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S8 Live Tour Discussion Thread
Scousebill:
"Having played Cardiff last year, can honestly say that short of putting tables in the bar, it wouldn"t work for APAT. Bristol a definite bonus."
Now surely that is the best idea yet..... Save on all that walking..
AAroddersAA:
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--- 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??
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As a Welsh player based in Wales I will play this event in Bristol. I would not have played it in Cardiff unless it was held at Les Croupiers (and there is zero chance of that at the moment). The G Casino in Cardiff is too small and even if it wasn"t it is just simply bad. Quite simply would not have enjoyed the event. Putting the event in Wales would have ignored all the feedback from the players including most of us in Wales (i.e. the ones who probably know the casino the best).
On a similar note, I just don"t get why people want events in their home towns anyway, I would prefer they were all away days. Long weekends away for much more fun than playing an event on your own doorstep in a Casino you can play in anytime and going to pubs that you go to every week anyway. Just an observation not saying it is wrong obv.
shug:
looking forward to Season 8. I hope to make 6 of them.(Girlfriend says less than 6)
Having read through the thread my thoughts are:
You can`t please all the people all the time so just do what you think is best.
Great that you are trying something new with 2 day PLO
Just attend the venues that suit you, no need to go to all events.
G in Cardiff was not acceptable (size and dealers) but why not just call the Championships after something other than Nations then there would not be complaints about the Welsh Champs being in Bristol as it would all be about suitable venues.
And don`t get me started about travel times and costs.....
Looking forward to seeing you in Luton as unfortunately will miss the "Welsh" Champs due to a Vegas visit
gunnerdamo:
I"m gutted that you"ve changed the Irish championship to PLO, I always looked forward to playing my home town game but this time I won"t be attending, this will be the first I"ve missed, I hope apat succeed but can"t help but feel very disappointed.
TheSnapper:
--- Quote from: Des on May 17, 2014, 19:08:07 PM ---
Truth is, we"ve failed to deliver a significant event in Ireland over the past two to three years and I had actually told the guys to pull the leg this year, for the reason that I felt it important to simplify the overall schedule and commit to delivering the events we were focusing on, to a higher quality.
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Imho the failings here of late were largely down to poor advertising within the Irish poker community, a presence on Irish poker boards with advanced notification of the event would have a huge impact on numbers.
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I"ve always wanted to do a big Irish event and felt that S9 would be the time to do it, when we hadn"t so many other projects to work on like merging our websites etc, as we do this year.
When Tom came back with an Irish event with a difference - PLO, in a hotel setting by the airport, and with the support of an Irish promoter, then I was happy to see it included. To make the event stand out on the Irish calendar it needed a point of difference - hence the decision to go with PLO.
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I have touted the Independent operator hotel based event to you previously, it"s a tried and trusted format in the Irish poker market and always seemed to me to be ideal for the travelling Apat contingent, so bravo for that excellent change.
Maybe I am being a little selfish here but holdem is my game and to have my single home Apat event changed to PLO is devastating tbh. An Irish Apat leg without a holdem main event offers no appeal whatsoever to me personally.
I understand there may be a market for a two day well structured PLO event but would it make more sense to fit that in over the big Stratford WCOAP schedule where its impact on the two card player is less invasive.
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