Grant's Glasgow Banter

[PHIL_TC]

Good News!!
Good News!!
Good News & Good Luck!!

+1 Looking forward to seeing you in Stoke mate x

[Santino67]

Good News!!
Good News!!
Good News & Good Luck!!

+1 Looking forward to seeing you in Stoke mate x

^^^^^This too^^^^^ It"s gonna be awesome mate  

[Santino67]

For those who don"t already know and haven"t seen my FB page. 30th November will see me play the Home International team event with my new, but as yet unformed, moustache. Strangely, this will have vanished when we sit down the following day for the individual tourney. Of course, it can only be Movember  

Myself and my colleagues/team mates had our final shave this morning so I"ll keep you posted with updates. If you"re keen to find out moreabout Prostate or Testicular Cancer, gain or raise awareness, or make a donation then please feel free to follow my link

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/3250113

Much Appreciated
Grant

[Santino67]

For those who don"t already know and haven"t seen my FB page. 30th November will see me play the Home International team event with my new, but as yet unformed, moustache. Strangely, this will have vanished when we sit down the following day for the individual tourney. Of course, it can only be Movember  

Myself and my colleagues/team mates had our final shave this morning so I"ll keep you posted with updates. If you"re keen to find out moreabout Prostate or Testicular Cancer, gain or raise awareness, or make a donation then please feel free to follow my link

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/3250113

Much Appreciated
Grant

5 days since my last shave and here"s an update   Please keep donations coming gang and many thanks to those who already have done. Promise I"ll dye it Blue for the APAT Home International if I raise enough money  

[Fatcatstu]

Im doing this aswell Grant. Got  a somewhat majestic Handlebar tache going on at the minute.

Put me down for some money when we meet in Stoke

[Santino67]

In work today at lunch time saw a girl heating up super noodles in the micro. Nothing wrong with that TBH.........until she whipped out a pair of chopsticks to eat them   WTF?

[SirPercival]

For those who don"t already know and haven"t seen my FB page. 30th November will see me play the Home International team event with my new, but as yet unformed, moustache. Strangely, this will have vanished when we sit down the following day for the individual tourney. Of course, it can only be Movember  

Myself and my colleagues/team mates had our final shave this morning so I"ll keep you posted with updates. If you"re keen to find out moreabout Prostate or Testicular Cancer, gain or raise awareness, or make a donation then please feel free to follow my link

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/3250113

Much Appreciated
Grant

5 days since my last shave and here"s an update   Please keep donations coming gang and many thanks to those who already have done. Promise I"ll dye it Blue for the APAT Home International if I raise enough money  

The guy lying down on the bed behind you seems to like your tash a lot!!

[Santino67]

For those who don"t already know and haven"t seen my FB page. 30th November will see me play the Home International team event with my new, but as yet unformed, moustache. Strangely, this will have vanished when we sit down the following day for the individual tourney. Of course, it can only be Movember  

Myself and my colleagues/team mates had our final shave this morning so I"ll keep you posted with updates. If you"re keen to find out moreabout Prostate or Testicular Cancer, gain or raise awareness, or make a donation then please feel free to follow my link

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/3250113

Much Appreciated
Grant

5 days since my last shave and here"s an update   Please keep donations coming gang and many thanks to those who already have done. Promise I"ll dye it Blue for the APAT Home International if I raise enough money  

The guy lying down on the bed behind you seems to like your tash a lot!!

Trust you to see some strange optical illusional phallic symbol  

[Santino67]

An epic weekend with so many highlights was had by all in Stoke and I can"t thank Des, Leigh & Matt enough for arranging these amazing events.

Thursday night was a riot with much alcomahol and the worst excuse for a poker cash game I"ve ever been involved in   Such fantastic company round that table made the whole night so memorable and the 5am finish didn"t dampen the spirits.

Friday"s team event was played in the best spirit ever with superb banter round the tables and some great play. I was chuffed to get off to a good start by winning my STT NLHE for 8 points. Apologies to big Curly for my terrible miss-read which saw me double up in the PLO against his double suited AA, but didn"t help me avoid going out 7th after playing like a complete novice. Very disappointed with my performance in that one, I got a point more than I actually deserved. The MTT gave me a chance to redeem myself and I was going along nicely up to 18k, but with blinds at 800/1600 didn"t leave much play. I duly ran my PP (77?) into the KK of Carl while he was running on DRS. That left me with a few BB"s and I duly went out shortly after in 14th place. After a very poor start for Scotland A Team I"m glad we played ourselves back into things, climbing from 7th to 4th and a shot at a bronze medal. Unfortunately we missed out on that after losing the play off to England B, who deservedly took the spoils. Big Thanks to Jo for choosing me to join the team, I hope to do the same again  

The individual main event on Saturday started badly after losing a few decent pots, 2 of these with QQ. I went down to 8k fairly early but clawed myself back into things midway through the day to reach about 30k. Crucial hand around this stage saw me flat a min+ raise & call on the button with KQ suited. On the flop of Q55, I had the rest of the original raisers 8k chips in the middle with 10/10, only to see a 10 spike on the turn and leave my stack pretty much crushed with the blinds now elevated. I never got going again after this and with blinds at 500/1000 shipped my last 12kish in with 88 only to run into Karen Mead"s JJ on her blind  

Huge congratulations go to my fellow Scots in the B Team for their Gold in the team event. They played a strong game throughout and were worthy winners. No disrerspect to the England B Team, but any other HU result would have been a travesty after the STT & MTT performances.

To the monster that is Carl Pilgrim, there"s no more can be said about his awesome achievement that hasn"t been covered already. I rate him hugely, both as a player and a man, he"s just legendary. Well done also to Adam Sharples and Stu Ward for their ridiculous "chop" in the Stud and to Darren Shallis on his PLO win.

APAT events never cease to amaze me. Just when you think you"ve been blown away on your last trip, another comes along to provide more enjoyment, laughs, friends and memories than ever before.

Here"s to the next one  

[Santino67]

For a fair amount of time now I"ve considered going back to play a bit on Betfair. Those of you who know me or read any of my blog will know it was a happy hunting ground for me over the first 2 or 3 years when I started out. Playing with changing APAT sponsors in last couple of years has meant I never got my Betfair account going again after withdrawing my funds when I got made redundant.

So I gave in to my demons recently and made a small deposit, started playing micro cash without making much real progress, then in past few nights started playing in tournaments. Last night I cashed in a late night $11 game, though only for just $24, then tonight ran deep in their $1500 guaranteed, finishing 4th of 371 to get $140+ for the cost of just $5.50  

Not massive amounts of money, but would love to get this account going again like I did before. Stick to the low buy-in games for now and see how things run.........I"ll keep you posted  

Cheers to GiMac, Shaz Roberts & Karen Mead for railing while I was into the 2nd half, much needed beyond 1am onwards  

[Santino67]

2 MTTs again last night and 2 min cashes, 24th of 159 in $11 game and 38th of 357 in $5.50. Happy with play in both though did get lucky on occasions. I was left pretty gutted in 2nd game, when towards the end I posted blinds 4 hands of 5 when BF decided I should move tables after my BB and moved me utg on my new table   With increasing blinds & antes and having been card dead, this damaged my stack in comparison with multiple Jagerbombs on Stu Ward"s grey matter  :"(

Still, another 2 cashes on BF so can"t complain  

It then left me some free time to rail Asa in his 500 runner $8.80 game on Stars, where he finished a very creditable (and profitable) 8th 6th 7th, very well done bud. Cheers again to those who railed us both over the evening, much appreciated

[Santino67]

How to lose friends and tilt people    

TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, T5-295345373-18
played at "Table #1" for USD TC from 2012-12-16 18:40 until 2012-12-16 18:41

Seat 1: Santino1967 (2,584 in chips)  
Seat 2: -DDDeen4ik- (823 in chips)  
Seat 3: llIIlIIIllII (6,820 in chips)  
Seat 4: jacek2121 (1,805 in chips)  
Seat 5: ChildInTime5 (1,830 in chips)  
Seat 6: FlyinFinn91 (1,710 in chips)  
Seat 7: V-Wulff89 (1,735 in chips)  
Seat 9: 586527 (3,605 in chips)  
Seat 10: Chr-Cobra-68 (2,420 in chips)  

ANTES/BLINDS
Chr-Cobra-68 posts small blind (15), Santino1967 posts big blind (30),

PRE-FLOP
-DDDeen4ik- folds, llIIlIIIllII folds, jacek2121 raises to 95, ChildInTime5 folds, FlyinFinn91 folds, V-Wulff89 calls 95, 586527 folds, Chr-Cobra-68 calls 95, Santino1967 calls 95.

FLOP [board cards: 9S,2D,KD]
Chr-Cobra-68 checks, Santino1967 bets 228, jacek2121 calls 228, V-Wulff89 folds, Chr-Cobra-68 folds.

TURN [board cards: 9S,2D,KD,6H]
Santino1967 bets 548, jacek2121 calls 548.

RIVER [board cards: 9S,2D,KD,6H,2H]
Santino1967 bets 368, jacek2121 calls 368.

SHOWDOWN
Santino1967 shows [ 6C,2C ]
jacek2121 mucks cards [ KS,JH ]
Santino1967 wins 2,668.

SUMMARY
Dealer: 586527
Pot: 2,668
Santino1967, bets 1,239, collects 2,668, net 1,429
-DDDeen4ik-, loses 0
llIIlIIIllII, loses 0
jacek2121, loses 1,239
ChildInTime5, loses 0
FlyinFinn91, loses 0
V-Wulff89, loses 95
586527, loses 0
Chr-Cobra-68, loses 95

[Santino67]

Well done to Cap"n Sef , Team Scotland and all our team mates for taking down the league again against tough opposition, and to Carl Pilgrim for winning the final game tonight, despite facing some adversity along the way.

Here"s to Season 7  

[Santino67]

A Huge Merry Christmas to one & all in APAT Land

[Santino67]

Hope you all have a great Hogmanay, Best Wishes for 2013.