn and river and Craig takes the pot.

[IrishTom]

Some random guys at the bar this evening... still time to buy in tonight, with most recent additions bringing us to 55 players for Day 1A:

Craig Smith
David Langley
Steve Gray
Ian Mason
Steve Roderick... he took the option!

[Luthee13]

Karen Mead has found a triple up with Ace Queen and is currently on around 3.5k.


Over on the crazy Table 5, there is an early position raise from Dan Owston to 500.

Dianne Chevrier makes the call.

Di Llwellyn re raises it to 2300.

Ger, short stacked and in the big blind, moves all in.

Dan and Dianne get out of the way and Di makes up the extra to make the call.

Di has
Ger has

"3 in the window!!" calls Jo Howard...

on the flop!!

on the turn for a bit more of a sweat...

But the river means Ger gets the double and is now on around 11k.

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JP Round raises pre flop and is called by Keith Thomas.

They see the on the flop and Keith check calls JP"s continuation bet of 1200.

They both check the on the turn and the river brings no action either.

JP shows and Keith takes the pot with his

(Keith Thomas)

[Luthee13]

Much exclamation on Table 4!

Glenn Laming and Michael Jeffers are the victims of Frederick Edwards" royal flush as his matches with the on the board and he scoops "A GRAND!!" from Glenn and a much more sizeable amount from Michael.

[Luthee13]

David Pilkington hits the rail!!

Details to follow...once I can find him...

[Luthee13]

Ger Smyth moves "all in", on the flop, against Di Llwellyn and Dan Owston.

The board was


Ger did not show...


The remaining 52 players are now on a fifteen minute break and will resume play at 21:25 at Level 5, Blinds 100/200 ante 25.

[IrishTom]

A few more entrants during the break brings numbers to 63 for Day 1A.

Chip counts at break...

Forename	Surname	Stack
Nigel	McDonald	40k

Gavin	Priestley	39k
Diane	Chevrier	36k
Paul	Mearns	33k
Wai	Gao	33k
Gareth	Brideaus	33k
Luke	Jenkins	32k
Liam	Winder	29k
Richard	Evans	26k
Stephen	Harrison	25k
Justin	Cox	24k
Richard	Rudling-Smith	23k
Keith	Thomas	21k
David	Owston	20k
Tony	Griffiths	20k
Frederick	Edwards	20k
Jo	Howard	19k
Tom	Clark	19k
Ian	Mason	19k
Paul	Davis	18k
Paul	Barnes	17k
JP	Round	16k
Ger	Smyth	16k
Lewis	Tucker	15k
Glenn	Laming	15k
Beverley	Board	15k
Gary	Board	15k
Naaman	Morris	15k
Sabah	Aris	15k
Carl	Daniels	15k
Chris	Retallick	15k
Ikjeet	Singh	15k
Rhys	Langley	15k
David	Langley	15k
Joseph	Keegans	14k
Anthony	Jones	14k
James	Lewis	14k
Michael	Thomas	14k
Glenn	Frost	14k
Steve	Roderick	14k
Terry	Evans	12k
James	Edwards	12k
Darren	Proud	12k
Anthony David	Jones	11k
Craig	Smith	11k
Tony	Lynch	11k
Karl	Powell	10k
Richard	Edwards	9k
Gholam	Modir	9k
Colin	Erison	8k
Karen	Mead	8k
Dai	Llewellen	8k
Dylan	Jones	7k
Michael	Jeffers	7k
Craig	Dawson	6k
Steve	Gray	3k
Tyrone	Watkins	out
Simon	Lawlor	out
David	Pilkington	out
Brinley	Jones	out
Philip	Buttle	out
Jake	Dursley	out
Daniel	Lowe	out

[Luthee13]

Exits since the break:

Rhys Langley
Karl Powell
Di Llwellyn
Steve Gray

Dylan Jones gets a double up, courtesy of Tony Griffiths.

Dylan moves all in pre flop, following Tony"s raise, and Tony makes the call.

The cards go on their backs and Dylan has
Tony has


The board runs out and Dylan is on around 13.5k

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Joining the hand with flop and Glenn Laming has bet out 1k

Richard Rudling-Smith makes it 3.5k and Stephen Harrison, following some thinking and calculations, makes the call. Glenn folds out of the way.

on the turn and Stephen checks. Rudders bets 10k - effectively putting Stephen all in.

Stephen folds and Rudders gathers in the circa 10k pot.

[Luthee13]

Ger Smyth, Dianne Cevrier and Naaman Morris have all seen a flop of and

With the pot at around 6k, Naaman checks.
Ger bets around 2k.

Dianne asks short stacked Naaman how much he has left and then raises to 9k.

Naaman moves all in and is quickly called in both spots by Ger and Dianne.

All the cards go on their backs

Ger has
Dianne has
Naaman has

on the turn sees Dianne take the lead...

But the on the river means all fast pulse rates slow as it is a 3 way chop pot!!

"Lead the flop, smash it on the turn, chop it on the river..." says Dianne...