APAT ECOAP Team Event - Live Update

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Join us from 5:30pm on Friday for Day 1 of the APAT European Amateur Team Championship, live from the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club in the heart of the vibrant city of Nottingham in the UK.

Live updates over the four days of the European Championship of Amateur Poker should provide an eclectic mix of updates, information, photos, and stories that is pitched somewhere between the Olympic Torch Relay and a Radio 1 Roadshow.

To kick things off for today, you can join myself, Leigh "Chipaccrual" Wiltshire and Matt "Wake me up before you board board" Dale to take you through the first day of the European Team Event along with the first of three side events, the European Amateur Stud Championship.

All the side events over the weekend will be updated on the Side Event Update Thread and there will be a dedicated thread for the Main Event which starts on Sunday.

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Full Schedule of Tournaments at DTD between Thursday 23rd - Monday 27th August 2012

Date	Event	Start Time	Buyin
Thursday 23rd August 2012	£500 Gtd Freezeout	8pm	£15 + £5
	£500k Deepstack Satellite (5 seats gtd)	9pm	£20 + £5
Friday 24th August 2012	ECOAP Stud	6pm	£46 + £5
	£1k Gtd Freezeout	8pm	£25 + £5
	£500k Deepstack Satellite (10 seats gtd)	9pm	£30 + £5
Saturday 25th August 2012	ECOAP 6 Max	3pm	£46 + £5
	£1k Gtd Freezeout	8pm	£25 + £5
	£500k Deepstack Satellite (10 seats gtd)	9pm	£30 + £5
Sunday 26th August 2012	ECOAP Main Event (2 Day)	2:30pm	£92 + £10
	£1k Gtd Freezeout	8pm	£25 + £5
	£500k Deepstack Satellite (10 seats gtd)	9pm	£30 + £5
Monday 27th August 2012	ECOAP PL Omaha	3pm	£46 + £5
	£500 Gtd Freezeout	8pm	£15 + £5
	£500k Deepstack Satellite (20 seats gtd)	9pm	£40 + £5

As always, DTD cash tables will be running throughout the weekend.

Entry for all tournaments (including any remaining seats for ECOAP events) can be made via the DTD cashdesk or through the DTD online shop.

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APAT ECOAP European Amateur Team Championship 2012

The format of the Team event is:

Day One

5:30pm 4 x 9 handed NLHE STT   (1st=8pts, 2nd=7pts........8th=1pt, 9th=0pts)
8:30pm 4 x 9 handed PLO STT   (1st=8pts, 2nd=7pts........8th=1pt, 9th=0pts)
11:30pm 27 x HU Matches - 6 per team   (1st=4pts, 2nd=0pts)

Day Two

2:30pm 4 x 9 handed NLHE STT   (1st=8pts, 2nd=7pts........8th=1pt, 9th=0pts)
6:00pm 36 Runner MTT    (1st=18pts, 2nd=17pts........17th=2pts, 18th=1pt)

Notes

The MTT will only alllocate points to the top 18 finishers (50% of the field).  We will run hand for hand at 19 (3 tables of 6/7 players)

All Captains should check in at the APAT Admin desk on the lower tier of the card-room floor on arrival for payment of entry fees and for seat draws.

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Competing Teams



England

Steve Redfern (Captain)
Alan Armitage
Richard Baker
Dan Patterson
Tony Trippier

Germany

Juergen Bachmann (Captain)
Martin Andel
Alban Gerster
Stefan Roder
Santo Toscano

Italy

Luca Cannella (Captain)
Luigi Belleri
Andrea Lombardi
Giuseppe Maggisano

Northern Ireland

Martin Rice (Captain)
Alan Gilmore
Gerard Harraghy
Billy Johnstone

Poland

Ian Szerlowski (Captain)
Michal Pempkowiak
Marcin Rejmak
Arek Sinkiewicz


Portugal

Bruno Rilho (Captain)
Bruno Abelho
Nuno Andrade
Rui Vieira

Republic of Ireland

Frank Bailie (Captain)
Brendan Byrne
John Murray
David Pilkington
Ger Smyth

Scotland

Grant Speirs (Captain)
Tom Clark
James Eccles
Paul Gupta
Chris Kelly

Wales

Paul McGuinness (Captain)
Dylan Herbert
Ricky Jones
Dan Owston
David Rudling-Smith

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I"ll be driving up to Nottingham this afternoon, but Matt said he had made other arrangements for getting to DTD.




In the meantime, here"s a little predictor competition.

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9 Teams Competing

Give us your top three in any order and as a tiebreaker, the individual player you think will score the most points for their team.

If you get the top three right, you"ll be in with the chance of some APAT merchandise (Gives me an excuse to order some more stuff   )


So, if you think defending European Team Champions from 2009 Poland



will be battling it out with current World and UK Team Champions Wales



and you think the tracksuited team from Portugal with the enormous flag might be there aswell





Then you would post

Poland
Wales
Portgual

With your choice of individual scorer for the tiebreaker (i.e  Steve Redfern - England)


Good Luck

[TightEnd]

Looking forward to following this Mr Wiltshire

Good luck to all teams

My top three prediction







(Scotland/Germany/ Rep of Ire)

Tiebreaker James Eccles (North of the Border)

Good luck.

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Thank you Mr Prew.  We"ve just got to make sure we don"t drop the baton before we hand it over to our best updater on the anchor leg.  

[Fatcatstu]

England
Wales
Scotland

With Curlarge to be best scorer

[TightEnd]

Thank you Mr Prew.  We"ve just got to make sure we don"t drop the baton before we hand it over to our best updater on the anchor leg.  

Meh. you can"t teach an old dog new tricks

I"m the old dog, and you"ve got new tricks, and a co-updater who hopefully has good Sports Injury insruance


Enjoy.

[AMRN]

England
Wales
Poland

Alan Armitage

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Thank you Mr Prew.  We"ve just got to make sure we don"t drop the baton before we hand it over to our best updater on the anchor leg.  

Meh. you can"t teach an old dog new tricks

I"m the old dog, and you"ve got new tricks, and a co-updater who hopefully has good Sports Injury insruance


Enjoy.

LOL, we"re adding APAT wetsuits to the next merchandise range.

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Thank you Mr Prew.  We"ve just got to make sure we don"t drop the baton before we hand it over to our best updater on the anchor leg.  

Meh. you can"t teach an old dog new tricks

I"m the old dog, and you"ve got new tricks, and a co-updater who hopefully has good Sports Injury insruance


Enjoy.

LOL, we"re adding APAT wetsuits to the next merchandise range.

GRIN

Matt has set himself up here ... looking forward to more sport related puns at his expense haha

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Wales
Portugal
England


Paul McGuinness

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England
Italy
Scotland

Alan Armitage