APAT > UKIPT

UKIPT Newcastle sucked. I'm trying to think of any part of it which I enjoyed and I'm coming up empty. I made Day 2 and then busted in the first level back. Annoyingly this meant I missed the first of my two return flights and so had to wait around for 2.5 days.

There were no big pros there - all were either in Vegas, busy or CBA to go to Newcastle. The only faces I recognised were a couple of APATters, a handful of CBMPTers and some faces off the telly like Nick Wealthall and Julian Thew. The hotels were rubbish - I had to switch places mid-trip and the cab driver pleaded with me not to stay in the second place as it was a total dive. Alas I had already paid for it.

In happier news - APAT Blackpool was a good weekend away. We managed to take 2nd overall and so we all get silver medals and £1k to split between the 8 of us. I also played a further three other scheduled tourneys in the casino with two cashes and a near-cash in the other. So total returns were £325 from an outlay of £155. Not vast, but it means I freerolled the weekend. I very much enjoyed the last game I played. It was billed as a freeroll but was actually free to enter but with £5 reg and two optional reloads at £20 a pop. So it is the most expensive freeroll I've ever played. The standard was very good. The two players to my left and the one to my right ran the table and stayed out of each other's way for most of the game. The four of us all final tabled which is unusual. There was some proper poker being played. Annoyingly both my exits from the two games I cashed in were as a result of me having my fingers in the cookie jar. Both times were the first times I'd shoved from the button or SB to pick up the blinds and both times I was unlucky to walk into hands. The structure had overtaken the game though - in both instances the average stack was sub-10bb.

Last night I had my deepest Kitchen Sink finish yet with a 33rd from around 4500 runners. Ive had around 100 entries in this to date and so I should have probably managed a final table now. If you one of the 3 people who read this blog and have a FTP acct but are yet to experience the Kitchen Sink then be sure to play it. It's the most fun game online.

Oh, finally I am labelled as a fish on Sharkscope for FTP. Scope only seems to pick up some of the results though cos my roll there is still roughly the same as what I deposited and yet scope says I have a -$85% ROI. I don't play serious games on there - just the Sink, some superturbo Matrix games and odd micro Rush game.