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Welcome to The Fabulous Las Vegas, and the APAT North American Amateur Poker Championship, where we'll be kicking off APAT's Season 11 at 1pm local - which is 9pm UK time.
As usual, Lucy Amos will be keeping you up to date throughout the day, with a live update/blog and pics - we'll be concentrating on those UK APAT/Grosvenor/LPPL members that are taking part.
We'll play to completion today, on 30 minute levels with a 15k stack and finish, I suspect, around 3am (11am UK).
229 players so far and counting... $20k Guarantee smashed already...
And we have our Champion... all the way from Canada...
James Monteith
North American Amateur Poker Champion
National Championship Gold Medal & $9,300
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Chris Zurawski
National Championship Silver Medal & $9,300
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Dennis Busby
National Championship Bronze Medal & $5,192
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