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APAT UK Team Championship - January 2011
daveyb147:
--- Quote from: Claw75 on November 10, 2010, 20:01:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: daveyb147 on November 10, 2010, 18:55:19 PM ---
Without meaning to sound patronising,some women do feel intimidated playing poker in a mainly male dominated enviroment and a chance to play in a team with other ladies maybe an ideal chance to encourage them to attend more apat events in the future.Not only those selected but others who may watch live updates etc.We all know apat is very female friendly and this could be a chance to show that.
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not sure how that would apply here. yes there are some women who may feel intimidated by a mainly male environment (I know I wouldn"t have wanted to go and play poker on my own when i first started out), but this event won"t be any different from many others in that regard, and the women looking to be on the team are all experienced players afaik.
Women"s only tournaments have a part to play here for the nervous newbie, and it"s one of the reasons I don"t have a problem with them, although I know quite a few do.
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Well we all know women stick together and im sure every woman out there would be watching the updates and cheering on the ladies.I was just thinking that it would show women that are nervous about playing live that there are plenty of females who are involved with apat and therefore may encourage them to come along.I recently pursuaded a female friend to attend the luton event and was quite amazed how intimidating it was for her.She is now an apat regular online and has bought a seat for coventry.Previously she had only ever played once live.
shug:
just posted this on the ladies team thread but thought i should share it here as well
Sorry guys I seem to have started the ultimate fall guys for the APAT team championships. Larry Murphys was started to try to take part in, and support, the team competition and we followed the rules that we were told that it should come through a forum. We thought a group of guys who had performed well in the live events(4 out of the top 10 in the recent rankings) might deserve a shot at entering a team. It was not meant to become the example of what not to do. I would happily withdrawn any nomination if it was causing hassle to the organisers I enjoy the APAT events and just wanted to play in another. :"(
Can I start a select Shug for Scotland campaign without upsetting anyone ;)
Shug
Des:
lol..good post Shug and believe me if we could get everyone who wanted to participate in this event in, we"d be very happy.
The Team event is also the one event where we look to get APAT a bit of promotion across the various UK communities and the Larry Murphy"s forum is very short on posts at the moment! I nearly joined though and good luck with it if you keep it going!!
jaysdad:
Cant really remember how many teams there was last year. Is there no way the casino could fit any more that 200player?
TightEnd:
--- Quote from: jaysdad on November 11, 2010, 14:24:54 PM ---
Cant really remember how many teams there was last year. Is there no way the casino could fit any more that 200player?
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DTD apart, there is hardly a UK venue that will fit 200 in.
Last year from memory there were 20 8 man/woman teams=160
So this year is good, compared to last.
(these were the 20
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