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APAT is the greatest thing to happen to amateur poker for many a year.
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Well done.
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But you are bound to get people questioning the integrity of the organisation when you are givng awards out to site"s who"s management happen to be APAT management also.
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It"s a free and open vote.
There would be an argument for not allowing the blonde poker forum to be eligible for this award for the reason mentioned, just as there is an argument for not allowing people to vote for themselves when they are nominated.
But it"s just a bit of fun.
Personally I would have hoped the forum award would have been a bit closer, a lot of blonde forum members came over to APAT but there are far more APAT members who don"t belong to the blonde forum than do - it"s just that most of
them didn"t vote.
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And allowing members into your organisation who are proffesional poker players.
APAT is now pledged to support amateur and professional players.
But if you mean allowing a professional player the chance at something that should go to an amateur - if he was a professional when he played in APAT events then that"s up to his own integrity to decide.
Cash games don"t leave a great deal of records, so if a cash professional wanted to play in an APAT tournament there wouldn"t be a great deal of evidence to deny him the opportunity - and if there is and it gets overlooked then, its a mistake, but the odd one off mishap isn"t going to damage the overall concept and ethos of APAT.
If it"s more of a personal issue with any particular player involved then it should be resolved personally and not in public.
