WCOAP 2014 Discussion Thread

[Des]

Reserve or Buy Your 2014 WCOAP Seat:

APAT announce largest ever World Championship of Amateur Poker

*  Sixteen bracelet events to take place at Aspers Casino, London.
*  Seven day festival will run between April 15th & 21st, with seats going on sale from Monday January 13th.
*  Wide array of poker variants and formats, with buy in"s ranging from £55 to £220.
*  Three trips to Las Vegas added in addition to Championship Bracelets, Medals and an estimated prize pool of over £50,000.

APAT are pleased to announce details of the sixth annual World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), which will take place at Aspers Casino in Stratford, London between April 15th and 21st, 2014.

The week long festival; the largest WCOAP ever, will offer fifteen bracelet events in poker variants including No Limit Hold'em, Stud, Omaha, Horse and Razz.  Tournament formats played will include Team, Six Max, Heads Up, Shootout, Mixed, Cash, High Roller, Antes Only and a unique season concluding Champions Final, which will see APAT's live and online Gold medallists return to battle it out for a winner-take-all trip to Las Vegas in Summer.

The WCOAP main event and season seven rankings winners will also be awarded added value trips to Las Vegas in the finale to APAT's seventh season.  In addition each event will award Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, while Champions will receive a highly prized WCOAP Bracelet.

All events will be played over one day apart from the World Amateur Poker Championship (three day) and World Amateur Team Championship (two day).  Buy in"s will start at £55 and raise to £110 for the two multi day events, while the High Roller event will cost £220 to enter.

Players will be able to reserve or purchase seats from 9pm on Monday January 13th via www.apat.com.  Qualifying satellites will also be available.

WCOAP SCHEDULE

	Date	Time	Event		Buy In	Capacity
	Apr 15	14.00	WCOAP #1 No Limit Hold'em Championship		£55	120
	Apr 15	18.00	WCOAP #2 Stud Championship		£55	40
	Apr 16	12.00	WCOAP #3 High Roller Championship		£220	60
	Apr 16	18.00	WCOAP #4 Mixed Game Championship		£55	50
	Apr 17	12.00	WCOAP #5 Antes Only Championship		£55	100
	Apr 17	14.00	WCOAP #6 World Amateur Team Championship  2 Day		£110	16 Countries
	Apr 17	19.00	WCOAP #7 HORSE Championship		£55	40
	Apr 18	12.00	WCOAP #8 Shootout Championship		£55	100
	Apr 18	16.00	WCOAP #9 Six Max Championship		£55	160
	Apr 18	20.00	WCOAP #10 Razz Championship		£55	40
	Apr 19	12.00	WCOAP #11 World Amateur Poker Championship  3 Day		£110	400
	Apr 19	14.00	WCOAP #12 PL Omaha 08 Championship		£55	80
	Apr 19	19.00	WCOAP #13 Cash Championship		£55	40
	Apr 20	14.00	WCOAP #14 Pot Limit Omaha Championship		£55	80
	Apr 20	20.00	WCOAP #15 Season Seven Championship		Invite	32
	Apr 21	14.00	WCOAP #16 Heads Up Championship		£55	128

*  Buy ins quoted above include a standard 10% registration fee, eg £50 + £5 is quoted as £55.

[Des]

Reserved for reservation, buy in, satellite details.

[Des]

Unfortunately as you"ll see above, we"re unable to return to Dusk Till Dawn for the WCOAP in 2014 as we weren"t able to get DTD to confirm complete details.  APAT didn"t feel we could continue to wait, particularly with members looking to book hotels, flights, etc.  DTD have been a superb partner and it is very much our intention to return for future events.

[fandango]

Impressive !.... ermm dunno if i can swing 6 days though, but will try  

[hi_am_chris]

Hi Des,

What does the mix game championship comprise  of?

[Des]

Hi Des,

What does the mix game championship comprise  of?

It"s a two format mixed event Chris - Hold'em and PLO.

[fandango]

Love the fact that there is PLO8 as well as PLO..

Shame they are both on the same day as the ME   would of loved to be able to play both variants, think most would agree Omaha is very popular, surely move Razz or mixed to either Saturday or Sunday and let the Omaha freaks play both variants  

[Des]

Love the fact that there is PLO8 as well as PLO..

Shame they are both on the same day as the ME   would of loved to be able to play both variants, think most would agree Omaha is very popular, surely move Razz or mixed to either Saturday or Sunday and let the Omaha freaks play both variants  

Both Razz and Mixed are late kick off events with a far smaller capacity than the Omaha events.  Doing it this way we felt players could come in for the weekend and get one of the Omaha events plus their choice of day 1 in the main.  Obviously it"ll never be perfect!

[Des]

Impressive !.... ermm dunno if i can swing 6 days though, but will try  

Seven days even!!    Agree on that though Carl - mind you we are expecting a lot of demand locally for the events earlier in the series.

[ayresi]

good schedule  good mix ov games    

[mporter123]

Wow.  

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

London, here we come!!

[adilong1]

Ooh nice schedule,

[Sugar_Free]

Not gonna be cheap, but looks great.

[AAroddersAA]

Is Aspers London the one is Stratford?