We are delighted to confirm APAT’s first live event in 2026 will be the UK Team Championship played at the home of UK poker, Dusk Till Dawn over the weekend Fri 6 Feb 2026.
The UK Team Championship is an OPEN event – ie open to ANY poker player as part of an organised team, and the weekend supporting events are open to ANY individual player whether they play in the UK Team Championship or not.
We’re also delighted to confirm that the Top 3 Teams and the Winning Individual from 2025 have accepted an automatic invitation to return to compete in 2026:
Team Gold Medal: Genting Poker Stratford (was Aspernauts)
Team Silver Medal: Yeovil Poker Club
Team Bronze Medal: BCPC
Individual Gold Medal: Ryan Kilbey (Hetton Mob)
Whilst we will host side events over the weekend starting on Friday evening, the UK Team Championship will play out on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2026.
Weekend schedule tbc
COMPETING TEAMS
Will be confirmed after Sunday 21st December – the deadline date for all competing teams to confirm team members.
EVENT OVERVIEW
The UK Team Championship is an invitation only event, played over 2 days with fierce competition between successful teams from the ballot for poker clubs, forums, societies, leagues, groups and communities etc. The event will play out as an 2-Day MTT with points awarded to all team members who make Day 2. The individual team member buy-in of £140 for each of the 8 team members is required to be paid by Sunday 4th Januarty 2026, either INDIVIDUALLY via Luxon Pay, or as one payment direct to myself, from Team Captains, for those not using Luxon.
The event has also on occasion previously suffered from “team last minute dropouts”, and therefore, as we did previously, we will again retain a reserve list and any team not meeting the buy-in deadline of 4th January (all 8 members) will have their team entry offered to teams on the reserve list.
We also maintain an individual player reserve list to join any team who may lose a player – please contact me direct to be added to either.
EVENT DETAILS
Teams consist of 8 players who will compete for both a team and an individual prize pool in the UK Team Championship, which will be run as a regular 2-Day MTT and entry is £115 + £25 per player – THE COMPLETE TEAM BUY-IN is required to be paid in advance by Sunday 4th January at the latest.
The total prize pool will be paid out on a circa 75/25 basis to the top 5 teams and the top 15 individual players from the MTT, with the top 3 teams winning the coveted APAT Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals, along with the top 3 individuals. The Top 3 Teams and the Winning Individual secure themselves a guaranteed invitation to the UK Team Championship 2027.
Points will be scored based on individual player finishing positions, and start to be earned on Day 2 by all players on a ‘reverse position’ scoring eg 100th wins 1 point, 1st wins 100 points.
As usual, teams are to wear their own matching colour team shirts for the event – if desired, team shirts are available via APAT with full event details and team logo / name printed on each for £15 t-shirt / £18 polo shirt / £28 hoodie/zoodie – APAT can assist any team in creating a team graphic / logo. Further team graphics or printing on the back is available.
If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to contact me personally.
Tom Brady
APAT Operations Director
Live Events & Tour
Email: tombrady[at]hotmail.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TomBrady65/
WhatsApp: 07957 977 057