Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Communities => APAT Central Poker Clubs => APAT Local Poker Clubs => West Midlands Poker Club => Topic started by: BOINGBLITZ on April 04, 2009, 01:51:19 AM
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A magnificent opening season for our new club ended tonight (Friday 3rd) in nail-biting fashion.
At the start there were four possible winners, with leader Brian Yates being the favourite as he could win the Title without playing tonight, providing other members didn"t do so well !
APAT UK Champ Steve Redfern was under pressure as he knew that he had to finish 3rd or better to have a chance, while both Chris Baker and Tony Trippier had to WIN tonight and then hope that neither Brian or Steve did well.
The game kicked off with a mis-deal by Tony Trippier !!.....but there then followed a monsterous hand where Matt McKinlay turned 2-pair with
8d 9s on a board of
ac :3d: 8c 9h
only for Ant Williams to have
ad1 ah
and somehow, Matt still had 1k of his 5k opening stack left at the end of the hand !
On the first hand of Level 2 we had our first casualty. On an innocuous looking
4c :2d: 7c
flop, Darren Hooper bet and was raised by Malcolm Howell in the BB.
The turn brought the
:2h:
and Malc pushed all-in with
:2c: 7s only to get insta-called by Dazza with
4d 4h
and so our Week 5 winner Malcolm was out in 10th place.
Short-stack Matt went soon after when his
7d 7s was called by Tony with ac js and the board went
6h ad1 5h 5d :as:
The first of the potential Title winners went when Chris Baker pushed all-in with
8d 8c and Ant called with qd ts
on a 7h 9c js flop and Chris was horrified to make trips when the 8s hit the turn to give Ant the straight and a massive chip stack of over 20k of the 50k in play.
Out in 7th was Maxine McKinlay, who was delighted to get a call when holding kd kh from Daz Hooper holding
6s 6d
but the board of qh qs 6c 8h 8s didn"t look so good !
It was now getting incredibly tense with favourites Steve and Brian still in but hardly able to play a hand, although Brian did shove all-in to Steve"s button raise, forcing him to fold.
The turning point came when Brian shoved from the button for 4300 chips with
ah 6s
and Tony, needing to WIN the tourney, called from the BB with
qd jd
The flop brought the js but despite there being 3 spades on the board by the turn, Tony"s pair held up to leave Brian with just 300 chips and facing scoring no points !!
This was confirmed 3 hands later when Daz Hooper"s 6s tc hit a flop of
6d 6h :3d: hard and Brian was out and left praying for help.
Paul Foy had a quite night and exited in 5th spot when his ad jc was dominated by Tony"s ks kc and there then followed a massive call by Tony.
Steve pushed all-in and tried to talk Tony out of a call. Tony put him on K-Q or similar and eventually called, tabling
ad1 8c . Steve was gutted as he turned over ac :2c: and his hand didn"t improve so his 4th place exit left him with zero points on the night and his chances of being Season One Champ were over.
Tony was now well in with a shout and knew that if he won toinight then the Title would be his. If not, then Brian would be crowned as Champion.
Soon after he pushed all-in on Dazza after he had raised and Dazza"s
8d 8h was dominated by Tony"s kh ks
But the flop had Brian woop wooping when it came down
5h 8s 4c
but the kd on the turn sent Daz to the rail with his first top 3 finish, leaving Brian gutted.
Now, only Ant Williams could stop Tony taking down Season One and Tony was first to push all-in on a
ad1 :3c: jc
board, which Ant almost called on but eventually folded to. Ant showed
jh which prompted Tony to show his kh 9d FOR A TOTAL BLUFF !!
Tony now had a slight chip-lead but soon after went all-in pre-flop with
9h 9s
Ant decided to call with
ah :3d:
The flop came
kc 7s :3s: to give Ant a few extra outs.
the 4s was no help and when the qh hit the river Tony Trippier became the first ever Black Country Poker Champion.
It was a gripping end to a great 6 months and has been enjoyed by everyone so much. The Final League table is listed below.
1 TONY TRIPPIER 45
2 BRIAN YATES 43
3 STEVE REDFERN 43
4 CHRIS BAKER 36
5 PAUL FOY 31
6 DARREN HOOPER 28
7 MARCEL FURET 26
8 MATT McKINLAY 23
9 MALCOLM HOWELL 19
10 PAUL MELIA 19
11 ANTHONY WILLIAMS 17
12 MAXINE McKINLAY 12
Tony wins the BCPC Trophy, sponsored by the New Talbot, a trophy to keep for himself, plus a £550 entry into the GUKPT Summer Series event at Walsall on June 27th where he will represent all the Club members from Season One.
Season Two cannot come round quick enough !!
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Chers Brian , i think im not alone in saying thanks for all the work you have put into setting up the BCPC league and making it the success it has become. Heres to season 2 where Tony T"s Tripp Twos Take Title cud be a possible end of season title. 9c 9d da new nuts 8)
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Thanx for the kind words Tony.....the club will go from strength to strength and we WILL produce Champions from it in the future.........Oh.......and thanx also for showing me how to call an all in with qc jh !!
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Teams for the DTD event in the first week of August, collated based on finishing positions in Season One and availability of players to play, are as follows....
A-TEAM
Tony Trippier
Brian Yates
Steve Redfern
Paul Foy
B-TEAM
Matt McKinlay
Malcolm Howell
Ant Williams
Maxine McKinlay
Cost is £110 each and I will need the money at the game on April 24th please guys.
This is a 2-day event so we will sort out mutual transport and / or accomodation later.
I will be entering these teams early this week.
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Brian - thanks for your efforts with this.... can"t wait for S2
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The Club is only as good as it"s players and without you boys there wouldn"t be one....I just try and hold it together !
We shall recommence hostilities in a few weeks Steve.
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well done tony. played like a rock on friday.hope you can do it in the big 1. come on the stripper. but next season its got my name on it.lol.
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well done tony. played like a rock on friday.hope you can do it in the big 1. come on the stripper. but next season its got my name on it.lol.
more like played like a cock lol woop woop
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yes well done boing boing my tip for next season is maxine lol
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yes well played all..... oh and tony
looking forward to next season picking up my trophy MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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bit of a shame that only 6 registered for tonight"s satellite though...... I guess the rest were just skeeeeered.
if these sats keep failing to make the numbers.... I can see BSQ stopping putting them up for us if we can"t get minimum 10 runners.
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hey steve, i couldnt find this sat, was it in private section or somthing?? i was going to play it.
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hey steve, i couldnt find this sat, was it in private section or somthing?? i was going to play it.
was in the main Scheduled Tournaments tab....