Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Poker Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: TightEnd on October 07, 2010, 15:34:21 PM
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for the GUKPT, tomorrow. All APAT National event winners, whether live or Online, and all playing the GUKPT courtesy of Betfair Poker
In no particular order
Paul "Pears27" Haycock
Gareth "Gazza" Johns
John "MintTrav" Murray
Johnn "RicayBoy" Lynn
May you run well and do what is now known as a "Pitchford"
Good luck!
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GL all, TID John FTW Woop Woop
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GL Guys - but please don"t do a "Pitchford" as Tighty suggests. Would much prefer to see one of you win it rather than come 4th!! :D :D
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GL Guys, fly the flag!
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Really hoping to make it. Been sick as a dog today with a stomach bug.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "running bad" :(
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Good luck guys have a great time
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Good luck to you all...but a sweet spot for John Lynn. (luton boy)
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Best of luck guys
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Gl Guys.
John you can brekky in Luton if you take this down ;)
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Best of luck chaps !
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Gl Guys.
John you can brekky in Luton if you take this down ;)
Or treat us all to cake! ;D
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Good luck.
APAT FTW
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All the best guys
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Good luck All Apaters particularly Mr Murray
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Good luck John (M) .... we will let you off Sunday nights team game, provided you are on the Final Table!!!!!
Also best of luck to all the other APATers
C"MON TEAM SOLENT..........!
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goodluck all,,,anyone know where we can get decent updates ?
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goodluck all,,,anyone know where we can get decent updates ?
You can get a "live" feed here but havn"t found a blog anywhere yet:-
http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/livestream.shtml
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blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com
Sorry if that"s naughty advertising.
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GL all
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Numbers well down on last year if flight 1 is anything to go by - down to 64 left from 84 runners. Unless flight 2 is going to be huge...
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Oh dear what a disappointing first ever GUKPT main event tourney.
First hand flop two pair and the other guy fills up. KK gets beat by 99. so that"s 7 k gone. 8 left.
blinds 100/200 25 ante
Jeff "Jaffacake" Kimber raised to 550. I call with 9c 9h and the big blind makes up.
Flop is 5c 6d 8c
BB checks, JK bets 800, I make it 2,500
BB folds
JK puts me all-in
Oh dear, I reckon if he"s massive he just calls so after a dwell up call.
He shows 7c 7h which makes me 76 percent
Turn 9s..he makes his straight and I can"t fill up on the river.
That"s life..Thanks to APAT and Betfair for giving me the chance.
I"ll try and do better next time.
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VUL fella.
First break in flight 2. John already can"t see over his stack, while us paupers scratch around on 13k.
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Hows John Murray doing????
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Hows John Murray doing????
He"s live on Nutz now to the right of the dealer fidgeting about
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He"s stood next to me moaning about only having 30k at the dinner break (incidentally that"s tuna sandwiches - glad I didn"t stump up the £70 juice).
22k here fwiw.
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It"s not looking good. Hit with the deck several times and got up to 50k after the dinner-break. Dribbled a few and then lost 18k with AA v KK. Winning that would have put me right up there, probably into 2nd at that stage. Down to 27k, I raised to 2k from 800 with JJ. Short-stack shoved for 8k more and I decided to take the probable race. QQ/KK not that likely and he might have an underpair. AQ, A on flop, down to 17k.
It"s been an amazing experience. Had Ali Mallu on my 1st table - after a while you get used to him raising pre-flop to 1050 from 100, shoving the flop for 12k over a bet of 300, etc. You just hope that you are holding a cracker the next time he does it. On my current table, Toby Lewis is raising every second hand to 2.5BB and getting them through - whenever I raise I get called or reraised. When he has had to showdown, he has shown something like A5 - so I don"t know why the big stacks are letting him get through.
With 16BB, I"m lowest of the 25 survivors from the 2nd sitting, though there are a few similar and a few with less from the other one. Can"t fold to the money with 61 left -1 hour levels will help to find a good spot, but I"ll have to make a stand before long.
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It"s not looking good. Hit with the deck several times and got up to 50k after the dinner-break. Dribbled a few and then lost 18k with AA v KK. Winning that would have put me right up there, probably into 2nd at that stage. Down to 27k, I raised to 2k from 800 with JJ. Short-stack shoved for 8k more and I decided to take the probable race. QQ/KK not that likely and he might have an underpair. AQ, A on flop, down to 17k.
It"s been an amazing experience. Had Ali Mallu on my 1st table - after a while you get used to him raising pre-flop to 1050 from 100, shoving the flop for 12k over a bet of 300, etc. You just hope that you are holding a cracker the next time he does it. On my current table, Toby Lewis is raising every second hand to 2.5BB and getting them through - whenever I raise I get called or reraised. When he has had to showdown, he has shown something like A5 - so I don"t know why the big stacks are letting him get through.
With 16BB, I"m lowest of the 25 survivors from the 2nd sitting, though there are a few similar and a few with less from the other one. Can"t fold to the money with 61 left -1 hour levels will help to find a good spot, but I"ll have to make a stand before long.
GL John, your a master of the short stack TID.
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Good luck today John
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Very best of luck John.
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No Bad Luck today John and go go go go
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gl Mr Murray
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TID John.
I"m afraid t"s a "thanks to APAT and Betfair" moment for me. Played for 7 hours and never got a hand better than bottom 2 pair. Utterly card dead. Boo-hoo, I know.
Picked some good spots to grind above average then picked a bad one to spew down to M=11. Next hand I 3-bet pre with JJ, called. Flop 789, villain checks, in they go, snap called by KK. No miracle ten. nh wp gg blah...
Good to spend some table time with a bracelet winner (Mike Ellis), Paul Parker and Nick "tv celeb come raise-fold machine" Wealthall. I guess he"s had better days too.
Going to try the 250 tonight. Pre-tell for anyone planning to play - I"ll be playing like a Swedish 19 year old online pro on speed.
P.
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Unlucky paul,,,got to say,,apats live feed is far superior to the gukpt feed,,,ouch,,just heard john has gone,,,,good effort john !!!
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Folded round to John Murray on the button and Murray decided to shove his 6k stack. George White in the small blind called and his pocket fours were slightly ahead against Murray"s J9o, although Murray turned a straight draw on the 310KA board the river was the ace of diamonds and John Murray is eliminated in 52nd place.
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ul john...
Hope u enjoyed playing against ali mallu.
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Just popped in to see how John was doing. Would"ve travelled down to rail if nearing the FT. Ul Captn
Bart
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UL guys, I am sure you all enjoyed the experience.
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UL.
GUKPTs are sick tough these days.
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Unlucky paul,,,got to say,,apats live feed is far superior to the gukpt feed,,,ouch,,just heard john has gone,,,,good effort john !!!
1st and last time i ever bother with that feed lol lol , the commentators forced ha ha"s plus he"s never quite sure how the action unfolds and long silences followed by inane rambling and poor maths... :) = not gr8
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Loved it. Was looking a for spot to try to double-up from the start yesterday. Every hand was being raised pre and I was getting no cards. The standard raise was to 2.3k from 1k. Called the extra 1.3k on my BB with 3h4h. There had been two other callers of the raise so a nice pot - also I wanted to play a hand against Paul Foltyn and James Dempsey, who were both in it. I could have shoved pre but I reckoned I was gonna be called. Was gonna shove any low flop and considered shoving the flop regardless, but when KJ6 came I decided it wasn"t a good idea into 3 players. My next BB, I finally got a hand, 99, and decided this was it. Folded to the Cut-Off, who raised to 2.3k, and I thought Great, I"ll have that as well, though I"d prefer if he would call my shove. Next thing, the Button has reraised to 7.5k. Could he have AK? My one chance to get chips, but it seemed unlikely I was ahead of both of them, so I let it go, as did the Cut-Off, saying he had AT. The Button told him he"d had one overcard, so I guess I was behind. Two hands later, it finally gets folded around to me. My stack was down to 10k. J9 on the Button - that"ll do. SB thinks for a while and calls with 44.
Loved the whole thing (apart from my depressed period late on Day 1). I"ve even got an outdraw to hang my hat on and pretend it"s the reason I didn"t cash. It"s a great experience to play against some of the well-known players. Those guys are really strong, but I discovered that they don"t like folding at the end, so I kept betting my good hands hard on the river and they kept paying me. I got a flying start with several good hands and had doubled-up within the first level just by betting hard and being called every time. For quite a while, it looked like I was odds-on to cash, but that went away. The guy who busted my AA with his KK has gone to the FT as chip-leader - funny game sometimes.
Thanks.
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nines is a shove I think
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u must think your nines are better then the cut-off and as for the button he might just be playing back at the cut-off so its shove every time for me with the nines, and why did you know what you had before the action had got to you john tut tut ;)
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Definitely gonna think I"m ahead of the Cut-Off (and hoping he calls a shove for a race tbh so I can chip-up or bust) and I understand exactly what you mean about the Button, who could easily have been playing back light at a light Cut-Off raise, especially from those players at that stage. I would have shoved against most of the table, but this particular player was pretty tight and a reraise from him almost certainly meant that he had a big pair, even in that scenario. Maybe you"re right - I do wonder whether I should have taken the 19% shot at what would have been a 26k pot. The spot I found shortly after was 49% for a 22k pot, clearly a better option, but of course it might not have come and the outdraw might have been my best chance.