APAT Close Season Online Mini League on Blue Square Poker

[Chipaccrual]

Blue Square will be hosting the APAT Close Season Online Mini League during November and December.

Alongside the usual Blue Square cash payout structure, points will be awarded to the top 9 players. (1st-9pts, 2nd-8pts, 3rd-7pts, 4th-6pts, 5th-5pts, 6th-4pts, 7th-3pts, 8th-2pts, 9th-1pt).

Each players best three finishes will go towards their mini league score, where the player finishing top of the mini league will win a guaranteed seat at the APAT National event of their choice for Season 3 worth £75.

Mini League Schedule

Thursday 6th November 2008          $10 NLHE (15 mins blinds)
Start Time - 8pm                          4000 starting stack

Saturday 8th November 2008          $10 NLHE 6 seater (15 mins blinds)
Start Time - 8pm                          4000 starting stack

Thursday 13th November 2008        $20 PL Omaha (15 mins blinds)
Start Time - 8pm                          3000 starting stack

Saturday 22nd November 2008        $20 NLHE (15 mins blinds)
Start Time - 8pm                          4000 starting stack

Thursday 27th November 2008        $10 NLHE (15 mins blinds)
Start Time - 8pm                          4000 starting stack

Saturday 6th December 2008          $10 PL Omaha (15 mins blinds)
Start Time - 8pm                          3000 starting stack

Thursday 11th December 2008        $20 NLHE 6 seater (15 mins blinds)
Start Time - 8pm                          4000 starting stack

Saturday 13th December 2008        $20 NLHE (15 mins blinds)
Start Time - 8pm                          4000 starting stack

ALL TOURNAMENTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR REGISTRATION IN THE BLUE SQUARE POKER LOBBY UNDER "SPECIALS".  GOOD LUCK AT THE TABLES !!

[_AppleMac_]

I am a newbie member and have a couple of questions...

How many entrants are normally allowed into these tourns...? Do they just apply for APAT Members...? Also does BlueSquare then record all the points accumulated from APAT members...?

I will hopefully download all the relevant bluesquare applications as im just used to sky poker at the moment... hopefully see you all on the final table...!

[Chipaccrual]

I am a newbie member and have a couple of questions...

How many entrants are normally allowed into these tourns...? Do they just apply for APAT Members...? Also does BlueSquare then record all the points accumulated from APAT members...?

I will hopefully download all the relevant bluesquare applications as im just used to sky poker at the moment... hopefully see you all on the final table...!

Blue Square have a max of 500 for these tournaments, but the online games from season 2 were getting between 60-150 runners depending on dates etc.

Anyone with a Blue Square account is automatically an APAT member as part of the sponsorship deal, so everyone that plays is entitled to earn points towards the mini league (whether they realise it or not).

We will keep a tally of players and points scored and post an updated league table after each event on the forum.

The aim of this series is to have a bit of fun and give all APATers the chance to play online against each other in what is usually great games with good banter.

Hopefully see you at the tables.

[lukybugur]

How many entrants are normally allowed into these tourns...?

It"s completely open as far as I"m aware. We had 160+ players in Online games in S2, some only had around 60.

Do they just apply for APAT Members...?

There"s no passwords on them so anyone can play. By playing, you become an APAT member. Around 90% of players will have found our about it through the Forum here and will play more than 1 event.

Also does BlueSquare then record all the points accumulated from APAT members...?

Through the members posting screenshots, we can usually do this ourselves. We don"t post anything officially until we have confirmation of all results from BlueSq.

[TopPair2Pair]

ummm what happens if player A has 3 first place finishes and player B has 3 first place finishes?

Not that  I will be either of these players, i"ll be somewhere between Player X~Z! Anyway just wonderin our of curiosity!

[Chipaccrual]

ummm what happens if player A has 3 first place finishes and player B has 3 first place finishes?

Not that  I will be either of these players, i"ll be somewhere between Player X~Z! Anyway just wonderin our of curiosity!

Well technically speaking they are both winners.  

On a serious note, it is more likely that we will have a tie involving two players on the same points scored made up of different finishes.  In that case it will be done on the player that has the higher finishes.

Leigh

[_AppleMac_]

All sounds good to me...! I will have to sign upto BlueSquare then... look forward to playing with APAT members... wonder how much this will vary from sky! Wonder what loyalty seems they have at the mo aswell...

[duke3016]

i"m in Vegas for the first half of this -- but hey I"m bringing my lappy --

gg wp nh

See you at the tables

[Swinebag]

Good series, looking forward to having a stab. Good work Leigh!

[Divitts.]

Sounds like a good wee format. See you all there

[Maxriddles]

Still seriously unhappy with Bluesquare after the way they dealt with (or more to the point didn"t) a sports betting complaint, I even wrote to the customer service director and received no response at all when complaining about the service I"d received to that point.

I will reluctantly use Bluesquare for APAT events but not sure I"ll participate in the close season events now although the format looks good.

[CrizzyConnor]

I"ll be playing in all the Thursday events other than the first one as I don"t get paid until Friday and need to reload the BSQ account. Looking forward to this!

[rubertoe]

I am looking forward to this! the formats great - although i;ll only be playing the $10 events - my br dont stretch too $20!

be gentle

See those of you that are playing on thursday

GL

[gary]

i"ll be having a stab at this 2 see if my online championship results were just a fluke, i suspect they were, lol
gl all

[Laxie]

Signed up for tomorrow night and looking forward to it.  Cheers!