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Paul Wilson Wins APAT Irish Online Poker Championship
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Paul 'sambafreak' Wilson: Irish Online Champion
The final table of the APAT Irish Online Poker Championship provided a pulsating finish to this third event of season three. With 136 entrants paying $55 each, the Irish Online Champion would enjoy a $1,800 first prize, national title, gold medal, plus a paid entry to a GUKPT main event worth over £1,000, courtesy of tour sponsor Blue Square.
The field featured many APAT Champions, including recently crowned Welsh Amateur and Online Champions; Simon Auckland and Brian Yates. Also in the running were the season two national and online rankings winners; Bob Malin and Steve Bayliff.
Players started the event with a 10,000 chip / 500 big blind deepstack, and play was aggressive from the outset, with the cards conspiring to oust the experienced Steve Holden with the tournament a little more than 20 minutes old.
With raise and re-raise the order of the day, the final table was reached after close to five and a half hours of play, with the final ten lining up as follows:-
The Final Ten
Seat 1 – ‘RPG’ – 46k
Seat 2 – ‘ButchPKR’ – 74k
Seat 3 – ‘scouse3456’ – 258k
Seat 4 – ‘sambafreak’ – 330k
Seat 5 – ‘Pilf’ – 130k
Seat 6 – ‘swinebag22’ – 72k
Seat 7 – ‘M0rethanluck’ – 98k
Seat 8 – ‘Walwyn1’ – 130k
Seat 9 – ‘smasher37’ – 51k
Seat 10 – ‘I8Moons’ – 150k
Amongst the players remaining were UK Online Championship bronze medallist Brian Martin (‘I8Moons’) who was assured of taking the lead in the national online rankings having reached the final. Season two online rankings winner Steve Bayliff (‘scouse3456’) was still in the hunt as was Andrew Cowl (‘Walwyn1’); who had won two online titles in season two. Antony Wolsey (‘Pilf’) and Rob Swindells (‘swinebag22’) had both finished deep in previous APAT Amateur Championship events, and remained in contention.
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Brian Yates Wins APAT Welsh Online Championship
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The second tournament of the Amateur Poker Association & Tour’s Online Season took place at Blue Square, when 139 players entered the APAT Welsh Online Poker Championship.
The players, including recently crowned UK Amateur Champion Steve Redfern, enjoyed 10,000 starting chips and a structure closely aligned with APAT’s Live Amateur Championship structure.
The first player to exit was ‘chuck2003’, who managed to get his remaining 900 chips into the middle after 23 minutes with King Ten suited, earning a call from ‘Loggie66’ with a pocket pair of Twos. Despite overcards and developing flush opportunities for his opponent, the Twos of Don Logan; playing from Barbados, held up.
The final table was reached after close to four hours and the final ten players lined up as follows:-
Seat 1 – ‘BOINGBLITZ’ – 54k
Seat 2 – ‘MintTrav’ – 34k
Seat 3 – ‘mattblue’ – 125k
Seat 4 – ‘oldham00’ – 58k
Seat 5 – ‘saint1john’ – 137k
Seat 6 – ‘Scooby500’ – 47k
Seat 7 – ‘Ant66’ – 88k
Seat 8 – ‘GB2Loose’ – 325k
Seat 9 – ‘goater1414’ – 180k
Seat 10 – ‘warwickman83’ – 315k
Matt Roberts Wins APAT UK Online Poker Championship
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236 players entered the first tournament of the Amateur Poker Association & Tour’s third season, the United Kingdom Online Championship, which was held at Blue Square Poker.
Competitors, including a number of current and past APAT National Champions, enjoyed 10,000 starting chips and a generous structure. However, with a national title and added GUKPT main event seat up for grabs, play was competitive throughout and the first casualty; ‘HookorbyCrook1′, exited to ‘belovedltd’ within the first 15 minutes.
There were spectacular hands aplenty and ‘Morlspin’ received maximum reward early when he Flopped Quad Jacks. Opponent ‘1TR1′ pushed in on spiking a King on the River, only to learn the bad news.
A final table was reached after four and a half hours of play and the final ten players lined up as follows:-
Seat 1 – The Geeny87 – 478k
Seat 2 – clubrepscottyp – 263k
Seat 3 – Honeybadg – 465k
Seat 4 – Misha001 – 102k
Seat 5 – vandey90 – 203k
Seat 6 – badcawl1 – 156k
Seat 7 – The Biggins73 – 105k
Seat 8 – Panchowin – 159k
Seat 9 – gucciness – 98k
Seat 10 – I8MOONS – 258k
