msaban Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 London, December 27th, 2008: The Amateur Poker Association & Tour is delighted to announce details for Season Three of its critically acclaimed tour for amateur players. Season highlights include the five day World Amateur Championship in August, featuring Omaha, Horse and a three day No Limit Hold’em main event, and the four day European Amateur Championship in November, featuring two day Individual and International Team Championship events. The tour will continue to be sponsored by Blue Square and will now include an Online National Championship series and National League, in addition to a complete schedule of live National Amateur Championship tournaments. The complete schedule is as follows:- APAT National Championship Series: 1 - February 7th & 8th – UK Amateur Poker Championship - Grosvenor Walsall 2 - April 4th & 5th – Welsh Amateur Poker Championship - Grosvenor Cardiff 3 - May 30th & 31st – Irish Amateur Poker Championship - Fitzwilliam, Dublin 4 - July 18th & 19th – Scottish Amateur Poker Championship – Gala, Edinburgh 5 - August 27th – WCOAP Omaha Championship – Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham 6 - August 28th – WCOAP Horse Championship – Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham 7 - August 29th to 31st – WCOAP World Amateur Poker Championship – Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham 8 - October 24th & 25th – English Amateur Poker Championship – Grosvenor, Bolton 9 - November 19th & 20th – European Amateur Team Championship – G Casino, Luton 10 - November 21st & 22nd – European Amateur Poker Championship – G Casino, Luton 11 - December 27th & 28th – UK Amateur Team Championship – G Casino, Manchester The venues in Nottingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester are all subject to final confirmation as venues in the above schedule. The APAT buy in to National Championship events will remain at £75. The two exceptions to this in Season Three will be the World Amateur Championship main event and the European Team Championship, where the buy in will be £100. All live events will remain registration free for the third consecutive season. The structure of APAT National events will evolve to include antes in Season Three. Levels will increase to 45 minutes and the 500 / 1000 levels will be added on day one. Players will start all main events with 10,000 chips. Three satellites will be made available at Blue Square in the run up to all National Championship events. There will be a Monday $20 + $2 freezeout, a Tuesday $10 + $1 freezeout and a Wednesday $5 + $0.50 rebuy. Non allocated seats will be sold directly to players on a Thursday evening. All dates will be updated on the APAT site in the next 24 hours. The winners of the National Championship events (5) above will receive entry to the prestigious GUKPT Champion of Champions event, while the winners of the World Amateur Championship and European Amateur Championship main events will receive entry to the GUKPT Grand Final. The winners of the European Team Championship will receive an added £2,000 in prize money, while players and selectors chosen to represent each of the 16 participating countries will receive specially commissioned international shirts to commemorate their participation. Winners of all main events will receive a Championship Cup while the top three in each event will receive APAT National Gold, Silver and Bronze medals to commemorate their achievement. APAT Online National Championship Series: The complete online Championship schedule is as follows:- 1 - January 10th – UK Online Poker Championship 2 - February 21st – Welsh Online Poker Championship 3 - April 18th – Irish Online Poker Championship 4 – June 13th – Scottish Online Poker Championship 5 - August 1st – European Online Poker Championship 6 - September 12th – English Online Poker Championship 7 - December 5th – WCOAP Omaha Online Poker Championship 8 - December 6th – WCOAP Six Max Online Poker Championship 9 - December 12th – WCOAP Stud Online Poker Championship 10 - December 13th – WCOAP World Online Poker Championship APAT Online National Championship events will be held on a Saturday evening, with low buy in satellites being made available on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday prior to each Championship event. The buy in to an Online National Championship event will be $75.00 + $7.50 and players will start each event with 10,000 chips and a 12 minute clock. The winners of each of the Online National Championship events (5) and the European Championship event will receive entry to the prestigious GUKPT Champion of Champions event. The winner of the World Amateur Championship main event will receive entry to the GUKPT Grand Final. The winner of the APAT Online Rankings will win entry to a GUKPT main event. The top three in each event will receive APAT National Gold, Silver and Bronze medals to commemorate their achievement. The top three will also receive a £75 entry to the next live National Championship event from the online prize pool, where they will be presented with their Online National Championship medals and interviewed for future video / press campaigns. APAT Online National League: The National League will feature 30 poker clubs, made up of APAT members located across the United Kingdom and Ireland, who will compete in three divisions online, for the right to play in the National League final at Blue Square in November. APAT members will be able to join the poker club of their choice at any point in the season, but will not be able to change again prior to the season ending. The league will run for twenty rounds, starting on February 1st. Competing clubs are as follows:- Northern Division Aberdeen Poker Club Belfast Poker Club Carlisle Poker Club Dublin Poker Club Dundee Poker Club Edinburgh Poker Club Glasgow Poker Club Newcastle Poker Club Stockton-on-Tees Poker Club Sunderland Poker Club Central Division Birmingham Poker Club Blackpool Poker Club Bolton Poker Club Leeds Poker Club Liverpool Poker Club Manchester Poker Club Nottingham Poker Club Sheffield Poker Club Stoke Poker Club Walsall Poker Club Southern Division Brighton Poker Club Bristol Poker Club Cardiff Poker Club North London Poker Club South London Poker Club Luton Poker Club Plymouth Poker Club Southampton Poker Club Swansea Poker Club Thanet Poker Club Each division will hold one multi table tournament for every round of the National League, with the final nine players scoring between 1 and 9 towards their club’s total in that round. While there will be no limit on the number of players who can compete for each club, each club will be limited to a maximum of 4 scoring players in each round. Club scores will be totalled at the end of each round, and the club in the highest scoring position will receive 3 National League points, with second receiving 2 National League points and third receiving 1 National League point. There will be a total of twenty rounds in the National League, with the top three clubs in each division; and the highest scoring non qualifying club, going forward to compete in the online National League final on November 14th. APAT National League rounds will be held every fortnight, on a Sunday evening, starting on February 1st. The buy in for each round will be $10 + $1. The four highest scoring players of each qualifying club will be eligible to play in the National League final. The poker club which wins the National League will receive four entries to a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event, to be awarded to the four members of their who played in the National League final. Should any of these four players go on to cash in their chosen GUKPT main event, then 20% of their GUKPT prize money will be retained as a secondary prize for their poker club team mates, and paid out in line with individual National League points scored during the Season Three campaign. For example, players who did not score any league points will not be eligible for a share of GUKPT prize money. Similarly, players who won a GUKPT seat as part of the National League winning team will not be eligible for a share of any secondary prize money, should they not cash with their own GUKPT entry. The four members of the top three teams in the Online National League will receive APAT National Gold, Silver and Bronze medals to commemorate their achievement. It is planned that the final positions in the Online National League will determine the divisional positions in a Live National League in Season Four. So, for example, the top three teams in each division will join the tenth best team overall in Division One, etc. Neil ‘lukybugur’ Dawson (Northern), Ian ‘HaworthBantam’ Burnett (Central) and Leigh ‘Chipaccrual’ Wiltshire (Southern) have been appointed as Divisional Controllers and will be seeking to appoint poker club captains in the coming weeks. An APAT National League forum is now available for further discussion on this topic. APAT National Rankings: There will be two National Rankings in operation during Season Three; the APAT National Rankings and the APAT Online National Rankings. Ranking points will be allocated to the top eighteen finishers in both APAT National Championship and APAT Online National Championship events, as per the schedule above. Team events and the APAT Online National League are non ranking. For the first time, points earned online will not be eligible towards the Live Rankings and vice versa. The top ten players (or joint top ten) will receive an option to buy into the next APAT National Championship event. To take up this option, they must post their request on the APAT forum prior to the event going on sale. Further details will follow on this prior to publication of the first APAT National Rankings of Season Three. The winners of both National Rankings will receive a paid entry to a GUKPT main event. Jon ‘JonMW’ Woodfield will continue to manage the National Rankings in Season Three. Summary: APAT, in association with Blue Square, will continue to offer an incomparable choice of top class live and online Championship tournaments in Season Three. Each event will offer significant added value, a high quality structure and a competitive, but friendly poker experience for APAT members. The action starts with the UK Online Championship on January 10th and we look forward to greeting APAT members from all over the world as the hunt for National titles begins in 2009.[url=http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=2328.0] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubermonkey1 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced nice one mike:ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubermonkey1 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced i take it as theres a thanet club the g in thanets now included:nana:nana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teaulc Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced looks like the South has been left out completely in the Natonal Championships, what a surprise :sad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced I think they will see Luton as the South Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teaulc Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced I think they will see Luton as the South not for me mate, the South is anywhere south of London. Luton is more Midlands aint it. anyway,i will have to miss all of this unfortunately and just stick with the Brighton Poker Club as and when that is set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Im with you mate but I would clasify Luton as Up North really as im from East Sussex originally but sadly they see London as South and therefore Luton as South too as its around the M25 area. They will classify Nottingham, Walsall and Birmingham etc as the Midlands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Mike, edited your 1st post with the full details! Cheers for posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced looks like the South has been left out completely in the Natonal Championships' date=' what a surprise :sad[/quote'] could be worse lads, its a 3 hr drive to the nearest one from here:wall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced could be worse lads' date=' its a 3 hr drive to the nearest one from here:wall[/quote'] Thats your fault for living "tup norf" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieGaz Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced could be worse lads' date=' its a 3 hr drive to the nearest one from here:wall[/quote'] and that will probs be a job for the 'PL chauffer' :eyes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Apat Cardiff National on same date as the Virgin Festival too......lol donkaments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Cardiff??? Thats like in another country Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulioArca Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Ummm....Cardiff 20 minutes, Newcastle 5 hours on a good day. Looks like Cardiff just clinches it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced The point is that we shouldnt have to choose if people do their homework and actually look at other events which have already been organised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced I dunno carl. You look now and there is: APAT Events above GUKPT now one every month GCBPT currently 6 but looking to go to 8 this year Virgin Festivals DTD 3-2-1 every month So hard not to cloash anything now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Wish you'd call me Graeme lol ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Look just change your name, its gonna be so much easier for me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaban Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced I dunno carl. You look now and there is: APAT Events above GUKPT now one every month GCBPT currently 6 but looking to go to 8 this year Virgin Festivals DTD 3-2-1 every month So hard not to cloash anything now. Its a good point, I suspose the nice problem with the game becoming popular is that there are always going to be clashes and decisions what to play or attempt to qualify for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george2loose Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced I think it is tough to schedule this events without clashing with something. I imagine the casino will probably dictate the dates moreso than APAT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubermonkey1 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced The point is that we shouldnt have to choose if people do their homework and actually look at other events which have already been organised. i dunno double booked events might be a good thing;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaban Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 Re: ** Poker Monday 5th January ** Helen - there is an $10+1 APAT satellite for the online championship ( $50+5) on a 8pm on Bluesq Monday night, another one on Tuesday too ( ($5 rebuy). One of the guys on the APAT forum has put together a diary of all events, which you may find useful the link is http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=v2o7kqsf0rkff0o83ge4n6qtqg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/London Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avongirl Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Three satellites will be made available at Blue Square in the run up to all National Championship events. There will be a Monday $20 + $2 freezeout, a Tuesday $10 + $1 freezeout and a Wednesday $5 + $0.50 rebuy. Non allocated seats will be sold directly to players on a Thursday evening. All dates will be updated on the APAT site in the next 24 hours. I took this to mean the week before each event with tickets then on sale on the Thursday, but there are tournaments in the BSq lobby now for 12th/13th/14th Jan, with the first live event not til 7th/8th Feb. Anyone know if they will be every week, or do we think they'll run 3wks before each event to allow time for organising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avongirl Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Remembered Mike posted a calendar in the daily diary so copied above with the link. I'll check through this and make sure I've picked up all the right dates. Trying to get all of these in the diary. :ok (I'm up to 50 new entries so far without all the sats and local leagues.:loon) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runadrum Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Qualified for Walsall 7/8 Feb in the first online satellite. 22 qualifiers in the $20+2 freezeout, with a $10+1 freezeout and $5+.50 rebuy to come. Holiday Inn Express Walsall has rooms at £36 including continental brekkie, but non-refundable. :ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avongirl Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced Don't forget the clickfest for tickets for Walsall is tonight (Thurs) at 9pm. I'd like some more people to rail please. :ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaban Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced going to give the clickfest a bash tonight, but not got a great success rate in them. Considering going down anyway, so might join you on the rail Helen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaban Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced APAT site has been down all day, hopefully it will back in time for the clickfest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaban Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced site up now :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlspin Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Re: APAT Season 3 Announced All done in under a minute!! Date & Time: 21:01 GMT, January 15, 2009 Description: UK Amateur Poker Championship Amount: GBP 75.00 Transaction ID: 30208261 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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