APAT Launch Quarterly Magazine
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The Amateur Poker Association & Tour are delighted to announce the launch of APAT Magazine, a quarterly online publication focussing on APAT members and events.
The March issue focusses on the launch of Season 4, and carries interviews with Season 4 National & Online Ranking Winners Steve Redfern and Brian Yates, and an interview with APAT tv hostess Maylis Boardman.
In addition there are tournament reports on the European Individual & Team Championships, the UK Team Championship and last weekend’s Welsh Online Championship.
APAT are also pleased to announce a tie up with the uk arm of PokerNews.com under editor Barry Carter; who will provide general poker news to APAT members from the UK Poker Circuit.
So for your chance to win one of two seats on offer to the DTD leg of the UKIPT, and to catch up on our Season 4 schedule for Amateur Championship, Professional League and Specialist Series tournaments, click to read!
Steve Bayliff Wins APAT Welsh Online Championship
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Bayliff: APAT Welsh Online Champion
The first Online Championship event of APAT’s fourth season featured a high quality field and provided a final table packed with some long standing APAT members.
One hundred and forty four players entered the APAT Welsh Online Poker Championship. The $50 buy in gave them all a shot at a $2,500 first prize, Championship title, Gold Medal and an entry to a £1,070 buy in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event. As normal in Championship events, players started with a 10,000 chip deep-stack and 15 minute blinds.
Within fifteen minutes of the start we had already lost one player as ‘Robmc01’ had fallen foul to the kings full of jacks of ‘Miiiiiikeee’ and after four and a half hours of play, ’Roscopiko’ burst the final table bubble and exited in tenth place. This left the final table line up as follows:
Ayendell (256k)
Adidap (249k)
Squirrel69 (204k)
Marmite3465 (200k)
Bobyrabit (137k)
Suzy666 (131k)
Thinker28 (129k)
CH3LS3A (68k)
SJW1970 (53k)
The first exit on the final table saw ‘SJW1970’ depart in 9th place. Short stacked to start with, the rivered straight of ‘adidap’ won the all-in pre-flop pot, moving ‘adidap’ to over 300k.
APAT Announce Details Of Fourth Season
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February 18th, London: The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) is delighted to announce details of the fourth season of its critically acclaimed tour for developing poker players.
Seasonal highlights include:-
New Tour Sponsor: Betfair.com will become the headline sponsor of APAT in Season 4; in a partnership that will bring a tremendous amount of additional value and opportunity for APAT members. Betfair.com will exclusively host all APAT National Championship and National League fixtures online, and satellites for APAT’s live schedule of tournaments.
Added Value: The tour will offer APAT members the chance to win thirty three seats to GUKPT main events and twenty three seats to APAT Professional League tournaments. In addition, each of the season’s seventy five amateur, professional and online tournaments will be run completely registration free for players.
APAT live tournament events will now typically comprise three events.
Amateur Championship: APAT’s core schedule will feature seventeen international amateur ranking events including three stops in continental Europe; in Austria, Estonia and Spain, with the undoubted highlight being the seven event World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) at Dusk Till Dawn in August, which will feature the debut of the sixteen country World Amateur Team Championship, plus Heads Up, Six Max, Stud, Omaha and HORSE Championship events, in addition to the 414 runner World Amateur Poker Championship main event.
Professional League: The PL will feature seven events capped at fifty players utilising a deep Pot Limit Hold’em structure, which will bring skill to the fore. Featuring a registration free buy in of £250, each event will have a GUKPT main event seat added for the winner and be open to APAT amateur and professional members. Played on a Saturday alongside the Amateur Championship event.
APAT Wins United Kingdom Team Championship
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Team APAT: UK Team Champions 2010
The APAT United Kingdom Team Championship was held at the G Casino in Manchester on January 23rd and 24th, 2010.
The format saw 20 poker communities from all over the United Kingdom and Ireland compete for the prestigious title in a 10,000 chip, 160 runner, multi-table freeze-out, with a 45 minute clock. As with all APAT events, the UK Team Championship was registration free for members and this event had a £50 buy in per player. Points were awarded to the top forty finishers to determine the Team Championship.
The prize money was split equally between the Team and Individual Championship. In addition, the owner of the winning Team received an added prize of £1,000 and the Championship Cup, while the winner of the Individual Championship received an entry to a GUKPT main event and the Championship Gold Medal. These added value prizes were courtesy of tour sponsor Blue Square Poker.
