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APAT Season Two Briefing
Zukertort:
Great news all round with an exciting season 2 in prospect! A lot of work has obviously gone in to get this package up and running, so a special thanks to all behind the scenes at APAT-well done!
I have been studying the releases and have some comments and questions with the view that some fine details have yet to be finalised.
Okay as i see it each of the 11 casinos will run 5 regional qualifiers to the national championships on the same Saturday for each. This will prevent Southern players who have 4 casinos to choose from trying to qualify in 20 regional events if they were all on different days and giving them the chance to earn more ranking points? Ultimately you will have only 5 regional opportunities wherever you live, but you can enter different casinos in your own region for each of the qualifiers to give you regional points in that area. So, to be a serious contender for regional points champion you need to enter all 5 qualifiers in your own region.
Question 1)-have the points been decided on for the 9 regional points scorers?
Question 2)-have the points been decided on for the National Championships and will the entry fee still be £75?
Question 3)-with twice the online events at half the price, will the points available be the same as season one?
Question 4)-The European Amateur Poker Championship is highlighted seperately, how do we qualify or has this yet to be decided?
I believe that the 6 GUKPT packages are for the 5 National Champions and the APAT Forum Challenge Winner.
I can only find 2 of the 3 Grand Final Packages, the European Amateur Poker Champion and the APAT ranking points winner...?
Also, i can only find 2 WSOP main event packages, the APAT Masters Champion and the WCOAP Main Event Winner...?
Unless of course you are saving one of these for the most boring APAT post for which i am sure to win!?
APAT:
--- Quote from: Zukertort on August 04, 2007, 01:29:18 AM ---
Great news all round with an exciting season 2 in prospect! A lot of work has obviously gone in to get this package up and running, so a special thanks to all behind the scenes at APAT-well done!
I have been studying the releases and have some comments and questions with the view that some fine details have yet to be finalised.
Okay as i see it each of the 11 casinos will run 5 regional qualifiers to the national championships on the same Saturday for each. This will prevent Southern players who have 4 casinos to choose from trying to qualify in 20 regional events if they were all on different days and giving them the chance to earn more ranking points? Ultimately you will have only 5 regional opportunities wherever you live, but you can enter different casinos in your own region for each of the qualifiers to give you regional points in that area. So, to be a serious contender for regional points champion you need to enter all 5 qualifiers in your own region.
Question 1)-have the points been decided on for the 9 regional points scorers?
Question 2)-have the points been decided on for the National Championships and will the entry fee still be £75?
Question 3)-with twice the online events at half the price, will the points available be the same as season one?
Question 4)-The European Amateur Poker Championship is highlighted seperately, how do we qualify or has this yet to be decided?
I believe that the 6 GUKPT packages are for the 5 National Champions and the APAT Forum Challenge Winner.
I can only find 2 of the 3 Grand Final Packages, the European Amateur Poker Champion and the APAT ranking points winner...?
Also, i can only find 2 WSOP main event packages, the APAT Masters Champion and the WCOAP Main Event Winner...?
Unless of course you are saving one of these for the most boring APAT post for which i am sure to win!?
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Thanks Kevin. Okay, from the top as best I can:-
Question 1)-have the points been decided on for the 9 regional points scorers?
Same as online series - 9 to the winner down to 1 to 9th.
Question 2)-have the points been decided on for the National Championships and will the entry fee still be £75?
Yes, entry remains at £75 and the points will remain as 18 to the winner down to 1 for 18th.
Question 3)-with twice the online events at half the price, will the points available be the same as season one?
Yes, 9 points for the winner down to 1 point for 9th.
There is one additional point to consider. There may be a lot of additional tournaments in Season Two, however players can only put a maximum of 20 scoring tournaments towards their total, and a maximum of 5 of those can be live.
Question 4)-The European Amateur Poker Championship is highlighted seperately, how do we qualify or has this yet to be decided?
As we stand at the moment it would be via online satellite and direct buy in, as per the 2007 European Championship announced tonight.
I believe that the 6 GUKPT packages are for the 5 National Champions and the APAT Forum Challenge Winner.
Correct
I can only find 2 of the 3 Grand Final Packages, the European Amateur Poker Champion and the APAT ranking points winner...?
The third GUKPT Grand Final package is going to the winner of the European event at the end of this month, which falls within the sponsorship term.
Also, i can only find 2 WSOP main event packages, the APAT Masters Champion and the WCOAP Main Event Winner...?
The third main event seat will go to the winner of the 2007 World Amteur Championship which will be played out in September.
Unless of course you are saving one of these for the most boring APAT post for which i am sure to win!?
Great post. If you have some time, could you brief Mark Donnnelly on "what it all means" ;D
Ironside:
so you can score points at all 5 regional events towards the overall prize?
APAT:
--- Quote from: Ironside on August 04, 2007, 02:50:30 AM ---
so you can score points at all 5 regional events towards the overall prize?
--- End quote ---
Yes, towards the National rankings prize.
Ironside:
i think i am getting it
i would just like to point out how unfair the regional are
lands end to gretna (basically as far as you can go in england) takes according to the rac route planner 8 hrs 57 minutes
from john o groats to gretna covering the whole of scotland the same route planner say it will take 8 hrs 51 min
when you consider that england is also covered by a wonderful assortments of cheap airlines an rail system with 10 regional events (warrented due to them having 10 times as many people granted) so people wont have far to travel and costs wont be excessive
but in scotland alot of people will have to pay hotel costs aswell as petrol for upto a 14 hour return journey (depending where the scotish event is and where they come from) to play a £20 freezeout
now i am still trying to work out the prize structure of these £20 freezeouts is there cash or do they just pay out in seats for the nationals?
if there is no cash you are going to be paying in the region of £50 in petrol and another £70 in hotel costs to play in an event with a top prize of £75
if the £1600 is paid out in prizes then i would imagine that even with a top heavy strucure you would need to finish in every top 3 to cover the costs for each event
if you dont play in the regionals you are giving everyone else a head start in getting ranking points
i think you have done a wonderfull job in getting bluesq and grosvenor involed in the tour i just don"t like the fact so much emphasis is put on the regionals
i havent even touched on the fact scotland has a much better and tougher quailty of players than areas like the south east/west of england ;D
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