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Grant's Glasgow Banter
Santino67:
--- Quote from: pables on October 13, 2012, 09:38:46 AM ---
Best of luck Grant!
May your nut flush get run into by a lower made flush for the majority of the chips once again :D
UL Steve :(
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As Phil Oakey once said "Theses Are The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" ;D
Santino67:
So the APAT Scottish Championship has now passed and there"s now a new title holder :"( Well done Alan Horsburgh, by all accounts the man played a superb game and I don"t believe was ever below average stack (once he actually got round to taking his seat ;D ).
For my part i can only say that i defended my title with vigour and honour, trebling my stack in the first few hours then reaching the height of 60k by around the midway point of Saturday. I was hitting sets, straights, flushes and full houses for fun and getting paid off for the most part. TBH I could probably have squeezed a few more chips out of a couple of these hands but decided to either get some value or was concerned about other bigger draws that could"ve landed. The final half of Saturday night was more of a grind, particularly after running into a blind v blind confrontation against Craig "Zozzy" Dawson on my left when i had KK and my 4 bet was flat called by him. Craig assured me afterwards that the Ace on the flop saved me any further pain beyond the turn as he already had 2 of those other bad boys hiding under his chip guard. My demise at 1.15am with 77 v AA was appropriately at the hands of a certain Jonathan Bannerman, who may well have gone on to win my title last year had i not been a complete luckbox. Jonathan has now played 2 APATs, finishing 4th last year and 10th a few days ago. he has a great game and will surely pick up some very nice prizes in future......he just has to get himself away from his computer more often ;D
My first game at the Alea was a massively enjoyable experience and I thank Michelle, their staff and the ad-hoc dealers who all performed very well to play their part in making another APAT adventure run smoothly over the 2 days.
Hats off also to Matt & Adam who filled a couple of well worn shoes to keep the players entertained and the forum masses updated on the forum as much as they possibly could. Well done lads, you were a great team throughout!
For those who made Day 2 ::), the money, the FT and the medals give yourselves all a huge pat on the back. But the ultimate accolade is always for the winner, so many congratulations Alan, a very well deserved win and the title is now yours to enjoy 8)...............till the next time at least :P
Now it"s a few days for me away to Aberfeldy tomorrow for my post APAT retreat and a bit of chill out time. We will no doubt meet again on the virtual felt on Sunday night though, looking forward to it already ;)
Santino67:
A great week just got better :) Got tickets to see the manic nonsense of Ross Noble on Friday night in Glasgow so really looking forward to that after having a hilarious night at his Perth gig a few years ago. Had the fantastic announcement that I"ve been chosen to be part of the superb Scotland "A" Team with Cap"n Jo, Mary, Paul & Gordon and thrilled to be joining them in Stoke at the end of November.
Finally, today I received news that I have an interview for an excellent job within NHS 24 that I think I"m ideal for. Obviously don"t have the job yet, but just to get the opportunity to get into a role which will utilise skills I"ve built over 25 years, but not used much in the past 3, fills me with a huge amount of hope for the future ;)
AceOnTheRiver:
--- Quote from: Santino67 on October 31, 2012, 18:13:12 PM ---
A great week just got better :) Got tickets to see the manic nonsense of Ross Noble on Friday night in Glasgow so really looking forward to that after having a hilarious night at his Perth gig a few years ago. Had the fantastic announcement that I"ve been chosen to be part of the superb Scotland "A" Team with Cap"n Jo, Mary, Paul & Gordon and thrilled to be joining them in Stoke at the end of November.
Finally, today I received news that I have an interview for an excellent job within NHS 24 that I think I"m ideal for. Obviously don"t have the job yet, but just to get the opportunity to get into a role which will utilise skills I"ve built over 25 years, but not used much in the past 3, fills me with a huge amount of hope for the future ;)
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Good News!!
Good News!!
Good News & Good Luck!!
pables:
Gr8 news Grant, let"s hope you get that wee bit more of run good in your work life. GL in Stoke :-*
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