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The official magazine of the Amateur Poker Association & Tour. This special edition focuses on the APAT World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP).TRANSCRIPT
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FeaturesP4: Win A WCOAP Main Event SeatGuarantee your seat at the 2012 World Championship Of Amateur Poker in our competition.
P8: All Rosy In Garden-ers WorldDave Garden takes down the World Amateur Poker Championship in Nottingham.
P20: Two Time Team SupremeThe Welsh repeat their World Amateur Team Championship success of twelve months ago.
P38: Jon Seals Stud GloryLong time member Jon Seal Wins WCOAP Stud Championship.
P42: Peers Pressure Pays Heads-upChris Peers takes prestigious Heads-up Championship title.
P46: McGenius By A Short HeadWelsh team captain Paul McGuinness wins a record third WCOAP Gold.
P50: Six-ual HealingNo kidding as short handed master Batey pumps up the Gold.
P54: R’oma...ha!Joy for the Italian team as Andrea Lombardi takes the Omaha title home.
P58: Bitesize WCOAPPhilip Mildon is player of the 2011 WCOAP, but who is the most successful of all?
P60: Scrapbook!While the WCOAP was ultra competitive, friendship and fun were never too far away.
P62: WPT Magazine WCOAP Special On the road with WPT Magazine, at the APAT World Championship Of Amateur Poker.
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Welcome to the official magazine of the Amateur Poker Association & Tour. This special edition focuses on our highly pop-ular and successful annual World Cham-pionship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) fes-tival, the most recent of which took place at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn poker club between August 25th & 29th, 2011.
We had tremendous feedback from players following the 2010 WCOAP and APAT lis-tened; delivering amongst other improve-ments; a 50% increase in player chips for the main event; while retaining the same fantastic blind structure, and doubling the field size of especially popular side events like the Heads-up Championship.
We are lucky to have an excellent venue partner in Dusk Till Dawn. I hope you agree that the quality of leadership, tournament direction and dealing at this year’s WCOAP were second to none in the UK. Despite your eating and drinking DTD clean, the cardroom itself is a pleasure to play in and many of the players I spoke to; some at-tending DTD for the first time, were highly
complimentary of how welcome and com-fortable they were made to feel over the five days. I’d like to thank Nick Whiten in particular for the growth in our partner-ship with DTD in recent years. We contin-ue to receive extremely favourable terms, while DTD themselves added value to ev-ery 2011 WCOAP Championship event.
Our organisation receives a tremendous amount of help and goodwill from players. Thank you to the entire team who give so much of their time to moderate the forum, update the rankings, promote us via their websites and generally bring a great deal of value to APAT. Particular thanks to Ian Burnett who did a fantastic job of pho-tography across the five days of the festi-val. Thanks also to Amanda Morris, James Barber and Paul Davis for their help in live updating a number of APAT’s; including the WCOAP, across the year. Last but by no means least, we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Richard ‘Tightend’ Prew and Leigh ‘Chipaccrual’ Wiltshire, who have put a tremendous amount of energy into man-aging the very best series of events avail-able for amateur players, worldwide.
I hope you enjoy reading the tournament reports and seeing the colourful images from the fourth annual World Champion-ship Of Amateur Poker, which we think was our best ever. We are working hard to ensure that the next WCOAP is even great-er still! The dates have been announced as June 1 to 5, 2012; so please spread the word and share APAT Magazine with your friends and get those dates entered into your diary! Best of all, for your chance to win a 2012 WCOAP main event seat, see our easy to enter competition on page 4.
The APAT team and I look forward to meet-ing you at an APAT event in the months ahead.
Regards,
Des DuffyManaging DirectorAmateur PokerAssociation & Tour
Editorial
Does It Get Any Better Than This?
WCOAP CREDITS
Event ManagementRichard PrewLeigh WiltshireDes DuffySimon Trumper, DTDRichard Wooten, DTDDarren Donnelly, DTDKevin Brownhill, DTD
ReportingRichard Prew
Photography:Ian BurnettDes Duffy
APAT Magazine Production & Advertising:Des Duffy
Cover PictureDavid Camara, Spain
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ALL ROSY IN
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The centrepiece of the five day APAT World Championship Of Amateur Poker festi-val at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn Club was the No Limit Hold’em World Amateur Poker Championship main event, which attracted 405 runners over two starting days, creating a £42,900 prize pool with a first prize of £12,900. The event was run in partnership with Dusk Till Dawn who pro-vided several added value seats to high profile club events for WCOAP Champions. Play in the main event started on Saturday August 27th; which was the third day of the WCOAP, festival and there was a buzz in the air as a successor was sought to past WCOAP World Amateur Champions - Nick Jenkins (2008), Charles Mason (2009) and APAT’s first and to date only two time Na-tional Champion Ben Young (2010)
199 players took part in day 1a, each start-ing with 15,000 chips and a deepstack structure affording bountiful play. After
14 levels and 12 hours play 26 players made it through to the final day.
On day1b 206 players began and, with somewhat tighter play to the fore, 38 play-ers survived the cut.
Once the chip counts were combined the chip leaders going into the third day of play were as follows: Greg Yates 274,600Simon Hyde 235,900Chris Salmon 235,400David Garden 225,800Gary Orme 213,700 64 remained with 45 paid, while an aver-age stack of 95,000 represented over 25 big blinds, so it was all to play for. One player dominated the run down to the final in the first few hours of day 2, Dave Garden. Such was his dominance
WORLDAMATEUR POKER
CHAMPIONSHIP
AUG 27 - 29
ENGLISHMAN WINS WORLD AMATEUR TITLE
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that he had 2 million of the 6 million chips in play as the field broke to the fi-nal two tables.
Garden’s chip lead inevitably meant that many other players were playing tournament poker with below average stacks and it was Christian Rzegotta of Germany and Andrew Duffin, by virtue of eliminating Greg Yates in eleventh af-ter finding pocket Kings in the big blind, that came through the pack to be the nearest challengers as we arrived at the final table. The final table line up was as follows: David Garden 2,166,000Christian Rzegotta 1,142,000Andrew Duffin 1,060,000Paul Cammiss 385,000Colburn Tomlin 336,000Gary Strang 331,000Bradley Girard 247,000Gary Orme 227,000Mark Sanders 185,000
First to exit was Mark Sanders, taking pocket Fives in a race against the chip leader with Ace Queen, only to see Gar-den flop two Queens.
Garden’s commanding position
strengthened further when he knocked Tomlin out in 8th in a rollercoaster of a hand. Tomlin had pocket Eights, Gar-den Jack Ten. Garden flopped a Jack on a paired board, Tomlin turned an Eight but Garden rivered a third Jack to give him a higher Full House and Tomlin’s chips. Gary Orme was unfortunate to exit in Seventh. Garden shoved an unopened pot in the small blind with Four Three and Orme called all in with King Queen suited. Garden rivered a Four to knock out his third player in a row in the early final table stages Garden continued to cut a swathe through the final table, calling a shove from Bradley Girard with Jack Eight, and beating his opponent’s pocket Sevens to knock Girard out Sixth.
Paul Cammiss then eliminated Christian Rzegotta in Fifth finding Ace King be-hind the German team member’s shove with King Queen. Gary Strang had clung onto a short-stack throughout the final until he too fell to the English powerhouse Garden, who rivered a Straight with Ten Five in the blinds against Strang’s King Jack.
Three handed play slowed until Garden once again accounted for an opponent, his Ace Seven out-drawing Paul Cam-miss’ Ace Nine, a Seven falling on the flop. Heads Up Dave Garden started with a 4 million to 2 million chip advantage over Andrew Duffin. This became an equal situation until over the course of two levels Garden took control. In the final hand Duffin pushed Ace Five suited into Garden’s Ace King.
Big Slick held and Dave Garden became the 2011 APAT World Amateur Poker Champion, winning over £12,000, the Championship Trophy & Gold Medal.
It had been a virtuoso performance from Garden, who played his big stack to per-fection. By constantly applying pressure at key points he was recognised by all his opponents as a formidable player.
The World Championship Of Amateur Poker main event win was the culmina-tion of a superb run of form for Garden, representing his third major win in just over a month and the combination of confidence and ability was an irresistible combination in this event.
GARDEN - DOMINATED WITH BIG STACK POKER THROUGHOUT THE FINAL DAY
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JACK ALLEN - 53RD
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BRUNO ABELHO, PORTUGAL - 22ND
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CHRISTIAN RZEGOTTA, GERMANY - 5TH
BRADLEY GIRARD - 6TH
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OLUWASHOLA AKINDELE - 14TH
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WORLD AMATEUR POKER CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL TABLE
THE FINALISTSIn seat order: 1 - Gary Orme, 2 - Colburn Tomlin, 3 - Christian Rzegotta, 4 - Bradley Girard, 5 - Gary Strang, 6 - Paul Cammiss, 7 - Mark Sanders, 8 - Andrew Duffiin, 9 - Dave Garden.
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WORLD AMATEUR POKER CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL TABLE
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ANDREW DUFFIN - MAIN EVENT - SILVER
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PAUL CAMMISS - MAIN EVENT - BRONZE
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DAVE GARDEN WORLD AMATEUR POKER CHAMPION
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DAVE GARDEN WORLD AMATEUR POKER CHAMPION
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Second only to the main event in profile, the World Amateur Team Championship is in many ways the most exclusive event of the WCOAP, as each player must first earn selection for their country. To this end, a strong field of fifty two players received the call up to represent thirteen countries in this year’s tournament; the opening event of the fourth an-nual World Championship Of Amateur Poker. The format called for players to earn their countries points in a series of No Limit Hold Em and Pot Limit Omaha Sit N Go’s and Heads Up matches, before a Multi Table Tournament would close the Champin-ship, determining the final result. Favourites going into the event, inevitably included a strong looking English team captained by Rob Swindells, while former APAT European Amateur Team Champions Poland (2009) and the Republic Of Ireland (2008) were expected to be in the mix. at the end.
That said, most predicted that reigning Champions Wales were likely to be the Team to beat, having fol-lowed up their WCOAP Team title last year with the APAT Home International Championship title ear-lier in the current season. The Welsh were forced to make one change in their lineup from the World Championship Team of 2010, with the talented Da-vid Rudling-smith replacing Dylan Herbert. With a deep squad of talented players available to him, Welsh captain Paul McGuinness remained confi-dent in the run up to the event.
The Championship also included strong interna-tional selections from France, Spain, Italy, Germa-ny, Portugal, Scotland, Northern Ireland and last
year’s Silver medalists Canada, in addition to the USA, who were making their World Amateur Team Championship debut.
Over the course of the first day the pace-setters were Italy, leading after the Sit N Go rounds and holding onto that lead in the face of a superb per-formance from the German and Republic of Ireland teams in the Heads Up Games. At the other end of the table the England team suf-fered a disastrous start, with all four players elmi-nated early in the first games before they recovered to a middle of the field position by virtue of scoring the most points in the Omaha Round. At the end of the first day the leading points posi-tions were as follows: Italy – 55 Northern Ireland – 50 Germany – 49 Republic Of Ireland – 49 The second day format saw a Sit & Go round fol-lowed by a 52 runner Multi Table Tournament. In the Sit & Go round the highest scoring performanc-es came from Scotland, England and Germany, meaning that the German team took a narrow lead into the all important last round. For the Multi Table Tournament, points began from 26th place up, and the imperative for the lower teams in the table was to ensure that they got as many of their four players in those points scoring positions as possible if they were to make a late run for the medals or Championship title.
WORLDAMATEUR POKER
TEAM CHAMPIONSHP
AUG 25 - 26
TWO TIMETEAM
SUPREMEWALES RECAPTURE WORLD TEAM TITLE
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LOUIS MANSON, SCOTLAND - LEADING INDIVIDUAL
Through the early stages the German team fell by the wayside, with all four of their team out before we hit the points. Conversely the Welsh, French and Portugese teams were climbing the leaderboard by virtue of their players go-ing deep in this final event. In a tense and very exciting finish to the Championship, the position had indeed been turned on its head by the time the final table was reached, as numbered amongst the final 9 were 3 Welshmen and now only France could deny them the title. After about an hour of fi-nal table play, Edouard LePoutre exited in 8th, and an incredible repeat Welsh victory was as-sured. to delighted scenes from the team and their supporters. For Wales this capped off an incredible 12 months, where they earned a Home International and two World titles. The battle for the Silver and Bronze went to the wire, and was only resolved when the Por-tugese player Nuno Andrade reached Heads Up, earning his higly excited Team mates the Championship Bronze, a point behind expe-rienced Silver Medalists France, but crucially ahead of medal contenders Scotland and the Republic Of Ireland. Perhaps most disappointed at the end were the Scots, who fought valiantly throughout, falling just short of a medal. Their performance was capped off by a superb display from Louis Manson, who topped the individual player leaderboard, a significant and well deserved personal achievement.
The full result of the World Amateur Team Championsihp was as follows:- Wales – 112 - £2,600 - GoldFrance – 101 - £1,600 - SilverPortugal – 100 - £1,000 - BronzeScotland – 96Republic Of Ireland – 94Poland – 87England – 85United States Of America – 76Italy – 74Spain – 72Northern Ireland – 69Germany – 68Canada – 61
The 10 leading players were as follows:
Louis Manson - Scotland - 41Ian Szerlowski - Poland - 37Dan Owston - Wales - 37John Murray - Republic Of Ireland - 36Rupinder Bedi - England - 34Nuno Andrade - Portugal - 33Juan DeDiego - Spain - 32Beth MacInnes - USA - 32David Rudling-smith - Wales - 31
Edouard LePoutre - France - 31
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PORTUGAL - BRONZEPortugal’s Nuno Andrade celebrates his second place finish in the Multi Table Tour-nament, which helped Portugal to third place overall and the World Amateur Team Championship Bronze Medal. Andrade’s delighted team mates can be seen behind, from left -- Rui Viera, Bruno Abelho and Bruno Rilho (captain).
AMADOR!DRAMA
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PORTUGAL - WORLD AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - BRONZE
FRANCE - WORLD AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - SILVER
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DEBORAH WORLEY-ROBERTS & BETH MACINNES - USA
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WALES - GOLDMembers of the successful Welsh team, who have won back to back World Amateur Team Championship titles, in addition to the UK and Ire-land International Team Championship. Left to right - Dan Owston, Paul MacGuinness (captain), David Ruddling-smith, Richard Rudling-smith.
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As in previous years, the opening day of the fourth annual World Champion-ship Of Amateur Poker fea-tured the Stud Champion-ship, running alongside the World Team Championship at the colossal Dusk Till Dawn venue in Notting-ham.
47 players sat down to play a game, that although once the staple of the UK Tour-nament circuit, is now not often played as a result of the domination of No Limit Hold’em from the turn of the century.
The WCOAP gave a struc-ture with each player start-ing with 6,000 chips and a thirty minute clock and therefore every chance to savour the opportunity to play the Stud discipline and advance in the Cham-pionship.
Early exits included last year’s winner Ian Thomp-son and former WCOAP Player Of The Series and WSOPE final tablist Paul
Pitchford from Mansfield.
After several hours of play, the first final table of the WCOAP was confirmed, and lined up as follows:
Peter Thorpe 43,500Suruj Miah 28,400Gavin Jones 28,500Andrew Duncan 49,800JP Round 67,100Jon Seal 16,800David Craigon 8,800Philip Mildon 38,200
Craigon, Round and Miah fell before the money spots, with Thorpe the chip leader having doubled through Round with Aces against Kings.
Jon Seal knocked out Gavin Jones in fifth with trip Aces, and then Andrew Duncan in fourth to challenge Thor-pe for the chip lead.
Seal then moved into pole position, knocking Mildon (pictured left) out in third, hitting Quad Eights to obliterate his opponent’s Aces in the hole. Mildon would go on to enjoy Player Of The WCOAP com-pensation at the end of the week however.
Heads-Up Jon Seal rivered a Straight to beat trip Kings and then two pair beat pocket Jacks to give himthe victory and Stud Cham-pionship title.
The victory represented another triumph for the Furness Poker Club in Bar-row, of whom Jon is a regular member. Seal has shown himself to be a tal-ented mixed game player, as this result follows his Silver medal placing in the HORSE Championship at last year’s WCOAP.
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WORLDAMATEUR POKER
STUD CHAMPIONSHIP
AUG 25
STUDSEALSGLORY
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Friday August 26th was the second day of the World Championship Of Ama-teur Poker and it saw a sold out field of sixty four play-ers come together for the WCOAP Heads Up Champi-onship.
The Heads Up has always proved to be one of the most popular Champion-ship events over the five day WCOAP festival and it created a tremendous at-mosphere within Dusk Till Dawn, due to the number of matches being played si-multaneously, with players charting their own and op-ponents progress through the live draw board within the tournament area.
Early rounds saw one off matches before the com-petition moved to a best of three games format at the semi-final stage.
The 2010 WCOAP Heads Up Champion David How-ard fell at the second round stage while defeated quar-ter finalists were Darren Underhill, Ireland’s David Pilkington, former WCO-AP Stud Champion Ian Thompson and 2010 APAT
Player of the Year Warren Jones from Swansea.
Both semi finals were close run affairs with Middles-borough’s Chris Peers defeating Matt Shiels of Birmingham while Martin Seider of Nottingham beat-Blackpool’s Ky Hutchinson.
Hutchinson (pictured below) went on to take
WCOAP Bronze in the third place playoff against Shiels, but the real drama was tak-ing place on the Champi-onship final table where Peers took the first game against Martin Seider with
a flopped flush against a turned set in a confronta-tion from which neither player could reasonably be expected to escape.
Seider fought back val-iantly to take a drawn out second game and level the match.
In the decider and the cul-mination of over two hours of play entusiastically railed by friends and van-quished opponents alike, Peers’ flopped top pair and played the hand with maximum aggression by pushing all-in and putting Seider to the test.
Seider had flopped an up and down straight draw and after a tense dwell de-cided to call all-in to create the crucial confrontation.
Peers’ made hand held up to win him the match and the WCOAP Heads Up Championship title. This was the Stockton man’s second APAT live cash of the season following his fourth place finish in the United Kingdom Amateur Poker Championship at Newcastle in April.
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HEADS -UPCHAMPIONSHIP
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CHRIS PEERS - HEADS UP - GOLD
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A sold out field of forty eight players participat-ed in the popular HORSE Championship, now a mainstay of the World Championship Of Amateur Poker festival.
Six thousand starting chips and a thirty minute clock with Limit variants of the various HORSE disciplines afforded plentiful play with the unfortunate first exit, APAT stalwart Gerard Smyth, not departing until well into the fourth level.
After over eight hours play the final table line up of this high brow event was reached as follows:
Steve Redfern 24,800Phil Mildon 23,100Ben Burnhill 13,200Andrew Duncan 23,400Dave Howard 105,700Paul McGuinness 42,200Andrew Macleod 41,900Paul Robinson 13,300
This was a high-powered final table containing expe-rienced Champions in for-mer UK National Champi-on Steve Redfern and two time WCOAP side event Champion Dave Howard as well as medalists Andrew
Duncan, Andrew Macleod and Paul McGuinness.
Howard who over several years of the WCOAP had shown himself to be a for-midable competitor across a number of poker disci-plines was undoubtedly the favourite holding such a big chip lead.
Mildon and Duncan were making their second Championship final tables of the WCOAP festival, with the World Amateur Team Championship winning captain; Welshman Paul McGuinness, following up his team’s triumph with an-other strong showing in his own right.
Ben Burnhill, Paul Robin-son and Steve Redfern fell before the cash positionswere reached, while the minor cash positions were filled by Andrew Duncan, in fifth, and Philip Mildon in fourth.
Dave Howard knocked Andrew Macleod out in the Bronze medal position to enter Heads Up with a commanding chip lead against his experienced opponent McGuinness.
There followed a titanic Heads Up battle. Several times over two hours How-ard had McGuinness all-in with chances to win the title, and on each occasion McGuinness either dou-bled up or in Hi-Lo variants pots were chopped.
McGuinness managed to bring the stacks to parity on several occasions and he was holding a small but crucial lead at the point of the final hand, which oc-cured in the seemingly innocuous Limit Holdem round.
Howard, with Six Seven and McGuinness with pocket Twos saw a seem-ingly innocuous flop ofSix Seven Two from which both players were going to attempt to get the oth-er all-in, considering their hands powerful.
An enthusiastic rail saw the flopped set hold for Mc-Guinness, winning him the HORSE Championship, ce-menting a fantastic week of poker, capping his sixth APAT cash with a record third WCOAP Gold medal, an outstanding personal achievement.
WORLDAMATEUR POKER
HORSE CHAMPIONSHIP
AUG 27
MCGENIUS
BY A SHORT HEADAPAT LEGEND WINS RECORD THIRD GOLD
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DAVE HOWARD - SILVER, PAUL MCGUINNESS & ANDREW MACLEOD - BRONZE
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DAVE HOWARD - SILVER, PAUL MCGUINNESS & ANDREW MACLEOD - BRONZE
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114 runners participated in the extremely popular World Championship Of Amateur Poker Six-Max event.
As befitting the variant, play was brisk with an abundance of early exits before play settled down with the 10,000 chip 30 minute clock structure af-fording plenty of play.
After several hours, the fi-nal table began with three young players, Liam Batey, Liam Crawford and chip leader Daniel Partridge all holding over 200,000 chips, the complete line up being:-
Nuno Andrade 125,000Liam Batey 215,000Lukas Dasysnski 38,300Liam Crawford 250,000Ian Gregory 85,000Daniel Partridge 275,000Phil Tompkinson 142,000
Short-stack Lukas Dasyn-ski, the winner of the APAT Welsh Amateur Champion-ship earlier in the current season, was eliminated on the first hand of the final by Partridge.
Portugese player Nuno Andrade, a member of the Bronze medal winning Por-tugal team in the WCOAP
Team Championship, was then extremely unlucky in consecutive hands. He pushed with Pocket Kings and was called all-in by Ian Gregory with Ace Five suited. Gregory riv-ered a gutshot Straight, as a packed rail gasped, to leave Andrade severely low on chips.
Next hand, finding King Queen Andrade shoved and was called by the big blind Partridge with Four Three. Andrade flopped a King but two Threes fell
on the board to knock him out Sixth and off to be con-soled by his fellow Portug-ese travellers.
Partridge by now had a commanding position, es-pecially after he knocked Gregory out in Fifth, and he was playing with flair,
in most pots and apply-ing pressure to opponents who knew that if they tan-gled with the chipleader the stakes were high.
Liam Crawford fell in Fourth at the hands of APAT regular Phil Tomp-kinson (pictured below left), losing a race with Ace Queen against pocket Tens.
Tompkinson himself fell in the Bronze medal position, Liam Batey flopping top pair, leaving BMX pro Batey heads up with Daniel Par-tridge, with roughly equal stacks.
Unsurprisingly with two aggressive players the bat-tle did not take long.
In the final hand, Batey raised Four Three on the button and Partridge called with a suited Queen in the big blind.
The flop gave Partridge second pair and Batey a Straight draw. Batey turned the Straight and both stacks somehow ended up in the middle, with Par-tridge drawing dead.
Liam Batey thus secured the WCOAP Six-Max Cham-pionship and a first prize of over £2,000.
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SIX-MAXCHAMPIONSHIP
AUG 28
HEALINGSIX-UAL
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The final day of the World Championship Of AmOYa-teur Poker saw a sold out field of 114 runners partici-pate in the WCOAP Omaha Championship, which ran alongside the final day of the main event.
Players began with 10,000 chips and a 30 minute clock providing ample scope for play in this ever-popular game.
Many in the huge field still had their eyes on the Player of the WCOAP prize and sought to reach the fi-nal table and gain points to challenge the leader at the time, Phillip Mildon.
Chris Peers the Heads Up WCOAP Champion made a determined attempt to follow up in this event but exited with two tables re-maining.
Former APAT National Champion Steve Redfern unfortunately bubbled the final table, his second bub-ble finish of this WCOAP, al-though on this occasion he secured a minor cash.
The final table line up, which included WCOAP international team players from Spain and Italy was as follows:
Daniel PartridgeNeil DobneyJuan De Diego
Henry GriffithsJohn ValentineRitesh ChauhanIan ThompsonAndrea LombardiJoanna Sharp
Partridge and the ever con-sistent Thompson were making their second final tables of this year’s festival .
It didn’t take long for ex-its to come and finishing Ninth was Six-Max Silver medalist Dan Partridge, eliminated by Italian inter-national Andrea Lombardi.
Chip leader Henry Griffiths then accounted for Scot-land’s Jo Sharp, her Aces cracked by King Queen Jack Nine with Griffiths stack affording him the op-portunity to call his oppo-nent’s shorter stack.
Out in Seventh was Ian Thompson - a WCOAP title holder in 2010, with Welsh-man Griffiths once again cracking Aces, this time with a turned Straight.
Ritesh Chauhan then fell foul of a “run down” hand, his Ace Queen Jack falling to Andrea Lombardi’s Five Six Seven Eight.
Spanish International Juan De Diego fell in Fifth at the hands of Neil Dobney’s Kings. Henry Griffiths’ flopped Full House then accounted for the shortest
remaining stack, John Val-entine departing in Fourth.
Griffiths then knocked out Neil Dobney (pictured be-low) in third, flopping a set
of Sevens, and took a com-manding chip lead heads-up against Lombardi.
Griffiths had dominated the final table, with the combination of his stack and wide online experi-ence of Omaha, proving an advantage. Heads Up though his chip lead soon evaporated as Lombardi doubled up twice to as-sume the chip lead.
After, the lead seesawed several times before Lom-bardi took Ace Queen Jack Deuce against Griffiths Ace Queen Five Five, hitting two jacks on the board to be crowned APAT WCOAP Omaha Champion 2011 amidst emotional scenes for the player and his Ital-ian friends.
WORLDAMATEUR POKER
OMAHA CHAMPIONSHIP
AUG 29
R’OMA...HAITALIAN JOY AS ANDREA TAKES GOLD HOME
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HENRY GRIFFITHS - OMAHA - SILVER
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ANDREA LOMBARDI, ITALY - OMAHA - GOLD
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MILDON WINS PLAYER OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP
Hertfordshire’s Philip Mil-don (pictured right) was the most consistent player at this year’s WCOAP, win-ning an entry to a tourna-ment at Dusk Till Dawn as a result of his achievement. Philip, who took the Bronze medal in the Stud Cham-pionship proved himself a multi discipline master fin-ishing Fourth in the HORSE Championship. Andrew Duncan and Dan Partridge also final tabled two side events, finishing two and three points respectively behind Mildon. In total, Eighty One players scored Player Of The WCOAP points across the Six Open WCOAP events. The World Amateur Team Champion-ship did not award points.
WCOAP MOVES TO JUNE AS 2012 DATES ARE RE-LEASED
The 2012 World Champi-onship Of Amateur Poker will once again be played at Europe’s premier poker club, Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn. The festival will take place between Friday June 1 and Tuesday June 5, with June 4 and 5 both being bank holidays. A total of Eight events are being planned and indi-vidual event details and a schedule will be released by APAT in the near future.
WCOAP ALL-TIME STA-TISTICS
A total of 21 Champion-ship events have been held during the history of the WCOAP. A total of 235 players have cashed during this time.
The most successful in terms of number of cashes are Dave Howard and Paul McGuinness with 4 each.
Dave is one of only three players who has cashed at 3 separate WCOAP festi-vals, the others being Phil Tompkinson and Richard Rudling-smith.
Phil and Richard are two of only 4 players who have cashed three times at the WCOAP, the others being Ian Thompson and Paul Pitchford. 28 separate players have cashed twice at the WCOAP.
Dave Howard dominates the WCOAP medal records also., with two individual Golds and two individual Silvers. Paul McGuinness has three WCOAP Golds, which includes two won with Wales. Paul’s team mates Dan Owston and Richard Rudling-smith also have two Gold medals. The only other players with two medals are Jon Seal; with a Gold and a Silver and Chen Tam with two Bronze. Sixty Five players have one
WCOAP medal.In terms of cash won at the WCOAP, itpays to win the main event, with each the four World Amateur Cham-pions making the top ten cashing players of all-time.
At number one is the reign-ing World Amateur Cham-pion Dave Garden, with last year’s winner Ben Young in second. Wayne Parker is the highest ranked multi casher, his two paydays putting him seventh on the list. Dave Howard’s four cashes are enough to put him in tenth place overall, while Paul McGuinness lies thirteenth.
The top twenty players in cash terms are as follows (excludes added value pro seats):-
1 - David Garden - £120922 - Ben Young - £90003 - Andrew Duffin - £70694 - Charles Mason - £70005 - Steve Roderick - £65006 - Jamie Reeve - £50007 - Wayne Parker - £45218 - Paul Cammiss - £42419 - Nick Jenkins - £350010 - Dave Howard - £331111 - Ant Williams - £330012 - Gary Strang - £297613 - P McGuinness - £256814 - Tony Ross - £245015 - Chris Rzegotta - £223216 - And Lombardi - £211517 - Liam Batey - £211518 - Paul Pitchford - £205019-R Rudling-Smith - £170020 - Bradley Girard - £1674
MILDON WINS PLAYER OF CHAMPIONSHIP
WCOAP MOVES TO JUNE IN 2012
WCOAP STATISTICS SINCE 2008
FREE 2012 WCOAP MAIN EVENT SEAT, SEE PAGE 4
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