APAT Reading Day 2 Updates 3 Dec 17

[IrishTom]

Welcome to the final day of the APAT English Amateur Poker Championship here at Grosvenor Casino Reading South, where we have 39 players returning for a 12:00 noon of the Main Event, and 2 side events later in the day:

Dec 3, Sun 13:00 ROE NLHE/PLO £33+£7
Dec 3, Sun 17:00 APAT 15 (NLHE) £33+£7

Again, Lucy Amos and I will be providing you with a live blog/pictures and later Leigh Wiltshire and Matt Dale will be giving a livestream commentary of the Main Event Final Table.

Surname	Forename	Table	Seat	Chip Count
Gunningham	Aron	3	6	216500
Prickett	Denis	4	2	150000
Round	John	4	5	90200
Collins	Kieran	4	10	82600
Roberts	Donald	3	9	77000
Jones	Adam	3	7	69100
Wiatr	Lukasz	5	9	67100
Murphy	Matthew	2	4	66100
Todd	John	2	10	60200
Pierse	Dominic	3	10	60100
Weaver	Daniel	2	9	59200
Magnus	Timothy	2	3	54400
Cook	Ricky	5	2	53300
Buck	Mike	4	3	50700
Easter	Robert	4	8	47900
Ellis	Alan	5	3	47300
Berryman	Christopher John	5	5	42500
Morris	Marc	2	5	42200
Murray	John	5	6	40700
Porter	Mark	5	7	37000
Paxton	David	3	3	36400
Newman	Patrick	4	6	35500
Maynard	Stephen	5	8	34500
Evans	Terry Stephen	3	1	30900
Lawlor	Simon A	3	2	30700
Venn	Simon John	2	6	30600
Dobbs	Michael	4	7	29400
Lassman	Sean	3	4	28400
Handy	Clive	2	7	28300
Davies	Robert	4	9	28000
Roderick	Stephen	2	1	23700
Doyle	Michael	3	5	22000
Griffiths	David	4	1	20300
Timmis	Stephen	3	8	18900
Kemp	Jason	5	4	16500
Greer	Benjamin	4	4	16300
Balbi	Karen	2	2	12300
Gray	Kelvin James	5	1	7300
Lassman	Mark	2	8	3300

Position	Prize
1st	£2,836.00   & APAT Championship Gold Medal & GUKPT £550 seat
2nd	£1,842.00   & APAT Championship Silver Medal
3rd	£1,200.00   & APAT Championship Bronze Medal
4th	£818.00
5th	£595.00
6th	£419.00
7th	£316.00
8th	£270.00
9th	£241.00
10th	£214.00
11th	£195.00
12th	£177.00
13th	£177.00

[Luthee13]

With blinds at 500/1000/100, Mark Lassman gets his 3.2k across the line early doors following a raise to 3k from Simon John Venn.
Simon makes the call and shows
Mark is pleased as he turns over



They chop!

[Luthee13]

Steve Roderick finds it folding to him on the button with and he moves his stack across the line - around 20k.

Timothy Magnus, in the big blind, looks down at and makes the call.

Steve is at risk



The flush on the river means Steve is sent to the rail.

[Luthee13]

Mark Lassman is all in again for 4200.

Marc Morris, in the big blind, makes the call blind.

Mark has

Marc has



Mark Lassman is oout.

[Luthee13]

Christopher John Berryman, Kelvin James Gray and Karen Balbi have also busted.

[Luthee13]

The flop is

Dominic Pierse moves all in and is instantly called by Terry Evans.

Dominic turns
Terry has him covered and is holding

turn and river mean Terry adds around 45k to his stack taking him to around 125k and Dominic is eliminated.

[Luthee13]

Dave 'Paxo' Paxton gets his last chips across the line pre - around 15k.

He gets 2 callers - Don Roberts and Aron Gunningham.

Board comes

Don shows
Aron tables
Paxo scoops the lot with - he is now on around 50k.

[Luthee13]

Simon Lawlor, David Griffiths and Mike Buck are the latest busts from the Main Event Day 2.

[Luthee13]

Michael Dobbs moves all in for around 13k and JP makes the call.

for JP
for Michael

flop brings a bit of something for everyone

But the turn puts a stop to JP's chasing and the river is irrelevant.

JP - "I thought I'd have a spin...he wasn't supposed to be that strong"

[Luthee13]

Blinds are 600/1200/200, average stack is 64k.

The flop is and Don Roberts moves all i.

He is quickly called by Adam Jones.

Don has
Adam has

Turn is river is

Don is out.

[Luthee13]

Michael Doyle moves his 13k across the line on the button.

Ste Timmis makes the call with slightly less chips and shows

Michael has



Ste has been eliminated.

[IrishTom]

L12 800/1600(200) Avg 71.5k

Arrive at Table 5 and we have Stephen Maynard against Ricky Cook with a Flop

Turn comes and suddenly all chips are in the middle, with Stephen ahead and at risk of elimination with pocket , and Ricky trailing but live with pocket ... trip 9's against trip 8's but the trip 8's have a club flush draw

And the river brings it.... Ricky hitting his flush and knocking out Stephen...

[IrishTom]

Sean Lassman picks up pocket and ships his stack, at risk against Mark Porter holding

Board and Sean departs...

[IrishTom]

Next action we have Ben Greer with pocket 10's - - and is all in and at risk against .... only to find on Flop which holds and Ben hits the rail...

[Luthee13]

Simon John Venn pushes for around 19k and is called by Clive Handy for not much less.

Simon has
Clive says "I have busted my last 3 live tournaments with this hand" and shows



Clive doubles and leaves Simon with around 3k.