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jockey:
We still can I'm 69 on the 30th & will be playing main event & champions of champions. Good luck

Zozzy:

--- Quote from: pokerpops on March 26, 2018, 16:31:50 PM ---Saturday 31st March will be my Birthday and I will be making my first entry into the WCOAP Main Event.
But I guess it's a young man's game these days, and 64 yr old blokes with seven grandchildren win nowt.

--- End quote ---
Good luck in WCOAP Main Event David. I am sure you will make it through to the later stages. Age is just a state of mind.
You are not old anyway, you are only a senior, not a super senior yet  :)

pokerpops:
Day 1a WCOAP Main

Relaxed drive across the Pennines with The Fossil, pausing en route to get a cup of Starbucks Pike Place. A chance to see Lucy and Tom, and a quick chat with Ger before the game started.

The structure is amazingly good. Deep stacks and a 45 minute clock for a £110 buy in is what APAT is all about.

I started badly, an ill-advised bluff on the river got looked up with the words “curiosity kills you” and a sequence of unpleasant run outs and poor starting hands meant I had less than half my starting stack by the first break.
By the dinner break I had stopped losing chips, but was still marooned at just under the 10k mark.
Post-dinner I took advantage of the structure and worked extra hard on picking spots and managed to get a) above starting stack, and then b) to somewhere around 40k.
A misjudged call of a shove cost me just under half my stack** but I closed the day with 28,700 chips plus a chair to continue my quest for a good return for Raise for Jack, and a bracelet for me.


**
I opened AdQd from early position and got two callers. C-bet the KcXcX flop and got shoved on. I felt his shove was more weighted to having two clubs. He had KsQs and I really should have considered that he would stop and go with a lot of hands of that nature with a 10BB stack.
If he had jammed pre I would have called and lost, he gave me the chance to get away from it which I failed to take.

Ah well, back next Saturday with 18BB and a 60 minute clock. Easy decisions time.

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