APAT World Championship of Amateur Poker (27th - 30th Aug)

[duke3016]

[AMRN]

ok now I"m officially excited. One drawback though - really looking forward to the HORSE event.... I just hope they don"t mind me multi-tabling that and the Main Event final table

Des - when do you plan for seats to go on sale please?  Is it all by straight sale, or are you including sats?     OK OK I know you only just made the post - give you a chance an all that.... but tell me tell me

erm...read the post Champ!

ah bugger!!

ok ok dikhead moment over   back to the beer cos the whisky isn"t doing me any good tonight!

[CrizzyConnor]

During the clickfest will there be seperate links for Day 1a & 1b?

Day 1b is likely to be most popular but I plan on playing in the Omaha on the Thurs so 1a would probs suit better and hopefully give a better chance of clickfesting in (should I fail to satty in)...

[Paulie_D]

Yay!

I like the reduced costs for the "Side Events" too....

I"d also appreciate the option to select which "Day 1" I"d like...

[HaworthBantam]

ok now I"m officially excited. One drawback though - really looking forward to the HORSE event.... I just hope they don"t mind me multi-tabling that and the Main Event final table

Des - when do you plan for seats to go on sale please?  Is it all by straight sale, or are you including sats?     OK OK I know you only just made the post - give you a chance an all that.... but tell me tell me

erm...read the post Chump!

FYP  

[Chipaccrual]

The last time we ran a two day one event was in 2007 in Luton and that ran Saturday/Sunday/BH Monday.

Therefore choice of day ones wasn"t a big issue.

With this one running Friday/Saturday/Sunday, I am guessing people might not be keen to take the Friday off, although it is a 4:30pm start.

As usual, I"m sure we will try to accomodate any specific requests as long as it doesn"t get out of hand from an administration point of view.  

[cincicrappykid]

WHERE ARE  THESE EVENTS HELD

[deanp27]

DTD

[Jon MW]

... I am guessing people might not be keen to take the Friday off, although it is a 4:30pm start.
...

some people might not have the option to take Friday off.

[Chipaccrual]

... I am guessing people might not be keen to take the Friday off, although it is a 4:30pm start.
...

some people might not have the option to take Friday off.

Hence my suggestion that we will try to accomodate people"s requests where possible.

From an admin point of view, that week is going to be extremely busy with an 81 runner Omaha on the Thursday then two lots of 150 runner day ones.  With a number of late finishes thrown into the equation.

Then take the usual last minute seat exchanges.

Trying to ensure everyone gets to play when they want is our objective, but we can"t say everyone will get to play on their chosen day as it"s the usual supply and demand thing.

The exact detail is yet to be decided, but my suggestion would be this.

Once the 300 are known, those that have a preference post on the forum, if we can meet everyones requirements great, if not, then random selection is used to meet as many as we can and those unlucky few will either have to take the alternate day of exchange their seat if they can"t make it.  That would seem the fairest way of doing it.

But, as I say, yet to be decided.  

[Jon MW]

... I am guessing people might not be keen to take the Friday off, although it is a 4:30pm start.
...

some people might not have the option to take Friday off.

My point was, "not keen" and "not able to" are entirely different.

My suggestion for fairness is that the players give their preference in order of payment.

Once one day is full the players expressing a preference for that day are offered the other one as an alternative.

If they know they can"t make that day then it can go to the next down the list who failed.

I expect that most people will accept the alternative day and then try their best to be able to make it, and sell it on the seat exchange only if it"s absolutely not possible for them to make it.

Generally I don"t see random selection or any kind of lottery as a good way to decide matters - and as their is a record of when people paid, it might as well be put to good use.

[APAT]

We will be using the same method as with our last three day event.  Players will be able to input their preferred day 1 with their payment and those days will be allocated in order of payment.  This event is being put on sale 5 months prior to taking place so there is ample time for people to organise a day"s holiday if they want to play and do not get their preferred starting day.

[Chipaccrual]

Have you two been talking to each other ?



Great minds and all that.

[Jon MW]

We will be using the same method as with our last three day event.  ...

I didn"t actually remember this.

But it may have been somewhere in my subconscious.

[APAT]

There is a significant difference.  We will not be offering the "second" day as an alternative option, then moving down the list as and when players decide whether to take the option or not. 

If their preference day has filled up we will either a) allocate a seat on the second day and the onus moves to the player to sell the seat through the Seat Exchange Board or b) not allocate them a seat.  That one will be decided before the event goes on sale.