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APAT Scandinavian Open

January 6, 2008 on 12:18 am | In General |

aargh..possibly the worst result tonight…I bubbled the final table by finishing 11th out of 105 players.

The APAT have changed the format of the game so instead of 5,000 chips and 15 min blinds it is now 4,000 and 12 min blinds and initially I thought that this would be OK but to be honest the last hour or hour and a half has been all in poker. In the tournament that I played just before Christmas there was much more play for the first 2 to 2 and a half hours and this has just been too much of an adjustment for my taste. I think if they wanted 12 min blinds then they should have left the chips at 5,000 or 4,000 chips with 15 min blinds.

Anyway back to tonights game, I had Aces a couple of times early and managed to get some chips and coming into the All in madness I was in the top 10 when unfortunately my cards dried up and it was difficult to make any moves as there was nearly always an all in before me. I stayed alive with A8 a couple of times and some other marginal hands but ultimately got caught with A6 vs A8. I was completely decimated after that but managed to triple up and get a few chips but ultimately 10k of chips with the blinds 3,000/1,500 is not good so I had to go with any 2 and the miracle didn’t come. I suppose I could have folded my hand and crept onto the final table and an increased payout but honestly I needed to double up a couple of times and had to make my stand if I wanted to get into the points proper rather than just squeaking a point and an additional $10.

We have a week off next week for the online tournaments as the APAT have one of their live events which unfortunately I will not be going to so it will be back to the online tourneys on the 17 Jan I think.