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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.
Rich Offless Wins 2007 English Amateur Poker Championship
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The APAT Poker Association & Tour held the first event of its second season, the English Amateur Poker Championship in Walsall’s Grosvenor Casino, on 3rd-4th November. The event had 200 entries plus alternates, who qualified by high finishes in the first round of APAT Regional Events, online satellites and direct payment. The players were again offered a £75 freeze-out with 10,000 starting chips, a slow clock, £3,500 to the winner plus significant added value from new tour sponsors BlueSquare.com via the form of entry into a GUKPT event in 2008 in London worth $3,000 to the winner in addition to their cash prize, trophy, medal and Player of the Year ranking points.
Initial progress was slow with few exits and solid play seeming to be the order of the day. Post dinner several players began to emerge from the pack.
Amongst these were 18-year-old Jon Spinks from Devon, Darren Shallis, Steve Talbot and Rich Offless, a finalist at the last APAT National Championship. Indeed Talbot became the first player over the 100,000 chip mark when he managed to eliminate two players on one hand when calling two all-ins pre flop with JJ (versus QQ and KK): a jack flopping to give him trips. Towards the end of the day local player Mike Hopkinson went on a tear winning a series of races to rise to approaching 200,000 chips before Talbot matched him, eliminating Tom Fielding who had run his Kings into Talbot’s Aces.
Daniel Phillips Wins 2006 English Amateur Poker Championship
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Daniel Phillips Wins English Amateur Championship
The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT ) held the first live event, the English Amateur Poker Championship, of its first season at the sumptuous Broadway casino in Birmingham over the weekend of the 23rd-24th September. Significantly oversubscribed, the event was full to the venue’s 120 player capacity giving many players their first taste of deep stack live poker. Of the 120 players around 20 were playing live for the first time.
At a buy-in of only £75 and with 10,000 starting chips and a 40 minute clock the structure was designed to give the players who had been lucky enough to secure entry real opportunities for creative play and an antithesis to the shallow stack re-buy competitions normally provided for new and recreational players around the country.
The Tour sponsors, PokerStars.com, are providing an expenses paid entry to an EPT event for the winners of each of the seven series one events and the added prize for the winner of the inaugural tournament was entry in to January 2007’s EPT in Copenhagen with a total value of E8,000. Also provided were cash prizes to the top nine finishers, medals for the top three and an engraved championship cup to the winner.
