APAT Irish Amateur Championship - Live Update

[Des]

We"ve just reached the end of level 6 and players have gone on a ten minute break.

[SirPercival]

Good evening Des and the crew (is there a crew?)

Sorry I cant be with you all this weekend (back to Qatar tomorrow   )

Best of luck to all the usual suspects, particularly Ger  

[Des]

All relatively quiet here at the moment.  54 remain with ten minutes left on level 7, 200-400 (50).

The stream will be offline for a little while, but it would be useful to know whether it has added anything to the update?

[Des]

Miami Vice alert!



We"ve just lost Crockett and Tubbs in quick succession.


Davie Pilkington thought he had it good, getting his stack in with pocket Aces.  Unfortunately his opponent"s   connected with the   flop in an unforgiving manner, sending the Dubliner to the rail.  Irritating.



Elsewhere, Paulie D lost the opportunity to take an enormous pot when the following "internet hand" played out. 

Holding Ace Queen, Paulie found himself all in on a flop of   against the Big Blind with   and a mid table raiser with   .

To make matters worse, the turn brought the and the river brought the . 

Paulie actually retained some chips from winning the side pot but the key damage was done and he exited soon after.

[Des]

The event ran off with 81 runners and the euro payouts will be as follows tomorrow:-

1st   2200   Gold   GPS Seat
2nd   1400   Silver   
3rd   800   Bronze   
4th   600      
5th   350      
6th   250      
7th   200      
8th   150      
9th   125      

[Des]

Rollercoaster five minutes for Rita Galvin.

I caught her thinking hard on an all in push against her.

Finding the call, Rita tabled   and found her opponent holding  

The table is questioning how the relatively short Rita can be contemplating anything other than the preflop call, but Rita correctly stated that she felt her opponent had at least one over card.  As it happened, the board offered no help to her opponent and Rita raked in 29000 chips.

Rita told the table she"d always call with Aces, but similarly would consider any other hand carefully.

As she was talking the next hand was being dealt and UTG pushes all in.

"Call" says Rita.

Even the cleaning lady knew her hand and true enough she tabled the rockets.

Her opponent on this occasion tabled Jacks and Rita said, a Jack"s going to come.

And so she wrote.

Rita back down to just under 20k.

[Des]

Elsewhere on table Rita.

Matt Carter - 23k
Frank Bailie - 15k
Damian Bailie - 8k

Rich Baker - 13k
James Ellis - 30k

[Des]

Lee Wyatt just gone, Tens into Queens, ending a "rollercoaster" tournament.

[Des]

Damian Bailie pushes his last 8k in and is called by Matt Carter.

Bailie tables  
Carter tables  

The board tantilises  

Any Ace or heart will keep Bailie in.

Turn  

River and Bailie fails to outlast his father, sat at the same table.

40 remain.

[Des]

The stream is back on now.

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11493.msg183770#new

[Des]

Level 9, 400-800(100)

Rich Baker just out, with Jacks against Kings.  He"d lost a biggish pot a short while ago with King Jack against Ace King and couldn"t recover.

38 remain.

[Waz1892]

Unlucky Richard.

Good updates Des, just got back from a BBQ so can"t comment on how the live stream has gone.

[Des]

I reached table JP to find the man himself committing a rather sorry looking 7.5k stack UTG, without a call.

Sitting in seat one, JP told me how he"d lost half of his stack to seat two, when both hit trip Sevens.  JP was outkicked.  Ouch.

[Des]

Pocket sixes knocking out pocket fours on the stream just there.  They both hit sets on the flop.  Cruel game this poker.

[Des]

I only reached the table to see the aftermath of a big hand involving Chen Tam and Davie Croke.

Player one was all in with King Jack

Chen had the table covered with Ace Jack

Croke was all in with pocket Tens.

The board brought quads for Croke who is sitting now with around 75k.

Chen is down to just under 20k while player one exits.

37 remain and the players have just gone on a 20 minute break.