What a Super Sunday, and the rest of the week could get lively.If Carlsberg did Sundays, and all that jazz.
Our new APAT champion, Mark Briggs, makes the final table of the DTD Deepstack. Scottish hero, Louis Manson (Lewis Ranson to his friends) final tables the BlackBelt Poker Live in London, and then we get a record breaking 287 players across both division in the Online National League. What a corker to kick the season off with.
Thoroughly enjoyed railing some of the league tables last night. Threw in a bit of sneeky spamming for the start of the Bunch of Fives promotion, don"t think anyone latched onto what I was doing, so all good.
The banter on both final tables was excellent. We have quite a few captains now that are sat with spreadsheets working out permutations of results as we get down to the crunch each week, and we have more and more "stats" pages appearing in the poker clubs section.
It got me thinking, maybe we should be running an APAT Fantasy Poker Player League.
You pick your "stable", so to speak, and they earn points for finishing positions, cashes, medals, knocking out players, inflicting bad beats, getting their chips in good/bad. If I could think of a way of tracking it all, it would be immense.
Got up a bit late this morning (Not a problem, as I rarely do anything other than work from home on a Monday, or travel back from an APAT weekend), but have already done my daily "Push or Fold" session. No tables at my usual level, so dropped down a stake. Got the same results. That"s 6 sessions in a row now were I am up over five buyins. I still can"t work out if I am running lucky, or what. I still get my fair share of suckouts, and the river is not always kind, but I tend to get it in good. This morning, I was three buyins down, after getting it in ahead AIPF three times, then kicked on, and once you have built a bit of a stack and there are a few max buyin players at the table, you just pick your spots. Only get involved with similar stack players if you have monsters. Well, there"s my strategy, what do I know ?
So, onto this week, which is jam packed with poker and work.
Bunch Of Fives starts tonight. It"s my baby, and I really want it to be a success for lots of reasons. Main reason is that if we get a reasonable number of players involved, then we will be able to run more of them, and that means more added value for the players. 888poker have been good so far in the relationship, and I want to keep it that way, so if you are planning on playing some poker this week, then why not APAT Bunch Of Fives.
I"m triple booked tonight, with the start of the Blonde League, which I really want to support Tighty on, and also the start of the Chezger League, which again, deserves some love, as Ger and all the guys there are so supportive of APAT. And both are private tourneys, so there will be plenty of banter going around. If you want to get involved in either, drop Rich or Ger a pm, and I"m sure they will give you the details.
Then finally, we have the satellites for Newcastle, with direct buyin on Thursday. I think these seats will sell ridiculously quick, so a stab at the satellites prior to direct buyin, may be a prudent approach. If you are a risk taker, then good luck on Thursday.
Right then, on with the week.
