Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Communities => APAT Southern Poker Clubs => APAT Local Poker Clubs => Luton Poker Club => Topic started by: Waz1892 on August 24, 2010, 21:29:54 PM
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It came to light over the past few days that while I rail as often as I can, and Captain of this superb club....I know very little about you all! I know your alias, all your first names...but other than that.....
So..I"ll start things going...tell all..tell none...upto you.
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Warren Fenwick
Aged 36
Married
2 Children
My picture is on the club page for all to see.
Alias - Waz1974 on Betfair. Disclipline09 on Full Tilt & 888.com. Disclipline10 on Partypoker & Interpoker
Poker History - Started playing poker about 5 years, mainly recreational, but starting to take it more serious over the past coupel of years.
1st tournament - My very first online tournament was the Daily Telegraph Open. I came 7th for $500. After that I was kinda hooked!
Found APAT- Joined APAT through Poker player magazine. Played in 4 live events with APAT so far.
Biggest Live Cashes - £1080 £25buyin at DTD. 1st Place May 2009. $450 Poker Player Magazine World Cup 4th Place
WCOAP - Playing WCOAP on Day 1b. My first worlds!
3 Interesting Poker Facts - I converted my garage into a Poker Room. I"m playing in the Poker Player Grand Prix Final in September. I won the Player Competition for Luton and Division 3.
Look forward to reading yours!
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My garage is a converted Poker Room.
Why did you convert your poker room into a garage? Displays a definite lack of commitment IMHO
Good Idea about the profiles - will do mine when I have a bit of time
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WCOAP - Playing WCOAP on Day 1b. My first worlds!
Oh goody - be careful which Gerard Smyth you get at your table - One is old and silly - the other is young and reckless - your choice
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My garage is a converted Poker Room.
Why did you convert your poker room into a garage? Displays a definite lack of commitment IMHO
Long day!.. now amended! :P
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WCOAP - Playing WCOAP on Day 1b. My first worlds!
Oh goody - be careful which Gerard Smyth you get at your table - One is old and silly - the other is young and reckless - your choice
..and with me old and reckless...should be fun!
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Okay, here goes......
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Alan Mower
Aged 38
Single
1 Child
My picture is somewhere on this site!!
Alias AlaMow on Betfair TTR119921752 on Titan
Poker History Starting playing about 5 years ago, mostly online for last 3 years.
Found APAT I started playing online on Blue Square and noticed the games 2 years ago. Played live APAT once in Edinburgh last year.
Biggest Live Cashes Only play live if I qualify for them. Cashed in 3 GUKPT events (out of 4 played), biggest £1450.
Biggest Online Cashes $33000 ipoker $150k gtd, $14000 Aussie Millions package, $13000 WSOP package, £75 APAT package.
WCOAP Also playing Day 1b of M/E and Omaha event. (The first live events I"ve paid for!!)
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JP Round
Aged 37
Co-habiting for 10 years
0 Children, 2 Cats
There"s a picture of me and the "wife" on the "find a piccy of the player thread"
Alias - Ace0nFifth* on Betfair. Numerous variations of Aceonthefifth & aceontheriver across various sites
Poker History - Home games for 15 years, switched from 5-Card Draw to NLHE in 2002. Started playing in Casinos in 2007
1st tournament Discovered Gala Poker Room by accident one random Thursday and won 2 x £20 SnGs :) Thought I was good at the game so turned up Sunday for the £50 F/O and got properly schooled :(
Found APAT- Discovered at the very beginning of 2009 and never looked back - only missed 1 x UK based event since.
Biggest Live Cashes talkSPORT Champion 2008, Flights & 4 nights in Vegas + $1500 spending money, 17th in first Live APAT last Feb, UK Championship in Walsall, for £400
WCOAP Heading up there in the morning, playing Stud Event, Day 1a, Six-Max, HORSE... Day 2 (Came 4th in last year"s HORSE)
3 Interesting Poker Facts Have stared across the felt at Ian Wright, Abi Titmuss, Lee Sharpe & Alan Brazil. Played in first GUKPT earlier this month coutesy of winning the APAT UK Online this year.
*I know you didn"t ask but... AceOnTheRiver / AceOnFith etc is a reference to the fact that, despite being an average golfer at best (24Hcp) I was was lucky enough to bink a Hole in One on the 5th hole (5th = river card getit? ;)) on The Forest of Arden Championship Course in 2007
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*I know you didn"t ask but... AceOnTheRiver / AceOnFith etc is a reference to the fact that, despite being an average golfer at best (24Hcp) I was was lucky enough to bink a Hole in One on the 5th hole (5th = river card getit? ;)) on The Forest of Arden Championship Course in 2007
I did always wonder. I was going to add it too the questions...but then where do you stop!
Waz1892. Waz = Short for Warren used by Family and Friends. Waz1892 = Birth of Liverpool F.C. or Waz1974 = year of my birth
good luck in your chosen events...see you Monday. ;)
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This is a nice idea skipper, so here is mine
Richard Baker
Aged 50 (yeah I can"t believe it either)
Married with 3 kids, Will (18), James(17) and Georgia (10)
Various ugly photos of me at APAT event around the site
I sell property on golf courses in the Algarve and play on the Portuguese Poker Tour
Poker Alias is Curlarge on Full Tilt and APAT but for some reason Carlarge on Betfair, but trying to change this soon.
Started playing poker in the APPLE pub poker league in February 2007
Biggest cashes
2009 Sky Poker Open Online £2000
2009 APAT European Championships Final Table £600
2009 APAT WCOAP Main Event Day 1b 1st out!!!!!
2010 APAT WCOAP Main Event finished 19th £450
2010 $150 NLH tourney at Venitian came 12th for $600
2010 $120 NLH tourney at Binions Horsehoe came 3rd for $800
2010 $120 NLH tourney Golden Nugget came 1st for $900
3 interesting facts....hmmmmm
Once played in a hand where 2 of us declared the nut flush draw. 4 hearts on the board and we both had the Ah in our hand....oh how I miss pub poker ; won a $969 NLH hand in cash game at the Aria in Las Vegas in April with 8s6c, board came 8c 6s Ah, lots of betting, turn Qd River 8d...other player shows AQ....shame, finished in the top 30 of the last 4 APAT Main Events.
I really enjoy playing for Luton online although not much success yet (16th last time out) so looking forard to getting some points for the team soon.
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Here we go then after some time and consideration:
Name: Stuart Fordham
Alias: On Betfair i am Fatblokey and on Pokerstars i am Fatbloke888 (for obvious reasons as now people have met me they know why i have the fatbloke prefix)
No children as of yet but have "the wife" which she is commonly now known as in poker circles (thank god she can"t play). Own 9 racing greyhounds and also in a syndicate that has half a dozen racehorses.
Not played that much live but had a go run the European"s last year at Luton and managed to get 4th place (apologies Richard for limping in with JJ on final table). Had a great time and should have gone with my gut instinct when down to the last 4 and pushed all in with pocket 55"s but bottled it when 2 others went all in before me. AJ v AQ and yes a 5 came on the turn. Never mind still enjoyed it. Won limit omaha"s on pokerstars and seem to be playing very well in $3000 and $6000 nl tournaments with top 6 finishes in everything on Betfair plus final tabled a few times for Luton in league competitions. Biggest win $5000 on Pokerstars (paid for most of the greyhounds with it)
After this weekend in Nottingham i found out i play omaha much better online than tournaments so will be sticking to NL live appearances from now on. Congrats to all the Luton players who played much better than me over the weekend.
Glad "the wife" allowed me last year to play for Luton and hopefully one time i can go on and win a league game ! Luton team are great bunch of people to play alongside and enjoy the banter during league competitions
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Stuart Aitken
Aged 23
Single
No kids
Pic on FB
Alias - Kinester and various ways of spelling on a few sites.
Poker History - Started playing poker when I was 16. Mainly online apart from the occasional home game. Although been playing best part of 7 years I still consider myself very new to live games.
1st tournament - I honestly cant rememeber my very first tourney. First live was at Grosvenor Leeds for £2 and I was a nervous wreck
Found APAT- Joined APAT a few years ago when reading Poker Player
Biggest Live Cashes - I"ve come first in a few home games.....
WCOAP - CAN"T PLAY WORLDS AS YOU ALWAYS PUT IT ON BLOODY READING FESTIVAL WEEKEND >:(
3 Interesting Poker Facts - Ummm, Im rubbish, had 2 royal flushes and 1 day il cash live :D
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WCOAP - Playing WCOAP on Day 1b. My first worlds!
Oh goody - be careful which Gerard Smyth you get at your table - One is old and silly - the other is young and reckless - your choice
Good description!
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Name: Ellen (Ann) Gascoine (usually known as Nellie)
Age: 72 (I am nearly as old asTkay)
Married: 47 years (I have patience)
Children: 2 Richard who plays only online mainly Sky
Michelle aka HoldOrFold
Retired (which means I can stay up all night and sleep during the day)
Alias NellieG or LadyGazza
Poker History
Started playing about 3 years ago on Sky under the alias of Panzer (name taken from my cat as she uses her head like a tank)
Found APAT
Through Michelle
Biggest Live Cashes
Blonde Bash 9 £60
Biggest Online Cashes
£935 on DTD a few weeks ago
I very rarely play live but have recently started playing weekly at the Grovesnor Luton Club. I regularly get small wins on line but nothing big yet.
Supporter of Luton in the League and I will really try and get more points.
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Children:Michelle aka HoldOrFold
OMG tell her to get her backside in gear and play more games for us ;)
Loving the cat reference. I have 2.
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Children:Michelle aka HoldOrFold
OMG tell her to get her backside in gear and play more games for us ;)
Loving the cat reference. I have 2.
Backside is in gear ...... regging for tonights game. I"m TillySwat on Betfair as all the holdorfold variations were used up and put that in for a laugh and it blinking accepted it ;D
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Children:Michelle aka HoldOrFold
OMG tell her to get her backside in gear and play more games for us ;)
Loving the cat reference. I have 2.
Backside is in gear ...... regging for tonights game. I"m TillySwat on Betfair as all the holdorfold variations were used up and put that in for a laugh and it blinking accepted it ;D
Spoonerisms ftw ;D
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James Ewart
Aged 34
Married
Pictures at ewart.biz
Alias - Variations on Ruby Murray due to my love of curries!
Poker History - Started playing poker about 5 years ago, just for fun.
Found APAT- Don Logan mentioned APAT to me at a home game.
Will try to attend some live events next year!
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Carl Pilgrim
Living with partner and 4 kids!!
Alias fandangooo on betfair, fandango on stars and most other sites
39 years old
Poker History started playing online back in the early days Paradise poker 12 years or so ago
Found APAT I found APAT through a friend Alamow
Biggest Live Cashes $1,200 at the imperial palace las vegas ( now knocked down i believe) my first ever live tournament wich i won was amazing if not lucky
Biggest Online Cashes $12,500 Bodog WSOP ME package 2006, $10,000 WPT Shooting stars package 2005, numerous $5k+ mtt wins on stars but nothing with a buy in over $5 normaly re buys
WCOAP Also playing Day 1b of M/E and Omaha event.
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I"m a bit of a fairweather league player, but thought I"d join in the thread anyway :D
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Claire MacGregor
Aged 34
single
1 daughter (7)
Alias - claw_75 on betfair. Claw75 on Full Tilt & Clairep75 on stars.
Poker History - been playing 4.5-5 years. Don"t play online so much nowadays, but try to get to the G in Luton once or twice a week.
1st tournament - first live tournament was a media freeroll laid on for the opening of the "blonde poker" school (run by Dave Colclough and tikay) in early 2006. I"d won a seat at the event via a little competition on the blonde forum. Felt very intimidated as the field was full of pros, poker journos etc who were all treating it like a laugh, but I was bricking it. Remember getting dealt kc kd UTG first hand, shaking like a leaf and raising about 20x bb. Can"t believe I didn"t get any action :D Somehow managed to take the thing down for $600, which was a massive amount to me at the time as I"d never played anything bigger than £1 sngs :).
Found APAT- via the blonde forum.
Biggest Live Cashes - £3k ish for winning a £150 festival side event at Luton a couple of years ago. several other four figure scores, but nothing big yet. Came within inches of being in a great position to take down the DTD deepstack a few months ago but the poker gods were not onside and it was a 10th place finish instead.
Biggest online cashes - $9k and change for finishing 2nd in a big field $10 rebuy last year. Again, several four figure sums, but yet to break that five figure barrier. Only usually play small buy ins online though.
WCOAP - oh I"m a bit out of date! Didn"t play the WCOAP as was otherwise engaged that weekend, but won a seat to the Luton event last night :)
3 Interesting Poker Facts - I can"t think of 1, never mind 3!
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I"m a bit of a fairweather league player, but thought I"d join in the thread anyway :D
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Claire MacGregor
Aged 34
single
1 daughter (7)
Alias - claw_75 on betfair. Claw75 on Full Tilt & Clairep75 on stars.
Poker History - been playing 4.5-5 years. Don"t play online so much nowadays, but try to get to the G in Luton once or twice a week.
1st tournament - first live tournament was a media freeroll laid on for the opening of the "blonde poker" school (run by Dave Colclough and tikay) in early 2006. I"d won a seat at the event via a little competition on the blonde forum. Felt very intimidated as the field was full of pros, poker journos etc who were all treating it like a laugh, but I was bricking it. Remember getting dealt kc kd UTG first hand, shaking like a leaf and raising about 20x bb. Can"t believe I didn"t get any action :D Somehow managed to take the thing down for $600, which was a massive amount to me at the time as I"d never played anything bigger than £1 sngs :).
Found APAT- via the blonde forum.
Biggest Live Cashes - £3k ish for winning a £150 festival side event at Luton a couple of years ago. several other four figure scores, but nothing big yet. Came within inches of being in a great position to take down the DTD deepstack a few months ago but the poker gods were not onside and it was a 10th place finish instead.
Biggest online cashes - $9k and change for finishing 2nd in a big field $10 rebuy last year. Again, several four figure sums, but yet to break that five figure barrier. Only usually play small buy ins online though.
WCOAP - oh I"m a bit out of date! Didn"t play the WCOAP as was otherwise engaged that weekend, but won a seat to the Luton event last night :)
3 Interesting Poker Facts - I can"t think of 1, never mind 3!
Welcome back Claire. Fairweather or not....next online game is a week on Sunday! ;).