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APAT Crown Amateur World Champions
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Ben Young: World Amateur Poker Champion
The prestigious World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) has concluded at Europe’s premier poker club; Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham.
Players came from all over Europe and further afield to compete for the 7 Championship titles and every event was sold out.
Ben Young took the blue riband World Amateur Poker Championship main event, outlasting a 425 runner field to take home the £9,000 first prize plus a seat in the GUKPT Grand Final worth £2,700 courtesy of APAT sponsors Betfair Poker. Heads up play was an all Welsh affair with Young seeing off Stephen Roderick after 20 minutes of two-handed play. The final hand virtually played itself with Young claiming the title after his flush beat Roderick’s set.
In addition to the Main Event there were a number of other titles up for grabs in Nottingham. Dave Howard took the heads up championship, beating Germany’s Michael Koenig in the final with Ian Thompson taking the Stud championship beating David Llewellyn heads up. Colin Young pipped Andy Overton to the six-max No Limit Hold’em title with Dutchman Max Kruis taking down the PLO event after beating Craig Johnson.
Wales: World Amateur Poker Team Champions
The Welsh contingent took the prestigious World Amateur Team Championship, beating Canada in an extremely tight finish by only a single point. Northern Ireland finished third, just a point ahead of the fourth placed finishers from Spain. France were fifth with Holland taking sixth place.
England’s Paul Pitchford secured an unprecedented second consecutive ‘Player of the Championship’ award by virtue of fourth and seventh places finishes in two WCOAP side events. Paul will represent APAT and sponsor Betfair at the World Series of Poker Europe later in September.
The next APAT event takes place in Dublin on 24th & 25th of September when the Irish Amateur Poker Championships takes place. Qualifiers are up and running at Betfair Poker.
Bristol Poker Club Win National Online League
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Bristol Poker Club Captain Suzanne Hayward
Bristol Poker Club; under captain Suzanne Hayward, have won Division One of the APAT National Online Poker League. At the end of a ten match season, only one match point separated Bristol from runners up Cardiff and 2009 Champions Walsall. South London, Glasgow and Leeds were relegated to Division Two. Four members of the Bristol team will now go forward to represent APAT in the GUKPT Champion of Champions Tournament later in the year.
Division Two was won by Solent Poker Club, by one match point from Stockton-on-Tees with Birmingham in third. All three clubs have won promotion to Division One. Brighton, Dundee and North London Poker Clubs have been relegated to Division Three. Sunderland Poker Club took the Division Three title and will be joined in Division Two next season by Luton and Nottingham.
Four members of the successful Solent club will play in the APAT Professional League in Nottingham in August, while four members of the Sunderland club will play in the World Amateur Championship main event in Nottingham in August.
For a full summary of a dramatic last night in the League, read the seasonal review with comments, in the forum.
National Online League Seasonal Review
Paul Haycock Wins North European Online Title
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The latest leg of APAT’s fourth season online featured seventy five players in another high quality field of APAT players entered into the APAT Northern European Online Poker Championship. The $50 buy in ensured they all had a chance at winning the $1,125 first prize, Championship title, Gold Medal and an entry to a £1,000 buy in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour event.
As with all APAT Online Championship events, players started with a 10,000 chip deep-stack and 15 minute blinds.
As the bubble burst, and ‘cashman00’ finished in 10th place, we were left with a usual high class and experienced APAT final table.
The final table lined up as follows:
staffieboy1 (231k)
totalpants (79k)
kazzka (68k)
Walwyn (93k)
claw1975 (64k)
adidap (54k)
CAVALLO22 (42k)
TONYTRIPPSS (82k)
slaterboy (33k)
With blinds at 1.5k/3k/300, it didn’t take long for a clash of players.
Scott Wilson becomes youngest National Champion
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Over the weekend of 19-20th June 2010, APAT held the latest event in it’s fourth season, sponsored by Betfair, with the Scottish Amateur Poker Championships held at the International Casino in Aberdeen consisting of 127 runners and a £10,360 prize pool and the third leg of the APAT Professional Pot Limit Hold’em Series with 24 runners.
Courtesy of Betfair the winner of the Championship wins an entry to a GUKPT main event as part of an overall sponsorship package where APAT members have 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 are run completely registration free for players.
