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Title: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: APAT on April 12, 2008, 14:11:16 PM
The next event of the APAT Online Series; the Bulgarian Open, will take place on Saturday April 12th at 8pm.

The event can be found through the Tournaments / Specials / APAT tab on the Blue Square client, for an entry fee of $10 + $1. 

Players will start with a 5,000 chip deepstack, with the top nine scoring APAT ranking points and the top three securing APAT gold, silver and bronze medals.

The Blue Square poker client can be downloaded from the home page of www.apat.com. 

Good luck to all participating players!
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: AMRN on April 12, 2008, 16:33:23 PM
further to all the debate about the "right" size for the starting stack for these tourneys, I have to say that I think 5000 is much better than 4000......


..... especially seeing as I won"t get home til gione 8.30 tonight!!!

Feel free to nick my blinds - just leave me a few chips to play with please :)
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: biffa85 on April 12, 2008, 18:52:59 PM
Agree 5000chips much better tourney than 4000. 

All I"m hoping for is not to get set over set tonight!

See ya all at the tables

;D
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: monkeyman on April 12, 2008, 21:10:19 PM
Only 10 out before the first break and no banter on here? Wakey wakey folks.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: AMRN on April 12, 2008, 21:15:02 PM
just got home at 21:10 - wife and 9 year old son have done me proud - came home to 5900 chips!! way to go!!!
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: monkeyman on April 12, 2008, 21:16:23 PM

just got home at 21:10 - wife and 9 year old son have done me proud - came home to 5900 chips!! way to go!!!

 Any chance they could use my account next time?
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: monkeyman on April 12, 2008, 22:10:41 PM
made the 2nd break again somehow. This is the point at which I normally self destruct in spectacular style
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: Newportlad on April 12, 2008, 22:15:01 PM
Yep. Made 2md break with 14.5K

Now to try and make the 3rd break.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: AMRN on April 12, 2008, 22:27:35 PM


just got home at 21:10 - wife and 9 year old son have done me proud - came home to 5900 chips!! way to go!!!

 Any chance they could use my account next time?


I wish I"d left them to it!! Made second break, but not much further.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: monkeyman on April 12, 2008, 22:36:27 PM



just got home at 21:10 - wife and 9 year old son have done me proud - came home to 5900 chips!! way to go!!!

 Any chance they could use my account next time?


I wish I"d left them to it!! Made second break, but not much further.

There"s a moral somewhere in that tale!
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: monkeyman on April 12, 2008, 22:48:08 PM
Oh dear. Out in 15th with QQ against KK
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: texfitz on April 12, 2008, 23:18:01 PM
still in, 2nd with 7 left :)
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: bigalhx3 on April 12, 2008, 23:23:09 PM
in 1/5
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: texfitz on April 13, 2008, 00:11:30 AM
gone in 3rd
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: monkeyman on April 13, 2008, 00:14:04 AM
well played all. See you in Scotland  
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: bigalhx3 on April 13, 2008, 00:27:37 AM
wp tex i went on to win it  ah qh V ac :3c: and it held up
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: APAT on April 13, 2008, 01:21:41 AM
Very well done Alan and the other finalists.  

Bad beat of the day had to go to John Williams, who was denied access to play through Blue Square because he was on holiday....in Bulgaria, doh!  

Qudos to John for loyalty though  :)
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: jacklevel06 on April 13, 2008, 09:50:39 AM
Nice result Alan.It was good to see the apat players put that idiot ,who was givivg out the verbals on our earlier table in his place.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: texfitz on April 13, 2008, 09:51:23 AM

wp tex i went on to win it  ah qh V ac :3c: and it held up


well done fella, i was getting short so had to push with sh*te.

Oh well Bronze is good
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: bigalhx3 on April 13, 2008, 10:07:13 AM

Nice result Alan.It was good to see the apat players put that idiot ,who was givivg out the verbals on our earlier table in his place.


he must have had a couple of beers bless him
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: monkeyman on April 13, 2008, 10:09:48 AM

Nice result Alan.It was good to see the apat players put that idiot ,who was givivg out the verbals on our earlier table in his place.


I was unfortunate enough to be on 2 separate tables with that numpty and you"re right, he was firmly put in his place by those around him. In some ways I"d love to see him back next time because there"s a certain amount of pleasure seeing someone that lippy playing so badly and failing to cash
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: Divitts. on April 13, 2008, 10:49:44 AM
What was their name?
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: jacklevel06 on April 13, 2008, 10:57:16 AM

What was their name?
I"ve got it written down is case it happens again.I"ll give him the benefit of the doubt this time.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: monkeyman on April 13, 2008, 15:11:47 PM


What was their name?
I"ve got it written down is case it happens again.I"ll give him the benefit of the doubt this time.


I think I can remember his name as well What does everyone else think about naming and shaming? After all, at one point he did call everyone else at his table "poker playing c***s"
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: HaworthBantam on April 13, 2008, 17:49:23 PM

Personally, I would expect Blue Square to take action against this player, and if not I"d have to ask why ? Would such language and disrespect be tolerated in a casino ?
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: APAT on April 13, 2008, 19:57:28 PM
Please pm me the player"s name.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: monkeyman on April 13, 2008, 22:02:00 PM

Please pm me the player"s name.


message sent to the customer services email address. Hope this is OK
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: FlyingPig73 on April 13, 2008, 23:23:48 PM


Personally, I would expect Blue Square to take action against this player, and if not I"d have to ask why ? Would such language and disrespect be tolerated in a casino ?


Ian these are my thoughts.... I would like to see online cardrooms punish offenders with more severe punishments for using abusive langauge....

You are quite right in what you say, it would not be tolerated in a casino, so why should we put up with it online?
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: HaworthBantam on April 13, 2008, 23:46:24 PM



Personally, I would expect Blue Square to take action against this player, and if not I"d have to ask why ? Would such language and disrespect be tolerated in a casino ?


Ian these are my thoughts.... I would like to see online cardrooms punish offenders with more severe punishments for using abusive langauge....

You are quite right in what you say, it would not be tolerated in a casino, so why should we put up with it online?


Agreed Jimmy.

I also have another, related, beef with online poker - offensive user names.

I know that PokerPlayer magazine ran a "name and shame" series last year, and good for them. But I also notice that the online cardrooms have chosen not to do a damn thing about it - just one of the reasons why I have very little respect for online poker.

Would our own sponsors, BlueSquare, be prepared to do something about the offensively named players on their own database, or, like all the other online cardrooms, is the money far more important to them ?
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: tumblet on April 14, 2008, 10:24:00 AM
What do you class as offensive name ?..
What is offensive to one person is not to another and i"d be interested to see, where u draw the line.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: HaworthBantam on April 14, 2008, 10:48:30 AM
Pm"d you Scouse, as the example I"ve quoted I"d rather not post on here.

I agree that what one person may find offensive, another may not. But, there are some obvious usernames out there that could only be in use by some burberry/shellsuit/hoodie clad chav or ned, that are so obviously offensive that it astounds me how an online poker room could let it through the sign up process.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: tumblet on April 14, 2008, 14:41:38 PM
Thanks for the PM..

The problem for me is as I said, the online community (actual poker players) should be 18 years of age, and in this day and age, not many things go past a 12 yrs old, never mind a 18 yr old.

Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: slider on April 16, 2008, 16:24:16 PM
if he was giving out to all of the table it wouldn"t of bothered me, you can always  group together to shame him, if possible. if he was directly giving out to me, i am more than capable of returning the abuse. Although provoked wouldn"t that make me the same as him  ???
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: AMRN on April 17, 2008, 09:48:55 AM

if he was giving out to all of the table it wouldn"t of bothered me, you can always  group together to shame him, if possible. if he was directly giving out to me, i am more than capable of returning the abuse. Although provoked wouldn"t that make me the same as him  ???


...... and in so doing you are taking your eye off the game! I often think that these mouthy idiots are actually much cleverer than we give them credit for. If you feel you need to react, just close the chat box.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: HaworthBantam on April 17, 2008, 10:33:17 AM

If he was directly giving out to me, i am more than capable of returning the abuse. Although provoked wouldn"t that make me the same as him  ???


Indeed it would.

It might also result in an APAT ban for yourself.


...... and in so doing you are taking your eye off the game! I often think that these mouthy idiots are actually much cleverer than we give them credit for. If you feel you need to react, just close the chat box.


Good advice.
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: tumblet on April 17, 2008, 11:12:38 AM


If he was directly giving out to me, i am more than capable of returning the abuse. Although provoked wouldn"t that make me the same as him  ???


Indeed it would.

It might also result in an APAT ban for yourself.


BAN SLIDER IMO...   ;D ;D
Title: Re: Online Series - Bulgarian Open
Post by: slider on April 17, 2008, 14:49:23 PM
lol scouse, turning the chat off seems best as giving back to him would take me away from the game  :)