If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one

[Santino67]

Good luck at Great Yarmouth and Luton Simon, hope they run well for you and you enjoy your weekends.

[monkeyman]

Looks like the poker gods have decided to subject me to a Karl Henry-like tackle again. If there was one day all year when I didn"t want to be confined to home with a stinking cold, the day of the GUKPT club event at Yarmouth is it. On the positive side, it means I get to watch my favourite day"s flat racing of the whole year, Champion"s day at Newmarket, in particular what I think is probably the highest quality 2 year old race I can remember seeing.
  This also gives me a decision to make. I"d ring-fenced the cost of today"s event, £220, for a bit of tournament fun and rather than just put it back into the building society account I store my poker funds in, I still feel like spending it on trying to win a decent sum. As I see it I have 2 choices (a) Use the money to fund a series of online deepstacks between $20 and $50 or (b) pay for an entry to the APAT tournament at Coventry with hotel+petrol costs etc. Mmmm, tricky one that.

[Fatcatstu]

Looks like the poker gods have decided to subject me to a Karl Henry-like tackle again. If there was one day all year when I didn"t want to be confined to home with a stinking cold, the day of the GUKPT club event at Yarmouth is it. On the positive side, it means I get to watch my favourite day"s flat racing of the whole year, Champion"s day at Newmarket, in particular what I think is probably the highest quality 2 year old race I can remember seeing.
  This also gives me a decision to make. I"d ring-fenced the cost of today"s event, £220, for a bit of tournament fun and rather than just put it back into the building society account I store my poker funds in, I still feel like spending it on trying to win a decent sum. As I see it I have 2 choices (a) Use the money to fund a series of online deepstacks between $20 and $50 or (b) pay for an entry to the APAT tournament at Coventry with hotel+petrol costs etc. Mmmm, tricky one that.

Coventry!

[monkeyman]

Looks like the poker gods have decided to subject me to a Karl Henry-like tackle again. If there was one day all year when I didn"t want to be confined to home with a stinking cold, the day of the GUKPT club event at Yarmouth is it. On the positive side, it means I get to watch my favourite day"s flat racing of the whole year, Champion"s day at Newmarket, in particular what I think is probably the highest quality 2 year old race I can remember seeing.
  This also gives me a decision to make. I"d ring-fenced the cost of today"s event, £220, for a bit of tournament fun and rather than just put it back into the building society account I store my poker funds in, I still feel like spending it on trying to win a decent sum. As I see it I have 2 choices (a) Use the money to fund a series of online deepstacks between $20 and $50 or (b) pay for an entry to the APAT tournament at Coventry with hotel+petrol costs etc. Mmmm, tricky one that.

Coventry!

very tempting. It would only take me 2-2.5 hours to drive, so I could arrive on the saturday, therefore only needing a hotel for 1 night at a cost of £38ish meaning the whole weekend would cost me less than I would have stumped-up for yarmouth this afternoon. Its a strong possibility

[Santino67]

Coventry ftw mate

[monkeyman]

I didn"t take a lot of persuading. I"m now entered for Coventry and have reserved a room at the Ibis Coventry South for £30. With 2 live nationals in the space of a month within easy driving distance, one or both of them has got my name on.    

[Santino67]

Travelodge Nuneaton 3 nights, too much driving for a short stay  

[monkeyman]

Another APat Live national,another day of watching crap hand after crap hand getting dealt to me. Sigh. Coventry must be better than that.

[monkeyman]

Question - Given that I"ve got a very good record in APAT online events but my live track record now stands at 7 nationals, no day twos, am I:

a) Really unlucky whenever I set foot in a Grosvenor
b) Just plain s**t at live poker.

discuss.

[Santino67]

Question - Given that I"ve got a very good record in APAT online events but my live track record now stands at 7 nationals, no day twos, am I:

a) Really unlucky whenever I set foot in a Grosvenor
b) Just plain s**t at live poker.

discuss.

Big tournaments Simon and a pretty good standard of play at any I"ve been to so far. Made it to fairly late Saturday night in 2 of the 3 I played but I reckon to get to day 2 you need decent cards fairly steadily through Saturday, a patience, stamina and a fair amount of luck. Easy really lol

[monkeyman]

Question - Given that I"ve got a very good record in APAT online events but my live track record now stands at 7 nationals, no day twos, am I:

a) Really unlucky whenever I set foot in a Grosvenor
b) Just plain s**t at live poker.

discuss.

Big tournaments Simon and a pretty good standard of play at any I"ve been to so far. Made it to fairly late Saturday night in 2 of the 3 I played but I reckon to get to day 2 you need decent cards fairly steadily through Saturday, a patience, stamina and a fair amount of luck. Easy really lol

, decent cards, that must be the secret. Until dinnerbreak I had precisely 2 pocket pairs (two and threes) and hit the princely total of one flop, although even that was when my 7 3 in the blinds caught a three. Anyone know where these elusive "decent cards" are kept? Am I likely to find any in Coventry?  

[Fatcatstu]

Ahem...it takes massive amounts of skill to win at an APAT, no luck at all thankyou.

HItting a flush when all in with AK v AK isnt lucky is it? I was soooooted...

Seriously though mate, you dont need good cards, average ones will do. It will come, just enjoy the experience when it does

[antthecat]

lots of patitence, lots of practise and mostly a hell of a lot of "playable" cards to start off with. yes you need a bit of luck to run deep or win a APAT event(i havent got the skill to win a APAT event) but maybe try to loosen up and see a few flops in the first few blind levels and try to create some luck and get a "loose" image so when you get big hands they will be paid off tenfold.

good luck for your next event.

[monkeyman]

So its time for yet another attempt at one of those live national thingies. So what better time for my usually reliable online game to collapse around me? Oh f*** me, this looks like trouble.

[monkeyman]

FFS, this downswing has come at the wrong time. Its not so much the big pairs getting hammered by smaller pairs turning into trips that is annoying me now, but I would defy anyone not scream at raising preflop with Kings,being reraised then shoving, only to find your opponent calls you with J 2 offsuit and hits a J J 2 flop. F***ity, F***ity,F***ity,F***ing, lucky, fishy f***er.
  Lets hope the Grosvenor dealers remember they owe me big time.