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IrishTom:
May 9, 2016, London:  The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) is delighted to announce details of the tenth season of its critically acclaimed tour for recreational players.  The season will open with the English Amateur Poker Championship, being held at Grosvenor Casino, Newcastle on May 28th & 29th and run to the APAT North American Championship, which will take place in Las Vegas in June 2017.

Season highlights include:-

New headline partner:  APAT welcomes the UK"s largest casino chain, Grosvenor Casinos, as its headline sponsor in Season 10.  The partnership comes on the back of ten years of close cooperation between the parties and demonstrates a continuing increase in poker investment by Grosvenor.

Viva Las Vegas:  To celebrate our tenth year anniversary, APAT is awarding thousands of pounds worth of added and guaranteed Las Vegas packages.  The anniversary packages, which will include a seat at the WSOP Colossus* event in summer 2017 - in addition to travel and accommodation, will be awarded to the following:-

  -   9 x APAT National Amateur Champions
  -   WCOAP Main Event Champion
  -   APAT #1 Ranked Player
  -   Live Pub Poker League National Champion
  -   APAT live event Vegas satellite winners, with guaranteed seats
  -   APAT online satellite winners, with guaranteed seats

Online:  Grosvenor Poker will host APAT's online Championship events and the winner of each will receive an added value seat at a GUKPT £550 main event.

All*Stars:  Close to 2,000 players have achieved an APAT All*Stars ranking over the past ten years and these players will now be able to opt in and earn the highest level of rewards possible at Grosvenor Poker.

WCOAP:  The extremely popular World Championship of Amateur Poker will be hosted at Grosvenor Casino, Manchester, between April 8th & 17th, 2017.  The festival will feature 18 bracelet events, including the prestigious 8 Game Players Championship, World Amateur Team Championship and World Amateur Poker Championship main event.

Live Stream:  APAT will broadcast live from National Amateur Championship events in Season 10, in addition to providing a live update blog.  The streams will be recorded for future playback on APAT's video channel.  APAT viewers will be able to enjoy a whole new level of engagement with the live stream, with APAT's soon to be released Staker game.

APAT Season 10 Schedule


Dates      Venue   28-29 May 2016      English Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Newcastle9-10 Jul 2016      European Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Luton12-15 Aug 2016      Belgian Amateur Poker Championship, Spa Belgium16-18 Sep 2016      Welsh Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Cardiff30-31 Oct 2016      Irish Amateur Poker Championship, Regency Hotel Dublin10-13 Nov 2016      Benelux Amateur Poker Championship, Namur Belgium26-27 Nov 2016      UK Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Portsmouth4-5 Feb 2017      Scottish Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Edinburgh11-12 Mar 2017      UK Team Poker Championship, Grosvenor Blackpool8-17 Apr 2017      World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), Grosvenor BNR ManchesterJun 2017      North American Poker Championship, Las Vegas
            

Further details can be found on the APAT website, alongside entry details for the upcoming English Amateur Poker Championship and full WCOAP and Online Tour schedules.

* to be confirmed

Scousebill:
Excellent work lads.... Well dome in getting the WCOAP Up North.....
Grosvenor set up looks good at first glance...

Fluence:
Too much to take in! I"ll have to spend some time reading it all through carefully tomorrow and that goes for the WCOAP as well.

Like the Day 1a on the first Sunday idea, clever thinking that should help to increase numbers.

Sugar_Free:
Looks very good, nice work guys. Great to have Grosvenor as main sponsors, their input looks to be huge.

Absolutely gutted though about the number of weekends I"ll have to miss due to prior commitments, it"s almost as if you"ve been peeking in my diary.

After the recent polls and discussions, what will the buy ins be for wcoap? - NM, just found it

teamdobb:
Congratulations on a very ambitious and excellent schedule.

Moving of the Team Event to Blackpool is the highlight to me from a personal point of view and a March date is far better as the donkey season is just starting then!!!

Good luck for it all and see you at the G in Newcastle soon!!

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