APAT North American Amateur Poker Championship - Result

[KarmaDope]

1st - Matts Jakobsson, Sweden - $4,320
2nd - David Kempe, United States - $2,915
3rd - Karen Robison, United States - $2,010
4th - Thomas Eidenschink, United States - $1,474
5th - Stephen "The Mole" Boyd, Scotland - $1,106
6th - John Teer, United States - $871
7th - Charles Hartz, United States - $702
8th - Carlos Gomez, United States
9th - Edward "Steady Eddie" Stanborough, United Kingdom
10th - Michael Santoro, United States
11th - Did Not Give Name
12th - Mark Blundell, United States
13th - Did Not Give Name
14th - Did Not Give Name
15th - Did Not Give Name
16th - Mario Barnaba, United States
17th - Yoav Amit, United Kingdom
18th - Did Not Give Name


67 runners paid $235, creating a prize pool of $13,400.

Full tournament report to follow.

[Chipaccrual]

Only 3 UK players in the top 18. How many played ?

Top effort Adam, looking forward to the tourney report, now get on with enjoying Vegas !!!!!

[hi_am_chris]

Out of interest how many runners have we got in the past?

[PHIL_TC]

Only 3 UK players in the top 18. How many played ?

Adam.. come on stop with this enjoying yourself malarkey and tell us all about it please x

[AMRN]

Wow didn"t even realise this had been played already!!

[PHIL_TC]

Out of interest how many runners have we got in the past?

Previous trip report here Chris.. http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=10018.0 was 56 APATers "playing" last time. Total was 90+ if I remember. Although I don"t remember a great deal about the whole trip to be fair x

[Chipaccrual]

Looks like "Did Not Give Name" will have picked up a few ranking points though  

[KarmaDope]

12 diehard APAT regulars played this tournament. I"ll do the report on the plane home

[Fatcatstu]

As one if the people "on a jolly"

The event wasn"t played as it wasn"t an APAT event!!

The buy-in was raised and it was made a 1 day event at the last second.

It was basically just the regular ceasers game. Not what I wanted to play.

[steady eddi1]

My take on this tourn.
A bit shocked when I went into Ceasers on Thursday and nobody had a clue what I was talking about, the floor manager made a few calls and said i"d better give the gen manager a call the next day. Went in Friday and found a sheet had been produced for a apat tourn with a buy in of $235 (ouch) Decided to give it a go anyway. Disappointed to see so few apaters at the tourn but fully understand why with the price hike.  Table I was on was very sedate compared to the others with plenty of good humoured banter going on. again I did not move from my spot till the final table so cant comment on the other tables but one seemed to have a number of early bust outs and a couple of large stacks. Rode my luck a couple of times to make final table. A deal was done on the final table to pay the top 10. Went out 2nd hand on final table in 9th place after 8 hrs play. Well done to Stephen on his 5th place and Thanks to Adam for his support through the day.

[TightEnd]

Why was there not a seperate APAT Tournament?

Seems a bit daft.

[IrishTom]

L&Gs, our communications with Caesars" for this event was far from ideal.  In the week leading up to the event it was discovered they were unable to hold the advertised $150+$15 (I"m not sure where some of you guys saw it was advertised as $75 as all I know it was meant to be $150) and therefore it ended up being their usual $200+$35 - and over 1 Day rather than the expected 2-Day event.

A huge personal thanks from me to Adam - thanks for everything mate and I sure owe you a beer when I meet up with you next.

There is not much more I can say on this - apart from for those who travelled you have my apologies for us not giving you what you expected/wanted - and my word that I will endeavour to ensure it won"t happen again (well, the expected bit anyway!).

(I"m already looking at our (LPPL) traditional trip to Las Vegas during the WSOP - everything yet tbc but expect it to be around 5th June 2014 for 7 nights - and this will be built around poker, "experiences" and "social occasions" - maybe a note for some of your diaries - especially those with a more "social" desire!)

It"s not often (extremely rare) that something goes wrong like this - so again, for those who travelled - please accept my apologies with my promise to ensure we do better for you in the future.

Tom

[s4ooter]

[s4ooter]

As one if the people "on a jolly"

The event wasn"t played as it wasn"t an APAT event!!

The buy-in was raised and it was made a 1 day event at the last second.

It was basically just the regular ceasers game. Not what I wanted to play.

Think 99% of the world wish they could be having a jolly in Vegas of all places!!

[TightEnd]

Nothing against Adam, who appears to have been dropped in it here

but surely it sends completely the wrong impression of the importance of the event, and APAT as a brand, not to have an APAT manager there to host the event, sort out any problems etc

Just reflects very badly I think

I speak as someone who hosted the previous APAT event in Vegas, (it was extremely awkward for me to go for 4 days for various reasons, but I went as it was important to give the event full APAT welly) developed the relationship with the people in Vegas that Richard Baker introduced us too

I"ll shut up now