APAT English National Amateur Championship: Day 1 Live Update

[Ericstoner]

Great updateing from the team, I followed the day from my sickbed and longed to be there.

Good luck to the 20 odd players left for day two,whick i shell be following of course.

ul to bubbleboy Relph,.

hope to see you all in Manc.

[Paulie_D]

Another cracker from Des, Richard & the rest of the APAT Team.

Grosvenor Walsall also did us proud, especially Denny the TD(?) who kept everyone moving in the right direction.

BTW...anyone know what time the Casino opens Sunday?

[ShipTheLoot]

Any pics of the final 20? Want to see if the guy I made CL I think is still up there?

[Buck Pete]

Hi folks

Nice to see you again Des and sorry i didn"t say goodbye properly,

Got busted out during level 3 about 4.30pm when my KK ran into the dreaded aces.

At least i go a night out!!

good luck all left in.

[wilfuljoker]

Please say good luck to Tankman Dan from Judi and all at South West Meet Up Group.  To think he nearly didn"t play!!!!!!!  Go-o-o-o- Tankman.

[duncthehat]

Congratulations to all the players left for making the second day and good luck all, may the poker gods be with you!!!!

Great to finally have a chat face to face with other regular forum posters.

Big thankyou to everyone on tables 4 and 15 especially for putting up with my table banter and making the day a very enjoyable one.

[swainesworld]

how is Carl Lybert doing?

Cheers,

Shaun

[Shogun112]

I went out late last night mate..!!  Thanks for asking anyways, you should have asked last night when I was still in LOL...

[Bodddders]

Well what can you say another great success (apart from my poker). Great  to finally put some faces to names. Sir Percival, Duncthehat, Dingdell, Andrew T,  Rio Rodent, Paulie D and many others that I"ve probably forgotten (sorry).
Good luck to the final 20 and hope to see all of you again in the near future.

[technolog]

Great updates fellas. Thanks for another great day Des, Rich and the absent TK. I was disappointed never to get far above my starting stack despite a string of premium hands - just goes to prove the saying "there"s no such thing as good cards, just good situations".

Fellow blonde David Jones (LeKnave) administered the coup de grace when he met my AKos UTG short-stacked push with AA.

Good luck to everyone left in but especially Rich Offless, Darren Shallis, Andrew Tracey, Steve Talbot & Jon Spinks. Although it"s probably academic as Des" son Brendan will almost certainly take it down  

[tumblet]

Yes good luck to those still in and especially all blones ( )..

It was a good day, found myself batling hard all day, winning a couple of races, and nearly having my Aces cracked only for the one outed on the river to give me the higher set..
Nice to meet a load of new faces, and will be keeping an eye on today..

[ashhen]

I"d like to add my thanks to all who helped organise the day. I was chuffed not to be out first and somehow rode my way to 31st. I had plenty of fortune along the way, such as when my 85 crushed AK and every blag seemed to work for me. I guess I was storing up the karma for when I looked down at the second of my back to back cowboys and decided to reraise the bigstack but unfortunately he held the rockets.

Good luck to Tankman Dan - bring the trophy back to the southwest meetup group k, plz, thanks.

[asarge]

thanks to APAT for a great day. i went out in 60th position which i was well chuffed with what with over 200 runners. felt i played solid all day but lost a big pot late on with my AK against trip 10"s. really enojoyed my first APAT experience!! will be playing again soon!!
good luck to anyone stil in and i look forward to seeing all the pics from the event.

[Neishe]

 

And we"re in the money! Sadly, the gentleman who was eliminated in 22nd has left the building with his number, and nobody knew who he was. So we don"t have a name! We think it"s Neil though.


LOL. the gentleman eliminated 22nd was indeed the young, talented Neil Shellard. Having read somewhere that aggressive play around bubble time pays dividends, decided to make several grandstand plays running pocket sevens into kings and a-j into a-k. Unfortunately the best hand held up on both occasions leaving him feeling like something very sharp and pointy had been inserted into him, hence the dissappearing act.