Another week ... (APAT FT #4 / Sunday Mill)

I've just realised that it has now been over a week since my last 'News' related post on here. It's hard to keep a Blog ...

As a member of APAT and RaiseTheRiver I find it great to have two friendly and not over-crowded Forums to post on. I'm not too bothered about how well this is kept up to date for the meantime as I have reference to almost all of my recent games which have been part of a Challenge on RTR and thoughts on them are on there.

The only other result of any significance to me is my 4th APAT Final Table of the season in the Portuguese Open (2nd March). I finished 10th for $19 and zero points which I am quite upset about, but I was happy to have played a good game and gone all out for the win and the 10 points. A couple of hands into the final table with a healthy stack and with TT, I called a push and was beaten by AQo when an A rivered - sooooo close! Then, with KTo in late position, I shoved and was called by smilinassassin with AK on the SB. Out in 10th.

Jim from our syndicate did OK on the Sunday Million last night. Well, top 45% for no cash and no glory but he had a blast, we gained quite a bit of experience and I enjoyed railing, especially when his 52o on BB saw a cheap flop after UTG limped and SB made it up. With bottom pair he saw a cheap turn (5 for trip 5s), got some chips in, got called by UTG, rivered a 2 for a full house and he extracted the maximum. With 30k in chips shortly after the first break he then started to get picked on. Although aggressive himself, he was out-bullied on a couple of hands with over 6k invested and was soon back to around 16k. A push with QQ was called by AsTs and both an A and T appeared on the flop. Another T on the turn meant lights out and it was only sad faces appearing in the chat boxes.

I'm up next in April. As I'll be at the APAT Regional in Edinburgh on Saturday 5th, I'll probably leave it until the night of 13th / hopefully morning of 14th.

ACF accommodation is now booked too - 1 mile away from Casino and still in the middle of Paris. And we have 7 going now - Derek Liddle (Zanshin / Oenone) the newest addition.