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APAT Season Two Briefing
jjandellis:
Hia Des and the team,
Well worth waiting for. Your work appears to have produced spectacular results. A natural progression for the best amatuer players in the UK is to take the step up to play against UK pro"s, something provided for by GUKPT. What an amazing package.
My only concern, as I hinted at the other day...
What about foreign nationals and exiles living abroad (ie. me shortly!!!). Will there be seats set aside for international competitors or do we have to pay for getting over to regionals over here?
Thats my only concern, apart from that it all sounds amazing.
As u may have worked out...I intend to come over from Germany for EVERY event next season. Thats how good the package u have put together is!!!! ;-)
jacklevel06:
--- Quote from: FlyingPig73 on August 04, 2007, 14:08:30 PM ---
Des, to follow on from KinFishboshi"s post earlier, do you have a projected amount of entrants to the regionals. There may be 120 members living in nottingham ,so they may not be able to get in to either casino in the catchment area, or are we expecting that the places allocated will be enough for demand...
I may move to bonnie Scotland. Its got to be the easiest place to qualify from.
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dream on. ;D
Ironside:
--- Quote from: Zukertort on August 04, 2007, 11:33:20 AM ---
this is only a possibility, but i think gives everyone a fair crack at qualifying. I do empathise with Ironside with only one possible regional casino for such a large area? I am sure APAT are aware of these challenges and have a plan to introduce additional venues which maybe already under discussion/negotiation?
But best to get the operation up and running and fine tune on the move!?
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dont get me wrong i am that sick i would proberly play the scottish regional even if it was held on jersey
but it will be off putting for alot of people
just think you can get 45 points through regional quailfiers and how much easier it is to score points in an 80 man live event than it is to score them in a 200+ internet comp (espically for dougal7878 and myself who cant play online poker to save our lives)
and the fact that scotland is brimming with poker talent wheras the midlands and the north of england is brimming with bream also puts the scotts at a disavantage
Ironside:
--- Quote from: APAT on August 04, 2007, 09:54:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: WiseOwl on August 04, 2007, 09:34:29 AM ---
The second question is about dates for the live events. How far in advance will APAT be able to post event dates? I am appreciate that I am luckier than most APAT members with the Grosvenor Vic being a couple of miles away but the more notice I can give the wife about when these will take place the better.
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Due to the volume of events in Season Two, their will be a three and a half week period between the completion of Regional qualifying, online satellites and direct buy in, and the National event. Tighter than we would ideally like, but necessary give the scale of the Tour.
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3.5 weeks is a travesty for amateur players who need to get time off work to travel and also the expenses for getting flights trains and hotels
i know its too late for season 2 but for season 3 can you give us atleast 7 weeks notice
this is one of my biggest bug bears with the poker scene at present lack of notice yet the organisation meant to be representing me is actively supporting this
less notice means more expense and for amateurs its a pain in the backside
Zukertort:
The regional events will possibly have a large unpredictable variance on qualifying numbers due to different local conditions ie;
the Scottish casino with it"s large catchment area may not fill up?
the Eastern area has only one-Walsall, depending on the DTD license hearing. This puts pressure on this casino for the regional qualifiers as i believe it has a high number of local players who might join APAT to participate? I could obviously choose Manchester as an alternative, but again this will be a popular venue?
Perhaps APAT could look at an online poll, where members indicate there 1st-2nd-3rd preference, which may highlight future over subscribing? Or perhaps the best stance is to suck it and see how things go on the first qualifier and adapt as required?
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