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HERBIEHACKIT:
Sorry des but i think you have got it wrong on a number of fronts. Starting with englang hosting the welsh championships. How can it be the welsh champs if played in england. Interesting to see what our welsh members have to say about this. plo in ireland. This is not going to increase numbers. I am guessing it will reduce entries. Its not the game. The fact is ireland can be cheap to get to but tbere after the cost get silly. Ireland is a dear place for everything. Not to have an irish game would be so damaging to apat credability as the leading amatuet pkker tour. Agai intested in views of people going to thus as to what they would preffer holdem or pli. Also from members who would have gone to ireland to llay but are not going now because it is plo. I am in this group. Off work but not going to play plo main event. Some come on peeps lets have some views.
Fatcatstu:
I have never been to Ireland for an APAT event, but I most certainly will be making the effort this year!!
I think that having a PLO 2 day event is absolutely brilliant, it is certainly the first time I have had the chance to do that, and I"m pretty sure that a number of APAT "regulars" are going to be very very excited by the chance to give this a crack.
Overall a great announcement, good to see Leeds on there, finally an APAT that us North East contingent wont have to travel 3 hours to make!!
Hoping to make all events other than the welsh one (due to family commitments, nothing against the Welsh!!) soo see you all alot more this year hopefully.
Fatcatstu:
--- Quote from: HERBIEHACKIT on May 18, 2014, 01:32:23 AM ---
Starting with englang hosting the welsh championships. How can it be the welsh champs if played in england. Interesting to see what our welsh members have to say about this.
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Does it matter, thats just semantics surely? I know that a few Welsh APAT players were actively lobbying for there NOT to be one in Wales as there is not the capacity in any of the venues at the minute? Surely APAT should not be compromising the quality of their product for the sake of a few miles??
--- Quote from: HERBIEHACKIT on May 18, 2014, 01:32:23 AM ---
plo in ireland. This is not going to increase numbers. I am guessing it will reduce entries. Its not the game. The fact is ireland can be cheap to get to but tbere after the cost get silly. Ireland is a dear place for everything. Not to have an irish game would be so damaging to apat credability as the leading amatuet pkker tour. Agai intested in views of people going to thus as to what they would preffer holdem or pli. Also from members who would have gone to ireland to llay but are not going now because it is plo. I am in this group. Off work but not going to play plo main event. Some come on peeps lets have some views.
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I have never bothered going to Ireland for an APAT main event, but I will damned sure be going over to play this event this year!! So for those who say they wont go, there may well be another person who will be the other way round.
There is a growing number of APAT members who play PLO, infact PREFER PLO to NLHE, and I am certainly one of them. I am sure that Tom has done his research into this, and having a "local promoter" on board means that the event will probably be well supported.
From Des" response it looks like APAT are going to be giving Ireland a serious push in season 9, so surely this is a great time to try a new concept out?
I would LOVE more APATers to give PLO a go, it is so much more fun the NLHE, and can actually help peoples holdem game quite a bit IMO when its learned properly.
HERBIEHACKIT:
The dropping of the home nation and euro team games is also a mistake in my book. These team games are great fun and help make apat what it is or was. Have to say i dont like the way things are going. Seems apat is heading towards the rich boys who can aford to play all the events are those that have a chance of being best player whilst those of us who have choose when we play are being left behind. Making o the irish champ game and the dropping of teams has made me rethink my schedule for this season and i am giving serious consideration to dropping all apat events this year.
Des:
--- Quote from: HERBIEHACKIT on May 18, 2014, 04:36:40 AM ---
The dropping of the home nation and euro team games is also a mistake in my book. These team games are great fun and help make apat what it is or was. Have to say i dont like the way things are going. Seems apat is heading towards the rich boys who can aford to play all the events are those that have a chance of being best player whilst those of us who have choose when we play are being left behind. Making o the irish champ game and the dropping of teams has made me rethink my schedule for this season and i am giving serious consideration to dropping all apat events this year.
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Actually the opposite is very much the truth I believe James. This years schedule is a lot less exclusive than last year"s with more choice for a wider number of players. The majority of change that we bring every year is determined by what members have asked for in the previous months, mixed with concepts that we feel need testing. As I said elsewhere there is no guarantee that any season will be better for the changes, but we wouldn"t have created APAT or exist 8 years later if we weren"t willing to change. The fact with the international team events was that the number of players able to travel to support their country in just those events was declining, no matter how prestigious or how much fun they were. Obviously talking to every captain make me privy to the challenges they have in selecting their teams.
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