APAT acquires Poker.co.uk and will launch online poker room

[MintTrav]

Welcome to APAT, Matt.

Looking forward to you sharing your hand-reading skills..........

[mousebob]

Baffled as to how ends up in a players hand after being discarded.
Or am I being duped as well?
Didn't realise Matt was a T.V star

[mal666]

Surely only the viewers are getting duped there.

[Swinebag22]

Surely only the viewers are getting duped there.

nearly correct - matt was the only one not in on it

[mal666]

Surely only the viewers are getting duped there.

nearly correct - matt was the only one not in on it

ok, stupid programme really.

[Matt D]

Welcome to APAT, Matt.

Looking forward to you sharing your hand-reading skills..........

ty

Haha There's a bit of a story behind this. Will reveal another time

Didn't realise it was still on YouTube.

[Scousebill]

Just noticed the APAT Private games on the new site....

[tikay]

Good morning.

I wanted to comment on this thread sooner, but I've been away in Vegas for a month, (I returned yesterday afternoon) working & playing, & so time did not permit, sorry.

A few points.....

1) First up, congratulations to all involved. I think APAT will continue to go from strength to strength, & this move finally gives us - sorry, you!..... - some independence. An excellent deal for all, & I congratulate everyone, & wish them well.
 
2) I want to stress that I did not wish to resign from APAT as such, but commercial considerations & clashes meant the position was untenable. I need to keep my hands clean in all matters, & whether I made it known, or kept it private, holding Management stakes in competing Online Rooms was not really right for any of the parties. So, after agonising over it, I decided I had to resign.

3) I have done very little (item 4) apart) for APAT for 3 or 4 years now. As Des & Tighty will readily confirm, I did offer my resignation on numerous occasions, as I felt guilty that I was not contributing much, but it was always refused by Des. That man is a fool....

4) Despite my resignation, I will continue to support, & big up from the rail, so to speak, all things APAT. I have always done this on blonde, on the TV Channel, on the Sky Poker Forum, & when out & about. In that respect, nothing has or will change.

5) Back in 2005, 6, & 7, when Tighty & I, led by Des, were helping set up APAT & get things moving, it was THE most exciting thing. Some of you will recall the hostility we faced, literally scores of pages of it, on loads of different Forums, it was extraordinary! I've never understood that, but I think it was really people thinking "it's too good to be true". I actually look back on that opening skirmish with much affection, as a battle won, though it was not much fun at the time! Must be said, when a battle goes off, you DO want Des on your side, he is pokers answer to Billy Bremner. But, together, we did it. My time at APAT will always be at the very top of my Poker CV, nothing else I have done, or helped do, in poker even remotely approaches it.

So, a huge thank you to everyone, not just Des, & Tighty, but especially to the Membership - I made so many friends via APAT, & I will always be immensely proud of what we, all of us, achieved together.

Good luck & congrats to Des, to Matt, to everyone else on the Management Team, & to the Membership. I wish you all well.

Remember, it was APAT that first gave "grown-up" structures to regular recreational players, until APAT come along, we regular players were confined to dreadful tourney structures. 10,000 chip well-structured tourneys were confined to £1,000 buy-ins & up. Now everyone can play decent structured Live Poker. They have APAT to thank for that.

APAT IS the greatest, & I don't see that ever changing, it is in safe hands.          

[Des]

Thanks very much Tony, those words mean a great deal to the team and I. 

You have been a fantastic partner in this initiative over the years and I have no doubt there will be times ahead when I'll need advice and it's your door that I will knock on.  Knowing you as I do, I know it will remain open also.

Since the day I chased you around inner London, it's been emotional... 

[tikay]

Thanks very much Tony, those words mean a great deal to the team and I. 

You have been a fantastic partner in this initiative over the years and I have no doubt there will be times ahead when I'll need advice and it's your door that I will knock on.  Knowing you as I do, I know it will remain open also.

Since the day I chased you around inner London, it's been emotional... 

That would be a whole chapter in a book in itself...... you don't take no for an answer, & I did try!

I had recently retired, & just wanted to slow down, & chill, but you were not listening. As it turned out, I would not have missed it for the world.

Think you first nailed me @ Gutshot one night, & later, when I was working on Poker Week, or Poker 425, & you even came across to the studios in Wapping one day & we met in the Canteen. I'm in a hurry, as ever, & hoped to get it over with quickly. Then you tabled your 195 page Power Point Presentation, & insisted I read every page....... 

[Des]

A bit of a late response to this, have been offline much of the week

I am pretty sure this is a fantastic move for APAT, and will do much to drive it forward in the years ahead. Certainly the right people are involved in the team to do that.

A combination of things means I have to step aside from that team, but I very much hope I'll be updating a good number of APATs going forward on an ad-hoc basis. I might play the odd one too.

This will allow me to kid myself, right up until the cards are dealt, that I know a good deal about all of your playing styles and tendencies and I can play accordingly    

All the best to everyone, see lots of you at DTD I hope!

You've been the engine behind APAT since the very start Rich and we (especially many of the players wives and mothers!) are going to miss your incredible sense of humour in the live updates. 

Thanks for everything you've done, from travelling to the far flung corners of the globe to having to deal with last minute venue issues.  I don't think I've ever heard you properly complain.  Even when you had to spend an hour standing outside Orangewings in freezing conditions while the world seemed to implode all around us.  Happy days

Look forward to having you guest update for us and above all, play!

Thanks again.

Des.

[Des]

Thanks very much Tony, those words mean a great deal to the team and I. 

You have been a fantastic partner in this initiative over the years and I have no doubt there will be times ahead when I'll need advice and it's your door that I will knock on.  Knowing you as I do, I know it will remain open also.

Since the day I chased you around inner London, it's been emotional... 

That would be a whole chapter in a book in itself...... you don't take no for an answer, & I did try!

I had recently retired, & just wanted to slow down, & chill, but you were not listening. As it turned out, I would not have missed it for the world.

Think you first nailed me @ Gutshot one night, & later, when I was working on Poker Week, or Poker 425, & you even came across to the studios in Wapping one day & we met in the Canteen. I'm in a hurry, as ever, & hoped to get it over with quickly. Then you tabled your 195 page Power Point Presentation, & insisted I read every page....... 

Haha, I've still got that presentation....and tens of thousands of emails that seem to have gone over and back between yourself, Tighty and myself over the years.  God, what a blast we had, particularly in season one.  To think it was nearly scuppered by PayPal the day before launch!

[technolog]

A bit of a late response to this, have been offline much of the week

I am pretty sure this is a fantastic move for APAT, and will do much to drive it forward in the years ahead. Certainly the right people are involved in the team to do that.

A combination of things means I have to step aside from that team, but I very much hope I'll be updating a good number of APATs going forward on an ad-hoc basis. I might play the odd one too.

This will allow me to kid myself, right up until the cards are dealt, that I know a good deal about all of your playing styles and tendencies and I can play accordingly    

All the best to everyone, see lots of you at DTD I hope!

You've been the engine behind APAT since the very start Rich and we (especially many of the players wives and mothers!) are going to miss your incredible sense of humour in the live updates. 

Thanks for everything you've done, from travelling to the far flung corners of the globe to having to deal with last minute venue issues.  I don't think I've ever heard you properly complain.  Even when you had to spend an hour standing outside Orangewings in freezing conditions while the world seemed to implode all around us.  Happy days

Look forward to having you guest update for us and above all, play!

Thanks again.

Des.

[fandango]

APAT IS the greatest, & I don't see that ever changing, it is in safe hands.          

^^^^^^+1^^^^^^^

[linziwan]

TK Tighty... such legends, will miss you both... hopefully meet you,live or on forums so never really a goodbye