Archive for Championship: Online
Steve Bayliff Wins APAT Welsh Online Championship
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Bayliff: APAT Welsh Online Champion
The first Online Championship event of APAT’s fourth season featured a high quality field and provided a final table packed with some long standing APAT members.
One hundred and forty four players entered the APAT Welsh Online Poker Championship. The $50 buy in gave them all a shot at a $2,500 first prize, Championship title, Gold Medal and an entry to a £1,070 buy in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event. As normal in Championship events, players started with a 10,000 chip deep-stack and 15 minute blinds.
Within fifteen minutes of the start we had already lost one player as ‘Robmc01’ had fallen foul to the kings full of jacks of ‘Miiiiiikeee’ and after four and a half hours of play, ’Roscopiko’ burst the final table bubble and exited in tenth place. This left the final table line up as follows:
Ayendell (256k)
Adidap (249k)
Squirrel69 (204k)
Marmite3465 (200k)
Bobyrabit (137k)
Suzy666 (131k)
Thinker28 (129k)
CH3LS3A (68k)
SJW1970 (53k)
The first exit on the final table saw ‘SJW1970’ depart in 9th place. Short stacked to start with, the rivered straight of ‘adidap’ won the all-in pre-flop pot, moving ‘adidap’ to over 300k.
Tod Wood Wins WCOAP Online Main Event
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Tod Wood: WCOAP Online Champion
Englishman Tod Wood won the main event of the Online World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), beating fellow midlander Brian Yates; who took the Silver Medal and Alan Armitage who took the Bronze. Tod; who finished runner up in the United Kingdom Amateur Poker Championship at Grosvenor Walsall at the start of the season, took the Championship title, Gold medal, prize money and a seat at a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event worth over £1,000.
The event was the culmination of the four event WCOAP festival and provided an extraordinary finale to the ten event online season.
Yates and Armitage, pulled level with long time rankings leader Grant Cook on reaching the final three runners in the main event and they effectively played a last longer for the season three rankings title and a seat at a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event.
It was Yates who succeeded in securing the additional point and the Silver medal, capping a fantastic season which saw him win the Irish Amateur Championship in Dublin, the Welsh Online Championship and get selected for England in the European Amateur Team Championship. In taking the Bronze medal, Armitage finished joint second in the rankings alongside Cook.
Elsewhere in the WCOAP festival, Chris O’Connor took the opening event; the WCOAP Omaha Championship. O’Connor; Captain of the Glasgow team who will play in Divison One of the APAT National League in season four, beat Welsh International Leigh Wiltshire heads up, with Ian Thompson taking the Bronze.
WCOAP Champions: Tony Ross, Chris O'Connor, Gordon Casey
In the WCOAP Six Max Championship, Scotsman Gordon Casey took the title, beating Bobby Morton heads up, with Dave Lea taking Bronze.
Tony Ross; the Silver medalist in the 2008 World Amateur Poker Championship at the London Victoria Casino, won the WCOAP Stud Championship, beating Mike Lott heads up, with Tony Trippier taking Bronze.
Season Three will culminate with the UK Team Championship at the G Casino in Manchester on January 23rd & 24th. Following this event, the Online and Live Schedules for season four will be announced.
Pitchford Does Double With English Online Title
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Pitchford: APAT English Online Champion 2009
Sutton in Ashfield’s Paul Pitchford won his second APAT Championship title within three weeks when capturing the sixth online event of APAT’s third season; the English Online Championship, at Blue Square Poker.
Pitchford; who took the Omaha Championship at the recent APAT World Championship of Amateur Poker festival held at Dusk Till Dawn, achieved victory in six hours and walked away with the English Online Championship Title, Gold Medal and a seat at the prestigious GUKPT Champion of Champions event in December, courtesy of tour sponsor Blue Square Poker.
Competitors started the event with a 10,000 chip deepstack and 15 minute blinds, but despite the generous structure ‘spudgun007fizzle’ became the first player to exit within 25 minutes.
The final table was reached after five hours of play, with UK Amateur Champion and current National Rankings leader Steve ‘amrn’ Redfern sitting comfortably as chipleader, following the exit in 11th of ‘panchowin’.
Grant Cook Wins 2009 APAT European Online Title
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ZZZZZZZZROPE: Wins With Full House
The fifth online Championship event of APAT’s third season featured a high quality field and provided a thrilling final after six and a half hours of play.
One hundred players entered the APAT European Online Poker Championship. The $55 buy in gave them all a shot at a $1,500 first prize, Championship title, Gold Medal and an entry to a £1,000 buy in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event.
As normal in Championship events, players started with a 10,000 chip deepstack and 15 minute blinds.
Within twenty minutes of the start we had already lost one player and after five hours of play, ibsisgreat burst the final table bubble and exited in eleventh.
This left the final table line up as follows:
Seat 1 – ImMrChip – 36k
Seat 2 – BaldusxNew – 68k
Seat 3 – sundancejon – 110k
Seat 4 – mindmanWPL – 115k
Seat 5 – mikeyboy9361 – 130k
Seat 6 – abaddon81 – 114k
Seat 7 – IBADCALL2MANY4ME – 93k
Seat 8 – ZZZZZZZZROPE – 163k (chipleader)
Seat 9 – Spartan13 – 50k
Seat 10 – GB2Loose – 100k
A feature of the tournament to this point had been the aggressive play of ZZZZZZZZROPE, who looked in control having led the tournament from 20 minutes in. The Ayrshire man joked as play began on the final table, that he expected to lose a couple of hands early and go out Eighth; a comment that nearly came back to haunt him early on when he found himself re-raised out of a large pot by mindmanWPL and then doubled up BaldusxNew; when his paired Jack was no match for his opponent’s pocket Aces. Within 7 minutes of the final table starting, our previous chipleader was down to 87k.
