The centre-piece of the eight event five day World Championship of Amateur Poker at Nottingham's Dusk Til Dawn was the No Limit Hold Em Main event that attracted 425 runners over two starting days, each paying £100 to enter for a £42,500 prize pool.
Courtesy of Betfair Poker the winner of the Championship wins an entry to the GUKPT Grand Final worth £3,300 as part of an overall sponsorship package where APAT members have the chance to win thirty three seats to GUKPT main events and twenty three seats to APAT Professional League tournaments. In addition, each of the season’s seventy five amateur, professional and online tournaments are run completely registration free for players.
In addition, the winners of the Online and National Amateur Rankings will join the 17 Amateur Champions from season four and the player with the most points finishes across Amateur and Online events, to compete in the APAT Champions Final, to play for a second APAT £20,000 sponsorship package in 2011.
Day1a played from 212 to 27 runners, the field headed at the end of the Day by Neil Lukins with 209,800 ahead of Wayne Parker and Henry Griffiths.
Day 1b played from 213 to 30 runners, the field at the end of the Day headed by Stuart Pillinger with 183,100 ahead of Gareth Cash and William Devanney.
57 runners therefore returned for Day Two with 44 paid. Over the course of the first few hours of play Ben Young from Wales became a huge chip-leader, with at one point having 1.5m of the 4.2m chips in play ahead of the aggressive Gareth Cash and Jeldon Fernandes and the likes of the steadier Steve Roderick and Wayne Parker
The final table line up was as follows:
| PLAYER | TABLE | SEAT | CHIP COUNT | Hometown |
| Gareth Cash | 0 | 1 | 587000 | Newton Abbey, Northern Ireland |
| Mark Lassman | 0 | 2 | 318000 | Kings Lynn |
| Ritesh Chauhan | 0 | 3 | 360000 | Leicester |
| Berney Frankfort | 0 | 4 | 174000 | Amsterdam, Holland |
| Jeldon Fernandes | 0 | 5 | 217000 | London |
| Ben Young | 0 | 6 | 1305000 | Cardiff |
| William De-vanney | 0 | 7 | 370500 | Weston-Super-Mare |
| Stephen Roderick | 0 | 8 | 380500 | Swansea |
| Wayne Parker | 0 | 9 | 532500 | Wakefield |
First out on the final table was Ritesh Chauhan who ran pocket Jacks into Steve Roderick's Pocket Kings to exit in ninth. The short-stacked Dutchmen Berney Frankfort was out in eighth button-shoving into Ben Young in the big blind with Queen-Deuce. Ben's Ace-Five held.
In a huge pot then William Devanney with Queens and Jeldon Fernandes with Kings lost a hand against Mark Lassman with Ace-Queen. Ace on the flop, Lassman trebled up and Devanney was eliminated soon after by Gareth Cash in seventh. Fernandes then pushed pocket Fours into Roderick in the blinds with King-Ten. Roderick flopped two pair, and turned a full house to knock Fernandes out in 6th.
In a big confrontation Steve Roderick then won a race, pocket sixes against Wayne Parker's Ace-Queen to go joint chip-leader with Young and leave Parker the short-stack of the five remaining.
The chip topography went back and forth five handed until Gareth Cash became short-stacked, pushed with Ace-Ten and was called by Ben Young with Jack-Six. Six on the river and Gareth was knocked out in fifth.
After a long spell four handed, Mark Lassman was then out-drawn by Ben Young, Ace Jack beaten by King Ten all in pre-flop to leave Young the chip leader in the medal positions over Roderick and Parker.
Very shortly after Parker raised in the small blind with King-Jack suited, Ben raised in the big blind and the chips were soon in the middle. Loose aggressive Ben had found Aces just at the right time, they held and Parker was knocked out in 3rd.
Young began heads-up with a three-to-one chip advantage over Roderick, two Welshmen fighting over the title. After twenty minutes Young turned a flush against a turned set to win the title.
So Ben Young from Cardiff became the APAT World Amateur Poker Champion 2010 winning £9,000 and a GUKPT Grand final seat worth £3,000 courtesy of Betfair Poker. The next APAT event is the Irish Amatuer Poker Championships in Dublin on 24th September. Seats are available on Betfair Poker. Membership of APAT is free, and details can be found on www.apat.com