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Brian Yates Wins 2009 APAT Irish Amateur Poker Championship
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Yates: Irish Amateur Champion
The APAT Irish Amateur Poker Championship held at the Fitzwilliam Club, Dublin, was the third event of APAT’s third season, once again sponsored by BlueSquare.com. Including alternates, 144 runners took part with a prize pool of £10,800. Included amongst the runners were past APAT Champions Darren Shallis, Tim Magnus, Steve Redfern, Jason Jones and Michael Paterson.
Play and the pace of exits in the early stages were noticeably quicker than in previous APAT National events. Andrew Tracey took a hit early on when his Kings were cracked by flopped Quad threes and as play continued after the dinner break a series of big hand confrontations were to shape the chip counts at the end of the day. Brian Yates, already with a large stack, found Aces against similarly chipped Steve Bayliff’s Kings. Paul Garnham found Aces against Ace-King and then Yates again was in action. Seeing a spectacular Q-Q-6 flop holding Q-6 against and opponent holding K-Q. Yates lost a little ground near the end when losing a race with AK versus Andrew Tracey’s Queens to double Andrew up and put him right in contention as play closed.
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At the end of Day One chip leaders were as follows:
Brian Yates 99,100
Ben Dixon 95,300
Andrew Tracey 80,900
Sean Kenny 79,500
Paul Garnham 71,300
Play at the start of day two began with blinds of 1500-3000/200 and 29 players remaining. Six players departed in the first level and the main beneficiaries were Brian Yates and Brian Murphy who found Aces when Michael Patterson had Kings the same hand. Darren Shallis eliminated Sean Kenny when he raised with Queens, Kenny re-raised on the steal all-in and Darren’s hand held up.
Irish Amateur Championship Seats On Sale
Posted by: | CommentsSeats for the APAT Irish Amateur Poker Championship are now on sale.
The event will take place at the Fitzwilliam Card Club in Dublin on May 30th & 31st, starting at 2.30pm on each day. Players will start the event with 10,000 chips on a 45 minute clock. The winner will receive a National Title, significant cash prize, Challenge Cup & Gold Medal and a seat at a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event.
Please note that APAT accepts payment by debit card only. Delta, Electron and Maestro are the payment card options. If you own a Visa debit card, then select the ‘Delta’ option.
A list of players who have currently bought in, and players who have been given an option to buy in following transactional issues, can be found in the APAT Forum.
Dutchman Jacques Kieft Wins 2007 APAT Irish Amateur Poker Championship
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The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) held the fifth event in its first season live series, the Irish Amateur Poker Championship in Dublin, on 2nd-3rd June. The event had 150 entries, who qualified by a mix of live and online satellites and member draw. The players were again offered a £75 freeze-out with 10,000 starting chips, a slow clock and significant added value from tour sponsors PokerStars.com via the form of entry into an EPT Season Four event worth $8,000 to the winner in addition to their cash prize, trophy, medal and Player of the Year ranking points.
With the Player of the Year race only having three live events remaining, all the leading participants were present as they battled for the exciting prize, entry into the PokerStars.com sponsored WPT Caribbean Adventure Tournament in early 2008.
Play began at 2.30pm on the first day and early chip leaders included Dave Compton and Bob Taylor, Taylor being paid off with Quad Kings in a 16,000 pot on the second level to move to 26,000 with the blinds still 50-100. Also more than doubling their chip-stacks early on were Stephen Bayliff and Jim Owen. Local qualifiers Scott Prendiville and Neil Murphy were looking solid and Matt Doyle benefitted from flopping a flush against a set to move ahead.
