APAT Season 8 - [Pre-release Discussion]

[Matt D]

For satellites I"d far prefer a "one and done" attitude toward feeders and super sats. I"m not going to play Monday, to qualify for a Saturday final. That"s two evenings just for an outside chance at a seat. Follow DTDs lead and run a turbo feeder into the main sat.

Good point. I actually tried this on Saturday for the Scottish Online. Will look at doing this for satellites for Live events too. Perhaps with standard feeder sats in the week, and a turbo feeder on the same night as the final satellite.

[Laxie]

Really don"t like feeders into feeders and also think having so many events in the year is diluting APAT. 

Also, if you"re keen to keep Ireland in the mix, The Cue Club in Killarney is a poker room that can hold (I think) 160 with the added bonus...they serve drink. Flights from Stanstead and Luton direct to Kerry airport and Connie usually sorts transport for players from the airport into town.

Flights from Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Gatwick, Heathrow, Stanstead, Manchester & Newcastle into Cork and either rent a car or get the train down to Killarney from Cork.  That said, Cork is another option.  The Macua Club in Cork is pretty good and Ken is a nice enough lad.  

[Chipaccrual]

Really don"t like feeders into feeders and also think having so many events in the year is diluting APAT. 

Also, if you"re keen to keep Ireland in the mix, The Cue Club in Killarney is a poker room that can hold (I think) 160 with the added bonus...they serve drink. Flights from Stanstead and Luton direct to Kerry airport and Connie usually sorts transport for players from the airport into town.

Flights from Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Gatwick, Heathrow, Stanstead, Manchester & Newcastle into Cork and either rent a car or get the train down to Killarney from Cork.  That said, Cork is another option.  The Macua Club in Cork is pretty good and Ken is a nice enough lad. 

That"s a good point from Dawn.  I"ve revised my schedule

Leg 1 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 2 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 3 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 4 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 5 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 6 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 7 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 8 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 9 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 10 - The Cue Club, Killarney

[Mikeyboy9361]

No foreign trips, what"s the point? As said if anyone wants to organise their own Jolly Boys outing they can, that"s basically what the guys in Vegas have done, and then most of them didn"t play the APAT event!

Equally spread destinations across the UK, to make access fair to all. Glasgow was a well supported event (sold out) but APAT regulars were fairly thin on the ground, due to the distance, not a problem with this as I wont be in Brighton, but so long as the membership gets a fair crack at a few events.

Not a big fan of events landing on Bank Holidays, its not always popular at home to leave for a Poker tournament and be away Saturday and Sunday, but to add Monday into the equation rubs salt in the wounds.

Dont mess with the structure, it is spot on.

Club/Forum team event is great fun keep it going.

Euro Champs or world champs fine, knock the home nations on the head.

[Sugar_Free]

Not a big fan of events landing on Bank Holidays, its not always popular at home to leave for a Poker tournament and be away Saturday and Sunday, but to add Monday into the equation rubs salt in the wounds.

Been saying this for a few years now

[TheSnapper]

Really don"t like feeders into feeders and also think having so many events in the year is diluting APAT. 

Also, if you"re keen to keep Ireland in the mix, The Cue Club in Killarney is a poker room that can hold (I think) 160 with the added bonus...they serve drink. Flights from Stanstead and Luton direct to Kerry airport and Connie usually sorts transport for players from the airport into town.

Flights from Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Gatwick, Heathrow, Stanstead, Manchester & Newcastle into Cork and either rent a car or get the train down to Killarney from Cork.  That said, Cork is another option.  The Macua Club in Cork is pretty good and Ken is a nice enough lad. 

That"s a good point from Dawn.  I"ve revised my schedule

Leg 1 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 2 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 3 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 4 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 5 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 6 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 7 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 8 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 9 - The Cue Club, Killarney
Leg 10 - The Cue Club, Killarney

Not sure if Cue Club is closed but Connie is now card room manager at the Macau. Cork hasn"t been a huge success for previous events hosted there.

The Macau club was banned from the posting on Ireland"s leading poker forum, there were some serious allegations made about the club, the forum admin demand all questions must be answered fully so as to retain permission to promote your club on their site, that they were banned might suggest they didn"t respond as required!

I do agree with Dawn on the bar issue, that imho is a critical component for an Apat weekend. I have always felt that The Sporting Emporium would be the ideal location for the Irish event.

Failing that, a hotel based event partnered with one of the many excellent independent operators, JP Mc"Cann being my personal top choice.

[Laxie]

Blimey...so much has changed!  lol  I"ve not been on boards.ie in a while, so obviously out of the loop now.  The Cue Club was advertising last month on Facebook, but I"ve just checked and nothing mentioned since the Winter schedule post on October 7th. Sounds like a phone call or two will be in order if you aim for Ireland again in season 8.

[LombBomb]

New casino for Cardiff event.
More lights for Glasgow event.
An APAT championship event in Bristol.
Drop Luton/Stoke.

New casino for Glasgow would be better.  Move it to Genting next year and you"ll have a tournament worthy of the APAT standard.  There are far more issues holding tournaments at the Alea than just lighting.

As has already been mentioned, reduce the amount of team events to make it more prestigious.  However I like the fact that the ECOAP is being held in Prague this year as it adds a bit of international flavour to APAT.  So as a compromise, why not rotate the ECOAP between the UK and mainland Europe so that UK hosts it one season and somewhere in Europe the next.

[hi_am_chris]

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[s4ooter]

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[pledge21]

HI All,

I am new to the APAT, when does the schedule for 2014 come out or if its out, how do I find it?

cheers

[Chipaccrual]

HI All,

I am new to the APAT, when does the schedule for 2014 come out or if its out, how do I find it?

cheers

Hi Lee,

Welcome to APAT.  Season 7 rund until April 2014 and you can find the schedule here


Season 8 will probably run from around May 2014 - April 2015, and members have the chance to offer their views and thoughts on what they would like to see included on this very thread.

Feel free to add any comments you may have, all will be well received.

[galo5767]

Hi Guys,
I would like "Live" and "Online" rankings to be separate, as I don"t think winning a Live Nat merits more points than a 1st and 2nd  finish Online.

[PHIL_TC]

Asked this every year and once again will chuck into the hat.. request to move Online Nationals moved to a Sunday please x

[AMRN]

Asked this every year and once again will chuck into the hat.. request to move Online Nationals moved to a Sunday please x

Had opinion on this request every year, and once again will chuck into the hat... request to leave Online Nationals on a Saturday please x