APAT Cardiff - Day 2.

[Matt D]

Day 2 will commence at midday here in the Grosvenor Casino, where again the poker room manager Kris will be looking after us with myself hosting, Lucy Amos providing a live update/blog throughout, and Leigh Wiltshire live streaming the event (link to follow).

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

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

Schedule Of Events

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".

[Matt D]

Link to live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2_ABjNzNM

What everyone"s playing for

1..	£3,825	APAT Gold + £1,500 Destination Vegas Package (added value)
2..	£2,520	APAT Silver
3..	£1,580	APAT Bronze
4..	£1,080
5..	£710
6..	£540
7..	£420
8..	£370
9..	£310
10.	£270
11.	£230
12.	£210
13.	£210
14.	£180
15.	£180
16.	£170
17.	£170

[Matt D]

The current leaderboard / chipcounts, combining day 1a and day 1b.

Pos	Forename	Surname	Chips
1	Lukman	Islam	156k
2	Richard	Evans	109k
3	Tristan	Chaplin	103k
4	Wai	Gao	97k
5	Marc	Morris	96k
6	Luke	Jenkins	92k
7	Diane	Chevrier	90k
8	Thomas	Lynch	84k
9	Steve	Redfern	82k
10	Alex	Toporeanu	79k
11	Darren	Coleman	78k
12	Tom	Clark	77k
13	Jason	Stephens	75k
14	David	Kingswell	72k
15	Stuart	Astbury	70k
16	Rais	Khan	65k
17	Manuel	Toporeanu	60k
18	Gareth	Brideaux	57k
19	Robert	Davies	51k
=	Gavin	Priestly	51k
21	Alan	Vinnicombe	49k
22	Frazer	Bolt	48k
=	Mark	Trodd	48k
24	James	Lewis	46k
25	Jeffrey	Hemmerman	45k
=	Paul	Mearns	45k
27	Anthony	Gregg	43k
28	Keith	Thomas	40k
29	Gavin	Jones	39k
30	Martyn	Colmer	37k
=	Nigel	McDonald	37k
32	Paul	Rice	35k
33	Guy	Gullen	34k
=	Wynn	Gibson	34k
35	Jason	Kemp	31k
=	Mark	Porter	31k
=	Warren	Jones	31k
=	Joseph	Keegans	31k
39	Lewis	Tucker	29k
40	Dean	Saunders	26k
41	Michael	Gale	24k
42	David	Reed	22k
=	Richard	Rudling-Smith	22k
44	James	Orchard	19k
45	Mark	James	18k
=	Oliver	Clark	18k
47	Bashir	Ahmed	16k
=	Terry	Evans	16k
49	Shirley	Cole	14k
50	Sabah	Aris	13k
51	Liam	Winder	10k

Tristan Chaplin - currently in third.

[Luthee13]

First exit of the day.

Oliver Clarke and Liam Winder get it all in.

Liam has
Oliver with has Liam covered.



Liam is out.

[Luthee13]

No more than two minutes later and all of Oliver Clarke"s chips are back in the middle, this time he is the player at risk.

Nigel Macdonald has called Oliver"s 4 bet all in shove and has shown
Oliver is behind holding



And Oliver follows Liam to the rail.

[Luthee13]

Terry Evans makes a move, early position and short stacked, with Ace Jack and gets a call from Gareth Brideaux holding Ace Queen.

No dramatics and Terry is out.

[Des]

Link to live stream to follow once it"s up and running (at the moment none us have 4g signal in the casino)

What everyone"s playing for

1..	£3,825	APAT Gold + £1,500 Destination Vegas Package (added value)
2..	£2,520	APAT Silver
3..	£1,580	APAT Bronze
4..	£1,080
5..	£710
6..	£540
7..	£420
8..	£370
9..	£310
10.	£270
11.	£230
12.	£210
13.	£210
14.	£180
15.	£180
16.	£170
17.	£170

Have the casino not provided a wifi link, Matt?

[Matt D]

Have the casino not provided a wifi link, Matt?

They have provided the general casino WiFi, Des. However, that"s not fast enough to stream from. (we have a useable 480p workaround though and are broadcasting from that).

[Luthee13]

Mark James makes the move and is called by Keith Thomas

Mark has
Keith has

flop for a bit of excitement. Mark needing to improve to avoid elimination.

turn...

river and Mark doesn"t manage to avoid elimination and is sent to the rail.

[Matt D]

Link to live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2_ABjNzNM

The first Destination Vegas £10+1 satellite is underway, with David Pilkington, Stuart Greenan, Anon., Paulie Davies, Jo Howard, Karen Mead, Terry Evans and John Murray contesting. The winner will progress to:

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

Remember there will be satellites "on demand" until 2pm today. Win your way to a £1,500 Vegas Package today for just £11 = extremely good value!.

[Luthee13]

Meanwhile, Guy Gullen has made it 2.7k to go.

James Orchard re-raises all in for around 13k.

Darren Coleman, in the big blind, calls the 13k.

It is back on Guy and he re-raises all in for over 40k...

Darren makes the call!

James has and is at risk to both players.
Guy has and is at risk to Darren
And they have both found Darren, in the big blind, holding

no sweat, just poker. Darren takes the lot and sends James and Guy to the rail.


Guy Gullen (right)

[Luthee13]

Steve Redfern makes it 2.5k to call
Tristan Chaplin calls and Paul Rice moves all in over the top for 17.7k.

Steve folds and Tristan makes the call.

"sigh, I thought I"d have diamonds at least." says Tristan as he turns over his only to be faced with Paul"s



Paul gets a nice double up.

[Luthee13]

Dean Saunders and Sabah Aris exit quietly.

Meanwhile, Steve Redfern has re-raised, Paul Rice"s raise, all in for over 60k.

Steve has got it into his head that Paul is pretty much all in and committed so, as the blinds fold out of the way and it gets back round to Paul, he goes to flip his cards.
The floor is called as Paul hadn"t called or folded and was still to act.
The ruling is that, as the cards were exposed when they were partially flipped, that Steve must fully expose his cards...

He shows
"It"d be a race..." says Paul and after a few back and forth discussions between them, Paul makes the call and shows

and, in Redfern style, Steve is "fastest" and wins the race.

He has Paul covered so Paul is out of the tournament.

[Luthee13]

Gavin Priestly is the latest to exit to bring us to 41 players remaining.

Level 12 with blinds at 800/1600, 200 ante.

[Matt D]

This is how they sat at the start of the day:

Table	Seat	Forename	Surname	Chips
1	1	Mark	Porter	31k
1	2	Shirley	Cole	14k
1	3	Marc	Morris	96k
1	4	Lewis	Tucker	29k
1	5	Martyn	Colmer	37k
1	6	Wai	Gao	97k
1	7	Luke	Jenkins	92k
1	8	Jeffrey	Hemmerman	45k
1	9	Diane	Chevrier	90k
2	1	Alan	Vinnicombe	49k
2	2	Mark	James	18k
2	3	Nigel	McDonald	37k
2	4	Stuart	Astbury	70k
2	5	Oliver	Clark	18k
2	6	Liam	Winder	10k
2	7	Frazer	Bolt	48k
2	8	David	Reed	22k
2	9	Michael	Gale	24k
3	1	Thomas	Lynch	84k
3	2	Mark	Trodd	48k
3	3	Gavin	Jones	39k
3	4	Dean	Saunders	26k
3	5	Rais	Khan	65k
3	6	Joseph	Keegans	31k
3	7	Richard	Rudling-Smith	22k
3	8	Manuel	Toporeanu	60k
3	9	Tom	Clark	77k
4	1	Jason	Stephens	75k
4	2	Terry	Evans	16k
4	3	Paul	Mearns	45k
4	4	Steve	Redfern	82k
4	5	Warren	Jones	31k
4	6	Gareth	Brideaux	57k
4	7	Tristan	Chaplin	103k
4	8	Paul	Rice	35k
5	1	Guy	Gullen	34k
5	2	James	Orchard	19k
5	3	James	Lewis	46k
5	4	Richard	Evans	109k
5	5	David	Kingswell	72k
5	6	Lukman	Islam	156k
5	7	Wynn	Gibson	34k
5	8	Gavin	Priestly	51k
6	1	Darren	Coleman	78k
6	2	Bashir	Ahmed	16k
6	3	Jason	Kemp	31k
6	4	Sabah	Aris	13k
6	5	Anthony	Gregg	43k
6	6	Alex	Toporeanu	79k
6	7	Robert	Davies	51k
6	8	Keith	Thomas	40k