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APAT UK Online Championship - Saturday 10th January 8pm - Discussion
CrizzyConnor:
Congrats to everyone who cashed and to the winner.
Laxie:
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115 left and 1:15am finish
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Well, that"s the closest on the finishing time. Nice prediction Laxie. ;D
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Weeeeeeeee, managed to get something nearly right tonight anyway. lol Had planned to rail, but got comfy on the sofa for a bit and only just woke up.
Well done to the cashers and top 3. No easy task to get through that lot.
APAT:
The tournament report has been completed and can be found via the link below. We hope to interview Matthew Roberts for next weekend"s APAT Update and it will be interesting to get his views on how the event played out.
UK Online Poker Championship - Tournament Report
WarBwastardo:
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Im not goin to bother posting my bad beat story here but if any of you were watching the final table then u will prob agree based on the stage of the tournament and the play pre-all-in, that has got to be the sickest beat I have ever had in my 2 and a half years playin poker.
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it"s called LUCK mate - it sometimes happens in poker. ;)
i recall an occasion early on on the FT where you got lucky!
can"t believe some of the bad comments made about the eventual winner tonight.... "someone knock this donk out", not a desrved victory" etc..... the guy won fair and square.... may have got a bit lucky but there is no way you can completely luckbox your way through that tournament tonight.
Everyone"s a cardrack at some point!
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I definetly dont remember me giving a suckout when I was 5% to win. But what can I say, used to it by now on big final tables.
Definetly not disputing the fact that everyone must have played excellent poker to carve through that field but the fact the final table was taken down by bad play getting rewarded is a shame. And may I point out that I never called the eventual winner a donk. Maybe that is APAT/Blue Sq"s fault for a poor structure that had the last 50 or so players were playing out an all-in fest. Definetly think the structure needs reviewing.
GG everyone, I really enjoyed the tournament but obviously with poker tour packages added to the top three, 400 odd dollars is not enough to take away the sick feeling i have at the moment.
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Just looked at Des" tourney report. Apologies in advance if I"ve got this upside down and inside out, but while the Queen/10 v Queen 5 hand must have stung a bit, if I read it correctly and the money went in on the flop, you"re not 95% to win if that"s the hand you"re referring to.
You"re just under a 4/1 favourite - pretty much the same as getting aces cracked really. Same with Ace-Ten against Ace-Jack, if it went in pre-flop you"re something like 3.5/1 favourite I think. Bummer those too hands coming in such close proximity and at that stage, but I think a real b*llock shrinking true bad beat you have to be at least 90% to win.
George2Loose:
Well done to all those who cashed, scored ranking points, finalled and ultimately got in the silverware. Congratulations! A tough field to say the least!
My views on the controvesy:
1) Bad beats are a part of poker- get over it!!! I don"t care if he hit a one outer on you- shake the guys hand (metaphorically of course) and type good game
2) The structure for a 55$ tourney with a seat to the GUKPT on top was superb. Personally we could improve the structure. We could start with 100k chips, 1 hr clock and a graduated structure but there"s plenty of play- inevitably in any tourney no matter how good the structure you have to win races/start shoving etc.
Well done to Des and the team for making the online tourneys something worth playing for once again
See everyone hopefully in Feb.
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