Poker Squads Live 5-7 Dec 2025

Updated: 14 Nov 2025

Dates : Friday 5th Dec until Sunday 7th December 2025

Teams are invited for POKER SQUADS LIVE 2025 – please forward details to myself via one of the following means:

Email: tombrady[at]hotmail.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TomBrady65/
WhatsApp: 07957 977 057

and confirm Team Name, Team Captain Name and the additional 3 team member names.

Poker Squads Live 2025 Schedule of Events

POKER SQUADS LIVE 2025 – TEAMS OF 4 PLAYERS @ £115+£25pp

Poker Squads Live is a 4-person team event with Day 1 on Saturday having 3 phases of STTs, all playing to score individually with the top 3 scores in phase 1 and 2 and both scores in phase 3 contributing towards the combined team score, to qualify their team through to Day 2.

ALL TEAM MEMBERS need to pay their individual £140 buy-in by Fri 28th Nov –

via LUXON for individuals,

Or

direct to myself via details confirmed to team captains, with a single payment of 4 x £140 = £560

Venue : Dusk Till Dawn, Redfield Way, Lenton, Nottingham, NG7 2UW

Tel : 0115 845 4300

Email : support@dusktilldawnpoker.com

Website : www.dusktilldawnpoker.com

How to get there :

EVENT FORMAT

DAY 1  – STTs will have all 4 players from every team each compete in Phase and 1 and Phase 2 STTs (no tagging), with Phase 3 having 2 players per team compete with tagging allowed at any time when THE TABLE is not involved in a hand – ie this does NOT include when the table is in the middle of a hand but your team member is no longer involved – you must wait for the HAND TO BE COMPLETED to tag.

Points will be scored by team players’ finishing positions in each phase of STTs as follows:

Day 1 STT Points Scoring

PHASE 1 & PHASE 2

1st = 15 pts
2nd = 12 pts
3rd = 10 pts
4th = 8 pts
5th = 6 pts
6th = 4 pts
7th = 2 pts
8th = 1 pt

PHASE 3

1st = 22 pts
2nd = 18 pts
3rd = 15 pts
4th = 12 pts
5th = 9 pts
6th = 6 pts
7th = 3 pts
8th = 1 pt

and the top 3 scores for each team from Phase 1 and Phase 2, and both scores from Phase 3, will be combined to identify the Top 15 teams at the end of Day 1 on Saturday, with those teams progressing onto Day 2 on Sunday. 

Day 1 Phase 3 STT TAG will have 2 players compete from each team, and team members may tag between hands – the PLAYER AT THE TABLE will have the final say on whether a tag takes place or not.

The Day 1 Leaderboard to qualify the Top 15 teams into Day 2 will award a ‘starting stack for team members’ for the Day 2 FT Qualifying Round as follows::

LB 1st – 30k stack for each member in their STT
LB 2nd – 29k stack for each member in their STTA
LB 3rd – 28k stack for each member in their STT
LB 4th – 27k stack for each member in their STT
LB 5th – 26k stack for each member in their STT
LB 6th – 25k stack for each member in their STT
LB 7th – 24k stack for each member in their STT
LB 8th – 23k stack for each member in their STT
LB 9th – 22k stack for each member in their STT
LB 10th – 21k stack for each member in their STT
LB 11th-15th 20k stack for each member in their STT

DAY 2 – FINAL TABLE QUALIFYING ROUND will have all 4 players, from every Day 2 QUALIFYING TEAM, each compete in an STT (no tagging) – 6 x 10-handed STTs.   The WINNER (only) of each STT will qualify their team for a 20k starting stack on the Final Table. 

DAY 2 – FINAL TABLE if any team qualifies more than 1 player for the Final Table, then that team will start the Final Table with their team player/representative at the Final Table having a multiple stack (20k for each FT qualified player) – meaning Final Table Qualifying Teams will NOT have multiple PLAYERS on the Final Table, but may start the Final Table with Multiple STARTING STACKS (NB – this means that the Final Table may have LESS than the maximum 10 teams/players possible). 

Team members may tag between hands – the TEAM CAPTAIN will have the final say on whether a tag takes place (in the absence of the Team Captain then the player at the table will have the final say).

Each team on the Final Table will have 2 ‘time out’ cards which the player sitting (and ONLY the player sitting) may exercise at any time whilst in a hand AND THE ACTION IS ON THEM – they will each be for 1 minute during which the seated player may consult with his other team members (both may be used during the same timeout to extend the discussion time to 2 minutes). 

PRIZES

The TOTAL PRIZE FUND is split between Day 1 STT Winner (Team) Mystery Prize draws and Final Table winning teams (max 10).

Each Day 1 STT winner will draw a ‘team mystery prize‘ immediately on completion of each STT in all 3 rounds on Day 1 to win their team a mystery prize.

2025 prizes will be as follows (subject to change):

Rounds 1 & 2

£500 x 1
£200 x 2
£100 x 4
£50 x 4
£100 x 5 (Poker Raffles Added Value)

Round 3

£1,000 x 1
£500 x 1
£200 x 1

£100 x 1

£50 x 4

The 2025 Final Table 6 teams split £9,160 as follows:

1st £3,000 + (4 x £280 DTD Seats Added Value)

2nd £2,200

3rd £1,400

4th £1,060

5th £800

6th £800

*Day 1 13:00 Poker Squads Phase 1 – NLHE Timed STTs (30k stack on 20/15 min clock)

This STT will end after L11/14:55 at the latest with positions / points awarded based on chip count.

**Day 1* 16:00 Poker Squads Phase 2 – *NLHE Survivor Shootout STTs (30k stack on 20/15 min clock)

This STT will end after L11/17:55 at the latest with positions / points awarded based on chip count.

Each STT will automatically eliminate the shortest stacked player at the table at the end of nominated levels as shown below, IF the STT has not already lost its ‘quota’ of players – eg, at the end of level 2 if the table has already lost a player then another player would NOT be eliminated.

So, if at the end of each of the following levels the ‘quota’ of lost players has NOT already been reached then the lowest stacked players will be eliminated at that time:

End Level 2  – 1 player eliminated
End Level 3 – 2 players eliminated
End Level 4 – 3 players eliminated
End Level 5 – 4 players eliminated
End Level 7 – 5 players eliminated
End Level 9 – 6 players eliminated
End Level 11 – 7 players eliminated

No antes will be in play.  Players CANNOT ask for a ‘count’ of another player’s stack – ‘dirty stacks’ are not allowed and chips are to be stacked in same colours/values and in acceptable sizes (eg 100 chip x 20 = 2k stack – to aid players to count stacks themselves) – vigilance throughout the STT is key!  These measures are put in place to ensure nobody ‘time wastes’ with the aim to slow play to get another player eliminated.  With ‘automatic eliminations’ at the end of levels, each STT will complete at 17:55 hours at the latest (or before if players ‘naturally bust’).  Players may be issued penalties during this STT if it is considered that they are deliberately time wasting, which may include sitting out of the action, or loss of chips as a penalty. 

NOTE Phase 2 Survivor Shootout

When a table reaches Heads Up in Phase 2, similar to Phase 1 and 3, they will be fighting for points as follows:

1st = 15 pts
2nd = 12 pts

However, at the end of the final level of Phase 2 a CHIP COUNT WILL NOT DECIDE THE WINNER – in order to win 1st place points, this phase MUST BE WON OUTRIGHT, and if the phase gets to the end of the final level, then both remaining players (teams) will be awarded 2nd place points, being 12 points EACH – the chip-leader WILL NOT earn 1st place points.

Tom Brady
APAT Operations Director
Live Events & Tour

Email: tombrady[at]hotmail.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TomBrady65/
WhatsApp: 07957 977 057