Dublin Updates - APAT Irish Amateur Poker Championship 28th - 29th OCt 2018

[IrishTom]

Welcome to Dublin, where we kick off with Day 1 of the Irish Amateur Poker Championship - €120 buyin, 20k stack, 40 min blinds and playing to a Button Ante with the added value of Gold, Silver and Bronze National Championship Medals, and the Champion also winning the Added Value of a GUKPT £560 seat.

Some regular faces in the crowd include:

David Pilkington
Tony Trippier
Brian Yates
Gary Lipman
Dawn Cooke
Paul Shillaber
Nye Venables
Tracey Baggott
Laura Rhoden
Tony Blee
Gareth Howard

We'll be bringing you a full blog here on the forum, with snippets and pictures over on the APAT Facebook PAGE www.facebook.com/Apat/

Confirmation of the prize fund:

1st	£4,480 & National Championship Gold Medal & Added Value GUKPT £560 Seat
2nd	£3,040 & National Championship Silver Medal
3rd	£2,025 & National Championship Bronze Medal
4th	£1,660
5th	£1,330
6th	£1,035
7th	£765
8th	£560
9th	£450
10th	£375
11th	£375
12th	£330
13th	£330
14th	£300
15th	£300
16th	£270
17th	£270
18th	£245
19th	£245
20th	£245
21st	£225
22nd	£225
23rd	£225

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Dave Pilkington, upon discovering he is on the same table as Tony Trippier, says "I'm going to take your chips - be sure to put salt and vinegar on them for me, would ya?"

More on this throughout the day...

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Bri Yates sits down, in Dublin, with 92 runners...and Gareth Howard sits down directly to his left!

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Bri Yates is about to turn his cards over with a board of and a sizeable pot.

Bri shows for the straight.
Schmit Yves chuckles and shows and the pot goes to Bri.

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Dawn Cooke, Tony Blee and Laura Rhoden are all on the same table...

Tony and Dawn get into a raising war pre flop with one other player.

9 high flop sees Tony bet 2200. The third player folds and Dawn calls.

The turn is

Dawn bets 3500, Tony makes it 8k, Dawn calls (2nd or 3rd hand in here...)

River is

Tony bets 6k.

Dawn talks for a while..."you can't have QQ...you just can't...I have to call"

Dawn has the

Tony does indeed have

Dawn down to around 5k.

(Laura Rhoden and Tony Blee (left))

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Laura Rhoden raises to 300, Jonas Witdoek makes it 1200, Dawn Cooke calls and so does Laura.



Dawn and Laura check
Jonas bets 1500
Dawn's last 5100 goes in
Laura folds and Witdoek calls.

Dawn "I have nothing but I want to re enter ASAP) and shows

Jonas has

Dawn to dealer "Diamond please"

Dealer to Dawn "Anything else?!"
Dawn "Another diamond please"...

Dawn is off to re enter.

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Tony Blee calls from under the gun.

It folds to Adam Smith who makes it 550.

Robin Cross and Stig Peeters make the call along with Tony.

Tony bets 1k the flop

Adam raises to 4250.

Robin and Stig fold and Tony makes the call.

turn is checked by Tony

Adam bets 6500 and Tony fairly quickly calls.

Tony checks the river and mucks to Adam's

Tony still with a healthy stack and Adam adds a significant amount to his.

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Brian Yates with a raise to 425 pre.

He gets 3 callers - Luke Young, Hitendra Patel and Jerome Theis.



Hitendra bets 625, Jerome folds, Bri calls, Luke folds.

turn

Hitendra leads out again for 1200

Bri thinks and then calls.

River is

Hitendra fires the 3rd bullet - 2025

Bri thinks again before raising to 5500

Hitendra makes the call but he mucks when Bri turns over and Bri collects a nice pot.

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There is a raising war pre between Danny Op' Hof and Christopher Holzel.

It culminates in Danny shipping for around 20k ove rthe top of a 7.5k bet from Christopher.

Christopher has a think and a little talk "You have Queens? I think you have Queens"
Danny responds by saying "you hope I have Queens, I think you have Ace King"

Christopher makes the call and does, indeed, show

Danny shows the predicted



Danny doubles up and leaves Christopher with fumes.

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Laura Rhoden is walking away from the table looking unhappy...she says that Stig Peeters has had about 4 lots of pocket aces in the first 2 levels so far!

And, having run her pocket Jacks into his aces ealier leaving her with less than 10k, she then runs into the same guy's Aces for the rest!!

She is bust but being consoled by the rest of the gang and something about "more time for drinking" or something...when in Ireland....

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Dave Pilkington, having recovered from the disappointment of having to move table, is up to over 30k, he ships a board holding

He gets called by Aces! And hits the on the river to double up.

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Paul Shillibar sat on over 45k!

When asked what happened he just said "I've had pocket pair after pocket pair, I've had aces twice and they held, called and all in with AK and it held, had AA* on a J 10 Q board and had to call the other guys ship - he had AQ - it's just going really well"

Edited on correction - thanks Shill

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Christopher Holzel has recovered from the AK v QQ and has spun his 250 chip stack back up to 22k!!

[IrishTom]

Players on a short break, during which we have the top stacks, headed by Mark England

Mark	England	56,000
George	Williams	52,000
Debbie	Bantick	49,000
Robin	Cross	49,000
Matthew	Cromwell	48,000
Enda	Walsh	48,000
Luke	Young	47,000
Paul	Shillaber	45,000
Skipp	Vandenassem	43,000
Brian	Yates	43,000
Stephen	Reynolds	41,000
Stig	Peeters	41,000
Rickie	Buckland	41,000
Catherine	Lee	41,000
Garrit	Jan-B	40,000
Adam	Smith	37,000
Ilona	Parr	36,000
Steven	Lee	36,000
Marc	Raoul-C	32,000

and a few more select stacks:

Nye	Venables	28,000
Gareth	Howard	27,000
Tony	Blee	24,000
Danny	Op't Hof	24,000
Gary	Lipman	23,000
Tony	Trippier	18,000
Dawn	Cooke	14,000
Tracey	Baggott	12,000

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Jimmy Vegas up to over 40k - when I asked how he got the chips he responded "I don't know to be honest, I put a sign on the table saying 'Donations welcomed gratefully' and everyone was generous!"

I am filled in on the actual details - 6 way to the flop, Jimmy open ships the flop and is called by Mark Strahan.

Jimmy has
Mark has

No heart or deuce on turn or river and Jimmy gets the double!