APAT UK Online Championship - Saturday 10th January 8pm - Discussion

[APAT]

Fantastic tournament and well played everyone. 

The final result is as follows:

APAT United Kingdom Online Champion and Gold Medalist:-

Matthew Roberts (TheGeeny87), Cheltenham, Gloucs
1st prize - $3,186 plus a GUKPT Main Event Entry.

Silver Medalist:-

Bob Ballou (Misha001) - Bexhill On Sea, East Sussex
2nd prize - $1,829

Bronze Medalist:-

Brian Martin (I8Moons) - Middlewich, Cheshire
3rd prize - $1,180

All three will have an option to purchase an entry to the UK Amateur Poker Championship in Walsall, by contacting customer@apat.com prior to January 15th.

All three are members of the forum.

18 players have scored Online Championship ranking points.

Congratulations to Matthew, the finalists, and everyone who cashed.

[MAIR]

vwd every1 and congrats to Matthew, Bob & Brian.

[Dewi_cool]

well played thegeeny87, thouroughly deserved,

[scottyp]

Im not goin to bother posting my bad beat story here but if any of you were watching the final table then u will prob agree based on the stage of the tournament and the play pre-all-in, that has got to be the sickest beat I have ever had in my 2 and a half years playin poker.

it"s called LUCK mate - it sometimes happens in poker.  

i recall an occasion early on on the FT where you got lucky!

can"t believe some of the bad comments made about the eventual winner tonight.... "someone knock this donk out", not a desrved victory" etc..... the guy won fair and square.... may have got a bit lucky but there is no way you can completely luckbox your way through that tournament tonight.
Everyone"s a cardrack at some point!

I definetly dont remember me giving a suckout when I was 5% to win. But what can I say, used to it by now on big final tables.

Definetly not disputing the fact that everyone must have played excellent poker to carve through that field but the fact the final table was taken down by bad play getting rewarded is a shame. And may I point out that I never called the eventual winner a donk. Maybe that is APAT/Blue Sq"s fault for a poor structure that had the last 50 or so players were playing out an all-in fest. Definetly think the structure needs reviewing.

GG everyone, I really enjoyed the tournament but obviously with poker tour packages added to the top three, 400 odd dollars is not enough to take away the sick feeling i have at the moment.

[Zanshin]

Congrats WP guys  

[THEGUY84]

I do think it was a great tournament, but it did become very much allin or fold poker! there was very little play in the end.

[APAT]

TheGeeny87 came to the final table as the chip leader with 478k.  Shortly after the start, he was extremely unlucky to lose a 324k pot when his pocket Aces lost to BadCawl"s King Ten (all in pre flop), when a Ten hit the flop and River.

As far as I could see, TheGeeny87 choose to aggressively play out the tournament, rather than ladder up and while he got lucky in a couple of big hands, he met his objective and raised everyone off the table. 

Anyone moaning about this, particularly from the rail, should examine the level of luck involved in their chosen game imo.  

[WASP]

Well played geeny and good luck to you, he may have run good but was that his fault? and the stick was undeserved IMO.

I"m happy with 3rd, so I"ll see you all in Walsall, I"ll book the Village see you in the pool Des ;-)

[APAT]

I do think it was a great tournament, but it did become very much allin or fold poker! there was very little play in the end.

APAT will certainly look at the latter levels to see if we can smooth the crunch points.  Inevitably, it has to hurt somewhere along the line.

[Chipaccrual]

Right, so Gloucestershire and East Sussex 1st and 2nd.  I make that a right result for the Southern Players.  Bring on the National League.  

[THEGUY84]

yeah I totally agree with that "smooth sounds good " bad beat hurt less when there is some play before hand lol, then u can blame yourself!, would be great cause apat if growing from strength to strenght, I really enjoy bein part of what happening!

kenny

[HaworthBantam]

Right, so Gloucestershire and East Sussex 1st and 2nd.  I make that a right result for the Southern Players.  Bring on the National League.  

Are they players that have signed up to clubs, Leigh ?

[Chipaccrual]

Right, so Gloucestershire and East Sussex 1st and 2nd.  I make that a right result for the Southern Players.  Bring on the National League.  

Are they players that have signed up to clubs, Leigh ?

All part of the player pool Ian, no rush.  It will all be in place for the 1st Feb.  

[janc]

Nothing like a bit of controversy to start the season off, I"m sure that each and every one of us have got lucky and sucked out on more than one occasion.

[HaworthBantam]

Right, so Gloucestershire and East Sussex 1st and 2nd.  I make that a right result for the Southern Players.  Bring on the National League.  

Are they players that have signed up to clubs, Leigh ?

All part of the player pool Ian, no rush.  It will all be in place for the 1st Feb.