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UK Amateur Poker Championship at Manchester
linziwan:
I don"t understand why people are "No shows", there are things called "telephones" all they have to do is ring the Casino to get a message to the APAT team to advise they can"t make it.... or email in advance.
Hello thats £75 back into their pockets, even if they qualified for the seat.
As somebody who sat patiently(not) in Walsall as an alternate it was very frustrating to see empty seats (and too tight players not putting their chips in ;D). In the end only one person got in as an alternate in Walsall....
PLEASE PLEASE if you can"t make it let the team know.... even 5 mins before...
The method at the moment of blinding them away is the best one....
Shy Talk:
Only my second APAT tourney (first was Walsall) and found the experience superb (apart from not winning and of course the wonderful "singer" :-X )
The organisation going into these tournaments has been top quality and I take my hat off to all involved.
I would agree with the comments about no shows - can"t understand why they don"t let anyone know. It must be so frustrating to people who really want to play, so come on all concerned - buck up!!! ;D
PS: finished 149th in Walsall and 46th (ish) in Manchester, so I"m on the move!!
UKChamp:
Re: no show players
Maybe the answer is to say that the original seat/player gets his/her money back only if an alternate buys his/her seat. The alternate then has to play from the remaining chip stack and can only do so after four levels of play and nobody has turned up or when the original player cancels his seat (the earlier of the two). For this the alternate pays £60 not £75 and thats the value of money returned to the original player.
At present with no plyaers getting their money back there is no incentive to notify APAT, other than common decency
Make sense?
kinboshi:
If someone notifies APAT before the start - they get their money fully refunded.
If they don"t notify APAT, then they are entered into the tourney - as is there £75.
I think Walsall was a unique case - as the accident on the M6 delayed a lot of people were delayed by over an hour, which meant that there were far fewer people being knocked out in the first few levels. However in saying that, I fully expected there to be more than 3 alternates getting in at Manchester.
thacker:
anyone that dose not turn up and couldnt be arsed tp phone should be not be able to play for the season.
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