UK Amateur Poker Championship - Live Updates - Day 1

[Paulie_D]

Welcome to the Live Update thread for the UK Amateur Poker Championship held in quite sunny Leeds at the Grosvenor Casino Westgate.

IrishTom and I will be your hosts for the next couple of days.

[Paulie_D]

Registration is now open upstairs at the Poker Room cash desk.

In related news Tom Clark is preparing in his hotel room.

[Paulie_D]

What they"re playing for...other than the cash and APAT GLORY of course.

[Paulie_D]

Jo"s holding her breath until we give her a medal...

[Paulie_D]

I like the screen set-up here.

[Des]

Welcome aboard the official hosting team Paulie.  Looking forward to following your updates over the weekend!

[Paulie_D]

Welcome aboard the official hosting team Paulie.  Looking forward to following your updates over the weekend!

Thanks Des....anything to boost my post count!

[Paulie_D]

We"re getting away a little late but the players are in their seats and we"re underway:

Surname	First Name	Table	Seat
Cerklwicz	Luke
Chambi	Andrew
Clegg	Adrian
Cook	Joanne
Dennehy	Daniel
Devlin	Michael
Godfrey	Duncan
Godfrey	Helen
Hagevik	Kristian
Macchiarelli	Dale
Manners	Leon
Miah	Anhar
Paul	Martin
Pervez	Safdar
Pidcock	Andrew
Sharkey	Michael
Sykes	Terence
Taylor	Paul
Hallows	Garry	1	1
Alderson	Alan	1	2
Pearson	Ryan	1	3
Simpson	Barry	1	4
Harland	Brian	1	5
Lees	James	1	6
Harrison	Paul	1	7
Tones	Karl	1	8
Dawson	Craig	1	9
Bradbury	Steven	1	10
Howard	JO	2	1
Kearns	Steve	2	2
Armitage	Alan	2	3
Galvin	Rita	2	4
Lewis	Mark	2	5
Szerlowski	Ian	2	6
Masterson	Tom	2	7
Battersby	David John	2	8
Scothern	Michael	2	9
Smith	Craig	2	10
Trippier	Anthony	3	1
Rhoden	Laura Jane	3	2
Blyth	Craig	3	3
Cook	Peter	3	4
Ledger	Curtis Lee	3	5
Alcock	Liam	3	6
Wood	Tod	3	7
Farrell	Diane	3	8
Gowthorpe	Peter	3	9
Pilgrim	Carl	3	10
Griffiths	David	4	1
Battams	Jonathan	4	2
Szerlowski	Adam	4	3
Senior	Ian James	4	4
Hall	Andrew	4	5
ONeill	Luke	4	6
Taylor	Roderick	4	7
Hunter	Ian Thomas	4	8
Mcbean	Andrew	4	9
Wilson	Joseph	4	10
Priest	Sean	5	1
McGrath	Asa	5	2
Rhodes	Christopher	5	3
Smith	Adam John	5	4
Slee	Michael	5	5
Priest	Todd	5	6
Clark	Tom	5	7
Heaton	Craig	5	8
Ward	Andrew Michael	5	9
Roderick	Stephen	5	10
ashman	anthony	6	1
Langridge	Leonard	6	2
Cowl	Andy	6	3
Cotton	Dot	6	4
Barriosaquino	Juan	6	5
Scothern	David	6	6
Crosland	Zackary David	6	7
Holt	Margaret	6	8
Mcbride	Kenneth	6	9
Egerton	Jonathan	6	10
fenwick	owen	7	1
Foster	Joe	7	2
Sheppard	Bill	7	3
Newman	Howard	7	4
Sharples	Adam	7	5
Evis	John William	7	6
Ellis	Alan Paul	7	7
Elliott	Ross	7	8
Ayre	Iain	7	9
Hiam	Christopher	8	1
Mason	Charles	8	2
Roberts	Trevor	8	3
Hirst	Arthur	8	4
Mead	Karen	8	5
Crawford	Liam	8	6
Grimaldi	Andrew Paul	8	7
Mckay	Ian	8	8
Watts	Andrew	8	9
Stanton	Andrew	9	1
Cook	Shane	9	2
Parker	Wayne	9	3
Swindells	Rob	9	4
Harrison	Matthew	9	5
Haddick	Trevor	9	6
Johnson	Craig	9	7
Bolt	Frazer	9	8
Allen	Simon	9	9
Holmes	Micheal	10	1
Roberts	Gary	10	2
Crozier	Graeme	10	3
James	Gareth	10	4
Cracknell	Simon	10	5
Oakley	Terry	10	6
Norris	Carl	10	7
Refoufi	Adam	10	8
Khan	T	10	9
Smith	James	11	1
Mcarthur	Gordon	11	2
Wilson	Michael Thomas	11	3
Hallam	Geoffrey	11	4
Cook	Michael David	11	5
Tankard	Craig	11	6
Taylor	Kevin	11	7
Berridge	Scott	11	8
O"driscoll	Kevin	11	9

                        

[amcgrath1uk]

Player down on table 5. Seat 9 98, seat 6 87, board 8856J, majority in on the turn, remainder on river

[Paulie_D]

Apologies for the short silence...I"m having laptop issues...and had to go back to the hotel for my backup.

[Paulie_D]

Back-up laptop is slower than a slow thing in Slowland but well keep at it while the primary does it"s self-repair.

As Asa mentioned we"ve lost our first player already.

On the bright side, we have our own APAT Players lounge.

[Paulie_D]

Primary laptop is now back..phew!

In on-topic news we"ve moved to Level 2 50/100

[Des]

How many players have you got so far Paulie?

[Paulie_D]

Another player down...maybe two. The calls came on top of each other.

It"s early yet but clearly they aren"t shy about gambling here in Yorkshire.

Checked on some more well known names but stacks are about normal with the exception of APAT's fashion-plate Tony Trippier who is on c,25,000

[Paulie_D]

How many players have you got so far Paulie?

Registered just shy of 120 but we"re expecting a few more in the late reg period.

We have some competition from the other Leeds Grosvenor who have their own 30k stack £50 re-buy today.

It"s actually a comfortable number for this cardroom.