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Simon Auckland wins 2009 Welsh Amateur Poker Championship
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The APAT Welsh Amateur Poker Championships held at the Grosvenor Casino Cardiff was the second event of APAT’s third season, once again sponsored by Blue Square. Seats for the 160 player strong event sold out within minutes, confirming APAT’s popularity and highlighting the attraction of these events to a wide range of poker players.
Including alternates, 162 runners took part generating a prize pool of £12,150 and £3,200 to the winner. Included amongst the runners were last year’s winner Tim Magnus and Steve Redfern, winner of the UK Championships in Walsall that began Season Three.
Unlucky Dewi James was the first player to exit, on the second hand, when he flopped trip two’s. Unfortunately Michael Gale had flopped trip tens and turned quads. Meanwhile James Edwards limped with a pair of sevens and was rewarded when he flopped quads, to be paid with a full double-up when Alan Armitage turned the nut flush. By the dinner break previous event winner Steve Redfern was established as the chip leader, helped by beating Darren Shallis’ Aces with pocket Queens, rivering a straight, and busting Gerard Smyth’s Aces with Queen-Jack suited to knock him out.
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High Res Images From Welsh Amateur Poker Championship
Posted by: | CommentsClick the links below to view / download high resolution images from the Welsh Amateur Poker Championship, played at the Grosvenor Casino, Cardiff, on April 4th & 5th.
James Davenport – Silver Medalist
Bruce Shannon – Bronze Medalist
Judi Edwards leads APAT Welsh Amateur Poker Championship at end of day one
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Edwards: day one chipleader
Bristol’s Judi Edwards is the chipleader at the end of the first day’s play, at the APAT Welsh Amateur Poker Championship, taking place at the Grosvenor Casino in Cardiff. Judi, who has 138,000 chips, leads a field of 27 players still in with a chance of winning the title, £3,200 first prize and a seat at the prestigious GUKPT Champion of Champions event. Click the link below for live updates from day two.
Lee Mulligan Wins 2007 Welsh Amateur Poker Championship
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The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) held the third event in its first series of live tour events, the Welsh Amateur Poker Championship in Cardiff, over the weekend of 24th-25th February.
The event was a very rapid sell out to a capacity of 220 runners who once again were offered a £75 freeze-out with 10,000 starting chips, a slow clock and significant added value from tour sponsors PokerStars.com via the form of entry into next months EPT Dortmund event to the winner in addition to their cash prize, trophy, medal and Player of the Year ranking point. Fifteen members had qualified for the event in both online and live qualifiers.
Play got away at 2.30pm on the Saturday and despite the deep-stack a number of players departed early. These included local player James Fisher who called a raise on his big blind with K8 and saw a flop of 887. After a blank turn and a King on the river all the chips flew into the pot on only the third hand of the competition. James was understandably crestfallen to see his opponent turn over Pocket Kings. Elsewhere Jon Young’s KK met AA leading to an early exit and English Amateur Championship winner Daniel Phillips ran AQ suited into AA on a Queen high flop to knock him out.
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