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Mr Brightside
Santino67:
Guilty as charged, I"m full of the meh, fkn dealer, what a fish, he"s a lucky donk etc etc etc...............but I"ll try to do it with a smile (though usually after licking my wounds) :P
pokerpops:
--- Quote from: PHIL_TC on August 11, 2012, 16:53:10 PM ---
--- Quote from: duke3016 on August 11, 2012, 14:55:55 PM ---
Treacle!!!
Nothing more to say on the matter 8)
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Now Bonnie.. my preference of Hobnob only lasted an hour or so after the original Treacle ::)
This evening.. was planning on playing the £120 deepstack game at the G with the fossil and pokerpops but after checking bank balance after dog purchase, then the extensive beer funds required for DTD, have an evening of beer from the fridge and some cheapo rebuy action on the APAT or Genting site planned.
Happy days.
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That"s not the Brightside approach Phil. The £120 is an investment to generate beer funds...
PHIL_TC:
Tonight.. managed to donk off my chips in heroic style this evening in the online cup. Squeeze play goes bad its filed under. The brightside? shared my table with some great APATers and had some banter... and 2 beers (yes thats all I lasted.. sigh).. and got the promise of some horlicks from Mair. All good ;D
Makes me think back to the start of it all really... as I said before The Eagle was the first pub in the area / region to offer pub poker and I was in like a shot. Gary Palmer had invited me to 1/2p home game previously and I was hooked. The league (now I cant remember if it was pokerinthepub or pokerdownthepub) was great and more importantly immense fun. It was run as a league depending on finishing positions but players got extra points for turning up with sunglasses and more for a hat. Haha.. genius!
Thats me back in the day... (looking smashed) final table.. hat..extra 10 points thank you :D
We had some fun and "odd" regional finals, back then. Regional at the local casino? Nope.. as we were the only pub in the region we had to play the first regional finals (which I managed to luckbox into.. what made it even better was around a dozen of each pub qualified) which was a "Poker Cruise". The Caribbean? No.. they"d hired the Mersey Ferry for the evening. Full evening on a boat.. band provided.. great craic.
The next regionals I think were on a steam railway in North Wales where we played 4 handed per table per carriage. Such a laugh.. made the whole poker experience an event, a day out, plenty of beer and lots of laughs. This made the whole getting away, playing somewhere random, the lure of playing poker. Kind of like what was to come with APAT.
From all this the Stockton Massive would form.. more to come on this later.
Happy days.
Santino67:
Steam railway sounds magnificent :D
PHIL_TC:
--- Quote from: Santino67 on August 14, 2012, 00:47:17 AM ---
Steam railway sounds magnificent :D
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Was Grant ;D And if I remember rightly our "own" Paul Pitchford was MD of the pokerdownthepub company back in those days, genius! Paul if this isnt right fire away and will edit this out x
The Eagle poker community grew and grew, I remember agreeing to TD one Thursday for a few beers and we had over 45 people turn up. Now this isnt the biggest pub in the world, and we only had 4 tables. We had players jammed into every area, playing on plain pub tables etc. Crazy. Me trying to play with all that going on... Fail! Also doesnt help you have certain people (Stu) dwelling J5o, then refusing to fold after I"d seen his cards (I was obviously out by then) and insisting on someone calling clock, then taking the full minute on the final table when the pub was due to close any minute ::)
Close friendships were formed over the years, and as pubs cottoned on to the boom games and leagues sprouted up all over the place. I remember planning the week around Anna and which pubs to play in which nights.. meaning more friendships all over the area. Was fantastic.
As with anything though it was all too good to last. Over saturation and with the Eagle moving to a new league which only offered top 2 places to the regionals meant that people lost interest, either down to having little chance of making the regional (whereas before the top dozen would have gone) or if making the regional it wasnt so much of an event as they were now in casinos, and there was only two travelling...the other of course not guaranteed to be a close mate.
The Stockton Massive and tonnes of friends had been formed though mainly from two main local pubs of the Eagle and the Fairfield.. plus the Cobblers from Newton Aycliffe... too many names to mention but we went onto form the successful "Stockton on Tees" APAT team in years to come. From this a splinter group which we nicknamed the nobber nine Stu "The cock" and Matt "The rock" Ward, Gary "big balls" Palmer, Simon "its a long walk home" and Mark "its all about the win" Wright, Dave "pokerpops" Amos, Dave "Fiddy" Mcgowan, Gary "luckbox" Motson formed, reasons why to follow.. (Brian the fossil was to appear later)..
Anyway I had the bug good and proper by now and started venturing to the local casino and one weekend a drive up to Newcastle Aspers was met with the whole cardroom being booked out to some organised tournament, I was obviously too late to join in and was gutted that the hours drive was in vain. Made me want to know more about this "APAT" lot who had spoiled my Saturday night when I got back home....
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