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Scousebill:
What little I can recall of how I got involved with APAT is down to this next venue. I was playing on Blue Square or 888 and Googled one of the names on the site, not sure why but I did...

One of them came up with a mention on APAT so I joined... And within a few months I had won a ticket for some tournament in Manchester.

I can"t remember what the Tourney was called but it was my first ever live, actually it was my first ever live game. I had not even played face to face against anybody.. I had played online for about 3 maybe 4 years at the time.

I would say 7 maybe even 8 years I am going back to where my APAT venture started...

Manchester............. Mad For It.....................APAT

Des:
Best of luck with your blog Bill.  Look forward to catching up in Manchester.

Scousebill:
The weekend is getting closer on the horizon now.
Friday could end up a bit messy as I am meeting up with "The Tom Clarke Birthday Gang" at some point in the evening.
Not sure if the plan is just to get heavily drunk or if any poker will be involved on the Friday, see what happens anyway.
It wasn"t until Mark Saunders mentioned about defending his European Title that I realised it was the European that I finished second to him at Coventry last season. Different venue this time but I will be trying very hard to initially get some POTY points on the board as I do not have any, after being lucky enough to win POTY last season.

Did one of those Both Teams to Score tonight, 4 selections and the 4 teams won but only one, Man City conceded. Not as easy as it looks so just as well I only spent £6.

Scousebill:

Scousebill:
What a weekend that was.

Before I start to read how it was for others I will put what I can remember into words.

The weekend didn"t get off to the best of starts as I turned up a bit late at the Red Hot Buffet and the others had already started, some even on their second plate. Food was good, company was good and the unfortunate incident with Adam Sharples getting soaked by the waiter with two pints of beer didn"t dampen the night. A few pints in the Wetherspoons then off to the Casino. No poker played but plenty of bottles of Punk IPA drunk. Headed back to the Travelodge at about 3am.

Poker, like football, as Jimmy Greaves once said "It"s a funny old game"...

APAT European Championship started and I"m at the table with a seat supposed to be occupied Liam Alcock, but when does he ever sit down early in a tournament. Recognised a few APAT and LPPL faces and then I get moved. Sit down at a table that had 4 or 5 Grosvenor regulars, one who was non-stop talking who won his seat in the club on Friday night. Didn"t get much in the way of cards, managed to pinch the blinds once or twice and took a nice small stack of chips representing a flush when I had a pair of tens. The cards were horrible, but it was nice to see that none of the folded cards landed on the flop so it wasn"t the "Only if I kept them" type of day.
Midway through Level 3 I get KK. Ends up with me and the Talking Man. I raise to 1500 he reraised to 6000 and I called. I was going to shove but decided to see a flop. Board is 10 10 ? and he ends up all-in and I called. Aces he has and I am down to 1525 chips with 15 minutes to go until the break. Somehow I manage to make it to the break with a double up and have about 2-3K.
What happened after the break was crazy. Within about 15 hands I had doubled up maybe three times, lost a few chips when folding after a reraise and won a treble up which at one point I had about 50K. Nothing much else happens as the cards are still useless most of the time. Get a few chips now and again but just keep putting blinds in the middle with no return. Then Tom Clarke sits down to my right. Tom loses a few hands to others then we both end up against each other. I learnt something about this hand though. Play the cards and not what you think the person is trying to do.
I raised about 6400 and Tom shoved, maybe 30K.. I thought Tom was just shoving because he knew I would need a big hand to make the call. I had A7 hearts and for some reason thought that was good and called. His AK smashed me. I stood up, shook his hand and was on my way... Dealer calls me back as I still 3100 chips left. Start all over again.
First hand a blind all-in gets folds all round. Second hand, blind all-in gets a call and I manage to pair a Q to double up. Third hand I look at then fold. Fourth hand I was going to shove blind again, but decide to look and see 99 so shoves anyway and get another double up.
Then something odd happened. I shoved with whatever and big chips to my left calls. Folds around to the bloke on my left and he makes a raise. Big Chips asks why is he betting into a blank pot, why not just call, or even bet at all. Big chips calls the excess.  Cards come over and I end up trebling up with a flush or something but I missed what has happened really as Big Chips starts tearing into the bloke on my left... Tom comes back from wherever he has been and is puzzled to where I have got about 18K of chips from...
Nothing much else happened in the way of getting good cards, the rest of the night basically involved me folding nearly every hand. Won a few chips once or twice but managed to still be in at the end of the day when they announce last 6 hands. Second to last hand I get KK... Do I fold or not.. I shove but don"t get any callers.. Amazingly I make day 2 with 30700 chips.
Day Two... Nothing... Blinds and antes are killing me... On the feature table by now, Shove, Rodders calls me, I double up. Dwindling stack again and an Ace on the flop keeps me alive. Then A3 hearts looks brilliant to me so in they go. They never came back as my ex-mate Craig Dawson had 77.
It has been the two hardest days of poker I think I have ever played. Enjoyed it so much I can"t wait until Newcastle.
Thanks to Brian Yates cashing I won the BCPC last longer for £60. Not much, but it is better than not winning it.
Well done to the APAT Crew who put these events on for us and well done to all who finished 19th onwards and the 15 who have or will cash. I never dreamt I would be sitting at any table today after only just making the first break but to get as high as 20th was a pleasure.
Now to read the reports...

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