Charlie Curtis Wins Scottish Online Title
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Charlie Curtis: Scottish Winner
The latest leg of APAT’s fourth season online featured seventy nine players in another high quality field of APAT players entered into the APAT Scottish Online Poker Championship. The $50 buy in ensured they all had a chance at winning the $2,500 first prize, Championship title, Gold Medal and an entry to a £1,000 buy in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event.
As with all APAT Online Championship events, players started with a 10,000 chip deep-stack and 15 minute blinds.
As the bubble burst, the final table was full of some very familiar APAT names. UK Online winner Warren ‘Tyl3rDurden’ Jones was still in the mix alongside UK PLO and season 3 European Amateur Champion, Stuart ‘fatcatstu’ Ward. Andy ‘each it’ Heath was making back to back final table appearances and he was joined by Jack ‘sambarnbrac’ Prime, who is no stranger to an APAT final table, both online and live.
Central European Champion: Christoph Kreindl
Over the weekend of 15-16th May 2010 APAT held the latest event in it’s fourth season, sponsored by Betfair Poker, with the Central European Amateur Poker Championships held at the Concord Card Casino in Vienna, Austria consisting of 179 runners and a €15,215 prize pool.
Courtesy of Betfair the winner of the Championship wins an entry to a GUKPT main event as part of an overall sponsorship package where APAT members have the chance to win thirty three seats to GUKPT main events and twenty three seats to APAT Professional League tournaments. In addition, each of the season’s seventy five amateur, professional and online tournaments are run completely registration free for players.
In addition, the winners of the Online and National Amateur Rankings will join the 17 Amateur Champions from season four and the player with the most points finishes across Amateur and Online events, to compete in the APAT Champions Final, to play for an APAT £20,000 sponsorship package in 2011.
Of the 179 participants, players came not only from Austria and the UK but from as far afield as Germany, Italy, Russia, Slovenia and Norway. Of the UK players, in a generally disappointing performance Don Logan was last to depart in 30th, his Ace King outdrawn by Ace Queen.
The early pace of play and exits was extremely brisk but by the end of the Day the chip leaders amongst the eighteen remaining players were:
Gerhard Göschl 254900
Dietmar Nopp 223800
Franz Triebl 174200
Goga Giorgadse 103500
Anthony Ghamrawi 102200
Warren Jones Wins Central European Online Title
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The next instalment of APAT’s fourth season featured ninety players in another high quality field of APAT players entered into the APAT Central European Online Poker Championship. The $50 buy in gave them all a chance at winning the $2,500 first prize, Championship title, Gold Medal and an entry to a £1,000 buy in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event.
As with all APAT Online Championship events, players started with a 10,000 chip deep-stack and 15 minute blinds.
For the third tournament in a row, Welsh Online Winner Steve ‘marmite3465’ Bailiff was in the points, finishing in 13th place having been in the top five for most of the tournament. The final table bubble was a drawn out affair. Eventually the chips went in between ‘TONYTRIPPS’ and ‘duke999’ for a 180k pot. Duke9999’s two pair of Jacks and Sixes was enough and left ‘TONYTRIPPS’ with 1700 chips.
Then we watched an incredible fightback from ‘TONYTRIPPS’. With his stack now increased to 33k, all the chips went in against ‘flopmonster’, who’s AJ had ‘TONYTRIPPSS’ A9 totally dominated. A jack on the flop finished it, and ‘TONYTRIPPSS’ bubbled in 10th place.
This left the final table line up as follows:
Duke9999 (176k)
Crankmaster (138k)
MCFC97 (113k)
Max4matt (108k)
GRINTLER (93k)
Cormach (68k)
Flopmonster (64k)
Each it (55k)
Tyl3rDurden (8k)
The final table action was slow to start with. ‘Tyl3rDurden’ managed to gather chips to not be left quite so short stacked, then after about 45 minutes of play , there were to quickfire exits.
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John Murray Wins UK Amateur Title
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Portsmouth’s John Murray has won the Betfair APAT UK Amateur Poker Championship, played at the Victoria Casino in London.
John, who beat Don Roberts heads up, took the title, Championship Cup & Gold Medal, £3,500 first prize and a seat at a GUKPT Main Event.
John was a member of the victorious Ireland team that won the 2008 European Amateur Team Championship and he also captains the Solent Poker Club which competes in the APAT National League.
At the same festival, former GUKPT winner Bernard Litman won the second leg of the APAT Professional League.
A full tournament report will follow.
