I"ll second both the OP"s two points, firstly an excellent event which is obviously down to a lot of hard work by many people both at APAT and at DTD - huge thanks from me to everyone involved
However, I was also concerned about the enforcement of table etiquette and tournament rules, particularly with regard to one individual (and I don"t doubt the same one referred to above) who in my opinion would have been thrown out of many other tournaments and who certainly spoilt my enjoyment of the event for the few levels I was sharing a table with him. I am not naming names, I don"t know him having not played a live APAT event before, I don"t know if it is a regular occurence with this guy or a one-off fuelled by too many sherberts - I would like to think it is the latter as, although I didn"t think much of his behaviour on the night, he certainly didnt seem as if he was making trouble deliberately and was obviously a popular character with more than a few (I"m guessing I won"t be with him or them but hey ho!) - my gripe is more with the tournament officiating which should have dealt with it a lot sooner on the night.
Ok here goes.....clearly drunk, disrupting play by continually shouting across the cardroom at various mates on other tables, delaying play by standing up away from the table to order drinks not just for himself but taking orders from other tables during play, making suggestive comments to at least one of the waitresses whilst doing so, abusing one particular player at the table regularly and suggesting he had a physical disability on more than one occasion, playing out of turn because he was too concerned at what was going on elsewhere, regaling the table and others within earshot (most of them) with offensive anecdotes, declaring his hand during play on a regular basis both correctly and incorrectly, using his mobile phone at the table, aggressively and provocatively celebrating winning hands including abusing a player he had just eliminated.
There were 157 people taking part on the day - it is unfair on the other 156 if one person is allowed to get away with this sort of thing and I would ask that in future table etiquette be enforced a little earlier and effectively rather than, as I feel happened on Saturday (regardless of whether a penalty was imposed as said above) treated for much of the evening as "a bit of a laugh"
