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APAT Northern European Amateur Championships: Live Update
Mikeyboy9361:
Thanks for the tour Tighty, very informative and enlightening, I bet we"ve seen more of the town than Ger !!
Laxie:
--- Quote from: Mikeyboy9361 on July 31, 2010, 10:42:16 AM ---
Thanks for the tour Tighty, very informative and enlightening, I bet we"ve seen more of the town than Ger !!
--- End quote ---
I dunno about that. Britney was a pretty good hostess by all accounts.
TightEnd:
So setting up in the Poker Room
Good news is that the event is sold out at 180 players with a waiting list
Of these 120 are Estonian and 60 are Overseas. Latvians, Finns, Swedes, Russians, Brits and Gerard Smyth, origin unknown
TightEnd:
The venue is delighted with the turn out and so am I.
One player commented
"We don"t get these types of chips and structures unless we play big buy-ins and we like the value too"
Welcome to APAT sir, you"ve twigged it immediately
TightEnd:
Today"s TDs are Priit Pajuumaa and the delightful Maria. Sadly Priit goes home at 6pm and Maria takes over. Toasty life for Tighty!
Priit tells me that in 2007 Bluff Europe magazine voted Tallinn as the "third hottest European Poker City" behind London and Dublin.
At the time Estonian casinos only had six poker tables total!
Since then though Estonian poker has taken off. Betfair Live, Ladbrokes and Expekt events have been hosted here, as well as Swedish Poker Championships and in August EPT Tallinn comes to town, hosted by and managed by Priit and his team. The Estonia National Champiopnships attracted 70 runners two years ago, and this year nearly 300.
In terms of a player base he reckons Estonia has about 30,000 poker players and it is growing all the time.
Estonia itself, and the casinos within it have had a rough time, very impacted by the credit crunch affecting their newer industries, but things are now on the way back up.
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