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168 began and 36 remain at Les Croupiers, Cardiff


Our survivors, all chasing the £4,032 first prize, are:

All Chipcounts

Alan Vaughan   149100
Dave Howard   139800
Chris Burton   103800
Henry Griffiths   69300
James Barber   65400
Steve Parry   62200
Dan Millard   62000
Darren Moore   53300
Anthony Johnson   52400
Mark Woolmington   50100
Neil Silick   49700
Paul Williams   45800
Dale Tillings   44400
Christopher Moore   44300
Colin Shatlock   41800
Don Cleaver   41600
Tony Trippier   40700
Gary Smolinski   40600
Peter Easy   40300
Gareth Johns   39500
Gareth Acreman   39000
Ant Williams   37200
Lukas Dasynski   33100
Maxine McKinlay   33100
Charles Mason   32100
Bob Bulman   31800
Peter Hire   30100
Antony Ross   30000
Gethin Thomas   27500
Ken McBride   26800
Stuart Black   23400
Jon O"Neil   22500
Gavin Morgans   21500
Mike Cuccinello   18400
Jeff Hemmerman   15500
Derek Gamlin   15100


Play resumes at 2.30pm

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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2011, 11:21:04 AM »
So who are we picking? Who do you want to win?




Sadly, I have a hotel story. I am a bit reluctant to tell it. I might need persuasion

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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2011, 11:25:37 AM »
blinds when they resume will be 1000/2000 ra 300

average stack is 47,000 or so

16 paid, a minimum of £189



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£50 NLHE at 6pm

Two other events if you are in the vicinity

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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2011, 11:31:25 AM »

So who are we picking? Who do you want to win?




Sadly, I have a hotel story. I am a bit reluctant to tell it. I might need persuasion


Maxine to win.

And WTF are you doing trying to hold back on the hotel tale?!  Those are a mandatory part of the updates ffs.  Sigh.  Gather yerelf man and get to it.

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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2011, 11:40:52 AM »
My pick, Dave Howard, failed to live up to my expectation and is down in second place. Hopefully he can get his act together a bit better today. GL Ant, Max, Trippy Tonier, JBW.
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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2011, 11:44:21 AM »

Maxine to win.
You Irish sticking together.
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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2011, 11:56:33 AM »
I was tired. I struggled to find my hotel, it being some distance away up by the Motorway

Eventually I staggered to my bed about 2.30am, some 20 hours after I woke up.

I settled to sleep

Some time later, I woke. Or at least I thought I did. I was woken by the sound of a dog barking, repeatedly. I settled back to sleep. Wondering why I was dreaming about a dog barking.

Ten minutes later, according to my phone, the dog barked again. Louder. It was 5am

This carried on for another 25 minutes.

I decided that I would have to do something

I consulted the Premier Inn manual in my room. There, on Page Six, in capital letters

NO PETS. MANAGEMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE GUESTS WHO BRING PETS A ROOM

Aha! Emboldened by my discovery and in high dudgeon I decided to make my way to hotel reception, pausing only to note which room the barking was coming from

Room 105, next door to my room 103

I made my way to reception, dawn breaking behind me over the front car park

I pressed the buzzer and in front of me appeared a large Caribbean Woman with I was soon to discover a Welsh accent

The woman looked me up and down. I looked me up and down. I was in a T-Shirt and my boxers. Such was my dudgeon that I had forgot to get dressed.

Composing myself I forumlated my complaint. She listened respectfully and agreed that no, pets were not allowed.

She said she would deal with it, put the "back in five minutes" sign in reception and strode off, nay waddled off, in the direction of room 105 with me waddling behind in my boxers

She knocked at the door, the cacophony of barking a tumult from behind the wall

After a short wait, a large man opened the door

"Yes?" he said in a gruff cockney action

"Do you have a dog in here?" said the Caribbean Taffy.

Rather a stupid question, but I suppose you need to start somewhere

"Yes" said Ray Winston.

At least we had established the facts

At this point he spotted me behind the lady

When in high dudgeon I have an embarrassing habit of complaining in a voice resembling a WW2 Fighter pilot. I go posher and higher pitched. Think Armstrong and Miller.

"Sorry" it also being a sad habit of mine to always complain with an apology first

"Your dog is keeping me awake, and its no dogs in the hotel"

"Yes" said Caribbean lady with an emphatic nod

"Hold on a minute" he said and went back into his room

Sadly he forgot to put his door on the latch and out into the hallway leapt an enormous German Shepherd, shiny coat, lustrous in the artificial light

I leapt back, suddenly worried about my crown jewels. I may not have been cowering behind the Caribbean lady, but I might as well have been

"ZEUS!" screamed Cockney man "BACK IN!"

and meek as a doormouse Zeus went back into the hotel room

Cockney man introduced himself as a Sergeant from the Met and produced a piece of headed notepaper. I craned to read it, but with a frustrating air of authority Caribbean lady shielded it for me and read slowly.

"OK" she said eventually "I needed to check, because it is no pets"

"Yes", said Sergeant Cockney "but this is urgent business, at short notice"

He said his goodbyes, shut the door and Zeus let out enormous barks, no doubt frustrated that his breakfast was delayed by a clown in boxers

I accompanied the lady back to reception

"Urgent police business, permission to stay given by head office, short notice, ongoing case, uniquely skilled dog"

She paused. We both considered what a Uniquely skilled dog was.

Neither of us seemed to have any clue as the pause hung in the air

"Sorry to bother you" I said, once again apologising for MY inconvenience. So British

I went back to bed. About 20 minutes later the door to room 105 seemed to open, and Zeus must have gone out for his morning walk.

Sleep returned only fitfully

 








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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2011, 12:03:51 PM »
LMAOOOOOO

Most people check in to a hotel, tour, return to sleep and check out.  Not you though.  Oh no.  Never a dull moment.  How do you manage it - every single time?!  lolololololol

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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2011, 13:57:08 PM »
Oh lordy.  ::)
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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2011, 13:59:00 PM »
Oh, and of course I am cheering on the 4 BCPCers left in. I confidently predict Tony will get a bronze.
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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2011, 14:14:29 PM »

Oh, and of course I am cheering on the 4 BCPCers left in. I confidently predict Tony will get a bronze.


In a case or loose?

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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2011, 14:33:27 PM »
We"re off, Day Two has begun

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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2011, 14:38:10 PM »
Have many for the Omaha?

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Re: 888poker APAT Welsh Amateur Championship - Day Two Live Update
« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2011, 14:39:52 PM »
Last count was around 35
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