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S4 ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« on: July 18, 2010, 03:36:10 AM »
Just got back from the Black Country Summer Deepstack event and believe it or not, I read through this whole thread for the first time as I didn"t know it was here !!

 I would like to take this opportunity to thank Des and all of the APAT team who may have had a say in choosing me to Captain the England team. Having played in the event last year I looked on that as a tremendous honour. How good is it to be able to say that you have been chosen from hundreds if not thousands of players to play for your Country?  

 This year though, to actually have the chance to pick the side goes one better. Believe me, I feel honoured to be in this position and I promise you all that I will choose the team fairly and pick one that I believe is good enough and committed enough to go on and lift the trophy. I also promise that the white jacket will be reappearing !!  

 I would like to ask anyone interested in playing to PM me by clicking on the earlier link and let me know the following.....
1. your name
2. your poker background
3. Any tournaments, etc.... won this season
4. what qualities you think you can bring to the team.

Please remember that this is a TEAM event and players should bear that in mind and also remember that they will be playing a series of SNG,s plus heads-up games on each day (plus tighty"s SNG "specials" afterwards......probably ! )

I intend taking all of the above into account when choosing my final squad and I intend to announce this early in the first week in August.

I will only consider those players who contact me though and also remember that if you are registered to play any other events at DTD on the Thursday and/or Friday, you would not be able to play these and play for England aswell.

COME ON ENGLAND !!
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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2010, 17:24:56 PM »
Congratulations Brian, GL to you and your team.
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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2010, 23:34:07 PM »

Congratulations Brian, GL to you and your team.

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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2010, 07:45:33 AM »
Come on England!!!
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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2010, 08:03:09 AM »
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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2010, 10:42:16 AM »
Congratz on your position Brian - as a guy who wears the St George Flag on his heart, you so deserve it!!

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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2010, 12:04:49 PM »
Congrats brian on being captain, as to england winning  BOOOOOOOOOO
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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2010, 15:59:34 PM »
Congrats on the captaincy Brian,,,goodluck in picking the team im sure it wont be easy,,,,come on england !!!!!!

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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2010, 19:14:59 PM »
Thanx for all the messages guys. It wont be easy, but I knew that anyway !
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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2010, 11:20:28 AM »
The toughest job in poker - selecting & managing the England team. Reminds me of several other games, but at least you only have to worry about who to include and managing the millionaire players, and don"t have underlying quality problems. I can think of numerous players who would be good picks for the team. Indeed, with the vast majority of APAT players being English, a case could be made for England having more than one team (England Red & England Blue?), though I guess that one won"t take off. Best of luck with managing everyone"s expectations.
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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2010, 15:52:59 PM »
Actually you have a good point there, no harm in England A and England B for next season.

We could then ditch one of those small time two bit countries that don"t have a cat in hells chance, like Poland for example.
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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2010, 16:46:57 PM »
So should England get 2 football teams in the World Cup to give them a better chance at winning that too?

Not trying to have a dig at their performance or indeed at the chances of England winning the APAT event, just trying to make my point that 1 nation having twice the chance of any another to win the event seems very wrong IMO.

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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2010, 17:54:58 PM »
Have to agree with Stuart on this one......though that doesn"t make selection any easier.
I do believe we are going to be a VERY strong side this season though, even if holiday"s have hit my plans :)
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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2010, 19:13:30 PM »

Not trying to have a dig at their performance or indeed at the chances of England winning the APAT event, just trying to make my point that 1 nation having twice the chance of any another to win the event seems very wrong IMO.


They do it in bobsleigh  ;D

APAT is perhaps 60-70% English, but only 4 people get to represent us. There are many sports out there that allow more than 1 national team in order to represent the depth of talent/subscription to the sport.

It"s at least worthy of consideration even if it goes nowhere.

I also believe that with such a large pool of talent to choose from it"s wrong to pick anyone that represented England last year, to represent England this year. i.e. a once every 2 years at most rule would be a fair way of giving more of the good players their chance.



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Re: ENGLAND - WCOAP Team Championships
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2010, 20:25:10 PM »
Go Andrew

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