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Fatcatstu:

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--- Quote from: Fatcatstu on May 18, 2012, 17:32:29 PM ---
Good to see you getting back into APAT's Steve fella. Hope that this means you are going to make a showing in Nottingham in August please thankyou!!!!

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Yeah, DTD is pretty much nailed on. Not sure what I will play but will be there, time off work is confirmed and everything.

I am thinking about Cork as well, depends on work though to a certain extent, hopefully not too busy in July so may well be OK. You in Wales next weekend mate?

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no i will be working that one, DTD will be my next one, i am there for the whole thing, gonna try and play in as  much as possible though, will be goo to see you back at an APAT table again though :)

AAroddersAA:
**The Following Post has Nothing to do with Poker

I quite like watching football. I watched the Champions League final last night, it was a poor game but I enjoyed it due to the occasion. I like watching the FA cup final in the pub. I enjoyed the climax to this season between Man City and Man Utd. Football is a good thing which creates enjoyable times.

Way back in the early and mid-nineties I lived in Newport (where I was born) and was a Newport County fan. Home and away games were the best days out even though there were only about 100 of us. Team like Liverpool take 20 coaches to away games that must be quite a rush for those Liverpool fans. Same goes for Man Utd and Arsenal. Anyway a lot of the friends I went to the games with moved away and lost interest and as you often do I lost touch with a lot of the friends I knew when I was in college.

This led to me losing a lot of the interest in County. I still went to the odd game but it was pretty rare by comparison, still watched for their results and where they were in the table, but it did not have the same feeling of seeing the same faces week after week and getting to know the people there, you all knew you all really cared and were all "in it together". As it happened I at that time knew a lot of people who were football fans, but they were all Liverpool and Man Utd fans. I did not really understand this but never really bothered arguing about it as it seemed pointless at that time as I didn"t care what they called themselves.

A few times I was asked who I supported. I usually just said nobody really as I did not consider myself to be a proper fan at that time. I did mention County a few times and the reason I did not think of myself as a proper fan but this did not seem to be considered an answer. People seemed to have a hard time excepting this for some reason and it came up one day that I should say who I supported in the premiership. Well that was easy enough, my favorite team in the Premiership is Newcastle. This seemed easy enough for everybody to accept and I was labeled a Newcastle fan. Again I just accepted this as I could not see the problem with it. I was actually never that bothered if they won or lost and made no special effort to check their results.

A few years back a mate of mine invited me to a County game again, I went quite happily as I had not been to a game for a while and Newport were doing quite well in the Blue Square South. I went to a few games and Newport won the Blue Square South and went into the Conference. At this time one of the guy"s who I work with was also a Newport fan so I was talking to him about them quite a bit and I knew some of my friends were going to game regular. I quite frequently visit Newport at weekends as my Mother and my sisters family still live their so I got into the habit of going to the game again and the new social club was also a good reason to turn up, it made the experience worth it again. Now we had the Internet and forums as well. So I again became what I consider a proper County fan.

So my question is how can Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal fans really call themselves as fans. There is much more involved in being a fan of a club than just watching for results. I was never a Newcastle fan, but I guess I was as much a Newcastle fan as they were fans of their clubs.

None of them are likely to read this but hey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPWwuRFdjw

AAroddersAA:
So today was APAT Cardiff. It"s strange it really didn"t feel like an APAT during the build up. I did not need to go anywhere or worry about hotels or anything of that sort. With one of these it always feels like there should be a story for the Friday night but there was not. I did pop into the casino on Friday and caught up with Asa and Sharon but it was not the often experienced full on APAT Friday night. No problem though.

I arrived at the casino this afternoon with a little time to spare and found Steve Redfern and Richard Baker. Grant and the Scots boys arrived not long after this. My table was not a good one in terms of the strength of the players on it, Asa, Tony Trippier and Ben Young were all on it. JP Round joined it later. The table was actually good fun though and I actually felt pretty comfortable on it. I played some hands well and some hands badly but managed to get my stack up to about 30K. Then the table got broken and I got moved to another table with Sharon and Frank Ballie on it.

I folded the first few hands, then got AJ so raised, Sharon 3-bet me so I folded. Next hand I get TT Sharon I again raise and Sharon shoves on me for the rest of my chips. I could fold and still have about 22K at 500/1000. mm think I can find a fold here but just felt like this was a call. I might have got her range wrong here but I felt this was a play she could make with AK and some smaller pairs as the raise was so big it was confusing. She shows me AA and that was gg game. I think she played it well as the shove looked exactly like AK or maybe a hand like JJ or 99. The previous hand made me think this was more than likely the case. It might well have been a bad call, we all make them sometimes, I am reasonably happy with the logic behind it although am wondering if I calculated her range wrongly as I never gave AA a thought.

After I was out I went and ordered food, spoke to a few of the other players, including the APAT legend that is Paul Mcguniness, but it did not really feel the same as normal (it was just like a normal Cardiff tournament). I left at about 10:30 and drove home. Looking forward to DTD in October (and maybe Cork) as they will be more like the real thing.

Still an enjoyable day overall, I think I will actually fade the PLO tomorrow in favour of trying to contribute to another Welsh win in the league.

AAroddersAA:
Have investigated my exit hand from last night a bit and have concluded that my call with TT was probably incorrect. To make the call a good one I have to have Sharon on a range of AQ+ and 88+ which does not feel right, mind you I did not think she would have AA or KK there which is why it is a good play.

Been thinking about my poker lately and I have concluded that recently I have not been playing very well at cash. not sure why, I still know what I should do but seem to go against my instinct a lot. I think I have run bad this year including one weird downswing which involved losing 24 buyins in about 48 hours (gotta love PLO). Will work on putting that right but might give cash a break for a while, it has been my main game for the last 6 years and does not owe me anything but recently I have been getting better results in tournaments. This is probably mainly because Pokerstars has a lot if fish in tournaments but the cash games are shark infested, or that is how it seems anyway.

The money is never really going to be relevant unless I play a sat and bink a decent score but it might be a bit more interesting than grinding cash

So I am going to carry on playing the little $4.50 tournaments and maybe mix in some $10"s as well and see how I do in those.

Following this weekend I might go to Cork in July if factors allow me too (getting the mon/Fri off work being the main one, but that should be OK). It was good to catch up with the APAT people and a proper APAT weekend (ie one that does not involve living on 30 mins from the venue) sound like a good idea.

Anyway have to play some poker tonight as Wales need a good turnout to try and go top of the regional league so the schedule will be something like this

APAT Online National League (stars)
$4.50 SitnGo #1 (Stars)
$4.50 Sitngo #2 (Stars)
Blonde Bash Sat (Dusk Till Dawn)

Most likely just leave it as that as working in the morning.

AAroddersAA:
Forgot to update yesterday with the results of my efforts on Sunday. I lasted nearly and hour in the league game and cashed for £0 in the sitngo"s and didn"t bink the Blonde Bash Sat. So it was all quite standard really :-)

I really want to play Cork at the moment but I am not able to book the time off work until next week annoyingly this should not be a problem though. I just discovered my passport has expired too! (wp me). I don"t need one to go to Cork do I? Anybody know for sure, I don"t trust google.

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