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Santino67:
Betfair >:(
After a very traumatic week and now playing a waiting game I decided that some poker may take my mind off things that have been going on and give me something else to focus on tonight. Managed to play the 8.15 $22 MTT with no probs but attempted to do the same in the 11.15 game and various 10c/20c cash tables and was unable to register. Incredibly the site has taken my full buy-ins for these and not responded yet to e-mail i sent about 3 hours ago so I"m not a happy man!!!!
Santino67:
Sorry I"ve been pretty much out the loop in the past 2 weeks due the sad departure of my mum, but I"m hoping to re-start the blog over the next few days. Her service went fantastically well, performed by my cousin Adam Dillon, who has his own parish in Moffat. Adam hit the perfect tone of sadness and light hearted humour and I"ll never know how he was able to deliver those succinct thoughts aloud, particularly considering he also had his own personal memories of his Aunty Maureen.
I"ve now also had my "lost" funds returned by Betfair (eventually!) so I"m considering my next poker steps carefully. This may also involve a change of site as I"m not impressed by their handling of the above fiasco and the length of time it took to resolve the problem. I"m especially >:( at the fact I missed out on the London Live sat after playing the 5 mini-league games. Any thoughts and tips on other sites would be very welcome.
I"d also like to thank you all for your amazing support. Since my mum fell ill I was receiving messages from APAT"ers on here and on Facebook, with so many words of encouragement to help me through this spell, You"ll never know how much strength it provided. It"s just confirmed what i re-discovered at Coventry, that the APAT community is stronger than ever, with a fantastic group of active and supportive members.
My final note is happy one 8) After 4 and a half years without contact from My daughter Corinne, We"ve now been re-united and agreed to meet up again tomorrow. I"m sure there will be slow progress ahead but after missing her for so long I"m delighted at the prospect of any kind of progress at all.
Cheers again for all your messages and support gang, see you all soon at the felt :)
Santino67:
Had a couple of games on Betfair on Tednesday night, namely the old regular $22 MTT 1500 12min game at 11.15 and the $54 2500 12 min game at 1am. Not much to write home about, cashed in 10th in the latter and busted out halfway in the former, being pretty card dead and donking some chips making moves and getting nowhere.
I did though have the pleasure of sharing a table with Mark "Big Redders" Redshaw and enjoyed some good friendly banter with a very likeable bloke......not my first impression of Mark tbh as I first encountered him in Dublin 2008, when I got down to the final 30 very late on the Saturday night and unfortunately got moved to his table, where he had a pretty mammoth chip stack and was pretty relentless in being table captain to my obvious frustration and inevitable downfall lol. Think I went out 26th on that occasion, busted by the table vice captain, a young Irish guy possibly Barry? Smith.
Glad to say I finally got to chat to Mark with Tim Magnus about a month later, I believe on our way home from London after The Vic (I know Ger, i"ve still to address that one :D ) , and discovered that beneath those bulletproof shades there lies a thoroughly likeable guy. Another of you APAT gang I look forward to sharing a table with in season 5.
But that"ll have to wait for now, as in only 2 sleeps time I"m off to New York for the appropriately named Annie "Big" Apple"s 40th birthday 8) Really looking forward to getting away for 5 days, especially somewhere I"ve never been before with so much to offer. catch up with you all on my return, Cheers.
samuel_9:
have a good one
duke3016:
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