WCOAP 2014 Team Championship Discussion Thread

[AJDUK]

I have discussed this with Tom and Matt and I can assure you that the event will definitely have five phases to it.

With five phases, country captains will have to allocate their four players in the following way:-

Day One

Phase 1 - NLHE, NLHE, NLHE, NLHE

Phase 2 - NLHE, NLHE, PLO, PLO

Phase 3 - HU

Day Two

Phase 4 - NLHE, NLHE, PLO8, PLO8

Phase 5 - MTT

With over three months to go, captains should be able to ensure they have at least two players in their team who are expert in Omaha and 08.

The Main Event and the World Amateur Team Championship are the two most high profile tournaments of the WCOAP and we think the above format will lead to another superbly competitive event.

Errrrrrrrrrrr, I see the OP has now been updated as requested but it is now showing FOUR phases not FIVE. Could this please be confirmed, as at no point since the quoted post above has it been suggested that there will only be four phases. I didn"t see anybody disapproving of the above clarification.

Getting a tad frustrated with Des saying one thing and Tom saying another.

[IrishTom]

I have discussed this with Tom and Matt and I can assure you that the event will definitely have five phases to it.

With five phases, country captains will have to allocate their four players in the following way:-

Day One

Phase 1 - NLHE, NLHE, NLHE, NLHE

Phase 2 - NLHE, NLHE, PLO, PLO

Phase 3 - HU

Day Two

Phase 4 - NLHE, NLHE, PLO8, PLO8

Phase 5 - MTT

With over three months to go, captains should be able to ensure they have at least two players in their team who are expert in Omaha and 08.

The Main Event and the World Amateur Team Championship are the two most high profile tournaments of the WCOAP and we think the above format will lead to another superbly competitive event.

Errrrrrrrrrrr, I see the OP has now been updated as requested but it is now showing FOUR phases not FIVE. Could this please be confirmed, as at no point since the quoted post above has it been suggested that there will only be four phases. I didn"t see anybody disapproving of the above clarification.

Getting a tad frustrated with Des saying one thing and Tom saying another.

We"re not saying one/another thing - I just posted it wrong!

[AJDUK]

Thanks for changing the OP. That"s the first time I"ve seen that schedule.

With your original post suggesting four phases, Des later confirming 5 phases and you then posting 4 phases after my request for clarification yesterday I stand by my comment that you and Des were saying different things. As Roy Walker would suggest I can only say what I see.

[IrishTom]

Thanks for changing the OP. That"s the first time I"ve seen that schedule.

With your original post suggesting four phases, Des later confirming 5 phases and you then posting 4 phases after my request for clarification yesterday I stand by my comment that you and Des were saying different things. As Roy Walker would suggest I can only say what I see.

Well I"m hoping it"s correct now - I"ve double-checked all other threads on the subject also - so hopefully they all are "in agreement" with each other!

[Careybear]

I"m happy we"re going to play PLO8 or Pot limit Omaha hi/lo is what i know it better as...I"m definitely not an expert and probably play too many hands but I mostly do this tournament for the fun!!  I"m not looking for professional poker players who specialise in other variants...I"ve never played either PLO or PLO8 live before so I"m really looking forward to it!!!  I usually play NLHE or PLHE but get bored with them so try and play other variants like HOSE, HORSE or 8 game...come on you poker players broaden your horizons....Poker sites have tons of PLO8 (hi/lo) games on it ...get practising I say!!

Carey

[Careybear]

Just wondering if we"re captains of a team are we supposed to make up our own thread this year?

[Careybear]

Think I"m going to have to pull Team America out...one of mine has had to drop out and there is only 3 of us...

Carey

[nooteboom17]

Really happy to confirm Team Germany for the WCOAP Team Event. Since we were way too strong at the ECOAP in Prague, we had to shuffle our team. In London there will be playing Bernward Althof, Torsten Roeder, Michael Ungar and Juergen Bachmann (as Team captain).
Looking forward to the event, no matter what games are going to be played...

[cincicrappykid]

Can"t find tourneys on Coral for worlds... Any clues

[Des]

Just to confirm, ten countries will battle it out for the bracelets in this event.

Belgium - captain Tom Slikboer
Canada - captain Craig Macinnes
England - captain Andrew Duncan
France - captain Jean-Michel Ballocchi
Germany - captain Juergen Bachmann
Ireland - captain Frank Bailie
Portugal - captain Bruno Rilho
Scotland - captain Gordon McArthur
Spain - captain Juan deDiego
Wales - captain Richard Rudling-Smith

Along the way we had conversations with 15 other countries and some pretty late dropouts from four, who I"m sure we"ll see back in 2015.

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

Will be very nice seeing some familiar ECOAP faces, and getting to know new people.

Too bad we only have 10 countries... would have been great to see 16 teams participate.

[Quadran666 (Christoff Apat.be)]

10 will battle for gold then. So be it.

Can"t wait untill we arrive on wednesday !!!!

[LuckyJJ]

10 will battle for gold then. So be it.

Can"t wait untill we arrive on wednesday !!!!

available for team event. Should be England. Good Omaha/08 player. JJ Hazan

[LuckyJJ]

I"m happy we"re going to play PLO8 or Pot limit Omaha hi/lo is what i know it better as...I"m definitely not an expert and probably play too many hands but I mostly do this tournament for the fun!!  I"m not looking for professional poker players who specialise in other variants...I"ve never played either PLO or PLO8 live before so I"m really looking forward to it!!!  I usually play NLHE or PLHE but get bored with them so try and play other variants like HOSE, HORSE or 8 game...come on you poker players broaden your horizons....Poker sites have tons of PLO8 (hi/lo) games on it ...get practising I say!!

Carey

Hi Carey

Having said that, I am available for most teams (mixed nationalities!) and am a strong PLO and HiLo player...ready and willing to play! JJ Hazan

[IrishTom]

Team Championship points updated after Day 1 HERE