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Buyin Amount for Online Series Events?
matt250686:
oh ok sorry. yes Q8o was a loose call but you had been playing very loose. if it was someone else i would have probably folded
Bodddders:
--- Quote from: duncthehat on October 13, 2007, 19:18:28 PM ---
Time to put my two penneth in. Straight away let me say I side with the view that APAT have got it right in reducing the buy in to 10 bucks due to the doubling of the amount of tournements.
The forum is largely made up of the more vocal members of the association, indeed out of my own home game, 5 of us are APAT members and only 2 of us have played in the live APAT events and I am the only one that EVER participates in the forum.
The bankroll of our home game ranges from one non apat professional with tens of thousands in the roll, WSOP final table appearances and various European titles down to one whose maximum entry fee he pays online is 5 bucks.
The APAT events has given one his only ever live experience and 2 others there introduction to poker away from our home game by participating this week in the first online event of season 2.
10 dollars is in the reach of most members whatever their bankroll. Two 20 dollar tournements in one week can put some members with little disposable income at a tough decision whether to play 2 one or indeed not bother with APAT events at all. Their voices are very often not heard within the forum
More members probably play at the 5 dollar 3 dollar etc tourney level and 10c/20c cash than any other level using sound bankroll management.
I happily admit to playing very low level stakes both cash and tourney. Yes I have played the sunday million etcbut only if I have satellited in. I am fully aware that an awful lot of APAT members play at a much lower level than they would like to admit. My own experiences of running in to them in low level poker stars tourneys and tralling the pokerdb.com bears witness to this
10 dollars entry keeps the tournements within the reach of most players and i applaud the splitting into weekday and weekend tournements as this opens up the tourneys to players that work weekends (or have a drink or ten on a saturday afternoon!! hic!!)
Remember you do not HAVE to play EVERY tournement.
Lets keep APAT within the reach of all amateur players and not let it become elitist or clicky.
(Gets of High Horse)
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Well said. :)
lukybugur:
Two $10 Online APAT Tournaments every second Thursday and Saturday suit me just fine. As does one £20 live and (if needed) two $20 Online APAT Regional Qualifiers every month (£60 in APAT Events per month). If you added one higher stakes unaffordable-to-some event ($50/£25+) to the APAT Schedule every month, I"d be tempted to play in that one too if I was having a good month. I don"t agree that more Leadboard points should be awarded for this tourney though.
Like the majority of APATers I"m lead to believe, I"m a low stakes player who enjoys competing for the APAT Ranking Points and the Medals - as APAT intend. I use two monthly £50 home games and online games to make money.
The only change that I would like to suggest is to set a password to each Online event - a password which will only be published in PokerPlayer magazine and in an area available to registered Users on the Forum. This will hopefully result in members supporting our magazine sponsor and visiting the forums regularly.
6hrs for an online game with 160-240 players - tough going. Down to 3,500 chips or introducing Antes after second break would be good. After the amount of folding I did last night, I"d be Ante"d out never mind Blinded out!
duncthehat:
--- Quote from: jacklevel06 on October 13, 2007, 21:40:56 PM ---
10 dollar buy in,s encourage more loose play.I know points are at stake ,but for yopur new apat member it is basically ,just a crap shoot.Sorry a 10 dolar get them in and hope for the best.(like my normal game plan)
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First time I have heard a 5000 chip 15 minute online tourney called a crapshoot!!!
Yes plenty of loose players early doors but you have loads of chips to make your moves on them or recover from being sucked out on
sharky_uk:
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