APAT Season One - A Retrospective

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Event 21:  The Scottish Amateur Championship was held at Gala Maybury Casino in Edinburgh on April 14th & 15th. 

Starrs:  Scottish Amateur Champion, 2007

The event was a complete sell out and local player Phil Starrs took the honours when beating fellow Scot James Eccles heads up.  In winning, Phil took the title, £3,000 first prize, Cup, Gold Medal and entry to the Barcelona European Poker Tour event.

Eccles:  Scottish Silver

Richard Davies took the bronze, following up on his final table appearance at the Welsh Amateur Championship in February.

Davies:  Bronze Medalist

Other notable points finishers included Steve Talbot in 6th, Alan Brady in 7th, Duncan Hodgkins in 8th, Charlie Curtis in 9th, Terry Aylward in 11th, Glenn Wisbey in 12th and Michael Paterson in 18th.

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Final Table Introductions

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Final Result

The tournament report read like this:

Scottish Amateur Poker Championship Review

The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) held the fourth event in its first season, the Scottish Amateur Poker Championship in Edinburgh, over the weekend of 14th-15th April.

The event was sold out to a capacity of 130 entries, who qualified by a mix of live and online satellites and member draw. The players were once again offered a £75 freeze-out with 10,000 starting chips, a slow clock and significant added value from tour sponsors PokerStars.com via the form of entry into an EPT Season Four event to the winner in addition to their cash prize, trophy, medal and Player of the Year ranking points.  Amongst the runners were previous APAT Champions Daniel Phillips, Max Ward and Lee Mulligan.

Play got away at 2.30pm on the Saturday and despite the deep-stack two players departed in the first level. Newcastle finalist Vicky Glynn's pocket aces fell to Ken Jones who flopped trip threes and Thomas Stanfield flopped a straight and lost to a rivered full house. Player of the Year rankings leader Mark Donnelly was also an early departure, holding an over-pair on a seven high board against trips.

Early leaders included William McAllister who flopped three sets and rivered two flushes in the first level getting paid several times and Philip Toomer whose straight outdrew Terence Tochel's AA. Also amongst the early contenders were several players who were to feature strongly later in the tournament such as local casino player Phil Starrs, together with Charlie Curtis and Duncan Hodgkins. Also running well were Scottish competitors Scott Moore and Stephen Donnelly.

The field began to thin quickly as blinds rose through the 600-1200 and 800-1600 levels. Benefiting by building impressive stacks were Toomer (pictured) (75,000) and Starrs (60,000).

Towards the end of the first day the dispersion of the 1.3m chips in play had become very disproportionate. Londoner Alex Gabriel and Toomer had 200,000 between them with 50 runners left. Also on the same table were Craig Kelly and Dubliner Lloyd O'Farrell, both with chips. The effect was to leave every other table markedly short-stacked and players in push or fold territory.

At the end of the first day 20 players remained with blinds going 3,000-6,000, and the average stack 61,000. The five chip leaders were:

Alex Gabriel 156,000

Craig Kelly 127,000

Duncan Hodgkins 90,000

Richard Davies 85,000

Steve Talbot 77,500

Early on Day Two Charlie Curtis, who finished second in the APAT Online series Scottish Open, cut a swathe through the early departures knocking three players out by winning pair versus over-cards races. A key hand that was to shape the final stages of the tournament occurred with thirteen players left as the money positions started. Alex Gabriel raised in early position with AQ and was minimum re-raised by James Eccles from Alloa with AA. Gabriel, playing the style that had allowed him to accumulate his chips so fast on the first day, pushed and was of course called. When Eccles' AA stood up he had one a 220,000 pot, crippled Gabriel's stack and playing in only his second live tournament shot to the chip lead. On the final table bubble Welsh Championship finalist Richard Davies secured his final table position when knocking out Craig Kelly, AQ versus 10 10, all-in pre-flop with a Queen on the river.

The final table line up, with blinds at 6,000-12,000 was as follows:

James Eccles from Alloa 237,000

Phil Starrs from Whitburn 210,000

Richard Davies from Reading 190,000

Philip Toomer from Doncaster 170,000

Charlie Curtis from Doncaster 155,000

Duncan Hodgkins from Stratford-upon-Avon 119,000

Steve Talbot from Blackburn 96,000

Alan Brady from Hawick 66,000

Stephen Patterson from Stirling 58,000

The final table saw three former Championship finalists in Davies, Talbot and Hodgkins and four Scottish players positioned to win the title.

In the first part of the final table the key participant was Phill Starrs. On the first hand of the final he knocked out Charlie Curtis with both players moving in on a 10 9 2 flop, button versus big blind. Starrs' top pair queen kicker held on to defeat Curtis' A9. Then Starrs made a move on the button with Jx and pushed on a Jxx flop only to see Toomer turn over AA in the big blind on a cleverly played hand.

After eliminating these two players Starrs had nearly half the chips in play. Alan Brady and Stephen Patterson the two short-stacks then battled over several hands with Patterson finally prevailing to knock Brady out 7th.

There followed another key hand. Steve Talbot had been extremely aggressive in the prior action, moving in continually into unopened pots to secure the now high blinds. In the Small blind with Q8 he limped and Starrs in the big blind checked behind. Both checked a 7 10 Q flop. On the 5 turn, Talbot bet, Starrs raised and Talbot pushed in. Priced in to call, unhappily, Starrs did so and turned over 5 3 for bottom pair. When a 3 hit the river Talbot was outdrawn, to exit in 6th and leave Starrs in an even more commanding position. Patterson's long short-stacked grind ended soon thereafter to leave the final four players on the next bubble before the leap to bigger prize money, championship medals and a shot at an EPT seat.

In an inevitable confrontation Philip Toomer's QQ then raced James Eccles' AK in a 450,000 chip pot. A King on the flop propelled Eccles into serious contention and knocked Toomer out in 4th. Eccles then went on a serious tear, flopping the nut straight three handed blind on blind with Davies who flopped two pair. When the turn and river did not bring the needed full house Richard Davies was out in third. Nevertheless the ranking points secured had taken Davies into second place in the Player of the Year rankings a few points only behind Mark Donnelly.

Heads- up Eccles (pictured) began with a small lead but was playing a wily and far more experienced player. Starrs was taking advantage of this showing constant aggression to push Eccles off pots and put himself into a modest chip lead. Occassionally though this aggression turned into over-playing, which Eccles took advantage of, doubling up to restore his lead.

The crucial hand played out quickly. Starrs raised on the small blind with K9 and Eccles pushed with a pair of tens. Starrs instantly called and saw a miracle flop of K K 9 to leave Eccles visibly shaken and down to 85,000 of the 1.3m chip in play. Twenty minutes later, Eccles having doubled up twice in the meantime, the final hand saw Starrs take top pair and a straight draw against Eccles' up and down straight draw all-in on the flop. Eccles missed and Phil Starrs won the 2007 Scottish Amateur Poker Championship.

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Following the Scottish Amateur Championship, the Rankings race was really hotting up, with the top twenty plus places looking like this:

34   Mark Donnelly   dougal7878
31   Steven Talbot   SteveTheRake
30   Richard Davies   rhmd
29   Wayne Parker   nosey-p
27   Alistair Fowler   ironside
26   Antony Wolsey   Pilf
23   Duncan Hodgkins   duncthehat
23   Daniel Phillips   Kinboshi
21   Kevin Shutt   Zukertort
20   Linda Iwaniak   linziwan
18   Phil Starrs   PHILSTARRS
18   Alan Brady   alanb65
18   Charlie Curtis   jan c 59
18   Lee Mulligan   jjandellis
18   Max Ward   Spurs79
18   James Edwards   ThinkerJE
18   Nathan Zabala   xkngdcex
17   James Eccles   Eck68
17   Adi Royle                ad1976
17   Stephen Lacey   steveinhants
17   Aaron Gustavson   aguskb

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Event 22:  The South Amercian Open was won by Alan Lake, beating Steve Kerr into the Silver medal position and David Kehler into Bronze.

Lake: South American Open Winner

Other notable points finishers included Charlie Curtis in 4th, Jimmy Doran in 5th and Darren Newton in 6th.

Doran:  Adds To Points Total

Event 23:  The Russian Open was won by Glenn Wisbey who beat Stephen Jackson heads up with Michael Bodman taking Bronze.

Wisbey:  "Lighting Was A Bit Too Bright"

Event 24:  The Asian Open was won by Johnny Gibb, who beat Jack Prime heads up, with Ian Winter taking Bronze.  Other notable points finishers included Alistair Fowler in 6th.

Prime (pictured on right):  No stranger to a seat at the final table

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Prime (pictured on right):  No stranger to a seat at the final table

How"s Jack getting on?  Is he still in?

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Event 25:  The Dutch Open was won by Mark "sharky_uk" Briggs with Chris Greaves taking Silver and Mark Hayward taking Bronze. 

Briggs:  Dutch Open Winner

Other notable points finishers included Jack Prime, who took 6th at his second consecutive final table, Paolo Giovanetti in 7th and Mattie Milne in 8th.

Prime:  In from the cold

With players now preparing to go to Dublin for the Irish Amateur Championship, the Rankings table looked like this:

34   Mark Donnelly   dougal7878
31   Alistair Fowler   ironside
31   Steven Talbot   SteveTheRake
30   Richard Davies   rhmd
29   Wayne Parker   nosey-p
26   Antony Wolsey   Pilf
24   Charlie Curtis   jan c 59
23   Duncan Hodgkins   duncthehat
23   Daniel Phillips   Kinboshi
21   Kevin Shutt   Zukertort
20   Linda Iwaniak   linziwan
18   Matthew Milne   mattymillne
18   James Doran   FlyingPig73
18   Phil Starrs   PHILSTARRS
18   Alan Brady   alanb65
18   Lee Mulligan   jjandellis
18   Max Ward   Spurs79
18   James Edwards   ThinkerJE
18   Nathan Zabala   xkngdcex
17   James Eccles   Eck68
17   Adi Royle               ad1976
17   Stephen Lacey   steveinhants
17   Aaron Gustavson   aguskb

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Event 26:  The Irish Amateur Poker Championship was held on June 2nd & 3rd at the Fitzwilliam Cardroom in Dublin.  The event sold out in under 2 minutes and an incredible weekend of poker was in prospect.

Kieft:  Irish Amateur Poker Champion, 2007

The event did not disappoint with Dutchman Jacques Kieft taking the title, £3,000, Cup, Gold Medal and seat at the Dortmund European Poker Tour event.

Hartnett:  Battled To Irish Silver

Kieft beat Brendan Hartnett heads up in a thrilling battle, with Paul Townsend taking the Bronze Medal.

Townsend:  Bronze Medalist

Other notable points scorers in the race for the Rankings included Mark Donnelly with 10th place and Stephen Lacey with 11th place.

Donnelly:  Takes significant step towards Rankings title

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Poker Week Irish Amateur Championship Report

The tournament report read as follows:

Irish Amateur Poker Championship Review

The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) held the fifth event in its first season live series, the Irish Amateur Poker Championship in Dublin, on 2nd-3rd June. The event had 150 entries, who qualified by a mix of live and online satellites and member draw. The players were again offered a £75 freeze-out with 10,000 starting chips, a slow clock and significant added value from tour sponsors PokerStars.com via the form of entry into an EPT Season Four event worth $8,000 to the winner in addition to their cash prize, trophy, medal and Player of the Year ranking points. 

With the Player of the Year race only having three live events remaining, all the leading participants were present as they battled for the exciting prize, entry into the PokerStars.com sponsored WPT Caribbean Adventure Tournament in early 2008.

Play began at 2.30pm on the first day and early chip leaders included Dave Compton and Bob Taylor, Taylor being paid off with Quad Kings in a 16,000 pot on the second level to move to 26,000 with the blinds still 50-100. Also more than doubling their chip-stacks early on were Stephen Bayliff and Jim Owen. Local qualifiers Scott Prendiville and Neil Murphy were looking solid and Matt Doyle benefitted from flopping a flush against a set to move ahead.

Aisling Collins, one of over twenty ladies in the field, then eliminated Dewi James with AA versus KK to move towards the head of the field. Rankings leader Mark Donnelly then had a rush, moving to 45,000 with a double-up with a set of jacks on the flop against a set of twos and David Jones from Telford became the first player over the 50,000 mark with set over set and then a flopped straight against a missed nut flush draw with Donnelly progressing to chip leader at the dinner break.

Moving into contention as Day One moved towards a close were Patrick Tochel, Brendan Hartnett, Paul Townsend and John McGill but the leader was Donnelly, taking out a succession of shorter-stacked players until the last level when his aggressive style saw him lose chips. Instead David Jones from Yorkshire was paid off with top set against top pair whilst the likes of Tochel, previous finalist Steve Lacy and Des Farrell gathered menacingly behind.

At the end of Day One 20 players advanced to the second day with the chip leaders as follows:

David Jones 135,500
Steve Lacey 113,500
Doc Farrell 112,000
Martyn Sharp 112,000
Patrick Tochel 110,500

Play from 20 down to the final table was brisk as with blinds at 2,000-4,000
stacks needed to consolidate before a lot of play was seen. Stephen Hourie from Dublin knocked out two players in one hand with 17 left when four-flushing the nut flush on the river, King of Spades in his hand.

Sadly for him Mark Donnelly bubbled in 10th, though still securing valuable player of the year points whilst the key pots occurred with 12 players left. Patrick Tochel got into a raising war on a K xx flop, unraised, with KQ versus Steve Lister"s KJ. It held through the streets to make him chip leader. Meanwhile Brendan Hartnett found AA facing a short-stack all and Martin Zaffky"s push all-in with AK, and it held to send him to the final second in chips.

The final table line up in seat order was as follows:

David Jones from Leeds 197,000
Patrick Tochel from Glasgow 367,000
Brendan Hartnett from Brighton 245,000
Stephen Hourie from Dublin 123,000
John McGill from Dublin 103,000
Jacques Keift from Galway 119,000
Paul Townsend from Witney 189,000
Doc Farrell from Dublin 108,000
Brendan Byrne from Dorgheda 80,000

blinds beginning at 4,000-8,000.

First to depart was Stephen Hourie, AQ versus Townsend"s 88 all-in pre-flop. In eighth was John McGill, with what he hoped was live cards against a bigger stacked big blind: Townsend again. Doc Farrell was in 7th trapped by David Jones when hitting a King top pair on the turn but Jones had flopped trip Queens already and checked trappily. In sixth Brendan Byrne"s attempt to ladder short-stacked ended against Townsend (K3 versus A2)

Six handed Brendan Hartnett ran 99 into Kieft"s QQ, no help to leave him with 3 big blinds left before he staged a remarkable recovery quadrupling his chip stack against the odds. At this stage Townsend, Kieft and Jones were moving ahead around the 400,000 chip mark against Tochel, 250,000 and the trailing Hartnett.

When Hartnett doubled through Jones with KK versus AJ he had over 200,000 again and it was once more a five horse race for the title.  Two hands later Hartnett"s KK held up against Townsends" QQ to complete a remarkalbe recovery: 30,000 to 380,000 chips in one level. When after a quiet level he had AA hold on against the flopped flush draw of Jones he rose to a 600,000 chip leader, knocking Jones to the felt.

With Tochel and Jones now shortstacked the irrepressible Bendan Hartnett continued to lay waste to his opponents. First he knocked out Tochel in 5th AQ versus K9 all in pre flop and then Jones A8 versus Q8, both blind on blind battles.

Three handed the payers reached the medal positions with chip-counts as follows:

Brendan Hartnett 720,000
Paul Townsend 420,000
Jacques Kieft 390,000

Three handed did not last long as Hartnett took AJ against Townsend"s K 10, flopping a Jack with all the chips in pre-flop to enter heads-up with a big chip lead (2 to 1). Brave play by Townsend, clearly going for the win and the EPT seat but losing out on his gamble.

For a long time the Heads Up battle was even, with comparatively few pots but with Kieft gradually clawing his way back to parity by virtue of greater re-raising aggression. The key hand occurred in an unraised pot with Kieft flopping top two pair, Hartnett turning the straight and the board pairing on the river to give Kieft full house over straight and a big chip lead. Hartnett recovered slightly, flopping trips and being paid on the river.

The final hand saw Kieft take 33 against Hartnett"s KQ all-in pre flop. The 33 held to make Jacques Kieft the Irish Amateur poker champion, winning £3,000 and the EPT Season Four Seat.

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Event 27:  The European Open was won by Geoff Grant, beating Chris Greaves heads up.  This represented quite a performance by Greaves, who was winning his second Silver at consecutive APAT online final tables.  Ian Bennett took Bronze.

Grant:  European Open Winner

Other notable points finishers included Wayne Parker in 4th; now urgently looking to reduce Mark Donnelly"s lead in the Rankings, and Glenn Wisbey in 7th.

Event 28:  The Japanese Open was won by Andrew Mills, beating David Graham heads up for the title.  Nathan Zabala took the Bronze.

Graham:  Took Silver

Event 29:  The Australian Open was won by Paolo Giovanetti, who beat Simon Stepney heads up for the title.  David Taylor took the Bronze.

Other notable points finishers included Geoff Keddy in 6th and Brendan Hartnett in 8th, for his fourth Rankings placing.

Hartnett:  Consistent Scoring

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Event 30:  David Bennett won the Irish Open, beating Ger Smyth who took the Silver and Kevin McCann who took the Bronze.

Smyth:  Struck Silver

Other notable points finishers included Alan Lake in 4th, Paolo Giovanetti in 6th, Irish Amateur Champion Jacques Kieft in 7th and Glenn Wisbey in 8th.

Kieft:  Looking To Do The Irish Double

Effectively, the Online Series season finished with the Irish Open - leaving the five World Championship of Amateur Poker tournaments, the European Amateur Championship and the OnLive Championship to determine who would top the Rankings at the end of season one. 

After 30 events, the Rankings looked like this:

43   Mark Donnelly   dougal7878
35   Wayne Parker   nosey-p
31   Alistair Fowler   ironside
31   Steven Talbot   SteveTheRake
30   Brendan Hartnett   ericstoner
30   Richard Davies   rhmd
26   Antony Wolsey   Pilf
25   Nathan Zabala   xkngdcex
25   Stephen Lacey   steveinhants
24   Charlie Curtis   jan c 59
23   Duncan Hodgkins   duncthehat
23   Daniel Phillips   Kinboshi
22   Paolo Giovanetti   assocuori
21   Jacques Kieft   CRAIC
21   Glenn Wisbey   wizza
21   Kevin Shutt   Zukertort
20   Linda Iwaniak   linziwan
18   Alan Lake                smacl02
18   Matthew Milne   mattymillne
18   James Doran   FlyingPig73
18   Phil Starrs   PHILSTARRS
18   Alan Brady   alanb65
18   Lee Mulligan   jjandellis
18   Max Ward   Spurs79
18   James Edwards   ThinkerJE

However, with the five online events of the WCOAP taking place in a single week, their remained every possibility that one or two players could make a late challenge to Donnelly.

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The World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) brought a series of tournaments that were not all about Texas Hold'em. 

With Omaha, Stud and Razz events, in addition to a Hold'em heads up event and a No Limit Hold'em main event, it was expected that the experienced APAT online players would come to the fore over the week.  With that said, the week"s first winner knocked the "experience" theory for six straight away!

Event 31:  The WCOAP Pot Limit Omaha event was won by 18 year old James Dwinfour.  Dwinfour, winning his second medal of the series, beat Dominican Alejandro Espaillat into Silver with Malcolm Hepworth winning the Bronze.

Dwinfour:  First WCOAP Champion

It was essential that Donnelly"s closest competitors picked up points and Kevin Shutt did just that by taking 5th place.  Paul Townsend also picked up points in 7th. 

The overall quality of the tournament was exceptional, with 5 previous medalists making this first WCOAP final table.

Event 32:  The WCOAP Stud tournament was won by Maurice Weeks, beating Dean Jopson into second and Andrew Mills into third.  Both Martin Hadfield (6th) and James Edwards (8th) picked up Ranking points but live specialist Donnelly must have been quite happy with the way WCOAP week was progressing.

Event 33:  The WCOAP Razz tournament was won by Mark Holliday, with Dietmar Bartsch taking Silver and Ricky Laming taking Bronze.

Of the chasing pack, Kevin Shutt scored points for the second time in WCOAP week in 6th, as did Paul Townsend in 8th and Brendan Hartnett in 9th.

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Event 34:  The WCOAP Heads Up tournament was won by Paul Ward, beating Suraj Shah into second while Johnny Gibbs scored valuable points in securing Bronze.

Shah:  WCOAP Silver

Donnelly"s chasing pack continued to push, without doing quite enough.  Daniel Phillips took 4th, Rupinder Bedi took 5th, Alex Pattillo took 6th, Andy Lyon 8th and Mark Curwen 9th.

Bedi: First Final Table

Event 35:  The WCOAP main event was keenly contested and boasted APAT's highest online buy-in to date. 

Dacey:  On top of the world

PokerPlayer Strategy Editor Rick Dacey came out on top to secure Gold and the first WCOAP main event title, beating two Frenchman Jean-Michel Ballocchi who took Silver and Ferrando Sebastien who took Bronze.

Ballocchi:  Travelled from France for APAT live events

After an exhausting week of poker, the chasing pack were largely nowhere to be seen, with the exception of Alex Gabriel in 6th and Steve Kerr in 9th.

Gabriel:  WCOAP main event final tablist

Following the WCOAP and with two events left to play in season one, the Rankings now looked like this:

43   Mark Donnelly   dougal7878
35   Wayne Parker   nosey-p
31   Brendan Hartnett   ericstoner
31   Alistair Fowler   ironside
31   Steven Talbot   SteveTheRake
30   Kevin Shutt   Zukertort
30   Richard Davies   rhmd
29   Daniel Phillips   Kinboshi
26   Antony Wolsey   Pilf
25   Nathan Zabala   xkngdcex
25   Stephen Lacey   steveinhants
24   Charlie Curtis   jan c 59
23   Duncan Hodgkins   duncthehat
22   Paolo Giovanetti   assocuori
21   Paul D Townsend   townsend
21   Jacques Kieft   CRAIC
21   Glenn Wisbey   wizza
20   Johnny Gibb   Divitts
20   James Edwards   ThinkerJE
20   Linda Iwaniak   linziwan
18   James Dwinfour   JDforce
18   Alan Lake                smacl02
18   Matthew Milne   mattymillne
18   James Doran   FlyingPig73
18   Phil Starrs   PHILSTARRS
18   Alan Brady   alanb65
18   Lee Mulligan   jjandellis
18   Max Ward   Spurs79

The tour now moved to Luton for the APAT European Amateur Championship, a three day extravaganza with 300 entrants.  As expected, all of the key Rankings contenders were in attendance, the question became whether any could outlast Mark Donnelly through the largest live tournament of the season.

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After 36 events, 9 players can still win the APAT Rankings, although Mark Donnelly remains a hot favourite. 

In a twist as dramatic as the season itself, Donnelly will not actually be able to participate in the OnLive Championship tomorrow, leaving the Rankings as follows:  

43   Mark Donnelly   dougal7878

The other contenders who can win are:

35   Wayne Parker   nosey-p (needs to finish 10th)
31   Brendan Hartnett   ericstoner (needs to finish 7th)
31   Alistair Fowler   ironside (as above)
31   Steven Talbot   SteveTheRake (as above)
30   Kevin Shutt   Zukertort (needs to finish 6th)
30   Richard Davies   rhmd (as above)
29   Daniel Phillips   Kinboshi (needs to finish 4th)
26   Antony Wolsey   Pilf (needs to finish 1st)
25   Stephen Lacey   steveinhants (needs to win for playoff)
25   Nathan Zabala   xkngdcex (as above)

Unfortunately Nathan Zabala will be unable to play in the OnLive due to the US government restrictions now in place on online poker.

Parker, Hartnett, Fowler and Shutt in particular, have all shown tremendous consistency online througout the season and must be in with a great chance of getting down to the final table in tomorrow"s online section. 

Parker would win the Rankings if he achieved that.  Similarly both Hartnett and Fowler could also win the Rankings tomorrow prior to the Grosvenor Victoria live final table of this event.  The other contenders would have to make it to London as a minimum to remain in contention beyond tomorrow.

It"s going to be exciting.  Watch this space!

[jacklevel06]

Great review of the season Des.When my memory returns i will give a players view of season 1(Hope fully tomorrow)

[FlyingPig73]

Des, I have followed this today and it has been a great distract/relief from work.,.,

Good stuff - In fact; Genius.

[ThinkerJE]

Great memories, a fantastic first season.

To quote the Chairman, "Its been emotional"...