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KarmaDope:
After http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=10096.0 finally got completed I kept having the urge to just post random thoughts in there.
However, it is a very specific blog so I managed to resist.
Then I thought, hell, if Ger can do it, so can I! Let"s see how long this lasts for (over/under - a month).
What to expect? This is me, so random crap is probably the best to hope for. I"ll try and chronicle my saving for Vegas, my life in general, random thoughts, trip reports from APAT and other poker events. I"ll also throw in the odd story from the past, embarrassing and just downright weird.
Oh, and some of the really random stuff that Joobs comes out with, as a bonus. Trust me, that"s worth waiting for!
I"ll start with my memories from the recent event in Stoke that I believe some of you may have attended...
(as an aside, I"ve just seen Heston Blumenthal roll an absolute shed load of bread on a cricket pitch with a roller, WTF?)
KarmaDope:
So...Stoke
I originally wasn"t gonna apply for the England team, as at the time I didn"t feel that I was good enough. But in Glasgow I was talking about it with Asa McGrath on the way home after chatting to Rich Baker on a very funny Sunday night and we both decided to apply on the train home!
Cue the selection night and I was still not expecting to get in - yet still excited. Unlike Asa though, I actually managed to get some sleep and was lucky enough to wake up to it at a decent time! Matt, JP, Mark, Asa and I then spent some time working out what we would do in certain situations - and trust me, those helped in the MTT!!
(Now Heston is making a sandwich of Passion Fruit & White Chocolate cheese with freeze-dried strawberries and bitter dark chocolate...this just sounds wrong)
I very nearly pulled out on the day before though. I"d been up all night with a touch of Delhi belly, and I hadn"t even had a curry!! Decided that I couldn"t miss it though, took Imodium, and jumped on the train to Stoke. Met Asa on a very cold train platform and proceeded to do my own version of a drunk - tripping INTO the Taxi after I missed my footing! That hurt, especially after I managed to scrape my back on the very hard seat buckle. Either way, got to the Hotel that the boys were staying in and had a pre-match drink (well, they did, I apparently sat there looking very ill) before Matt drove to the casino.
And his sat-nav managed to take us off the main road and tell us to get straight back on! That"ll teach him to use an app that cost less than £2.
Get to the casino and receive the white T-shirt. I can"t speak for the rest, but that"s when it became real for me. Do the team photos and the Captains disappear for organisational crap whilst the rest of us catch up with friends who were going to be foes today. We head over to the poker tables and FML, I so got the worst draw ever for my first stt.
1 Grant Speirs (Scotland A)
2 Carl Pilgrim (England A)
3 Stuart Ward (England C)
4 Adam Sharples (England B)
5 Darren Shallis (Wales B)
6 Steve Roderick (Wales A)
7 Kevin O"Hanlon (Ireland A)
8 Tom Clark (Scotland B)
Needless to say, it was a very good table which actually worked for me, as I was able to get shoves through because these guys weren"t calling off randomly. Somehow managed to luckbox a second after losing a flip (Grant, you run too good at flips), and after the first round of STT"s we were 5th, on 20 points. As the entire world waited for John Murray to finish his heads-up, we had a discussion about PLO.
Now, my weakest games will always be PLO and I had a simple strategy - LADDER. JP took me to one side and told me just to play my cards and look for spots, so I did. Some familiar faces on my second table including Tom Clark and Kevin O"Hanlon again (Tom would turn out to be a massive nemesis all bloody weekend) and JB, Rudders, Don Roberts and nyerun to my right. I also managed to survive the mouth that is Paul Gupta ;) I hung on and on until we got 3-4 handed but I knew I was outclassed by Rudders in particular, so I ended up having to turn it into a preflop game, negating Rudders" advantage. Got HU in this one as well and had JB drawing to 5 outs on the turn FTW, but the luckbox hit and I couldn"t finish it off again. JP somehow won and everyone finished at least 5th so we took 30 points from PLO and had 50 going into the MTT...
Santino67:
Yeah I run good in general mate :) Even by APAT standards I"d agree that NLHE STT was one of the toughest line-ups I"ve ever faced as well. The hand I remember most was the one I got so so wrong, on the jack high board when I called your Q/Q all in with 10/10. I remember saying "There"s a load of hands I"m beating here" :D Epic fail on my part! You played very well on that table and didn"t luckbox anything that I remember. You"re overall individual finishing position after the MTT said it all really 8)
Supernova:
--- Quote from: Santino67 on December 13, 2012, 21:55:34 PM ---
Yeah I run good in general mate :) Even by APAT standards I"d agree that NLHE STT was one of the toughest line-ups I"ve ever faced as well. The hand I remember most was the one I got so so wrong, on the jack high board when I called your Q/Q all in with 10/10. I remember saying "There"s a load of hands I"m beating here" :D Epic fail on my part! You played very well on that table and didn"t luckbox anything that I remember. You"re overall individual finishing position after the MTT said it all really 8)
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+1 You played ever so well, that well I might even forgive you for the rubdown the day after!!! :P
wpwpwp xx
Fatcatstu:
That table was utterly vile. This is all
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