Season Four
By · CommentsAPAT’s highly successful third season concluded with last week’s United Kingdom Team Championship in Manchester.
The management team are now finalising details of Season Four; which will introduce several new initiatives and bring a fantastic new headline partner to APAT.
Look out for for the announcement and in the interim, feel free to contribute to the Season Four discussion through the forum.
APAT Wins United Kingdom Team Championship
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Team APAT: UK Team Champions 2010
The APAT United Kingdom Team Championship was held at the G Casino in Manchester on January 23rd and 24th, 2010.
The format saw 20 poker communities from all over the United Kingdom and Ireland compete for the prestigious title in a 10,000 chip, 160 runner, multi-table freeze-out, with a 45 minute clock. As with all APAT events, the UK Team Championship was registration free for members and this event had a £50 buy in per player. Points were awarded to the top forty finishers to determine the Team Championship.
The prize money was split equally between the Team and Individual Championship. In addition, the owner of the winning Team received an added prize of £1,000 and the Championship Cup, while the winner of the Individual Championship received an entry to a GUKPT main event and the Championship Gold Medal. These added value prizes were courtesy of tour sponsor Blue Square Poker.
Tod Wood Wins WCOAP Online Main Event
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Tod Wood: WCOAP Online Champion
Englishman Tod Wood won the main event of the Online World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), beating fellow midlander Brian Yates; who took the Silver Medal and Alan Armitage who took the Bronze. Tod; who finished runner up in the United Kingdom Amateur Poker Championship at Grosvenor Walsall at the start of the season, took the Championship title, Gold medal, prize money and a seat at a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event worth over £1,000.
The event was the culmination of the four event WCOAP festival and provided an extraordinary finale to the ten event online season.
Yates and Armitage, pulled level with long time rankings leader Grant Cook on reaching the final three runners in the main event and they effectively played a last longer for the season three rankings title and a seat at a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event.
It was Yates who succeeded in securing the additional point and the Silver medal, capping a fantastic season which saw him win the Irish Amateur Championship in Dublin, the Welsh Online Championship and get selected for England in the European Amateur Team Championship. In taking the Bronze medal, Armitage finished joint second in the rankings alongside Cook.
Elsewhere in the WCOAP festival, Chris O’Connor took the opening event; the WCOAP Omaha Championship. O’Connor; Captain of the Glasgow team who will play in Divison One of the APAT National League in season four, beat Welsh International Leigh Wiltshire heads up, with Ian Thompson taking the Bronze.
WCOAP Champions: Tony Ross, Chris O'Connor, Gordon Casey
In the WCOAP Six Max Championship, Scotsman Gordon Casey took the title, beating Bobby Morton heads up, with Dave Lea taking Bronze.
Tony Ross; the Silver medalist in the 2008 World Amateur Poker Championship at the London Victoria Casino, won the WCOAP Stud Championship, beating Mike Lott heads up, with Tony Trippier taking Bronze.
Season Three will culminate with the UK Team Championship at the G Casino in Manchester on January 23rd & 24th. Following this event, the Online and Live Schedules for season four will be announced.
England’s Stuart Ward Wins European Amateur Title
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Stuart Ward: 2009 European Amateur Champion
The 2009 APAT European Amateur Poker Championships, in association with Blue Square Poker, was held at the G Casino Luton and attracted a field of 195 players from twelve countries including Poland, Hungary and Italy. At stake was a first prize of £3,500, ranking points towards the APAT National Amateur Rankings and, for the winner, added value of a seat into a GUKPT Main Event.
First out was Warren Jackman with pocket Kings up against Hugh Nairnie’s pocket Aces whilst through the early levels John Miller from Accrington, an experienced festival player was the chip leader. Soon current APAT Welsh Amateur Champion Simon Auckland ran Ace-King into French International Franck Viollett’s Aces on a King high board.
Meanwhile Stuart Ward took Queen-Six to knock out Michael Pemplomiak with Aces and reversed roles when he himself found Aces against Robyn O’Neille’s Queens, the combined effect of which was to propel Stuart towards the chip lead, alongside Derrick Andrews, regular APAT player John Murray and German International Silke Burghardt.
The end of day one chip leaders, with 32 remaining and average stack 60,000 blinds 2000/4000 ante 300 were as follows:
Derrick Andrews 177,500
John Murray 143,000
Stuart Ward 130,000
Paul Townsend 82,900
Silke Burghardt 80,000
