APAT Season Two Briefing

[APAT]

Welcome to APAT Ash.  The top 10% of players at the first round of Regional Championship events, which will be held on October 6th, will win a paid entry to the English Amateur Poker Championship - the first National Championship event of Season Two. 

APAT hope to publish the schedule for Season Two later this week.

[AshDub9]

Thanks for that i understand now

I"ll look forward to entering a few of these Regional Tournaments even though there a bit away as i live in Manchester, but i don"t mind travelling.

[kinboshi]

You won"t have far to travel to the Manchester one...

[HannibleL316]

Hey everyone.
Ive posted this in another thread as I didnt see this one, but it should be here.

Great work by the way! I play alot online and want to play more live games and this looks like the ideal chance.

I was just looking at the Northern Championship regional legs and the Manchester one is 6th October and it says on sale direct from Casino on day of play.
But at the bottom it says
"2) Regional Championship events will hold a maximum of 80 players and start at 2.30pm."

So is this on a first come first serve basis then?
What if there is more than 80?
I live about 1 hour 30 min away from Manchester and i dont want to be driving all the way there just to be told the 80 places are filled.

Also about this £10 payment to be allowed to play in the live games, how, when and who do you make this payment? Is it via online or do you pay it on your first regional game?

Lastly, how many direct buy-ins are allocated for the Nationals as if its £20 to enter a regional, £75 isn"t that much more just to directly buy in and again will this be on a first come first serve basis?

Thanks

Rob

[Ripple11]

 Hi APAT,

not that I"m a man of little faith you understand!....but are you sure The Vic is going to provide 8 dealers for a £20 comp on a saturday afternoon, given that they don"t normally for less than £100....and they seem to be a law to themselves in the poker world !!

....otherwise looking forward to great season, and thanks for all the hard work , and twisting the Blue Square arm a lot !!

[HannibleL316]

Bump.
Des I think you missed my question

Rob

[APAT]

Hey everyone.
Ive posted this in another thread as I didnt see this one, but it should be here.

Great work by the way! I play alot online and want to play more live games and this looks like the ideal chance.

I was just looking at the Northern Championship regional legs and the Manchester one is 6th October and it says on sale direct from Casino on day of play.
But at the bottom it says
"2) Regional Championship events will hold a maximum of 80 players and start at 2.30pm."

So is this on a first come first serve basis then?
What if there is more than 80?
I live about 1 hour 30 min away from Manchester and i dont want to be driving all the way there just to be told the 80 places are filled.

Also about this £10 payment to be allowed to play in the live games, how, when and who do you make this payment? Is it via online or do you pay it on your first regional game?

Lastly, how many direct buy-ins are allocated for the Nationals as if its £20 to enter a regional, £75 isn"t that much more just to directly buy in and again will this be on a first come first serve basis?

Thanks

Rob

Hi Rob, will do my best to answer these for you.

1)  The Regional events are being sold on a first come, first served basis.  As I have said on another thread, we know this is not ideal but APAT cannot manage advance entries to 14 events being held on one day.  We will review what happens during the first leg of the Regionals and continue to work with the Casinos to offer the most player focussed entry method possible.  We will add more detail to the Regional event announcement next week with casino opening times, addresses etc.  While I would guess that high traffic areas like London, Luton and Manchester will probably sell out, I would be genuinely surprised if the other casinos do.  This is leg one, we have not marketed it heavily outside of APAT as we would be much happier with smaller fields experiencing a smooth well ran day than 14 sold out events creating lots of issues.

2) The membership fee is currently free.  Therefore you do not have to pay £10 - you are a full member and entitled to play in APAT events.

3)  Seat allocation methods for National events are listed via this link.  The number of seats available via APAT direct will be determined by how many players play in the Regional events and Online sats, as 10% of those fields will get seats into the Nationals.

http://www.apat.com/schedule_S2_National.php

[HannibleL316]

Thanks alot for that.

Can you reserve a seat by ringing the casino or by first come first serve you actually mean there at the casino on the day?

If thats the case I might wait and see what happens with leg 1 because as Ive said its a fair drive and I havent got a clue what time to get there and I dont want to be disappointed.

Rob