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Scousebill:
Raced home last night but turns out I didn"t need to, late reg around 8:20 rather than 8:00. Didn"t get a playable hand for nearly an hour then it was only A 10 against two small all-ins.... The 5 7 manages to hit a straight...
Shortly after I stayed in chasing a straight which fell on the river but I couldn"t convince Erimus111 (Brian) that I was bluffing so he didn"t call my 3K all-in...
It was a hard table for a while with Brian, Rodders, Tom Clark, Sandyeos, and then shortly after Steve Redfern arrived. Never really got any hands at all but was managing to pinch some blinds every now and again. Then shortly later in two hands I had gone from roughly 5K to 24K.... JJ All-in got me through and the very next hand was AA. I think one of those two hands was against Steve who took a big hit. Not long later though he was on about 35K...
It was a hard game and the cards just did not fall for me at all...
Another good night playing APAT though and no real complaints about how I played.

Another strange betting story now though....

I got home rather the worse for wear on Friday and logged onto Corals and put a £10 correct score 3-0 for some team from Chile called Everton. I watched the telly for a bit then was about to log off when I thought that I still haven"t done the bet so I stuck the tenner on.
Off I go to bed and just as I settle down I thought I"m sure I have put that bet on twice.
Get up in the morning and check and unfortunately I did put the bet on twice.
Fortunately though, Everton won 3-0 so instead of £170 returned I actually got £340..... Ha ha

Scousebill:
It"s better late than never so "Happy New Year" to all APAT players...

What a better way to start the year than to find out my Rankings. Very surprised to see myself sitting in 75th place in the Top 200 All Time.
And then to see what APAT star players I am sitting with in 47th place in the APAT Main Event Rankings. As well as I have done to get that ranking I would not like to be sitting at that table #41 to #50 any other time than the Final Table.
Played Issy"s New Years Day £30 Tourney and was very happy to finish second. Only a few APAT players played but the LPPL players are of the same high standard so it was a nice result.
Haven"t played any live poker for a while but the online stuff has been a bit up and down.
Trying to get a seat for the DTD event at Old Trafford but twice now I have bubbled it in 11th and 13th places.
Doing rather well at the football betting lately so that is numbing the pain of not winning much at poker but I would it sooner be the other way around.

Wish the WCOAP schedule would hurry up and arrive so I can work out what I am available to play.

Enough waffle from me.... Roll on Season 10

Scousebill:
While I was out getting slowly drunk on 19th January for my 51st Birthday I was sitting in The Brewdog Bar drinking a rather strong Black IPA when my mobile rang. Tom Brady, now that"s odd....
"Hello Bill, Corals have been onto me and they are having you in their team, are you available..?"
"No, but I will be.... Give me a few hours and I"ll let you know..."
After a day of asking all around work I finally got the time off...

APAT Team Challenge Luton here I come....

Scousebill:
The New Year Resolution of playing at least one APAT Tournament sober failed at the first hurdle as yet another poker event was played with copious amounts of alcohol inside of me...
Luton was the destination and APAT Team Event was the Tourney. Very happy as posted previously about being selected, or pushed, onto the sponsors Coral Team, but however it came about I was very grateful.
The game was very nitty, or at least it was on Table 15 as players are doing things different in a team enviroment rather than just playing to benefit themselves. Don Roberts was the only person I knew on the table and I was actually the only person he knew. Unfortunately, as the day wore on we all came to know "Mono" Monoghan from Geordie Poker.
Now I know we have all been on table were people have been drunk and have slowed the game down a bit but this idiot totally ruined the game. He was absolutely ****faced. How Don never launched him I don"t know.
Partly because of his drunken ways disturbing others and a bit of me not concentrating fully I missed an ideal chance to get rid of him.
I had  Qc Qd and the a flop of  Qh Js 8d. I bet and got a fold or two and Mono called. A 10s on fourth had us both check eventually once Mono has firstly stacked his chips then knocked them all over again and tried to stack them again. This is were I went wrong. I didn"t look at the last card. Mono takes his time and checks and I check behind him without looking again at the river. He takes about two minutes looking at his cards because he would not let go of the pint in his other hand and slurs "I have a fookin nine"... I push my two queens in face down and say "I had two bloody Q... Hold on the board has paired, I have a Full House"....... Everything goes quiet for a second or two then all the chips come my way..
Right or wrong dealer decision I don"t know but poor by myself for not watching the game regardless what is happening around you that might put you off. I am certain that if I had seen the FH earlier and put Mono all-in that he would have called and the next hour or so until the lunch break would of been far quieter and more hands would have got played.
That apart, I think I played most of my hands correctly...
Won a three way all-in near the end of the night to take me up to around 72K but never won another hand for about the last 90 minutes to leave me with 27K for the second day.
Drank too much after the poker finished, drank too much when I finally found my Easy Hotel room.
Day Two, played my all-in one hand too late.. I couldn"t bring myself to shove with  2h 2s but somehow though  Ac 6h was worth shoving. Realistically, with still having about £20k I should have sat around until at least the blinds reached me if nothing landed then shove... If"s and buts... Always learning in this game... Another day will come and get another result...

Thanks to all who organised it and thanks to all who made my weekend enjoyable....

Zozzy:
You probably had more drink inside you than he did but it doesn"t seem to affect you Bill.
Regarding the dealer"s decision he was right to award you the pot because "cards speak".  If you put your cards face down as though you are folding and then realize in time and turn them over before they touch the muck they are still
"Live"

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