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Season Seven Discussion (Pre-Announcement)
Jon MW:
I"ve never been keen on the bracelets - a medal is self explanatory, a big shiny cup is self explanatory - a bracelet is a bit meh. Not exactly something you can show off on the mantlepiece, the relevance is only ever going to be known to other poker players who are almost certainly going to already know what you won anyway. Even after you explain it to non players it"s still not going to look impressive.
I think merchandising is a good idea, even if it just starts at the level of playing cards and card protectors I think there would definitely be a market for the APAT brand.
Fatcatstu:
The only thing I want to see added back in is the abroad APATs please.
As someone who has attended 3 of them (Spain, Estonia and Vegas) I would love to do it all again.
I heard thee might be a few APAT players going to Vegas in November... Just sayin"....
Ps. Can we go back to Estonia pretty please?
Paulie_D:
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--- Quote from: Paulie_D on February 14, 2013, 10:54:02 AM ---
The S6 ECOAP & WCOAP were fine with me.
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As you seem to have an insight can you tell me how I got on so I know whether or not to bother turning up
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Event Lengthwise, of course.
As it happens...you did rubbish,
AAroddersAA:
Buyins are fine £75+£7.50 is fine for the recreational poker player. Makes for a good prize pool but not too expensive. WCOAP main event at £100+£10 also sounds good. I also like about $50 for the online main events and £10 for the online league.
Format for a 2 day event is fine although if we can a 3 day main event for the WCOAP (DTD Deepstack style) that would be even better (maybe up the reg fee to accomadate this as I think most people would happily pay it). As far as the festivals go I liked the ECOAP and think it should stay as it is. WCOAP I would love to see the addition of PLO8 and a bit more cash action going, maybe an APAT table all weekend if this can be agreed with DTD somehow. It would get used so is there a way the rake could be split between DTD and APAT? I reckon we could even self deal at a push so DTD don"t need to provide a dealer and just charge a small fee per hour even.
Personally I like the online registration as you can pay for it there and then and I like to have everything paid upfront well in advance but that is not big deal really. Paypal would also be fine I would have thought it would be an advantage to APAT as you know you are going to get drop outs when you don"t have to pay anything up front.
Locations. If we are going to make ECOAP a fly away, 3 words here - Lloret de Mar. I will await Ger and Stu"s arrival to tell us about Tallin :-). However I think DTD is the best location with all thing considered.
If we can make Vegas happen in November some of us are going anyway.
May - Welsh Amteaur Championship, Les Croupiers, Cardiff
July - Irish Amteaur CHampionship, Dublin
August - ECOAP (Bank Holiday Weekend) - DTD
October - UK Amteaur Championship, London (ideally The Vic)
November - APAT Vegas
Early December - English Amteaur Championship, Coventry
Jan - UK Team Championship - Manchester
Feb - Scottish Amteaur Championship - Glasgow
April - Easter Time WCOAP at DTD
One Day Home Nations Championship inserted into one of the events. Use this event to try things out. Allow two teams from each of the Home Nations, maybe have some sort of qualifiers for people to win a place. Allow people members to elect captains for each of their teams with nominations having to be made and seconded by members with more than 300 post"s or who have played in more than 10 APAT events?
Maybe have each team made up of two online qualifiers. This gives everybody the chance to play for their National Team.
UK Team event only one team from each forum, I would include APAT in this as I think having 3 or 4 teams devalues the achievement of being selected.
I would happily play qualifiers on a third party site. Would probably play a very small stakes slots or Blackjack event but not to qualify for a poker event.
Please keep the braclets for WCOAP only (Not even for ECOAP). I think that there are already far too many medals floating about (literally EVERYBODY within APAT has a few it seems) and would like to see the braclets retain some prestige. No medals for winning teams in team events imo either only for individuals. NO Medals for side events either.
Online. I think the mini festivals are overkill except for Worlds and Europeans. One decent NLHE online event is fine for each National. Give the winner of that event the added value seat if there is one.
Bunch of 5"s is good I would like to see some of those run.
Online National League. Probably need a new thread for this one. It seems to work fine as it is tbh but my personal preference would be to allow players to form their own teams or say 8 people (the online cup suggests this would be even more successful) and play it out with any added value split between individual and team leagues. Maybe have a gold and silver medal play off. No automatic places in National Teams for WCOAP (I honestly really dislike this idea). Top team maybe invited to UK Team Event but only the top team.
Paulie_D:
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on February 14, 2013, 13:05:03 PM ---
May - Welsh Amteaur Championship, Les Croupiers, Cardiff
July - Irish Amteaur CHampionship, Dublin Cork is more likely
August - ECOAP (Bank Holiday Weekend) - DTD
October - UK Amteaur Championship, London (ideally The Vic) Luton
November - APAT Vegas
Early December - English Amteaur Championship, Coventry
Jan - UK Team Championship - Manchester
Feb - Scottish Amteaur Championship - Glasgow
April - Easter Time WCOAP at DTD
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I"m fully mostly in agreement with Steve.
Dublin or Cork frankly but Dublin is a tough "get" as far as venues go.
My only problem with the above is where do we fit in / switch an overseas event?
If I had to lose one it would probably be the "forum" team event...but I understand the reasons why it probably won"t be.
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