APAT is an excellent concept. Why do you advocate keeping it UK only?
why do you think it would be good to reserve all that is good about APAT for the UK only?
Any other views of mine you want to imagine, cos you imagined both of those. Talk about putting words in someone"s mouth - I"ll get Adam "Don"t tell me what I think" Boulton to sort you out.
I"m not in favour of European events, but I"m not against them either - I"m indifferent about them. I guess whoever goes to Spain will have a great time, and we have the option to go to the others, so that would make me a bit in favour. Also, if it strengthens APAT, we may benefit indirectly. Apart from that though, they don"t have any effect on us, so I don"t see them as a problem, but I don"t see them as part of a mission to spread great poker structures round the world either.
The concept of APAT is about bringing value poker to the masses for affordable buy in.
To tell you the truth, I don"t give a stuff whether the masses in Austria have value poker at an affordable buy-in.
A bit narrow minded?
Don"t see why. Are you really interested in whether players in every country in the world have a good structure, etc? I don"t believe it. Why stop at Austria if you are so concerned about it? Let"s do our bit to make sure that the players in Turkey have good overlays. And are there enough deep-stacked tournaments in The Philippines? It"s not our issue to sort out.
The concept of APAT is about bringing value poker to the masses for affordable buy in - but I thought it was also about standardisation of the game.... and to achieve that, it has to gain exposure beyond the UK shores.
I wasn"t aware that standardising the rules throughout the world was one of the purposes of APAT. First I"ve heard of it.
Having this event in Vienna has not decreased the amount of local opportunity we"ve had compared to last season - so I can"t see how it can be a problem.
This is the crux, imo. I"m sure expansion is good for the APAT organisation. If the UK players get fewer tournaments as a result, it would be bad. If we are not affected it is irrelevant.
Indeed, but actually not irrelevant if your are Austrian, Estonian, or Spanish!
I"m not.
John, I presume you enjoyed the European team game last year? Would have been a bit naff if it was UK countries only, don"t you think?
Eh? Bit of a non-sequitur.
I"m not sure how we"ve got into this Steve, as I"m not opposed to your view. Good luck with your mission for world peace.