UK Team Championship - Captain's Thread

[APAT]

This is the Captain"s thread for the United Kingdom Team Poker Championship.  All essential information relating to the event will be made available through this thread.  If you have any questions on behalf of your team, please post them here.

Here is the preview video featuring images from last year"s Championship.  Despite having to push the event back by four weeks to January, this is still entitled "2009" as we would be unable to hold two in 2010.




Captains are free to put the preview video on their own forums to build excitement towards the event, which we expect to have one of the biggest rails in British Poker history.

The YouTube code is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUC-1_9a3io

[APAT]

The APAT UK Team Championship will be played at the G Casino in Manchester on January 23rd / 24th, 2010, with play starting at 2.30pm on both days. 

The format will see 20 poker communites from all over the United Kingdom compete for the prestigious title.  Included in the field will be Bristol & South West Meetup, the reigning APAT United Kingdom Team Champions and Mary Martin, last year"s individual Championship winner.

The format for the event will be a 10,000 chip, 160 runner, multi table freezeout, with a 45 minute clock.  As with all APAT events, the UK Team Championship will be registration free for members and have a £50 buy in per player.  Each team will feature 8 players, kited out in their team colours.  Points will be awarded to the top forty finishers to determine the Team Championship.

The prize money will be split 50% / 50% between the Team and Individual Championship.  In addition, the owner of the winning Team will receive an added prize of £1,000 and the Championship Cup, while the winner of the Individual Championship will receive an entry to a GUKPT main event and the Championship Gold Medal.  These added value prizes are courtesy of tour sponsor Blue Square Poker.

A total of 33 poker communities applied to take part in the event, cementing it"s position as the most popular community based tournament in amateur poker.  In addition to the 20 teams participating, a large number of spectators are expected to attend and an electric atmosphere seems assured, certainly if last year"s event is anything to go by.

The 20 teams who will compete for the APAT United Kingdom Team Championship are as follows:-

A World Of Poker
Ace Of Clubs
Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Black Country Poker Club
Blonde Poker
Bristol & South West Meetup - Defending Champions
Chezger
Eat My Stack
FISO
Furness Poker
London Poker Meetup
Newcastle Poker Forum
NI Poker
Poker Player
Punters Lounge
Raise The River
Sky Poker
The Hendon Mob
UK Poker Info
Voyage In Poker

Each team should now appoint a Captain and start to confirm their 8 player team selection.  Further details of this event and a free membership can be found by visiting www.apat.com

Teams can utilise the following optional banner images to promote their participation if required:



http://www.apat.com/images/banner_uk_team.jpg



http://www.apat.com/images/banner_uk_team_small.jpg

[Indestructable]

The Hendon Mob team

Indestructible - Team captain
Darrensprengers
DanMonkey
Robert
Sean Foley
Bogus
Zebediah
Barmybadger

Reserve list in place

[duke3016]

Team Chezger

Duke - Chairman/CEO/Bagman/Captain (Ger Smyth Snr)
Destroyer - (Ger Smyth Jnr)
Shogun - Carl Lybert
Dewi Cool - Dewi James
RichEO - Richard Offless
Big Al - Alan Armatige
Bigfella - Glenn Laming
Digger - David Davies

We have a distinct weight advantage in the scrums  

[Laxie]

The Blonde Poker Team  (aka Team Earmuffs)  

Dawn Dineen - Laxie (captain)
Asa McGrath - amcgrathuk1
Colin Wilson - cdw1111
Frank Bailie - Cormach123
Darren Shallis - Newportlad
Michael Patterson - mickyp
Steve Roderick -Rod
Paul Tuff -Tuffster

[APAT]

Thanks Captains, keep them coming.  Can you also include the real names of your players in addition to their id on your forum, and ensure they are APAT members.

[Marty719]

The NI Poker team:

Marty Rice (captain)
Gerard Harraghy
Gareth Cash
Colin O"Prey
Eoin Morris
Desi Graham
Billy Johnstone
Dominic Marley

[Robbiebox]

Thanks Captains, keep them coming.  Can you also include the real names of your players

I there a deadline date for this Des ? As several of our selected members are still in negotiation with their keepers to be released for the w/end.

and ensure they are APAT members.

Go on tell us, signed up the first year and never thought about it since. How do we get them to do this ? Just sign up on the forum ?

[Laxie]

Will you need the money from teams in advance or do we bring it on the day?  

Cheers!  

[duke3016]

Will you need the money from teams in advance or do we bring it on the day?  

Cheers!  

On the day IIRC

[APAT]

Thanks Captains, keep them coming.  Can you also include the real names of your players

I there a deadline date for this Des ? As several of our selected members are still in negotiation with their keepers to be released for the w/end.

and ensure they are APAT members.

Go on tell us, signed up the first year and never thought about it since. How do we get them to do this ? Just sign up on the forum ?

There is no deadline as such, all teams are now considered to have entered.  You may want to set a deadline with your own players to ensure you have ample time to replace any players who cannot make it to Manchester.

Signing up is as simple as registering with the forum via the links in the top bar.

[APAT]

Will you need the money from teams in advance or do we bring it on the day?  

Cheers!  

On the day IIRC

This would be our preference but I would encourage Captains to get a committment or deposit from your teams to ensure we don"t lose anyone late in the day without good reason.

[morlspin]

Ok the team for PL at the team challenge in Manchester will be:

Morlspin (c) = Graeme Morl
Geordiegaz = Gary Graham
Billy the Punter = Billy Wallace
Nade = Tom
Burnley Joe = Joe Geraghty
Heniek31 = Arek Sinkiewicz
Teaulc = Alan Steer
WASP = Brian Martin

We are awaiting news of any subs, so ill name some later

Thanks and best of luck to all involved

[lou saban]

Team Ace of Clubs

Lou Saban (captain)
Mike Saban
Kev Ridley
Mark Kelly
Mary Martin
Phil Scott
Andy Cooling
Ian Galpin

[deanp27]

Provisional team from EatMyStack

Dean Pearson (c) - deanp27 - serial APAT failure but will one day make day 2
Steve Talbot - stevedarake - serial APAT final tablist and recent Blackpool GUKPT final tablist
Jon Spinks - Bas - FTOPS winner amongst other things
Rob Cowburn - TonyCorbett - 2nd in DTD 20/20 event and final tablist in Blackpool £100 in last 2 months
Richard King - Lucasj37 - APAT Dublin final tablist
Donna Bairstow - Teacup - Richard"s much better half and final tablist in Women"s poker tour event
Dave Griffiths - Fluence - almost cashed in as many live tournaments as Micky Wernick
Chris Baylis - chalkycjb - winner of an APAT regional event in Luton and almost as intelligent as the team captain

team manager and beer bitch
Jeff Talbot - JeffChef - left out of the team on merit