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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.
England’s Stuart Ward Wins European Amateur Title
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Stuart Ward: 2009 European Amateur Champion
The 2009 APAT European Amateur Poker Championships, in association with Blue Square Poker, was held at the G Casino Luton and attracted a field of 195 players from twelve countries including Poland, Hungary and Italy. At stake was a first prize of £3,500, ranking points towards the APAT National Amateur Rankings and, for the winner, added value of a seat into a GUKPT Main Event.
First out was Warren Jackman with pocket Kings up against Hugh Nairnie’s pocket Aces whilst through the early levels John Miller from Accrington, an experienced festival player was the chip leader. Soon current APAT Welsh Amateur Champion Simon Auckland ran Ace-King into French International Franck Viollett’s Aces on a King high board.
Meanwhile Stuart Ward took Queen-Six to knock out Michael Pemplomiak with Aces and reversed roles when he himself found Aces against Robyn O’Neille’s Queens, the combined effect of which was to propel Stuart towards the chip lead, alongside Derrick Andrews, regular APAT player John Murray and German International Silke Burghardt.
The end of day one chip leaders, with 32 remaining and average stack 60,000 blinds 2000/4000 ante 300 were as follows:
Derrick Andrews 177,500
John Murray 143,000
Stuart Ward 130,000
Paul Townsend 82,900
Silke Burghardt 80,000
Poland Win European Amateur Team Championship
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Poland: 2009 European Amateur Team Champions
The 2009 APAT European Amateur Team Championship was held at the G Casino Luton and attracted international teams from twelve countries, each vying for the European Amateur Team title to succeed last year’s winners Ireland.
The event was held over two days, with each of the teams comprising four players, battling it out over a series of 80 Six Max Sit & Go and Heads Up matches with points awarded according to finishing positions.
Leading throughout the first day was the English team containing APAT National Champions Steve Redfern and Brian Yates, followed by France, Hungary and Poland. England were still leading after the afternoon matches on day two, leaving only two rounds of Six Max Sit & Go matches to come on the final evening. In these games though the English under-performed leaving the way clear for their closest competitors to come through. England would eventually finish third.
In an innovative feature of the Championship, Germany recorded the first APAT in play poker substitution when captain Stephan Kalhamer introduced Silke Burghardt against England’s Brian Yates at a crucial point in the match. The German woman repeated an earlier victory over her English opponent to delight a hugely enthused rail and dent England’s chances of the title.
John Kay Wins 2009 English Amateur Title
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Kay: 2009 English Amateur Champion
The 2009 APAT English Amateur Poker Championship, in association with Blue Square Poker, was held at the G Casino in Bolton and attracted a sell out field of 205 players from the United Kingdom and further afield. At stake was a first prize of £3,500, APAT National Ranking points and the added value of an entry to the prestigious GUKPT Champion of Champions tournament at the end of the year.
In the early levels, Simon Auckland had to recover to make day two when his Aces were beaten by Ducan Hodgkins Five-Six suited. Both Paul Turnstill and Gerard Smyth led the way only to fall by the wayside before the end of the day. Meanwhile local favourite John Kay had a flying start that was to leave him well positioned all day alongside Tony Trippier and Ben Dixon, whilst Ian Burnett leapt towards the top of the chip counts when his pocket Eights hit a set to eliminate a player with Aces, in a big pre-flop confrontation.
End of Day One chip leaders, with thirty players remaining, were as follows:
Tony Trippier 164,100
John Kay 142,100
Steven Wild 138,200
Ben Dixon 127,900
Ian Burnett 119,500
Blinds began day two at 2,000/4,000 with the majority of the field needing to make significant progress from short-stacked positions. After three hours of intense play, the final table lined up as follows:
Martin Hanney England – 411,000
Ian Burnett, Scotland – 320,000
John Kay, England – 262,500
Andrew Macleod, Russia – 241,500
Tony Trippier, England – 200,000
Andrew Duncan, England – 158,500
Joe Carr-Hill, England – 152,000
Brian Frew, Northern Ireland – 146,000
Gary Phillips, Wales – 113,000
Blinds began at 8,000-16,000 with a 1,600 running ante.
Tony Trippier exited in 9th when his Ace-Jack failed to overcome Brian Frew’s Queens. In eighth, shortstacked Gary Phillips pushed with Ace-Deuce and lost to John Kay’s pocket sevens.
