as you all know, we, as in rTr, hit the APAT meet in Blackpool for some live gig. what can i say ? excellent weekend, thanks to the others, of course ! and nice bunch you all are too !
congrats to mair !! and the rest of the peeps who got us some points, bagging second place in the team event, w00t !
hammerheid met me at Blackpool Station and we walked back to the digs, showered and refreshed we all headed for the casino. very nice place with an excellent cardroom. not a window in sight … not a clock in sight … you only got a sense of the time you lost if you popped out to the smoking cage … to find out it was pitch black !!
i knew mair was going to have a fine weekend, when the three of us played a £10 stt with a few of the locals, all quite young too. she was short of chips and pushed on the flop i think ? the board was something ridiculous like 679TJ …. young guy next to act either shoved or put in a big bet … his mate, sat on mair’s right then hums and haws … he eventually folds, shows 77, lmfao, he folds the set … mair shows two pair … and the fucking numpty who pushed his mate off the set … he shows K4 …. thats correct, he has sweet fuck all … wow !!
lol mair then went on to win it and very kindly gave me my by-in back, thanks mair 
the APAT event kicked off saturday about 3 o’clock. befitting my status, i was chucked out to table 20. my inexperience showed, i’m afraid, with an APAT guy sat on my left who refused to let me see a cheap flop, and i played way to tight. of course on the odd occaision i picked up a hand, the rest folded, meh !
had i not played it so tight, i would have made an early exit. any time i saw a flop or folded any sort of hand to a raise, i 100% missed every single flop, thats my story and i am sticking to it. so i hung on until there were 7 or 8 tables left and then i got moved and unfortunately Lou arrived at my table shortly thereafter.
that proved to be my undoing. i was seat one or was it two ? Lou was five i think and when one player got busted Lou’s bb was my button. and we were both short, fuck.
i did double at that table when my AA was good on a 233 flop, me and a bigger stack got it in and i reached a huge 15k chips … lol rising blinds soon put paid to that, and i could have shoved on Lou’s bb but i restrained myself …. and my exit hand ?
an early position shortish stack pushed and i find JJ …. sorry, but the chips were going in … he tabled A-rag … and of course the A arrived on the river, where else !! out i go just inside the top 70 … as you know Lou then proceeded to play a fantastic game and hung in there to take 10th place, go girl … if my JJ had held … who knows ….
after that it all got a bit blurry
what can i say though, mair played a blinder ! and deservedly took 1st place, wow !
no pressure, hon, but we expect you to make it big in the GUKPT event
Nice report mate!
Great to meet you at the weekend and I still would never have guessed who you were in a million years! LOL.. even with the accent.. DOH!!
its strange, but I just never pictured you to be like that! I guess it was the name of your old blog that threw me. “The rime of the Ancient Mariner” - I thought you would be much older!
Anyways, thanks for representing RTR and doing a great job, it was a pleasure to meet you!