It's APAT Time Again...

So, it's off to Welsh Wales for me and Rich tomorrow, isn't it... back to the land of few vowels, coal dust amd nervous sheep for a crack at the APAT Welsh Amatuer Poker Championships, in Cardiff. If anyone is even remotely interested it may be possible to follow my progress by keeping an eye on the graph below... if I can be bothered (stay sober enough) to text in the updates!

APAT UK Champs - Day 1 Chips...

Today I shall mostly be playing in the APAT UK Champs, at the Grosvenor Walsall, in a drug induced daze that will probably see me playing with gay abandon... chips everywhere! I probably should point out that the drugs are painkillers and anti-inflamatorys... see, I had a slight accident during a golf lesson yesterday and somehow dislocated something in my knee - Gee, dat smarts!!

If anyone is interested, you can keep track of my dwindling chip stack. I will try and update at the end of each level, until they're all gone or the Guinness and the painkillers get the better of me.

Pimp My Blog...

As you can see... I've been busy trying to be a smartass and posh the blog up a bit. No easy job, trust me, for an ageing brain like mine!! Anyway, I had a go, and I quite like it.

On the steps front, I now have one step 3 and one step 2 ticket... I had to invest a further $15 in step 1 buy-ins to get there. I've been giving the $25NL 6-max cash a bash on Boss... same old shit* - different site!!! Somehow though I have managed to show a small, but steady profit.

Me and Dickus Minimus will be off to Walsall bright and early Saturday lunchtime, to take part in the £75 APAT UK Amatuer Poker Champs. The Grosvenor Walsall was site of my finest hour in live APAT competition... This time last year, a creditable 18th of 201, for the princely sum of £400 of your English pounds. Ah, those were the days... a pound was worth a pound and the best part of two bucks!

If any of 'The Pigeons' stalwarts are reading this, fear not... the odds are very much against Rich and/or myself still being at the final table by 6.00pm Sunday evening, we will almost certainly be back for the real poker challenge by 7.30pm.

*'Same old shit' is defined as... the usual mix [for me, anyway] of ridiculous bad-beats and idiotic attempts to bluff nits off of the nuts!

This is uncanny...

After spending 10 mins explaining to Steve v3 that calling all-in on the river, on a 995-J-T board, with pocket twos (even though it was the best hand!!) is not terriblely good poker... "But I've got two pairs!"... "No Steve, you have a pair of twos, the only thing you can beat is a stone cold bluff!!"

And then this happens -

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=2500.0

- and it's seen to be 'gr8888888 poker'... I just hope Steve doesn't join APAT and read it.