Who are the 'oldest' APAT Members on the forum??

[Waz1892]

No 284.  June 18, 2007, 03:08:50 pm

Pretty sure Newcastle was my first tournament (s2?)

1st or maybe 2nd time ever live.  Remember specifically the surprise and friendliness with everyone clapping when someone went out.

2nd APAT was Edinburgh...I drove (7hrs) to play in it, KK vs AA, and I was out quicker than it took me to drive up!

[Swinebag]

Number 62 for me

first event for me was Dublin in S1 (an event that sold out in less than 3 minutes)

I didn"t really socialise off the table as I didn"t know anyone. I was also there with my wife who was wandering around dublin on her own.

I still remember my starting table. It had Mary Martin,  Stu Oliver and Brendan (who finalled) on it. I only remember big Laz (RIP) on my next table. On my next table, I only remember getting stacked by A5 > 99 late in the day.

Was a great experience. The real highlight was being interviewed by Ex Mrs Colclough (on the orders of Des) only to find out during the interview that she was meant to interview some Norwegian guy, who had flown over especially for the tourney. Flying over from Manchester just didn"t get the TV juices flowing so it ended up on the cutting room floor (though Des reckons it exists somewhere??). I actually met the Norwegian guy a year later in scotland and was amazed at the resemblance. He would make a good stunt double in a movie of my life

[Santino67]

3348, April 06, 2008

1st event was Scottish Live Qualifier, then the ME. Loved every minute of it since

[Fatcatstu]

4795! Im but an APAT bairn

First event i THINK was in walsall in 2009, the UK championships. I finished 15th.

[Curlarge]

3079. Made the final table of my first APAT Main Event at Luton in October 2009, and haven"t made one since, despite playing almost every ME since.   #peakedtoosoon

[MintTrav]

3079. Made the final table of my first APAT Main Event at Luton in October 2009, and haven"t made one since, despite playing almost every ME since.   #peakedtoosoon

I think I enjoyed that tournament more than any other. I remember chatting with you there and you saying that you would likely come to some more.

[Fatcatstu]

3079. Made the final table of my first APAT Main Event at Luton in October 2009, and haven"t made one since, despite playing almost every ME since.   #peakedtoosoon

was a good tournament that one

[SirPercival]

65

Earliest memories of APAT are bluffing Ironside off a huge pot online as he was laddering for points (Season 1) and I think my first live was the Fitz in 2007 where I travelled with Micky P on his 40th birthday (I met him at 6am at the airport - guess where! and what was he holding?)

Took loads of chips off Brendan Hartnett with 83o after winning the hand before with 83o in the BB. Then lost most of them on a huge cooler to a local guy who left his stack mid game to return to hospital!! Finished 18th after busting out (I think it might have been with AJ!). Railed Brendan to the end - fond memories.

[AAroddersAA]

2063 - registered in 2007 but only made 8 posts before 2010.

First event was Manchester (last event of season 3, team event playing for Blonde) in January 2010. Team was:-

Dawn
Darren
Asa
Mickyp
Frank
Colin
Paul Tuff
Me

With those seven I got an idea of what APAT was about quite quickly. Also got introduced to some team called Chezger who seemed to spend most of their time at the bar and ended up sat next to Ger in a side event (I think he knocked me out and won) They don"t make teams at team events like they use too.

[duke3016]

Also got introduced to some team called Chezger who seemed to spend most of their time at the bar

Some things are just constant  

[AJDUK]

724 - first APAT was Luton Season 1 in 2007 which I final tabled after returning on day 2 via a round trip back to Telford with a bottom 5 stack (nothing changed there). I remember quite a few things clearly from that event:

On the first table there was a guy raising almost every hand. I played 3 or 4 hands against him blind just so I could watch him without worrying about my own cards. I bet him off every one except one which went to the river. He tabled middle pair and I managed to find a set of queens lol.

I ran a massive bluff against (who I now know to be) Kinboshi mid way through day 1 that set me up well. He thought about calling for ages and ages, so long that I could almost not breathe. He folded showing me a winning hand.

Last hand before the dinner break (they used to give us food you know) I was in the BB. There was a shove from mid-position and a re-shove from the guy next to him who had me covered. I remember joking about needing aces or kings with them both - then looked at my cards and bingo KK. It was 1010 v JJ v KK and I held.

I met a great guy Marcin. His English was far worse than it is now (can you believe that) and he made a massive mistake during a hand mid-evening that was more about his English than his poker, losing half of his stack in the process. I spent the next half hour telling him to get his head together and not worry he still had plenty of chips (average stack in fact). He kept saying I don"t care I don"t care I go all in blind bla bla and somehow I convinced him to play poker. He pulled himself together and ended up making day 2 and cashing for I think £600 just short of the final. We"ve been good friends ever since. I have often thought since then that true poker players wouldn"t/shouldn"t encourage another player after a mistake so perhaps I"m too soft to ever be any good at the game.

Making the final table meant I got on TV. The review was aired on Sky Sports 1 a channel which at my age and fitness should never have me on it! The APAT portion of the show is here containing some familiar faces as well as some that raise the "where are they now?" question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uAldU45nUI

I sat and watched the heads up battle which was fantastic, back and forth for ages and Gareth Ower was a deserved winner.

After this 2008 was a busy year for us both and I missed the whole of Season 2, so my second event was season 3 Walsall in 2009 and I somehow managed to final table that too (finished 5th) AND got on telly again. It was an otherwise dull event with a final table loaded with fish, especially the luckbox medal winners:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs2t6sxvhh4  

Ahh the memories

[cincicrappykid]

1783 . Played first ever event at Broadway. Made day 2 ran into AA sigh. Stayed to watch kinboshi take it down. What ever happened to him any how"s lol

[amcgrath1uk]

4752 - January 18, 2009, 01:57:43 am

Blonde Poker Team  (aka Team Earmuffs)

Dawn Dineen - Laxie (captain)
Asa McGrath - amcgrathuk1
Colin Wilson - cdw1111
Frank Bailie - Cormach123
Darren Shallis - Newportlad
Michael Patterson - mickyp
Steve Roderick -Rod
Paul Tuff -Tuffster

My opening table

Table 6-1:  Brian Yates (Black Country Poker Club)
Table 6-2:  Steve Talbot (Eat My Stack)
Table 6-3:  Asa McGrath (Blonde Poker)
Table 6-4:  Ben Russell (FISO)
Table 6-5:  Steve Robinson (Furness Poker)
Table 6-6:  Eoin Morris (NI Poker)
Table 6-7:  Sean Perry (UK Poker Info)
Table 6-8:  Graeme Defty (Raise The River)
Table 6-9:  Philip Quinn (Sky Poker)
Table 6-10:  Jon Woodfield (The Hendon Mob)

That was my 1st game, in the UK Team Championships in Manchester. Not a bad lil group of 8 players me thinks. Only Laxie made day 2   although, with about 60 remaining, we were favourites still having 6 in iirc.

[Claw75]

220.  I actually can"t remember which was my first APAT event - my brain is like a sieve these last few years.  I know I haven"t played half as many as I"d have liked to, and not sure if/when I"ll get the opportunity to make another event.  Making day two of an APAT event is still on my to-do list though!

[Joker161]

4614. A relative newbie!

I think my first APAT was Dublin 2009. I made Day 2 and came about 25th. I remember Des interviewing me before Day 2 started and it was clear from my answers that I was very new to the events! I think it"s still on YouTube somewhere. Always interesting to see how long it takes each year group of pupils to find the clip!

I final-tabled Bolton at the end of that year, then nothing but the odd Day 2 since. Better in APAT online events and in Vegas (easier to play against pros, obviously).