APAT Cardiff - Sat Day 1B Updates/Blog

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Liam Alcock calls the all in shove of Alan Ellis for 11,700

Liam has
Alan has

Alan shakes his head at the flop.

But the turn and river means he gets the double to around 23k.

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Shirley Cole, in the small blind, moves all in for 8.8k
Bashir Ahmed in the big blind makes the call and shows

Shirley has and is at risk.

puts Shirley ahead

on the river and turn mean Shirley wins the pot and is now on around 20k

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Martin Wilson is busted when his sizeable river shove, on a board, turned out to be only Ace high meaning that John Rees" call with is good and he takes a huge pot!

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Richard Davies has also hit the rail.

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John Rees has raised and Tristan Chaplin moves all in for around 30k.

John says "I think you have the better hand but I have to call"

John has
Tristan has "I could do with this one holding up..."

and it does, Tristan doubles up to around 60k.


Robert Quinn isn"t so lucky and is out of the tournament.

As is Ken McBride.

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Scott Berridge is out having run his pocket 6"s into his opponent"s pocket Jacks.

Stephen Manning is also out.

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Last five hands announced, the clock is paused and the remaining 37 players will play 5 more hands before the end of the day - double or bust time...?

[Matt D]

There"s 173 runners in total over day 1a and day 1b, an increase of 35 on last year, proving that grass roots poker is alive and well in Wales

The prizepool of £12,975 will be split thus:

1..	£3,825	APAT Gold + £1,500 Destination Vegas Package (added value)
2..	£2,520	APAT Silver
3..	£1,580	APAT Bronze
4..	£1,080
5..	£710
6..	£540
7..	£420
8..	£370
9..	£310
10.	£270
11.	£230
12.	£210
13.	£210
14.	£180
15.	£180
16.	£170
17.	£170

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Liam Alcock busts right before the last five hands!

And Lukman Islam takes a chunk off John Rees when his pocket Jacks held up and got him the double vs John"s pocket 3"s.
Lukman had aroun 80k at the beginning of the hand.

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Jeffrey Hemmerman and Dave Kingswell at it again when Dave calls Jeffrey"s all in with

Only to see Jeffrey turn over

and Jeffrey"s flush beats Dave"s flush.

Jeffrey now on around 45k

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In the final hand of the night for their table, Dave Kingswell gets some chips back and knocks out Rhys Bullock.

Dave"s Ace queen holding strong against Rhys"

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Well, what a way to end the day...

on the board, around 35k in the middle already and John Rees has moved all in for around 30k

Marc Morris is deep in the tank and John is off on "talk" mode.

He talks, Marc thinks...Marc thinks some more, John talks some more...

Eventually, Marc flips in a chip to make the call.

John"s cards are shown and he has

Marc has As and wins the hand!!

There isn"t much in it, chip wise, but, John is out!

Marc has an impressive stack to take through to tomorrow.

[Matt D]

And that"s a wrap for the day.

"Whose stack is those chips?"

Well, it"s funny you should ask that as here is the leaderboard / chip counts from day 1a going in to day 2.

Pos	Forename	Surname	Chips
1	Lukman	Islam	156k
2	Tristan	Chaplin	103k
3	Marc	Morris	96k
4	Steve	Redfern	82k
5	Alex	Toporeanu	79k
6	Darren	Coleman	78k
7	Jason	Stephens	75k
8	David	Kingswell	72k
9	Stuart	Astbury	70k
10	Rais	Khan	65k
11	Manuel	Toporeanu	60k
12	Robert	Davies	51k
13	Alan	Vinnicombe	49k
14	Frazer	Bolt	48k
=	Mark	Trodd	48k
16	Jeffrey	Hemmerman	45k
17	Anthony	Gregg	43k
18	Gavin	Jones	39k
19	Martyn	Colmer	37k
20	Paul	Rice	35k
21	Guy	Gullen	34k
=	Wynn	Gibson	34k
23	Jason	Kemp	31k
=	Mark	Porter	31k
=	Warren	Jones	31k
26	Dean	Saunders	26k
27	Michael	Gale	24k
28	David	Reed	22k
29	James	Orchard	19k
30	Mark	James	18k
=	Oliver	Clark	18k
32	Bashir	Ahmed	16k
33	Shirley	Cole	14k

day 1a/1b combined leaderboard to follow.