APAT UK Team Championship - Live Update

[Matt D]

Monster hand between Cecilia and Dave.

Blinds 15k/30k/3k

Dave completes from small blind. Cecilia in the big blind throws 60k more in. Dave raises to 160k. Cecilia shoves all in, and Dave semi-relunctantly makes the call for his entire stack of 540k.

Cecilia
Dave

A scary flop of gives Dave the sweat, but he manages to fade the turn and river, and doubles up to 1.2m, and the new chip leader. The Geordie rail go nuts!!

Cecilia is down to 600-ish k.

[Matt D]

And the biggest pot of the tournament award goes to the following hand:

Ben raises to 70k from small blind. Dave repops it, and ben ships all in. Dave calls and shows pocket Queens.

Ben shows .

The board is dealt:



The turn card is a scary looking

But the meaningless on the river gives the pot (and it"s a huge one at 2.4m!!)... Ben is left with 250k-ish. Cecilia has the rest (350k)

[Chipaccrual]

1	1	Dave Stephenson	Newcastle Poker Forum	2400000
1	7	Cecilia Sparke	Bristol & SW Poker Meetup	350000
1	6	Ben Walton	Gambling Network Forum	250000

[Matt D]

A shortstacked Cecilia shoves all in with As and is called by Dave"s



Cecilia finishes 3rd for £500 and an APAT Bronze Medal!

[Matt D]

We are now heads up between Dave Stephenson of Newcastle Poker Forum (2,400,000) and Ben Walton of Gambling Network Forum (600k)

[Matt D]

Ben doubles up to just over 1m, then again to just over 2m when his is good vs on a board.

It is now 2-1 in chips in Ben"s favour.

The final table continues....

[Matt D]

Ben raises to 80k. Dave repops it to 200k-ish and Ben shoves all in (2.1m).

Dave says "F**k it" and makes the call.

Ben shows

Dave shows

The board is dealt:



And Ben scoops!

Dave Stephenson takes 2nd place, £750 and an APAT Silver Medal!



Ben Walton takes 1st place, £1000 and an APAT Gold Medal!!

[Matt D]

And that concludes the APAT Team Event.

A massive congratulations to all who cashed and the teams who medalled, or who beat previous personal bests!

Gambling Network complete a historic double (they were also winners of last seasons Team Championships), on the same day that Ben Walton wins a historic Double Gold for one event!

A huge thanks to all the dealers, valets, and staff at GCasino Luton who once again have been amazing hosts for an APAT weekend!

More to follow tomorrow, but Leigh and I are absolutely bushed, so off to our beds! G"night all! Until next time!

[Gorvacofin]

Congrats Walty!

[rodbuck]

Wow, well played Ben, awesome result and well deserved.

Just a big thankyou to Leigh and Matt for hosting a fantastic event, and to all the teams that took part. The 2 days were played in a fantastic spirit and we had a lot of laughs. A big shout out to the dealers aswell, very professional.

And last but not least, team GNF. Paddy, J.P., Andy, Dann, Ben, Tom and Phil. Great bunch of lads and a pleasure to be their Captain.

Well done guys, hat-trick ball next year!!!

[suzanne]

Weeeeeeeeeee WELL DONE BEN!!!! but how?   Congrats babe xxx

PS GNF ban for next year please.....and well done to the team x

[HOLDorFOLD]

Another brilliant APAT weekend!!

Well done to all the cashers and winning teams and a superb double to Ben and GNF!!!!  Staff at Luton as always doing a grand job (also providing Matt with his debut of APAT dealer he he), and shout out to Leigh (still loving the dynamite idea) and Matt for the updates coping with an intermittent net connection.

As usual the banter was flowing (as well as the beer) ... and again met up with old friends as well as making some new ones.

A lot of illness was flowing around and hope that Carl and Curly are feeling a lot better soooooon!!!!  Was an honour to be picked to represent APAT Forum team and felt sick to my stomach at my quickest ever APAT exit ... on a game that meant so much to me I took it quite hard and confess to beating myself up about it so much that it was a good idea to remove me from the premises before I affected other team members lol... fortunately Emma was there with huggles and Naz with his wit (albeit at my expense, sigh)  

No stories of electrical mishaps (my kettle turning itself off whilst JP"s kettle decided to switch itself on in another hotel in the middle of the night does not count). Nellie on the other hand decided to be a potential Cat burglar with her partner in crime Debjani ... feigning "I"m old" does not let you off the hook when insisting to the hotel manager that you are NOT in the room you are being told you are in (having forgotten your room number ... errr how hard is it to forget 123) and having your room key re-programmed to some other poor blokes room!  

Came away with another set of awesome memories ... and a beautiful Necklace and earring set (ty babes ), although I managed to leave my Apple Bramble in Emma"s bag so will have to wait until the World"s before I get my next sip of Christmas  

ROLL ON MARCH!!!!

[FluffyJar]

Wow! Amazing result Ben. Pleased for you and and GNF, what a great double Well done to Cecilia for finishing 3rd, great result and Tom for final tabling Great effort

[Waz1892]

Congrats to Ben and GNF. Superb weekend and thanks to Matt, Leigh and Des, along with all staff at Luton.

[adilong1]

Congrats to Ben and GNF. Superb weekend and thanks to Matt, Leigh and Des, along with all staff at Luton.

My first live weekend and loved it thanks to all.