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APAT Launch Quarterly Magazine
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APAT Magazine: Click To View
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!
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.
Tod Wood Wins WCOAP Online Main Event
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Tod Wood: WCOAP Online Champion
Englishman Tod Wood won the main event of the Online World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), beating fellow midlander Brian Yates; who took the Silver Medal and Alan Armitage who took the Bronze. Tod; who finished runner up in the United Kingdom Amateur Poker Championship at Grosvenor Walsall at the start of the season, took the Championship title, Gold medal, prize money and a seat at a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event worth over £1,000.
The event was the culmination of the four event WCOAP festival and provided an extraordinary finale to the ten event online season.
Yates and Armitage, pulled level with long time rankings leader Grant Cook on reaching the final three runners in the main event and they effectively played a last longer for the season three rankings title and a seat at a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event.
It was Yates who succeeded in securing the additional point and the Silver medal, capping a fantastic season which saw him win the Irish Amateur Championship in Dublin, the Welsh Online Championship and get selected for England in the European Amateur Team Championship. In taking the Bronze medal, Armitage finished joint second in the rankings alongside Cook.
Elsewhere in the WCOAP festival, Chris O’Connor took the opening event; the WCOAP Omaha Championship. O’Connor; Captain of the Glasgow team who will play in Divison One of the APAT National League in season four, beat Welsh International Leigh Wiltshire heads up, with Ian Thompson taking the Bronze.
WCOAP Champions: Tony Ross, Chris O'Connor, Gordon Casey
In the WCOAP Six Max Championship, Scotsman Gordon Casey took the title, beating Bobby Morton heads up, with Dave Lea taking Bronze.
Tony Ross; the Silver medalist in the 2008 World Amateur Poker Championship at the London Victoria Casino, won the WCOAP Stud Championship, beating Mike Lott heads up, with Tony Trippier taking Bronze.
Season Three will culminate with the UK Team Championship at the G Casino in Manchester on January 23rd & 24th. Following this event, the Online and Live Schedules for season four will be announced.
APAT World Championship Betting Markets Open
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The betting market for the APAT World Amateur Poker Championship main event is now open at Blue Square.
The current individual Championship favourites at 66/1 are Simon Auckland, Darren Shallis, James Eccles, Neil Blatchly and John Miller. Bets can be had on the individual winner or on players reaching the final table.
The event will be played at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham between August 28th & 30th, with over 300 players taking part.
Live updates will be available via the APAT forum throughout the festival, which opens with the WCOAP Omaha Championship on August 27th and concludes with the WCOAP HORSE Championship on August 30th.
APAT World Amateur Championship Betting Market
