What a time to get disconnected. Last I saw of the game, we had 5 players in the top 11, despite being short-handed this week, so it was looking like it could be a great night for Solent. And so it turned out - we won in style, with 4 players scoring in the end:
2 miniminttrav
6 19Diablo67
10 BitofaTart
19 chrismn71
steveinhants was also well up there for a lot of the night. Not sure where he finished in the end due to my disconnection, but if you get several players deep into the tournament, some will break through to the end and some will go out for whatever reason, so his contribution also counted. I see from other posts that we had 5 in the last 22 and 6 in the last 26. It must have been great near the end. I assume Solent had it won well before the finish.
What can I say about Dan Shaw (miniminttrav)? What an amazing day! He won a large MTT on Ladbrokes in the morning, final-tabled a live tournament in the afternoon/evening, arrived late to half a stack and went on finish heads-up in his first APAT event. Welcome to the team.
Playing only his second game for us, Steve Blank (19Diablo67), was near the top most of the game and also made the final table. Viv Barber (Bitofatart) had a cracking game, leading for a substantial part of it. And Chris Nicholas (chrismn71) again scored for the team, as he did last season.
And I missed it. Disappointed to lose connection when I was in the top 10. That position came courtesy of Bitofatart, who doubled me up from 9.xk to 19k when we got all-in against each other pre-flop QQ v AK. I was surprised when she called my all-in reraise - no soft treatment on the Solent team! Two more
sealed the matter though, as it happened, it would have been better if she had kept the chips.
To our non-scoring players, those who just missed the points and those who finished further down - keep playing, cos these things go around.
So a great team performance and some great individual performances as Solent stormed it. Watch out - we"ll be at full strength next time!
