Venue Champions: At the end of each season, the Venue Champions are crowned. The top points earners from each venue play in their Venue Championship to earn a silver coin as well as other prizes up for grabs.

• AllStar Billiards – Sharon Smith-Taylor
• American Ale House – Travis Hart
• APC Online – Brandt Wilkerson
• APC HU – Frank Nicklas
• Arizona Pub – Andrew Moore
• Beef ‘O Bradys – Fred Mathewson, Jr.
• Benchwarmers – Keyonna Burks
• Benefields – Glassgo Askin
• Collins Hill – Karen Brooks
• Famous Pub – David Cassidy
• Jeffreys Braselton – Steve Cersosimo
• Jeffreys/Twisted Tavern – Dianne Runnebohm
• Johnny’s Hideaway – John C. Wilson
• Loco’s – Sonya Miller
• McCray’s Tavern – Shannon King
• Pirate’s Pub – Rich Hardwick
• Southern Comfort – Train
• Sportsline Lawrenceville – Michelle Cagle
• Sportsline Marietta – Damon Beasley
• Sycamore Grill – Jimmie Moomaw
• Tin Roof Cantina – Mike Udo
• Wooden Nickel – Jeff Porter




Grand Champion: At the end of each season, the APC hosts the largest tournament that the players have to place. The Grand Championship consists of players that have qualified by being in the top 50 in overall points for the season, be in the top 10 at an individual venue, win a season venue championship tournament, or win a monthly points tournament.

The prizes are grand as well with the winner taking home a $550 seat in a WSOP or WPT event in Tunica plus $150 in travel expenses as well as the coveted custom silver rectangular card guard. The Grand Champion also gets some cool APC gear and also gets automatic entry into the Yearly Championship.





Kerm King beat out 135 players to take home the title this season.

Grand Championship – 2nd through 10th

• Amanda Bruno
  
• Kim Ngai
• Brooke Phillips
• Frank Nicklas
• Patrick Thompson
• Chris Henderson
• Peter Hartley
• Ladd Gunter
• Kim Smith

All Stars: The All Star event is one of the more prestigious tournaments. There is a pre-set date to qualify, and in that time players must earn 2,000 points overall, be the points leader at any qualified venue, or win one of the Monthly Points Tournaments.

• Winter Season ‘10 All Star Winner:
  Will Collins



Monthly Winners: Every month, players have the opportunity to qualify for the monthly tournament. The top 60 in points each month qualify to play for $500 in prizes with the overall points leader taking an extra $100.

• December Winner: Ken Murphy / Points Leader: Louis Melnick
• January Winner: Joe Henahan / Points Leader: Ashleigh Pursell
• February Winner: Abhay Chakole / Points Leader: Sonya Miller
• March Winner: Gil Nowell / Points Leader: Mike Udo

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May 3, 2010 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, General, League Announcements | Leave a Comment 

Women Rock At The Atlanta Poker Club


Karen Brooks Tops The Leaderboard!

They took it down! For the first time in Atlanta Poker Club (APC) history, the women rocked the leaderboard. There were six women in the top 10 at season’s end.

Were they trailing the top men players? No way! It was two women vying for first place. Karen Brooks had the lead through the season, but Sonya Nicovich Miller was playing to win. The four month long Winter Season ‘10 had plenty of time for some spirited competition at every tournament played. Who would be the points leader when the cards were mucked and the season over? With 5,000 members in the APC, 1,563 getting points, which player would take it down!




Congratulations Top 10 Winter Season 10!


Karen Brooks stayed strong and kept the lead. Asked what had improved her game the most, she said, “Dealing.” Karen went on to say, “You can do all the right things including make the right read, but the river can still send you home.” River or not, she ended the season in first place! Sonya Miller finished second! The face of poker definitely changed at the APC! Congratulations to all the players in the top of the leaderboard this season. These women have shown that it takes more than luck to be good at poker with the APC! Much more skill involved in texas holdem than in a game like let it ride poker!

Congratulations to Karen for games well played, a sense of humor that remained intact, grace under pressure, and for being the winner in every sense of the word! You go, Girl!

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April 8, 2010 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, League Announcements | Leave a Comment 

Grand Championship Tournament – Winter Season ‘10

The Winter Season ‘10 Grand Championship Tournament Information



• Saturday, April 17th
• Register at 12:00pm (noon)
• Tournament Begins at 1:00pm
• Qualifying Information
• Current Top 50 Qualifying List and Top 10 at Venues Listed
• Directions to Famous Pub

( From Atlanta, take 85 N to North Druid Hills exit, turn right.
Take right into Toco Hills Shopping Center behind Wendy’s)

The Winter ‘10 Grand Championship Prize

• The Grand Champion winner will receive a $550 WSOP or WPT Seat in Tunica plus $150 for travel. In addition to this they will receive the coveted custom rectangular Atlanta Poker Club engraved card guard, APC gear, entry into the Yearly Championship Tournament, as well as a listing in the APC Hall of Fame.
• The runner up or 2^nd place player will receive $150 in Gift Cards plus choice of APC Gear.
• 3rd place will receive $50 in Gift Cards plus choice of APC Gear.
• 4^th through 10^th place finishers will receive choice of APC Gear.

You may earn bonus chips in the Season Grand Championship on the following scale:

• 1^st in overall points will receive 1500 Bonus Chips.
• 2^nd will receive 1000 Bonus Chips.
• 3^rd through 10^th will receive 500 Bonus Chips.
• Tournament Structure:This will be an antes style tournament using the following blinds structure.



Good Luck Everyone!!!

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March 8, 2010 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, American Ale House, General, League Announcements | Leave a Comment 

Congratulations to Gil Nowell | APC Fall ‘09 Grand Champion

Gil Nowell beat out 127 players this season to earn the title “APC Grand Champion”. He joins an elite group of APC players who have won the prestigious end of season event. Gil has really come a long way since his start with the APC back in season 3. He will make a great champion and I am confident that this is just the first.

I had a chance to interview Gil after his win and to try and see what was going through his mind during the day. Here is what he had to say…….

How long have you been playing poker?

I have been playing for about 6 years. I think like a lot of players, I
am a product of the Moneymaker Effect.

How did you feel when you first sat down to play? Did you think you had
a realistic shot at winning?

I was first assigned to deal table 16, which was set to break down
first. I got in the mindset that I would be at many different tables
during the day and would play many different people. It turned out that
the outer tables were not needed and I redrew table 1. I had to quickly
get in the frame of mind that there was a chance I would be playing with
many of the same players all day. I knew maybe 6 of the 10 players
pretty well so I thought I could get by on reputation with most of them.
Even though they are all tough players it actually made me pretty calm.
Even though I’m pretty reserved at the poker table, I always expect to win.

Everybody has their own style of play, especially when they play the
same people week after week. Did you find yourself having to adjust your
style of play being that you had to more than likely had to play people
you never had before?

I adjusted my style a little. I felt I was opening with a larger range
than normal for me, but at the same time I told myself not to gamble
preflop with players that I don’t know. I was more than willing to play
big pots with unknowns post flop. With the people that I normally play
with the strategy doesn’t really work for me. I guess they just know I
have it. During the Grand Championship it allowed me to build a decent
stack pretty earlier on.

Was there one person(s) in particular today that you feel gave you the
most trouble and why?


My initial seat draw had Kirk Chin on the button when I was the big
blind. For anyone knows Kirk, if it folds to him he will be relentless
on your blinds. Secondly there was heads up with Randy. I know that
Randy and I have similar styles and for the most part there would not be
too much preflop gambling. He was holding a 2:1 chip advantage when we
started so I knew I needed to settle in for a long battle.

Was there a point in the tournament when you were worried that today
might not be the day? Please explain why.


I had built a decent stack of about 9700 at 200/400 and was feeling
really good. That was when I got in a blind on blind hand. I was in the
big with Q8 and bet out on an Q55 board. I was check raised and was
priced in to call. I was fine with the small’s hand of Q9 as almost half
the deck was a chop. That was until the turn brought the dreaded 9. I
lost about 1/3 of my stack and for a moment started thinking about how
the steady work of building a stack could be ruined in one hand.

When did you realize that today was going to be the day, that unless
disaster happened you were taking the trophy home?

I actually had three places in the tournament that I got that feeling
that things were going to come together. With two tables left I was down
to a little more than three big blinds. A timely triple up with a
flopped straight really peaked my spirits. When we made it down to 9 or
10 players something just clicked. I don’t know how to explain it, but a
calm came over me. There was so much money in the pot from the blinds
and antes the only way to win was to be relentless going after it. It
was cool to know the right thing to do and then to actually follow
through on that strategy.

I really got the feeling that today was the day about half way into
heads up. I know it sounds like an easy spot to talk about winning, but
I can tell you the specific hand. I was still down in chips when I look
down at pocket aces on the small. In a split second I devised a plan to
get the chip lead. I limped and what happened next was most likely the
most important part of my plan and that was for Randy to RAISE. I just
flat called the and the flop came out 4,5,7. This is pretty scary, but
at this point if he had it he had it. I checked and he continuation bet
as expected. The next part was easy… ALL-IN!!! Randy folded and I was
“nice” enough to show him the goods. I now had the chip lead and there
was no looking back.

Now that you have won, you get to go play for some serious cash. Have
you ever played in a casino before? Do you feel playing with the APC has
helped you feel more confident about going to a casino and playing in a
real money tournament?

I have played a couple of times in a casino. Mostly just small buy-in
tournaments and a couple of satellites. I know 100% that The Atlanta Poker Club has
helped me be more comfortable playing for real.

Thanks Gil for the interview. Anything else you wish to say?

I need to give a shout out to Rachel. Thanks for keeping my spirits
high at times when the results were not always the best.




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December 22, 2009 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, General, League Announcements, Players | Leave a Comment 

Atlanta Poker Club Hall of Fame | Fall ‘09 Season

The Atlanta Poker Club would like to thank all of it’s players and venues for a great Fall ‘09 season. As the Winter ‘10 season begins, we look forward to continuing to grow and offer it’s players the best poker tournaments around and at some very great venues. We also want to congratulate some of the notable winners of the Fall ‘09 season.

Monthly winners: Every month, players have the opportunity to qualify for the monthly tournament. The top 60 in points each month qualify to play for $500 in prizes with the overall points leader taking an extra $100.

• August Winner: Amanda Bruno                  Points Leader: Tim Becker
• September Winner: Abhay Chakole          Points Leader: Steven Villafor
• October Winner: Allen Shepard                   Points Leader: Evan Brown
• November Winner: Brandt Wilkerson     Points Leader: Joe Avino

AllStars: The AllStar event is one of the more prestigious tournaments that all players want to be able to win. It is a tournament that is also qualified solely by points, so the players are truely the best of the best. To qualify for AllStars, players must accumulate 2,000 points by a pre-set date or also have won one of the monthly tournaments that season.

• Fall ‘09 AllStar Winner: Vince Jonte

Overall Points Leader: The overall points leader is another prestigious title to behold. These players have really earned their title by playing very consistently and also supporting the APC and venues by playing a lot of poker.

• Fall ‘09 Overall Points Leader: Tim Becker       6844.22 points 7 wins.



Venue Points Leaders: The venue points leaders have been the most consistent throughout the season and really earned this title and the silver coin that goes with it.

• AllStar Billiards – Brooke Phillips
• APC Online – Andy Phelps
• APC Heads Up – Jim Burns
• Beef ‘O Bradys – Andy Jones
• Benchwarmers – Louis Melnick
• Benefields Tuesday – Anthony Burton
• Benefields Thursday – Dana McClain
• Collins Hill Sunday – Arnie Ritchie
• Collins Hill Monday – Alan Todd
• Famous Pub – Steven Villafor
• Jeffreys Braselton – Rick Warrick
• Jeffreys/Twisted Tavern – Al Belisle
• Johnnys Hideaway – Tim Purdie
• Loco’s Tuesday – Chris Gray
• Loco’s Thursday – Kasiya Rivers
• Pirate’s Pub Saturday – Wendy Blumenthal
• Pirate’s Pub Sunday – Terri Ghioalda
• Southern Comfort Monday – Mimi Watkins
• Southern Comfort Wednesday – Jon Paige
• Southern Comfort Friday – Janet Mizoguchi
• Southern Comfort Saturday – Wendy Williams
• Sportsline Lawrenceville – Kirk Chin
• Sportsline Marietta Monday – Candice Lubin
• Sportsline Marietta Wednesday – Jason Cluxton
• Stone Creek – Steve Pavlichek
• The Cloves – Maci Celli
• Tin Roof Cantina – George Iliadis
• Wooden Nickel – Joe Avino

Venue Champions: At the end of each season, the venue points champions are crowned. The top earners of points are also rewarded as well. The top 10 from each venue play for a championship coin as well as other prizes up for grabs.

• APC Online – Brandt Wilkerson
• Beef ‘O Bradys – Mike Cosmano
• Benchwarmers – Elyse Giles
• Collins Hill – Randall Hall
• Famous Pub – Wendy Davidson
• Jeffreys Braselton – Rick Warrick
  
• Jeffreys/Twisted Tavern – Aimee Kargen
• Johnny’s Hideaway – Keith McCurry
• Loco’s – Bill Sirinek
  
• Pirate’s Pub – John Franklin
  
• Southern Comfort – Allen Shepard
  
• Sportsline Lawrenceville – Kirk Chin
• Sportsline Marietta – Steve Morgan
  
• Stone Creek – LK
  
• The Cloves – Maci Celli
  
• Tin Roof Cantina – Chris Gray
  
• Wooden Nickel – Evan Brown

Grand Champion: At the end of each season, the APC hosts the largest tournament that the players have to place. The Grand Championship consists of players that have qualified by being in the top 50 in overall points for the season, be in the top 10 at an individual venue, win a season venue championship tournament, or win a monthly points tournament.

The prizes are grand as well with the winner taking home a $550 seat in a WSOP or WPT event in Tunica plus $150 in travel expenses as well as the coveted custom silver rectangular card guard. The Grand Champion also gets some cool APC gear and also gets automatic yearly entry to future Grand Championships. 






Gil beat out 127 players to take home the title this season. Stay tuned for Gil’s Grand Championship blog post/interview coming soon.

Grand Championship – 2nd through 10th

• Randy Smith
  
• Michael Snodgrass
• Brandon Bennett
• Farris Atta
• Joe Beasley
• John Boswell
• Kirk Chin
• Mark Jackson
• Hunter Brown
  
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December 18, 2009 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, General, League Announcements, Players | Leave a Comment 

APC giving bonus prize to the two most recent venues!

The Atlanta Poker Club is adding an additional third bar prize to the APC’s newest two venues.



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These two venues have joined us at the end of the season and this is just our way of saying thank you to the players that are checking them out.

• The 1st and 2nd place prizes will move down and now become 2nd and 3rd.

The new 1st place prize is awesome!

It’s exciting!

It’s  a $50 Visa gift card!!!!!!!!

So what are you waiting for? Come check out the Sycamore Grill in Stone Mountain on Monday nights and Paradise Grill in Decatur on Thursday nights.

If you are going to play poker in Atlanta, make it the Atlanta Poker Club.

*Limited time offer. Promotion runs from 11/09/2009 through 11/30/2009

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November 12, 2009 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, General, League Announcements, Players, Venues, promotions | Leave a Comment 

Athens Poker – Play APC Poker In Athens Ga

The Atlanta Poker Club is proud to announce two new venues in Athens, Ga. With one of the APC’s founders graduating from the University of Georgia, it’s a bit nostalgic to start our first foray into Bogart and Athens, Ga. New players welcome, regardless of skill level!! Welcome Athens poker players!

Where to Play Texas Holdem Poker In Athens Georgia – UGA Poker

Welcome UGA students, professors, staff and alumni! We are thrilled to be playing poker in Athens and invite you all out to our 100% FREE (and legal) texas holdem tournaments.

• Club Chrome in Athens – Play Every Thursday at 8:00pm
• Red Rooster in Athens – Play Every Wednesday at 8:00pm

At the time of this posting, we currently have two places to play poker in Athens. These include Club Chrome (actually considered Bogart) and The Red Rooster in Athens. Always be sure you check out our where to play poker in Georgia page as we are constantly adding new venues and it is likely that we will add more venues in Athens shortly. You can also see our full calendar of events here and this is the ultimate guide as to when and where we are playing texas hold em poker in Athens.

It is free to play, free to join the league. We host organized no limit texas holdem tournaments with a dedicated tournament director, full time dealers, clay poker chips, professional playing cards and more. We boast the closest thing to the real casino poker tournament experience that you can get in Georgia. We welcome new players to the league, regardless of skill level. Texas holdem is an easy game to learn but impossible to master! That’s what makes it so fun! You can learn more about our poker league and the prizes you can compete for by playing poker with us!

We’d like to welcome all the new Athens Poker players and encourage you guys to sign up to the Atlanta Poker Club Newsletter to stay up to date with all the league competitions, challenges, promotions and important APC news.

I graduated from UGA over 10 years ago and it’s always been on the back of my mind that Athens Ga would be a natural move for us. I’m really looking forward to playing poker with the Athens crowd and we look forward to providing the Athens poker player our brand of poker. We welcome Athens poker players to the poker league and will look forward to playing cards with you at the tables. Jason Spry, Co-Founder of the Atlanta Poker Club and UGA Alumni (1998)

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July 21, 2009 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, League Announcements, Venues | Leave a Comment 

Winter ‘09 Grand Championship

The Winter ‘09 Grand Championship Tournament is here….



• Saturday, April 18th
• Register at 12:00pm (noon)
• Tournament Begins at 1:00pm
• Location: DownRiggers
• Qualifying List

The Winter ‘09 Grand Championship Prize

• The winner or Grand Champion will receive a $550 seat at a WSOP or WPT event at their casino of choice. In addition to this they will receive the coveted custom rectangular Atlanta Poker Club engraved card guard as well as a listing in the APC Hall of Fame.
• The runner up or 2^nd place player will receive $150 in Gift Cards + choice of APC Gear
• 3rd place will receive $50 in Gift Cards = choice of APC Gearspan>
• 4^th through 10^th place finishers will receive choice of APC Gear

Bonus Chips will be awarded prior to tournament start based on a players rank in the overall Atlanta Poker Club Leader board.

• 1^st in overall points will receive 1500 Bonus Chips
• 2^nd will receive 1000 Bonus Chips
• 3^rd through 10^th will receive 500 Bonus Chips
• Tournament Structure:This will be an antes style tournament using the following blinds structure.



Good Luck Everyone!!!

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April 13, 2009 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, General, League Announcements, Players | Leave a Comment 

Pictures from The APC Season 15 Grand Championship

Here are are a few pictures from Saturday.  The Atlanta Poker Club’s Season 15 Grand Championship Event was held at The Famous Pub.  A record tournament was set with over 144 qualifying players seated. At the end of the day, there could be only one.  Heads up was between Montez Watson and Kasiya Rivers.  A big congratulations goes out to Montez Watson on earning the title of Grand Champion!!!

Below are links to two albums at kickasspoker.smugmug.com

See More Pictures Here

And Here

      

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January 12, 2009 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, Players | Leave a Comment 

Season 14 Allstar Champion



Jason “The Professor” Ponders

APC Member since Aug 2007

APC Wins – 9

Season 11 Wed Night Points Champ – Downriggers

Season 14 All-Stars Champion

Jason played poker as kid but it was mainly 5-card draw with cousins.  Growing up his family preferred playing other card games like Rook, Rummy, and Go Fish.  He started watching poker on TV but Jason may be the only member of the “Moneymaker Boom” who didn’t watch him win the WSOP; although he watched Raymer’s win the next year.  After Hachems’s win in the WSOP, Jason went to his first poker tourney at Loco’s in Gainesville.  There, he quickly found it wasn’t as easy as it appears on TV, but since then has been hooked.  Jason is an avid reader, and enjoys playing board (all kinds) and card games (mainly Phase 10, Nerts, and Quiddler) with family and friends.  He is the proud Uncle JJ to 3 beautiful nieces (one of them, Madeline, is in the picture with Jason.)  Rob Smith gave me the nickname “The Professor” because I teach chemistry at a local college.

Favorite Poker Players – I like Erick Lindgren (for his cool demeanor), Daniel Negreanu, and Chris Ferguson.  I like Mike Sexton’s analysis on the WPT telecasts because of his explanation of the play and it helped me pick up poker jargon.

Who has influenced my play the most? The first one is me because I have learned from my many mistakes at the table.  A few of which I have only made once.  Secondly, great players in the APC like Tiffany and Mike, Rob Smith, and Red who have given me very helpful advice.  And lastly David Sklansky and Mike Caro’s whose excellent books I am trying to learn from.

Goals in APC? Win the Grand Championship, a Venue Championship, and it would be great to win All-Stars again.

Advice for new members? Watch the players at your table.  It is amazing how many people there are only paying attention to their own cards and chips.  Be respectful to the dealers and players at the table.  Learn the rules and follow poker etiquette, and you will irritate fewer people. Realize that luck is a factor in poker (as in all games except chess) but you should not rely on it.  And lastly have fun.  It is a game after-all.

 Check out this Season 14 Allstar Video Mix

 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSOE9MBE23s[/youtube]
 

 

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September 8, 2008 | Filed Under APC Hall of Fame, Players | Leave a Comment 

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