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monkeyman:
I was refused time off work so I could take part in the 2006 WSOP main event. I"m still working for the same employer; maybe I"ve got my priorities wrong :"(

nosey-p:
With the British Masters visiting Leeds in June. It's a tournament I would like to play in but with it being £550, it's out of my range.  If anybody is willing to stake me please pm me for more information or you can email me wayne1847.parker@virgin.net        

nosey-p:
Now we have reached the half way point in the Poker League and with some post's already appearing on the forum, I thought I would give my view on the League.

You can fire up your computer, log on to any poker site and play in cash, STT and MTT games 24/7. What I am trying to say is if you want to play run of the mill poker then it's there in abundance. The Poker League offers you something different; you are no longer playing as an individual but as a team, not just a team but your local team. Playing for your town or city or were you were born in.

At the beginning of this season, it was said that APAT would have like the Poker League to be a live event but with the present climate this would not be possible, but would look at this again for season four. But how would a Poker League work in a live game? Would individual towns/city hold a game a month were you would travel to and have a MTT? Could it be club vs. club in a football league structure? Would Liverpool travel 200 miles for a £20 game? Would Nottingham put a team out? I don't know the answer to these questions. Apart from the Nottingham one  ;D

Now that the league is on line I believe that this is were it should stay. I am not saying there should not be a regional live game; it's the one thing that is missing from this season. I believe that they should be an APAT on line event for a low buy-in and this is it, something different.

They as been talk about the size of clubs, is it fair for a club to have 20 members and another to have 4? Again I cannot answer this, for me it does seem unfair but what is the answer?

As the league progresses to the later stages I can only see the clubs at the top of the leagues playing as the rest will have no chance of qualifying

To keep players interested in the league an individual league should have run alongside the club league in the same way, top 3 go through to a STT.

Should the leagues be smaller (5 leagues of 6)?
Could there be a promotion/relegation system?
Should there just be one league of 30 with a bigger point's structure?  
Instead of clubs can we have counties?
Should the league be shorter? (Less games)

What ever the future holds I will be 100% behind APAT.

Mikeyboy9361:
Quick reply cos far to many questions to answer. I love the league format, as Wayne says it is something a bit different, and the buy in is fine for us low budget players, unfortunately it does mean that for some of our members it doesn"t seem to be worth their effort which is a shame. 20 rounds may be a bit too long. Some sort of individual prize for players who are doing well but their team is out of it, in order to keep numbers up towards the end of the season is a good idea. But as Wayne said this tourney will have to stay on line, but I would love to see the return of a few regionals.

Honeybadg:
If you changed it to two 9 week seasons and two finals then the existing format works really well.

I like the idea of an individual player MTT too - top 100 players across the leagues?

I think the $10+1 buy in is spot on. For the league you shouldn"t constrain people from playing.

If you have enough established clubs then I like the idea of divisions with promotion and relegation.

Looking forward to tonight"s game.

Louis

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