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What has changed since the days of ClickFest?
WarBwastardo:
Maybe poker just isn"t quite as popular now as it was five years ago also. APAT began when the poker boom was peeking. There was about 80,000 runners for example in the WSOP main event in S1 of APAT when Jamie Gold won it..since then perhaps it"s settled down and bit.
Also the other reasons people have mentioned.
AVFC.WILSON:
Bring back the "clickfest" i say.. It was always amusing to get a phone call from the bank the morning after claiming fraudulent goings on because of the frantic clicking..
One thing i noticed APAT forums have somewhere in the region of 7500 unique users.
But what is an accuarate number of followers? (season 5)
duke3016:
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But what is an accuarate number of followers? (season 5)
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2 - marry me ;D
TightEnd:
--- Quote from: AMRN on April 08, 2011, 20:56:59 PM ---
big difference between UKIPT and APAT though - £550 stretches the realms of affordability for me.... £75 is realistically affordable to the part time player imo
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but my point is that a lot of the UKIPT field is qualifiers for well less than £75, and these events get massive runners
I think there is a knock on effect everywhere else.
deanp27:
--- Quote from: AMRN on April 08, 2011, 20:56:59 PM ---
big difference between UKIPT and APAT though - £550 stretches the realms of affordability for me.... £75 is realistically affordable to the part time player imo
as far as I"m aware, there is no other tour that offers a 2 day well structured deepstack with oodles of added value - for £75. I think APAT still has a market niche.
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its not just the £75 though is it? if you aren"t local then you will incur hotel and travel costs which (in Newcastle) will dwarf the actual entry cost. I know for a fact that this puts off a few people who really like playing these events but the expenses make it less appealing.
Plus the perception is that the standard is likely to be higher than a standard £75 casino tournament and the standard in the UKIPT isn"t very high (with obv sprinkling of vv good players). Also take the £336 Deepstack at DTD, again its a good tournament with high % of very ordinary players and you can qualify reasonably cheaply.
APAT tournaments are still great, but i think the number of players who will play every leg of the tour to get points/leaderboard etc will fall from when the tour first started because of the alternatives available.
APAT are still the only sub £200 tournaments i would travel over half an hours drive to play in but the live poker market is much more competitive than it was say 3 years ago
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