Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Poker Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chipaccrual on January 07, 2010, 10:41:12 AM
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If you haven"t yet voted in the APAT Awards 2009, you have a bit of time left to get the votes in.
APAT Awards 2009 (http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=4936.0)
But what about those that came so close to getting a nomination ?
Feel free to add to this thread for all those that just missed out in a category this year.
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Player Of The Year
Daniel Phillips
Kinboshi made three dinner breaks during 2009. Granted, one of those was because the casino moved the dinner break to 5pm, but still, that"s an unbelievable achievement from the Season 1 Champion.
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Best Member Performance At An APAT Event
Richard Rudling-Smith
During the European Team Championships in Luton, Welsh representative Rudders achieved greatness. He beat Tighty into 2nd place in the buffet queue. The scene was electric, the rail was in shock. Could this be repeated in season 4 ? Rudders is in Winter training as we speak, so perhaps.
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Best Poker Media Provider
Mary Martin
Mair"s contribution to the Scottish National Championship update should not go unnoticed, although if you had logged on to the live update late on day one, you may have struggled to notice nothing.
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Best Member Performance At An APAT Event
Mary Martin. The Live Update at the Gala Maybury was 19 pages long. It had survived the pies. It had survived the updater rushing to the front of the queue, failing and thus queue-barging towards an enormous plate of sandwiches, successfully. From the corner of my eye I spotted said member on a white mobile phone perusing the update. Hours of my life lovingly invested in purple prose and flirting with Players wives.
I refreshed the page "The page you are looking for is not available. Thread has been deleted" I prepared my excuses to MeinFuhrer Duffy. His dreams of exponential increases in forum traffic lay in tatters, at the tips of my fat fingers so I thought. Sweat beading my brow I looked for a work around, and discovered the fatal words "Thread deleted by Moderator xxMairxx" Half relieved it was not me, I sauntered over the the far table and and enquired gently of said member, in lilting dulcet tones betraying no hint of my frustration,
"What the f%%% have you done? Nineteen bloody pages up in smoke"
Said member was very apologetic, and of course it was a genuine mistake.
It is nevertheless, a travesty that said performance is not available to be voted on in the 2009 awards.
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Player of the Year
Mary Martin
To have missed out on nominations in two categories for the same "incident" means Mair must have been close to the player of the year shortlist. ;)
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Best Member Performance At A Non APAT Event
John Murray
John finished 5th in the Portsmouth Snooker Club £10 rebuy in 2009. This performance secured John a place in the Irish and APAT teams during season 3. The man is a machine.
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Team of the Year
Nottingham
Erm....scrap that one.
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Best Member Performance At A Non APAT Event
George Bedi
George made the final table of the Pokerstars Sunday Million earlier this year pocketing over $28k. An amazing achievement from an APATer. Then Rob Swindells finished 2nd in the Pokerstars Sunday WarmUp taking home over $95k.
George who ?
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Best Catering Performance at an APAT National (sponsored by Iceland)
Gala Maybury Casino, Edinburgh
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Best Poker Tour
The Black Country Poker Club
More of a "specific" tour, this series of events is sure to continue to grow and take on the big guns in the future.
You may not have heard about them, but they do exist. ;)
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Best Poker Media Provider
Chipaccrual
For years a mild mannered accountant, slaving away over cash flow forecasts, book-keeping entries and following Labradors with a poop-a-scoop, Leigh Wiltshire"s life was transformed when, on a fateful March day, he found himself with the kit to record online interviews and a microphone in his hand. From that point on no APAT member was safe. Thrusting said equipment into the interviewee"s faces from a great height, Leigh developed an interviewing style part Alan Whicker and part Michael Parkinson as interviews touched on travel information, local colour and somewhat lighter tabloid fare. Occasionally poker was even mentioned too.
For Season 4 it is rumoured that APAT have invested in a mobile studio and freelance cameramen to further enhance the new working life of this new interviewing professional. A deal has been struck with Sky for the interviews to appear on Channel 865 to provide sensible poker content at a fraction of the price Sky currently receives it. Albeit minus the female presenters.
From here, for Leigh Wiltshire it is onwards and upwards, as long as Mrs Wiltshire does not need him to stand in the background at a dog rescue stand in a field in Dorset.
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APAT Best Dressed Player
ViiperUK (Kevin McDermott)
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_KJLieIUxMJY/SmHaLiDqvlI/AAAAAAAAZ-I/1jMw0IZeYQI/s800/IMG_0685.JPG)
He"s got the hoodie, he"s got the glasses, he"s got the sponsored hat. Surely a contender ?
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Best Member Performance At An APAT Event
Mary Martin. The Live Update at the Gala Maybury was 19 pages long. It had survived the pies. It had survived the updater rushing to the front of the queue, failing and thus queue-barging towards an enormous plate of sandwiches, successfully. From the corner of my eye I spotted said member on a white mobile phone perusing the update. Hours of my life lovingly invested in purple prose and flirting with Players wives.
I refreshed the page "The page you are looking for is not available. Thread has been deleted" I prepared my excuses to MeinFuhrer Duffy. His dreams of exponential increases in forum traffic lay in tatters, at the tips of my fat fingers so I thought. Sweat beading my brow I looked for a work around, and discovered the fatal words "Thread deleted by Moderator xxMairxx" Half relieved it was not me, I sauntered over the the far table and and enquired gently of said member, in lilting dulcet tones betraying no hint of my frustration,
"What the f%%% have you done? Nineteen bloody pages up in smoke"
Said member was very apologetic, and of course it was a genuine mistake.
It is nevertheless, a travesty that said performance is not available to be voted on in the 2009 awards.
LOL slight over-exaggeration, and it twas Des who sidled over to me enquiring did I delete it, I was, of course, mortified, felt quite sick tbh and thought you would kill me (prayed you wouldnt).
I am sure, even tho you all laughed your heads off, underneath you were cursing me quite well Rich.
I ended up going on tilt and had to remove myself from my table for a good 30 mins to compose myself.
Needless to say one has never logged into the APAT forum again via her mobile, rather browses as a guest.
Shoulda got the award for "Total idiot of 2009"
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APAT Awards 2009 - Best APAT Tournament
UK Amateur Championship - Grosvenor Casino, Walsall
The casino got everything spot-on with their Keystone Cops organization.
What - it has actually been nominated? Did I miss the start of the joke awards?
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Loudest Dealer Award
Anthony (G Luton)
All activity out on the casino"s gaming floor stopped for a moment as 500 people glanced toward the cardroom in response to the shout of "Reraise all in, player is all in".
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Best Thread of the year
This one
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Best Member Performance At A Non APAT Event
Alan Armitage
Alan was playing with the poker elite in a major UK event and played his KK perfectly about 3 minutes into the event. He was so so unlucky not to hit his 2 outer after all the money had gone in.
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Greatest Consumption of WorldWide Web Resources with Excessive Signature
Brian Yates
Good effort by Stuart Oliver:
Join The Leeds Poker Club - click here
APAT UK Championship 2009 - Bronze
APAT Mini League 2008 - Gold
APAT European Team Championship 2008 - Silver
APAT WCOAP 2008 - NLH 6 max - Silver
but just loses out to Brian:
LATVIAN ONLINE OPEN CHAMPION 2008.
WELSH ONLINE CHAMPION 2009
IRISH AMATEUR CHAMPION 2009, in memory of Bill Young
PROUD member of the 2009 ENGLAND Bronze Medalist team in the European Championships.
CAPTAIN of the NATIONAL ONLINE LEAGUE CHAMPIONS from WALSALL.
No.1 ranked Online player 2009.
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Best Member Performance At A Non APAT Event
The cash table bloke from Walsall
Enough said, really.
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Best Member Performance At An APAT Event
Mary Martin. The Live Update at the Gala Maybury was 19 pages long. It had survived the pies. It had survived the updater rushing to the front of the queue, failing and thus queue-barging towards an enormous plate of sandwiches, successfully. From the corner of my eye I spotted said member on a white mobile phone perusing the update. Hours of my life lovingly invested in purple prose and flirting with Players wives.
I refreshed the page "The page you are looking for is not available. Thread has been deleted" I prepared my excuses to MeinFuhrer Duffy. His dreams of exponential increases in forum traffic lay in tatters, at the tips of my fat fingers so I thought. Sweat beading my brow I looked for a work around, and discovered the fatal words "Thread deleted by Moderator xxMairxx" Half relieved it was not me, I sauntered over the the far table and and enquired gently of said member, in lilting dulcet tones betraying no hint of my frustration,
"What the f%%% have you done? Nineteen bloody pages up in smoke"
Said member was very apologetic, and of course it was a genuine mistake.
It is nevertheless, a travesty that said performance is not available to be voted on in the 2009 awards.
Obviously I never got to read it but I had Quad ACES in this thread
That could have been my 15 Mins :-X
Mary you are a Legend!!! ;D