Dave Garden, APAT World Amateur Poker Champion 2011
The centrepiece of the five day APAT WCOAP festival at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn Club was the No Limit Hold’em World Amateur Poker Championship main event, which attracted 405 runners over two starting days, creating a £42,900 prize pool with a first prize of £12,900. The event was run in partnership with www.DTDPoker.com who provided several added value seats to Dusk Till Dawn events for WCOAP Champions.
199 players took part in Day 1a, each starting with 15,000 chips and a deepstack structure affording bountiful play. After 14 levels and 12 hours play 26 players made it through to the final day. On Day1b 206 players began and, with somewhat tighter play to the fore, 38 players made it through.
Italy’s Andrea Lombardi Wins WCOAP Omaha Championship
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Andrea Lombardi Wins WCOAP Omaha Championship
114 runners participated in the WCOAP Omaha Championship, the concluding event of the 2011 World Championship Of Amateur Poker festival at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. Players began with 10,000 chips and a 30 minute clock providing ample scope for play in this ever popular game.
Chris Peers the Heads Up WCOAP made a determined attempt to follow up in this event but exited with two tables remaining. APAT National Champion Steve Redfern unfortunately bubbled the final table, his second bubble finish of this WCOAP, although on this occasion he secured a minor cash.
The final table line up, which included international team players from Spain and Italy was as follows:
1 Daniel Partridge
2 Neil Dobney
3 Juan De Diego
4 Henry Griffiths
5 John Valentine
6 Ritesh Chauhan
7 Ian Thompson
8 Andrea Lombardi
9 Joanna Sharp
Finishing 9th, in his second WCOAP final table of the year was Dan Partridge, being eliminated by Andrea Lombardi. Chip leader Henry Griffiths then accounted for Jo Sharp, Aces cracked by King-Queen-Jack-Nine.
Liam Batey Wins WCOAP Six Max Championship
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Liam Batey Wins APAT WCOAP Six Max Championship
114 runners participated in the extremely popular Six Max WCOAP Championship event. As befitting the variant, play was brisk with an abundance of early exits before play settled down with the 10,000 chip 30 minute clock structure affording plenty of play.
The final table began with three young players, Liam Batey, Liam Crawford and chip leader Daniel Partridge all holding over 250,000 chips. Short-stack Lukas Dasynski, the winner of the APAT Welsh Amateur Championship earlier in the current APAT season, was eliminated on the first hand of the final by Partridge.
Portugese player Nuno Andrade, a member of the medal winning Portugal team in the WCOAP Team Championship, was then extremely unlucky in consecutive hands. He pushed Pocket Kings and was called all-in by Ian Gregory with Ace-Five suited. Gregory rivered a gusthot straigt to leave Andrade severely low on chips. Next hand, finding King-Queen he shoved and was called by the big blind Partridge with Four-three. Andrade flopped a King but two threes fell on the board to knock him out sixth.
Partridge by now had a commanding position, especially after he knocked Gregory out in fifth. Partridge was playing with flair, in most pots. Liam Crawford fell in fourth at the hands of APAT regular Phil Tompkinson, losing a race with Ace-Queen against pocket Tens.
Tompkinson himself fell in third, Liam Batey flopping top pair maning local player Liam Batey and Daniel Partridge began Heads Up with equal stacks.
Paul McGuinness Wins WCOAP HORSE Championship
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Paul McGuinness Wins WCOAP HORSE Championship
After over eight hours play the final table lien up was reached as follows:
1 Steve Redfern 24,800
2 Phil Mildon 23,100
3 Ben Burnhill 13,200
4 Andrew Duncan 23,400
5 Dave Howard 105,700
6 Paul mcGuinness 42,200
7 Andrew Macleod 41,900
8 Paul Robinson 13,300
Mildon and Duncan thus made their second Championship final tables of the WCOAP festival, with winning WCOAP team event captain Paul McGuinness following up his team’s triumph with another strong showing in his own right.
Ben Burnhill, Paul Robinson and Steve Redfern fell before the cash positions were reached. The minor cash positions were filled by Andrew Duncan, in fifth, and Philip Mildon in fourth.
Dave Howard knocked Andrew Macleod out in the bronze medal position to enter Heads Up with a commanding lead against his Welsh competitor.
Wales Recapture World Amateur Team Championship
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Wales Win APAT World Amateur Team Championship
Fifty two players representing thirteen countries participated in the APAT WCOAP World Amateur Team Championship held over two days at Dusk Till Dawn and sponsored by DTD Poker.
The format, once again, called for players to play No Limit Hold Em and Pot Limit Omaha Sit N Go’s, Heads Up and then a Multi Table Event to determine the Championship.
Over the course of the first day the pace-setters were Italy, leading after the Sit N Go rounds and holding onto that lead in the face of a superb performance from the German and Republic of Ireland teams in the Heads Up Games.
At the other end of the table the England team suffered a disastrous start, with all four players elminated early in the first games before they recovered to a middle of the field position by virtue of scoring the most points in the Omaha Round.
Chris Peers Wins WCOAP Heads Up Title
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Chris Peers Wins APAT WCOAP Heads Up Title
Sixty Four players participated in the APAT WCOAP Heads Up Championship at Dusk Till Dawn sponsored by DTD Poker. Early rounds saw one off matches before the competition moved to a best of three format at the semi-final stage. Peers from Middlesborugh beat local player Martin Seider 2-1 in the final, with Ky Hutchinson winning the tird-fourth place play-off over Matt Shiels for Bronze.
In the final Peers took the first game with a flopped flush against a turned set, before Seider fought back to level. In the decider Peers’ top pair hung on against a flopped up and down straight draw to wn him the title.
1st Chris Peers £1100
2nd Martin Seider £700
3rd Ky Hutchinson £400
4th Matt Shiels £400
5th Ian Thompson £198
6th Darren Underhill £198
7th Warren Jones £198
8th David Pilkington £198
Jon Seals WCOAP Stud Title
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APAT WCOAP Stud Champion Jon Seal
Cumbria’s Jon Seal won the Seven Card Stud WCOAP Championship event, sponsored by DTD Poker, beating local player Peter Thorpe Heads Up after a hard fought final table. 47 players sat down to play a discipline not often found on the UK tournament scene these days and early exits included last year’s winner Ian Thompson and former WCOAP Player of the series Paul Pitchford.
Eventually the final table line up was as follows
1 Peter Thorpe (43,500)
2 Suruj Miah (28,400)
3 Gavin Jones (28,500)
4 Andrew Duncan (49,800)
5 John-paul Round (67,100)
6 Jon Seal (16,800)
7 David Craigon (8,800)
8 Philip Mildon (38,200)
Craigon, Round and Miah fell before the money spots, with Thorpe the chip leader at that point having doubled through Round with Aces against Kings.
Jon Seal knocked out Gavin Jones in fifth with trip Aces, and then Andrew Duncan in fourth to begin to challenge Thorpe for the chip lead. Seal then moved into pole position, knocking Mildon out in third via hitting Quad Eights against Aces.
Heads-Up Jon Seal rivered a straight to beat trip Kings and then two pair beat pocket Jacks to give him the victory and the first Championship title in this year’s World Championship Of Amateur Poker.
