APAT UK Amateur Championships and Festival: Live Update

[AMRN]

I couldn"t believe you all left (you could have let yourselves get blinded away for the first level). I had a train booked and was thinking of just buying a new ticket and staying. He had a £300 stack when I went as well, although I"m sure he managed to lose it all.

Rodders - I can"t put a face to your name.... which seat did you have at that table?

[coprey]

Just checking the outcome of the weekend this morning and was delighted to see John Murray take the main event. Richly deserved by a very consistent and committed APAT player. Well done John!  

[pables]

Fantastic result John long overdue a worthy winner.

Fantastic weekend my poker prowess aside

Well done APAT and what great food and service from the Vic.

Will post properly when the mists clear as lots to talk about, and very unlucky Paul McGuinness. (Leader of the Unbluffables)

Ian

Nice to meet you Ian.

Likewise Jack, I hope the rest of this season is as good as the craic at the Vic.

See you at DTD if not before.

Ian

[PantsMan]

Another great weekend. Fantastic result John. Had to come eventually and great to see you take it down.

Many thanks to all at APAT for making these events better each time. Can"t wait for the next one.

To Joe, Charles, Gareth, and Gareth"s Dad.... we really should have let the Razz go and stayed with that plonker on the cash table. Moving was definitely -EV.

Many thanks to all of you for leaving a seat free for me on that table. £300 profit in 30 minutes. That guy was the best ATM i"ve ever played against. I"m all in, insta-call. Ooops, what you got. J-5 for third pair. Oh, i"ve got pocket aces, i think i win.    I was ready to offer to lend him some money when he finally left!

[kinboshi]

Congrats John.  Another one who"s been banging on the door long enough - "bout time you actually won one.

[AAroddersAA]

I couldn"t believe you all left (you could have let yourselves get blinded away for the first level). I had a train booked and was thinking of just buying a new ticket and staying. He had a £300 stack when I went as well, although I"m sure he managed to lose it all.

Rodders - I can"t put a face to your name.... which seat did you have at that table?

I started off sat to the right of the guy who was calling everything and stacking off with everything then rebuying. When you all left I took Gareths seat so I had position on the guy. It still didn"t work, the only time I hit a hand against him he folded :-)

[stone]

Excellent weekend - yet again the structure of the Main Event shines through plenty of room for some creative plays with  97 suited, sometimes those hands like that can crack  aces (Sorry Brian   ). No complaints of my exit got too busy with QQ and lost a race. This did give me time to try out the "Frank Scoblete Super System" at the craps table, for those interested its a long winded "Do/Dont" strategy with occasional odds. Its fair to say it drove the dealers mad! On the fantastic statistical sample of 1 it sure works well! (Thanks to the brothers Willaims for the rail)!

Thanks to some hard earned Hilton honors points had a restful night and pleasant GrandPrix watching session, then off to the Vic for some early morning Cash action. Just two games going £1/£1 (deep stacked one guy £800) and an invitation to join a small £5-£10 err no thanks (BTW one guy had £50K stack I kid you not). Steady start at the wee table, did well not to get felted when my 7"sFull of 9"s was looking a looser I did put him on a nine but not two of them, some how folded! Steve joined and we seemed to aviod any nasty accidents. Then the chap below joined!

Another great weekend. Fantastic result John. Had to come eventually and great to see you take it down.

Many thanks to all at APAT for making these events better each time. Can"t wait for the next one.

To Joe, Charles, Gareth, and Gareth"s Dad.... we really should have let the Razz go and stayed with that plonker on the cash table. Moving was definitely -EV.

Many thanks to all of you for leaving a seat free for me on that table. £300 profit in 30 minutes. That guy was the best ATM i"ve ever played against. I"m all in, insta-call. Ooops, what you got. J-5 for third pair. Oh, i"ve got pocket aces, i think i win.    I was ready to offer to lend him some money when he finally left!

He was literally throwing his money away happy days! I was literally in every pot as the implied odds of hitting a pair draw were simply too high. I did make a few embarrasing mistakes against him, raising with  :: on the Btn some how I end up betting £12 into a small pot on the river and getting called, Steve nearly fell off his chair laughing rightly so! I was able to profit though and got myself unstuck from £200 in the hole so that felt good.

Razz was excellent fun and a great addition to the weekend schedule, sorry I couldnt fold any hands before 5th street!

All in all a great weekend, well done to John and Don who I shared a table with.

Special thanks to all the folks who make it happen at APAT simply the smoothest run event ever, time after time after time.....

[scouse3465]

Well done john great result mate !! congrats to Don for 2nd too and all other finaltablists

[Chipaccrual]

Well done john great result mate !! congrats to Don for 2nd too and all other finaltablists

Good to see you at the weekend Steve.

I think we can safely say Kitty Lea has vastly increased her poker knowledge having been sat next to you for quite a few hours on Saturday.

I"m sure she is destined for poker stardom now.  

[Roscopiko]

Weeeeeeeee cracking result John and not before time wpwpwpwp

[Fonzie14]

Thanks to Des and the team and all at Vic for a great weekend.

Congrats to John on his win.

Nice to put faces to a few of the names on the forum, at least I know who I"m donking my chips off to now  

[nyerun]

Thanks to Des and the team and all at Vic for a great weekend.

Congrats to John on his win.

Nice to put faces to a few of the names on the forum, at least I know who I"m donking my chips off to now  

ditto to you, and wd on the win in the razz!

also again a big congrats to John Murray, the nearly
man has done it, although I think a mention of Darren Shallis, APAT shark is also needed, for now having 5 final tables is an amazing acheivement!!!

Again the weekend was superb throughout and was good fun with good poker (barring mr redfern, slowrolling git ) and meeting more new faces and talking with regulars and just generally having an enjoyable weekend, even when I donked off all my cash profit alongside Cyntaf at 4am!!

Hope to see many of you in Aberdeen!!!

[Cyntaf]

Razz, Congratulations to Steve for taking the razz comp, also to Alex and Claire.
WP also to Jean-Michelle and Dai LLewelyn (whom i spent the first table with) along with the rest of the unbluffables
Absolutely fantastic, Charles, Dai, Jean, Ian,Mike and Dan, Quality all around. Thank You all.
Very well played to JP and Steve redfern for going deep again(F.T.)

Others in the main event, special mentions for Darren Shallis and Andy Overton for going deep once again, DAz another F.T. great going m8y.
Dylan just missing out on the F.T. Quality and consistent, it"ll come Dyl

Aneurin managed to coax me back to the cash tables later on sun/Mon morning. I got him for you Aneurin..lol so i recouped quite a bit of Fridays Mis management, when i managed to get it all in(the alchohol that is) and my chips
So three 5:30 finishes out of three....wow great fun guys to everyone we shared a beer and a chat with, far too numerous to mention, but thank you all again. Apat weekends FTW

Sure I"m repeating this but it"s worth it, Well played John"Mr everpresent"Murray, Don Alan and the rest of the F.T"ers
All the Apat Team, "n Vic Staff, THank you for another top time in London.

P.S. Andy i still love Rudders more Tia Maria and Baileys?? WT??

[technolog]

Claire MacGregor exited in 3rd place for £140 when getting it all in and finishing with 10 low to Steve Marskell"s 7 low.

Wiiiiiiiiii

So Steve Marskell wins £300 and a Pro Event Seat worth £250, very well done

Wiiiiiiiii

Well done both.

[Chipaccrual]

Ok so lets wrap this up

Well done to all players who cashed today and commiserations to those that didn"t but a great time had by all no doubt.

The Razz was wrapped up by 1030pm and congratulations to Steve Marskell for winning the Razz side event!

Claire McGregor exited in 3rd place for £140 when getting it all in and finishing with 10 low to Steve Marskell"s 7 low.

And Steve beat Alex Gardiner with 8 (8752A) low to Alex"s 10 low (10752A).

So Steve Marskell wins £300 and a Pro Event Seat worth £250, very well done

Finishing positions and money as follows;

1st Steve Marskell £300+ APAT Pro Event seat
2nd Alex Gardiner £220
3rd Claire MacGregor £140
4th Jean-Micheal Ballocchi £80
5th David Llewellyn £60
6th JP Round
7th Steve Redfern

Congratulations to all.

Bed time  

Specialist Series Razz winner - Steve Marskell