APAT 10th Anniversary Season - Discussion Thread

[IrishTom]

May 9, 2016, London:  The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) is delighted to announce details of the tenth season of its critically acclaimed tour for recreational players.  The season will open with the English Amateur Poker Championship, being held at Grosvenor Casino, Newcastle on May 28th & 29th and run to the APAT North American Championship, which will take place in Las Vegas in June 2017.

Season highlights include:-

New headline partner:  APAT welcomes the UK"s largest casino chain, Grosvenor Casinos, as its headline sponsor in Season 10.  The partnership comes on the back of ten years of close cooperation between the parties and demonstrates a continuing increase in poker investment by Grosvenor.

Viva Las Vegas:  To celebrate our tenth year anniversary, APAT is awarding thousands of pounds worth of added and guaranteed Las Vegas packages.  The anniversary packages, which will include a seat at the WSOP Colossus* event in summer 2017 - in addition to travel and accommodation, will be awarded to the following:-

  -   9 x APAT National Amateur Champions
  -   WCOAP Main Event Champion
  -   APAT #1 Ranked Player
  -   Live Pub Poker League National Champion
  -   APAT live event Vegas satellite winners, with guaranteed seats
  -   APAT online satellite winners, with guaranteed seats

Online:  Grosvenor Poker will host APAT's online Championship events and the winner of each will receive an added value seat at a GUKPT £550 main event.

All*Stars:  Close to 2,000 players have achieved an APAT All*Stars ranking over the past ten years and these players will now be able to opt in and earn the highest level of rewards possible at Grosvenor Poker.

WCOAP:  The extremely popular World Championship of Amateur Poker will be hosted at Grosvenor Casino, Manchester, between April 8th & 17th, 2017.  The festival will feature 18 bracelet events, including the prestigious 8 Game Players Championship, World Amateur Team Championship and World Amateur Poker Championship main event.

Live Stream:  APAT will broadcast live from National Amateur Championship events in Season 10, in addition to providing a live update blog.  The streams will be recorded for future playback on APAT's video channel.  APAT viewers will be able to enjoy a whole new level of engagement with the live stream, with APAT's soon to be released Staker game.

APAT Season 10 Schedule

Dates	Venue
28-29 May 2016	English Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Newcastle
9-10 Jul 2016	European Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Luton
12-15 Aug 2016	Belgian Amateur Poker Championship, Spa Belgium
16-18 Sep 2016	Welsh Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Cardiff
30-31 Oct 2016	Irish Amateur Poker Championship, Regency Hotel Dublin
10-13 Nov 2016	Benelux Amateur Poker Championship, Namur Belgium
26-27 Nov 2016	UK Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Portsmouth
4-5 Feb 2017	Scottish Amateur Poker Championship, Grosvenor Edinburgh
11-12 Mar 2017	UK Team Poker Championship, Grosvenor Blackpool
8-17 Apr 2017	World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), Grosvenor BNR Manchester
Jun 2017	North American Poker Championship, Las Vegas

            

Further details can be found on the APAT website, alongside entry details for the upcoming English Amateur Poker Championship and full WCOAP and Online Tour schedules.

* to be confirmed

[Scousebill]

Excellent work lads.... Well dome in getting the WCOAP Up North.....
Grosvenor set up looks good at first glance...

[Fluence]

Too much to take in! I"ll have to spend some time reading it all through carefully tomorrow and that goes for the WCOAP as well.

Like the Day 1a on the first Sunday idea, clever thinking that should help to increase numbers.

[Sugar_Free]

Looks very good, nice work guys. Great to have Grosvenor as main sponsors, their input looks to be huge.

Absolutely gutted though about the number of weekends I"ll have to miss due to prior commitments, it"s almost as if you"ve been peeking in my diary.

After the recent polls and discussions, what will the buy ins be for wcoap? - NM, just found it

[teamdobb]

Congratulations on a very ambitious and excellent schedule.

Moving of the Team Event to Blackpool is the highlight to me from a personal point of view and a March date is far better as the donkey season is just starting then!!!

Good luck for it all and see you at the G in Newcastle soon!!

[Red_Nev]

I realise their many different needs and no doubt hundreds of considerations , but to not have any events in London ( I"m not counting Luton as London ) is a real shame .
It would seem on the face of it that Belgiium seems more important than London !
Apologises if this is out of turn , or more events are forthcoming , but on the face of it I"m disappointed :-(

[Des]

I realise their many different needs and no doubt hundreds of considerations , but to not have any events in London ( I"m not counting Luton as London ) is a real shame .
It would seem on the face of it that Belgiium seems more important than London !
Apologises if this is out of turn , or more events are forthcoming , but on the face of it I"m disappointed :-(

Very much appreciate and respect your comments.  We"ve been to London for the past three seasons, so it"ll miss a season, but we will be back in S11 with something big, I"ve no doubt.  That aside, we do have Luton and Portsmouth in the South this season and it is the nature of the tour, that a bit of travel enriches the experience from time to time.

[Kronsdat]

Great to have the Team Event back in Blackpool, scene of Edgworth Cricket Club"s glorious victory and obviously delighted to have the Worlds happening in Manchester too!  The Grosvenor sponsorship package looks really good.

[Des]

Thanks for the feedback guys - keep it coming.  Any questions, ask away.

[Paulie_D]

Although I understand some of the reasons behind it I must express my disappointment that other than WCOAP the entire UK APAT schedule is now NLHE only.

Extending the range of poker variants available to be played in casinos used to be, as I recall, one of the goals of APAT...I, for one, am very sorry to see that left behind.

Sundays will be the poorer for it...IMO.

[Des]

Although I understand some of the reasons behind it I must express my disappointment that other than WCOAP the entire UK APAT schedule is now NLHE only.

Extending the range of poker variants available to be played in casinos used to be, as I recall, one of the goals of APAT...I, for one, am very sorry to see that left behind.

Sundays will be the poorer for it...IMO.

Good post, thanks Paulie.  With it being our anniversary year, for the first and possibly only time, we"re going to utilise those live slots to create opportunities for players to join an APAT party extravaganza in Las Vegas.  There wasn"t any other way we could do this, this season.

[scouse3465]

Going to try and get back on these now weekends free and looks like a boss schedule 😀😀😀

[fandango]

Nice schedule guys as always  ..

Highlight will be Vegas!!.. Finally managed for Emma to agree to a trip there, albeit I had to propose to her!"

We will be having our wedding in Vegas next June to coincide with the APAT leg, we would love to see some of you there for the celebrations, all welcome to come see me say GG to bachelorhood..

[IrishTom]

Nice schedule guys as always  ..

Highlight will be Vegas!!.. Finally managed for Emma to agree to a trip there, albeit I had to propose to her!"

We will be having our wedding in Vegas next June to coincide with the APAT leg, we would love to see some of you there for the celebrations, all welcome to come see me say GG to bachelorhood..

Congrats mate... poor Emma!

[LombBomb]

Although I understand some of the reasons behind it I must express my disappointment that other than WCOAP the entire UK APAT schedule is now NLHE only.

Extending the range of poker variants available to be played in casinos used to be, as I recall, one of the goals of APAT...I, for one, am very sorry to see that left behind.

Sundays will be the poorer for it...IMO.

Agree with this.  Not having the "traditional" side events at all is a real shame.