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WOTS THE POINT !!! - MEGA GRIPE
texfitz:
me n GF attended Newcastle regional to try and secure a place in the National at Walsall (didn"t make it). Then try online qualifiers, felt like it was playin PartyPoker freeroll in the first hour - up against :- " i"ve got an :as:, i"m not folding"
my KK was busted by A6os ffs
SO, settled for waiting for the "klickfest" tonite, all ready, waiting for the link:-
THEN THE SITE WENT DOWN
months ago we enquired into travel, accomodation, pre-arranged sorting kids out etc...
OK, you may say "should have played better" fair enough, but JO really played her heart out at Newcastle (she got 5th - 3 places up for grabs)
then we find out people dont actually want to attend the NATIONAL, they were only in for the money
" can i sell me seat" "can"t make it but where"s me medal" "can i have the money instead - I"m a student" and blah blah blah...
JO has gone to bed REALLY upset because she was so looking forward - and tried - to play at the NATIONALS
now we can"t come down because we couldn"t even buy in.
methinks ppl will just wait until the "klickfest" for £75 to buy in rather than travel expenses etc to attend a regional tourney
We went to Newcastle for the regional qualifier because we are APAT members, could"ve stayed home, waited for the "clikfest" and got the same result, BUT WE TRIED
not too happy about APAT site going down but, hey, you get the "cant be fu**ed with attending qualifiers - ALL-IN ON THE CLICKFEST"
good luck to all those who made it
WarBwastardo:
Lot"s of members, only a few seats. Some people have to miss out. Generally though people drop out of these events after securing seats, or just can"t make it on the day. If you were to show up as a reserve or alternate if they"re accepting alternates you"d probably get a seat. There"s also the final event of season one to play, I"m sure you"ll get to play in one of these things eventually.
kinboshi:
If you really want to play, you can.
Turn up very early on the day and get yourself to the front of the queue so you"ll be at the head of the reserve list.
Jon MW:
And if that"s too risky you just have to accept the vagaries of fate.
Just using the clickfest method some people were able to get a seat in the first season whenever they wanted, and some went the whole season and only managed to get in once.
There"s nothing to get around the problem of demand exceeding supply by such a large margin - you might be best assuming you can"t go, then it will be a pleasant surprise if you end up with a seat.
Good Luck for the future. :)
pazzorilancio:
--- Quote from: texfitz on October 10, 2007, 02:05:20 AM ---
my KK was busted by A6os ffs
--- End quote ---
How did you play the hand. KK is good until an A hits of course. Did you raise pre flop? Was the A on the flop and if not did you try to bully him out?
I mean I"m not saying anything about your play, but you could have checked the big blind with KK for all we know thus you can"t really complain :) More info would be nice.
As for the clickfest.. It is fair because everyone is in the same boat together. The satellites and the regional ones are extra events for people to get the chance to qualify but I believe the main entry is through the clickfest.
Did you do things like put your card details into notepad and copy them in instead of type them in bit by bit? Things like that help. Not sure if auto form fillers work but thats worth a try too. What I"m saying is ok, you"re upset about not getting with Jo, but cest la vie! You"re taking your anger out on the community which do you think is fair?
The ONLY gripe I"d have is its a disadvantage to a target audience which may be slower with entering details due to limited computer skills. I don"t believe APAT should be about that. But I certainly wouldn"t come out all guns blazing if I missed it because of that. :)
As someone else suggested turn up as soon as the casino opened and be first on the reserves list. About 8 people missed the Apat Europe last event... Couldnt believe it myself but hey!
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