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This will get so many hits !!!

Guys at APA, any dates yet for the Dublin event??

If you wanted the hits you shuda put announced after it!


I knew from the off this was just you asking when it was :P

Providing I get my seat I'm 99% certain to be going... never been to dublin will have some time over there i imagine.

Dubliin is quality......have to bring the wife and nipper though if i make it!!!! DOH

Ditto.  Got to make a trip of it. 

If it's happening in June, it'll need to be announced soon I would have thought.  Have to interrogate Des and Tikay this weekend...

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=22918.0;topicseen

That threat obviously worked!!

;D

Ahhhh, very interesting, not sure bout the email, should cause a bit of debate me thinks!!!!

An APAT debate?  That'd be novel!!

;D

Mad

This means another 4 nights of solid internet play....that will cheer the lady up also!!!

Is it going to be an email sent from your email client, or a form on the APAT website that sends the email in?  I guess it has to be the latter, otherwise there's the potential for all sorts of issues with emails sent but not received due to ISP issues, spam filters, etc.

:dontask:

Either way...there is going to be some serious moaning...... not by me of course!!!!! Like the way APA are trial n' error lots of buy-in clauses....non of which anyone is happy with......it should be stamped address envelopes next!! Just checked out flights etc...quite reasonable....must make sure i qualify as the flights are non refundable...damn Ryanair..the swines!

How much Mark?  Can't be arsed checking now...

£51.38 from the burgh... :)

Gonna be a bugger of a drive for me to Edinburgh though.  Hadn't taken that into account.

I cant go anyway, my son is getting christened........ I agree with you Mark about the way things have been tried and tested,, you will never please everyone....

I just think this is open to all sorts of problems...Email can spurious at the best of times.....

Was about £160ish for me wife&nipper,leave Friday, back Monday....seemed reasonable....despite having to pay normal prices for an 8 month of baby..the IDIOTS

Wouldnt think it would be that much more from your neck of the woods

You should of mentioned Jim, our nipper is the week b4..could of had a joint/cheaper christening..then made Dublin!! Bring on the Guiness!!!

My liittlun who is getting christened is 8 and a half months.....I told the missus to make it the end of July.... Would she listen....GGGrrrrrr.. May goto confession on Sunday see if the preist can swing anything for me...

£40 fram aberdeen to dublin flying on the saturday getting in at 12:30 flying home monday
extra £5 flying night before

so should still be uner £60 when i get chance to book so cant complain about that

Get the priest to go on strike......alternatively tell the missus you heard a rumour bout him!!!! she'll definitley change the venue!!! maybenot the date though!

ryanair's home is dublin and fly to most airports

as ryanair is cheaper than all the other airlines flights shouldnt be a problem and will be probaly cheaper and quicker than any other route

Gutted!! Ah well...

dougal i just checked ryanair you can fly on the sat morning and back on the monday for £20pp including taxes

under £30 if you go on the friday

The email entry route is being used on this occasion as we believe there is a real danger of overselling this tournament.  That could occur if a large number of players were at an early stage of the payment process on Metacharge as the 103rd player completed his transaction.

APAT do not envisage needing to use this method again, as we hope to move to regional qualifying for the domestic tournaments in season two.  APAT did not feel it appropriate to run a consecutive member draw either.  

The next phase of the APAT website developement will remove the potential to oversell.

The 103 seats will be allocated in strict order of receipt by APAT, ie order within inbox.  That can easily be independently verified.

Please work with us everyone.  We are doing our best to work with the tools at our disposal in season one.

Cheers,

Des.

Des,

With you mentioning regional qualifiers, this is something that you have thought about and decided it will be an avenue to explore. Will under these proposals seats be allocated pro rata per region/members Will people from scotland be able to enter qualifiers in other regions.. Or will the be 25% seats scotland, 25% seats wales, 25% seats Egland, and the rest online. If so I am off to scotland...

Ironside, Suited Jock... easy get in up there....

Seriously though Des, could you enlighten us a bit on your thought and ideas for this type of qualyfying...

It is too early to discuss at this level of detail Jimmy.  However, APAT do intend to review all elements of season one and there will be opportunities for member input prior to final decisions being made.  Details to follow.

pfft

i really really dont like the sound of regional qualifing

i aint traveling to enter a sat to win a £75 seat

the nearest casino to me is 90 minutes drive away

driving back from this would be a nightmare

the chances of getting a quailfier there with enought people to play nil

the next nearest is 3 hours away meaning an over night stay costing as much as the seat i win

people who live further north than me would be even worse postion

so regional and internet quailfing only would see me leaving the tour

there has to be options to buy in direct

Also important that the qualifiers follow the general idea of the APAT of decent play - and aren't bingo-fests with super-quick structures, etc.

yeah making qualifing even less cost effective for those amateurs
infact make the qualifiers 2 day events

You know what I meant.  Having the qualifiers as bingo-fests means that they might as well go back to the draw. 

I like the way its done at the moment rather than regional qualifiers, it does seem like the people who REALLY want to go..always end up with a seat if they try hard enough.

Exactly, Summed up in one post, DONT FIX SUMMAT IF IT AINT BROKE!!!!!!!

Re qualification: maybe  a sit and go can be held at ireland for seats into season 2 events for the reserve listers who turn up on the day and dont manage to get a seat.

The top 3 etc could than be awarded a seat for an apat event in season 2 of their choice

you could then hold similar sit and go's at the season 2 events for the next events and at least ther reservists who turn up on spec may have something to play for.

2nd june is my 40th birthday.I'm going seat or no seat.Plus im not staying sober this time !

;tightend;

Micky, my bday is 30th May....thats my plan also...we can prop up the bar after going all in first hand!!!! Come on the Fish!

So celebrating 2 40th Birthdays in Ireland then.... ;bumwiggle; ;hide;

HAHA...I'll be drinking the pint i own you then Jim!!!

Right, forget the poker lets just have a big birthday pi** up.

Wahoo.....guiness and no poker....we'll all be so fun.....we'll have to gamble for tiddly-winks!!!!

Heads up dominoes for pints

Cant play DOmineos......ah sod it....drinking games....for money!!!!

i definately think random draw from all members has been the fairest way of allocating seats

Whilst it may be 'fair' in as much as everyone has the same chance of being drawn and getting a seat. I can't agree that it is the best way... you have the possibility that someone never* gets a seat for any of the tournaments they want to play!

*I suspect that 'never' would only need to one season for most people... I would certainly think twice about joining for another year if I had not been 'lucky' enough to secure a seat in any of the tournaments I wanted to play in.

I can't agree with this due to the fact that


Some people have said, for example, that they can't try to click to register to enter at certain times because of football. To me that just means that they don't REALLY want to go.

Obviously there are some occasions where people really can't avoid not being around for a registering process, but you would have to be very unlucky for this to happen more than once or twice in a season - and if you're that unlucky you're just going to get knocked out with an outdraw if you did play :)

As such I don't think that a random draw does represent fairness at a practical level.

i have all ready told the Mrs that i have a seat

unfortunately she is busy that weekend so i will have to go by myself (seat or no seat)

o'well i suppose i will have to live with that

Flights booked (ryanair only £20 return from brum), hotel booked.  Hopefully will win seat online or by the email thingy, however I will be in Ireland regardless of getting a seat or not.  Cannot wait for this, will be a top weekend, see you all there.

Seeing as i cant sleep in the car over night in Dublin............wait for it.........i'll shall be booking an Hotel.......anyone got a list or found a reallly cheap one??

Better watch out - there's a monkey about :)

well there will be after winning online satellite on Stars, see everyone there!

I could also do with the cheap hotel list as babymonkeyboy probably wont give me much of a spending budget :D

In the centre of Dublin (esp. near the Fitzwilliam) the hotels will be v.pricey. A better option is out by the airport (Holiday Inn Express for instance is only €257 for 3 nights).

Taxis are around €25 into town but obv. sharing these cuts the cost.

Booked!
 7h 2c

yup, was cheaper as you got closer to airport - booked twin room at Days Inn near the airport for €89 for the saturday night, which works out at about £30 if i can find someone who doesnt mind fleas and discarded banana skins to share with :D

You could also try searching through the self cater apartments in Dublin...and if a few of you crash in one, it'll be dirt cheap.
 
http://www.staydublin.com/?gclid=CNrL5KfQ7IsCFSLiEAodS18tPA

Not sure what the one in Dublin is like, but I got a special offer in the mail the other day for the Choice Hotel Group...here's the link to their special deal:

http://www.staylongerforless.com/

Good Luck! 

you think there could be some transit accomadation we could squeeze into?

 rotflmfao rotflmfao 

Well, we have a caravan that we park by the beach in the summer for the kids, but we haven't moved it yet.  Only problem...we live on the Cork/Kerry border and it's a long drive to Dublin with a caravan in tow.  Maybe you could bring a tent and find some bit of green at the back of the Fitz? 

Just read on another post theres no drinking in the fitzwilliam. I must be a certainty to win it.Me playing poker sober,what ever next.

tourney starts at 2pm doesnt it?

i'm sure the bar next door opens before 2................. :D

No alcohol is permitted in h Fitzwilliam, but the boozer next door is open 24/7 I believe.

just remember, you are NOT a monkey. Proberly.

Well done both of you for qualifying

No i'm staying sober its only my 40th birthday that day.I do bluff a lot dont i ?

FYP

FYP Part 2

we had the pub opened at silly O'clock one weekend, we were in there eating soup and supping pints for breakfast :)

FYP Part III

Part IV

dont worry guys just get drawn on my talbe and within 20 minutes you will be 200 yards up the round drinking till morning and talking about how you got out played

Sandwiched between Ironside and Dewi Cool tonight!

Who will crack first?

dewi

All right i've taken the bait, been called a lot of things in my life but CAMP.Oh well hey ho.

sure looks like it

ffs i hate online poker

down to the lottery for me

I have a ctertifticate to prove it!! :)

ty

there is a big grassy square park next to the Fitz, the park benches are quite comfy I have heard, there is an old guy that kips outside the club ...so that spot is taken.

u still steaming bout the miners winner bb4 kev...wahey!!!!!

the miners didnt win it .... 1 miner won it, but Leeds were dumped into the arse end of English football ... so the weekend wasnt a complete disaster ;)

See you in Dublin guys! ;D

Hope Eck gets his e-mail in fast too,thats such a cruel way to miss out

Well done Rich

Still not sure if i'll go for it, if I hadn't bubbled that might have sealed it though  ;reallyamsorry;


 

11th tonight, 14th last night.... I get a feeling I'll near miss the email too.

Oh well seat or no seat I'm off to Dublin, it'll be a cracking weekend anyway.

Still debating yet, my mate qualified on monday night on stars but been trying to work out cheap ways to get there. Looks like its going to be drive up to holyhead then hop on ferry as foot passengers and stay in some hostel in city centre.

Just got to raise some funds and get in now before i decide lol!

Ahem...http://www.hosteldublin.com/ (http://www.hosteldublin.com/)

chip reese is no miner he is a mug and always will be

his shirt will prove it

Not sure i can be arsed now.... no boozing in Casino.....just realised my passport has expired...another £70 to get it fast-tracked.... flight...accomodation....buy-in.....looking less an less likey!

I don't think you need a passport.

i was told somewhere that driving lience is all thats needed for ireland and passport isnt

its on ryanairs website somewhere