blonde poker forum

Was just searching around to see whos playing for Blonde but there doesnt seem to be any mention of it anywhere.

Who is the captain and how will the team be picked?

i was looking to maybe get this together suzanne but unfortunatley its the same day as my stag do so i cant make it.
kinboshi posted on the apat thread that blonde will have a team so i imagine he will organise. get your finger out boshi!!

Thanks Suzanne

Whilst it is not confirmed that blonde has a team yet, I would hope it would get a team in


In the meantime those interested please post, and we will sort in due course


brief details as follows

The APAT UK Team Championship; the final event of Season Three, will be held at the G Casino in Manchester on January 23rd & 24th, 2010.

Following on from the very successful Team Championship last year which was won by the Bristol & South West Meetup, this event will again feature teams of 10 players, with 50% of the prize pool plus a GUKPT Seat and National Medals going towards individual prizes, while the other 50% of the prize pool, plus the title and Championship Cup will be going towards the Team Championship.

The entry fee per player will be £50, with no registration fee being charged.  There will be a reduction in the number of teams able to enter this year, from 20 to 16.

Happy to organise if needed, both Joobs and myself interested.

Move the date of stag do ftw ;-)

I'm interested - was gutted to miss out last year :(

is it once big MTT?  ie can a player end up on same table as a team mate?

"if so im not playing" nanananana

it was last year but with a starting table draw that guaranteed different teams at your table, which wasnt the best idea, especially when blonde and chezger all got stuck in seat 1.

correct if it isnt then i would play

hopefully selection will have a criteria of a certain number of posts claire. may i suggest 18000  ;)

:goodpost: ;iagree;

that's me, nitboshi and boldie vs the rest of the world then :D

is it pro-am again?

Am


Pro-Am was a different event

claw i would of jumped at the chance i need a good excuse to get to a fun game early in new year (if fit) but i dont play team events like this

set up the wrong way imho

fail. team event was pro-am last year

Could be a babysitting nightmare but I will worry about that if I get picked...add me to the list please.

if it was i apologise

Will have to double check you are right now!

surely bainns up for this????  ;)

it was referred to as 'open' rather than pro-am but basically the same thing

 ;indestructable;

Count my interest as added.

ta muchly

isnt it a forum team event?? surely it doesnt matter if your am or pro as long as you are a poster on that forum?

I think Boshi has registered the forum interest on APAT

But as its my "home" casino so to speak, I'll be very interested :)

Yep,stick my name on the list of interested please.

is madforchester just teh team event?

+1 for me too

I believe so yeah

ffs

Prize pool is split 50/50

50% for the team and the same for individuals.

yah still a personal prefence i wont play in events like this

Ill play.

'collective sigh of relief' from other potential team members....

I'll put my name down for this.

I'm interested in playing in this again. Surely we cant run as bad as we did last year.

I quite fancied playing this.

Unfortunately having spent 10 minutes on the APAT forum I got bored trying to look for it.

What a nightmare!!

yeah im interested in being considered please

lol fair comment!

You don't need to find it on there Matt, just register interest on here and when we have a team accepted we'll go to the next stage of selecting a team

When the details have been finalised, and the number of members in a team have been decided, I'll post more details on here.

i found it after 11 mins

no staying power some people ..

Add my name to interest list please

Okay, I've moved the thread now.  Where's the fun if you are able to find it in only 11 minutes.

You've made it harder to find?

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

I moved it into the archive, next to a report about some bloke that won an APAT event once.  Kin.. something or other.  No one reads that thread either, so it should be fine there.

After playing my first APAT event recently I'll stick my name down for this...

[ ]    I can name at least 1 reason why I should be chosen

im interested especially if gatso is goin i need my air hockey revenge

[ ] gl with that

hope you've been practicing as it wasn't exactly close last time. a 7-4 scoreline doesn't lie

i owned you at bowlin tho  and my tub of 2ps lasted a lot longer so balla

yeah, I'll concede the bowling seeing as you bowled so hard you broke the lane

ill put my name in pls

LIST OF TEAMS SEEKING TO PLAY

APAT
Bristol & South West Meetup
Chezger
NIPoker
Raise The River
OfficePoker
Blondepoker
Newcastle Poker Forum
Eat My Stack
Ace Of Clubs
Gambling Network
Black Country Poker Club
North Norfolk Poker Forum
Punters Lounge
UK Poker Life
Sky Poker Forum
A World Of Poker
Northern Poker Stars
Kracked Kings
Furness Poker
Team TGF / Brs
FISO
The Hendon Mob
Voyage In Poker
Bubble Poker League
UK Sharks
London Poker Meetup
Poker Player
Shark Poker School

29 applications for entry to date.  Entry closes on Sunday.

Blonde got a team slot. Now for an 8 player team...I don't envy the person that is captain!

Yes Please!

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.jpg

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

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

OK so the team is in

Got to pick 8 names and don't believe that should be down to any one individual to choose.

Suggesting an Online MTT as a qualifer, Top 8 get spaces, other final tablers the reserves.

Thoughts?

Alternative suggestions?

Will take these on board and then let the mods decide.

Was hoping to play for the officepoker team, would have been good to have got a squad from Edinburgh down for this, unfortunately we didn't get a spot. Would like to be considered for blonde please.

Geo

Indications of interest on thsi thread from

Suzanne
Sharplea
Joobie
Claw
tuffster
asa
cdw
girgy
pokerfan
cia
newportlad
evilpie
rudders
duncthehat
Beaver
dunk
blatch

Qualifier is good but should be a freeroll. Apart from that, sounds perfect.

This is a good idea. The odds on me being able to play a qualifier are quite low tho :(

thanks

rather than pick names out of a hat, or appoint a captain (itself contentious) who then faces subjective choices and risks upsetting people, at least an online qualifier offers some semblance of skill in getting into the team

on blonde ahhrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggg

Well, that is rather the object, yes.


Open to better suggestions of course

I have an AOL connection and had absolutely no problems playing a 3hr HU cash session yesterday. Every time I've had problems I've not been able to connect at all, so I'm hoping that it's sorted.

lol anything that doesnt involve aol/blonde

try it. We'd be grateful and you might be surprised.

geo who has been having trouble played a mtt yesterday without problems

just seen this

hmm will download it again on this lappy and see how it copes

was for the same prob

can but try 20 times lol

Yeah, I downloaded it again on Joobs' laptop after a system restore and it worked fine. Will try it on my comp now without a re-installation.

Freeroll, top 8 in the team. Then either 1st place is Captain or just consensus opinion of the 8.

Gets my vote (and therefore hopefully assistance from Kev's Lever :D )

Working fine on my comp as well. Hopefully the problem has been sorted!

Why a freeroll? Surely a team that would want to represent Blonde should at least be prepared to deposit in it's cardroom no?

Prepared to, yes.

Able to for financial reasons, no.

Why should players who cannot deposit on Blonde miss out?

downloaded ok but password/username error will fire other lappy up tomorrow to retrieve

Or even better;

The first person who can accurately post the full rules to a Tighty SnG gets to be captain and then chooses the team :D

Tighty SnG's have rules? Since when?

LOL ok. So how will they manage the £50 entry and expenses to stay in Manchester? It would be a $10 MTT max probably sure they can manage to stick $20 on blonde.

Never.


Anyway, post alternative ideas...if there are any...and we'll do a selection process soon enough

Bearing in mind the tournament you are aiming to play in is a £50 per person tourney, you could play a tourney with equal cash to top 8 towards entry costs.

Just an idea.

Or you could just make the top raker (who wants to participate) on Blonde the Captain and let him/her chose the team.

The question is, are we playing for fun, or to win? If it's to win, we should be choosing the best 8 players, if it's to have fun, socialise and play poker, then a random draw / freeroll Donkament will suffice.

Right, fuck it. I'll state my financial situation, and maybe people can see that as an example.

I don't work. Not out of choice, I'd kill to work right now, but I can't. I'm signed off sick, for reasons I'm not going into on here, and have been since September 2008. I get about £50 a week in state benefit.

If I was one of the lucky ones to qualify, then all I have to do is put £5/£10 away each week. There are enough weeks between now and then that I can do this. I don't have very much in the way of outgoings because I live with my parents that it would hurt to do this, I just wouldn't have the occasional takeaway that I do.

As for expenses, I live 30 minutes from Manchester so I wouldn't have to worry about those. I could either book a train now, and get ridiculously cheap seats, or I could ask The Duke for a lift there and back as I know he is playing. If I made Day 2, I have friends in Manchester I can crash at.

So yeah, I can't deposit on Blonde right now. But I can play this tournament. Why should I have to miss out?

Willing to play any sort of qualifier on Blonde.. would just need a cpl of weeks notice to ensure I can play it ;)

Oh, and if I don't get in, may as well be 1st reserve living 2 mins away...

darts. closest to the bull wins

anyone who can't play pub games really won't be much good representing blonde on what is essentially a weekend away on the piss

I am going to email Simon.Cowell@itvxfactor.com and ask him to choose.

Job done.

Im up fpr a qualifier¬

Right that's it I'M OUT.

It's just not worth risking a 3 minute Karaoke Solo from Joobs in order to represent Blonde  ;nana;

would be so com if jedward got 2 of the 8 places on the team. please make this happen

I vote for this.

Eck is so blue blooded sharplea he doesn't understand the coalface like you and I, just ignore his elitist ramblings.

Tighty...

My thoughts are shouldn't blonde members who have supported the tour thus far be given preference (rather than the bandwagon)?
Isn't one MTT a little swingy to choosing the best team?
Does blonde want to win or just take part? if take part choose anyone, if win pick the best players!!

PS count me out I'm elsewhere ;-)

Shouldn't this be moved to the clique sub-forum? ;)

closest to 1st number drawn on saturdays lotto

closest 8 gets the seat?

On a more serious note, clearly there's no 'ideal' way of choosing a team. Online MTT seems fairest for giving everyone an even playing field. My only concern with that would be that the players that go through will be representing blonde in the poker community, and we've had a tricky situation before where someone won a seat at an event via a blonde freeroll and was perhaps not the best advertisement for the forum.  The only other alternatives though involve someone (probably tighty) having to choose people, and I don't see anyone wanting to be put in that position.

Has anyone had a nose round the other forums to see what they're doing?

I've had a nose round a few. THM chose a team. Sky are doing an online league which I believe is private freerolls. Chezger has Duke selecting his team. APAT have Leigh (Pawprint) selecting a team. Bristol have the same team as last year. AWOP don't appear to have a thread up about it.

And trust me, find a way other than someone picking a team.  Seemed a good and simple job at the time.  I have a list of nearly 50 players wanting to play and only now have 7 spaces available after the reduced numbers were announced to fit more teams in.

Good luck to all Blondes trying to get in.

Can't play, but IMHO:

MTT on Blonde .....(min 300 posts qualifer). Winner is captain.

Whole team has to dye their hair blonde imo

gg Boldie

so not much point applying for APAT team as a back up plan then? ;D

More than welcome to Claire.  When I thought it was going to be teams of 10, I said that at least two places would be randomly drawn from all who have shown an interest in playing.  I might have to make that one place now, I could easily pick three teams and I could justify every player in them.  It's tough.

lol was just kidding Leigh - I couldn't play against the blonde team anyway :)

Sigh , easiest way to pick teams is all those interested send me a PM with a bribe amount ... I then pick the team :D

Cook-off to select the team. Mantis is made non-playing captain and gets a little scooter to whizz around on Ryder Cup-style, dispensing cryptic but inspiring metaphors.

Meh ... didnt want to play anyway :(

I always vote for you Kev. I think your frozen vegetable preparation is much underrated.

I'm happy to drop out of this to give others a chance. I had a go last year so I'm happy enough with that.

In my opinion it should be a similar selection to last year. $10 wednesday / thursday / friday donkament on Blonde. Highest finishers get the spots.

Adam. If it's just the money that's a problem I'll put you in an mtt for 90% of the winnings + stakeback.

It's not just me though Matt. There could be others that want to play but can't deposit cos they're skint or for other reasons. I was just using my situation as an example. A freeroll gives everybody a chance to play.

Either that or get Tighty to give everybody a random number and use http://www.random.org to generate 8 players!

A MTT on blonde seems fairest and gets my vote.

anyone wanting to play in the sat but cant for financial reasons can get staked they just need to drop me a pm

I want to play the WSOP ME as well, but can't for financial reasons.

If anyone can help with that, it'd be much appreciated.

kkthxbye

Why don't we do it the same as last year, three tournies and the top 8 finishers (from any one event) get a place?  Worked well and got people involved, and I managed to bink a seat by erm.....sitting out.

Not being funny, but if you cant afford to play 3 x $10 tourneys then my sound financial advisor head would suggest that you cant afford the travel, buy in, nor the accomodation for the weekend. The fact that the only meal you will be eating all weekend is the free buffet could also serioulsy damage your health.

This was a financial safety announcement brought to you be SHBC

I'm interested.

Would rather not have to pay to play a qualifier on blonde as I can't seem to deposit (tho I guess it's an excuse for me and keV to finally sort this out).

I approve of a cook off selection process.

Also, people with long hair should be given priority.

FYP

lol nice

why make a qualifier anything apart from a freeroll?

 seems a bit tight to have to make team members pay for a qualifier to a team event regardless of bankroll all yr doing is bumping up the juice?

worked well for the people that could play the three tournaments......

I could only play two, and I got in.

Erm, to support blonde?

Dont care if freeroll or money event (money event would support blonde!!!) , just think its the best idea.  The tourney option makes it a level playing field.  Those that dont post too often or are fairly new to blonde get an equal chance to play as oppossed to other forums that choose a more "clicky" alternative selection method.

what happened were there only 8 entries???

No, there were only 6 entries and he still nearly managed to bubble :D

Nope - it was the $10 nightly donkfest.  Loads of runners.  I just ran good.

I'd like to put my name forward

Perhaps we should have a team of past Blonde Bash winners

Tra la la la la la la ;karabiner; ;karabiner;

you sure you want Bongo in the team???

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS

that's actually not a bad idea!

I'm not personally keen on the donkament idea as those games are just too swingy. if we want to do it over 3 games or something, would much prefer private tournaments.

Action stealing mofo!!!!!!!!!

you want a stake off to sort this out?

Is this something to do with cooking?

no we offer a stake into an event (lets say the 10k on blonde at 7pm) for later in week then we pick a team each for those that apply the winner is the one with the biggest return

Don't do one off low buy in stakes anymore mate. They are without doubt the most -EV proposition ever.

Only offered it for this particular thing because it might help Adam out. 

np

has to be a 3 week $10+1 tourney to see who gets in.

8 points for 1st down to 1 point for 8th.

after 3 weeks the top 8 get into the team.

1/2 prize money withheld to go towards team entry fees, with the rest of it given out each night as standard tourney payout.

Sounds fair to me.

Give the folks who support the cardroom the chance to go. (That counts me out btw :()

Might be an idea to have one or two picked at random as well for people who can't play online.

Thats the best idea I've heard! Top 6 from the league. Other 2 random.

Think it needs to be decided and sorted before then in an ideal world.

Last year we chose three nights of the $10 donkfest on blonde, and people played in them.  The highest 8 finishers in any single event got into the team (well, it was 10 in the team last year).

This means that people who can't play on a certain night aren't too disadvantaged.  Last year we ran them on consecutive Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights and most people who were interested in playing managed at least two of the three nights.  However we do it, people are going to be disappointed as there are more people interested than there are places in the side.

Not sure that a 'league' system is completely fair (especially if they're on the same night each week and that means people can't play at all.  It might work if there is a series of tournaments with the best three finishes for each person counting - similar to the way the blonde league worked.  This means people aren't penalised if they miss one or two of the events, and everyone has a chance to get three finishes recorded.

Just thinking out loud.

Top 8 finishers in the DTD monte carlo event imo

you could do it that each winner gets automatic qualification, and the other spaces are decided on points. agree it needs to be sorted sooner rather than later so those  that get a spot can make arrangements.

Highest OPR score?

yes (think mine is quite good :D)

Then get those people disqualified as their main source of living is from poker, amirite?

noooo - not at my average buy in of $11 or whatever it is!

I really don't think that would apply to the people who want to play this. DUCY?

I don't know mate, hasn't stopped people playing APAT events in the past. Anyway I will leave this thread now as my views on all of this will just lead arguements that have been going on for years.

The team event is an open event anyway :D

cant you have two teams? or just random number generator it.

Even to Razz champions?

lol

who wants to stake me in then? :P full buy in!

Right, cliff notes please ....

When is the event, how many to a team, and how many have expressed an interest in playing ?

23-24 Jan

teams of 8

about 25 interested

Team tbc sometime in the next few weeks please

Right then ... the $10 donkfest on at 7.30 every weeknight ... Choose any or all 3 from

WEDNESDAY 18th NOVEMBER

TUESDAY 24th NOVEMBER

THURSDAY 26th NOVEMBER

The 8 players who post the highest finishing spot from any of the 3 games will be put forward for the "official" blonde team. YOU MUST POST BEFORE EACH GAME YOU PLAY to register your participation in the team selection process, this post must include your blonde poker room screen name, you must play the games on the blonde skin to qualify. you may play in 1, 2 or all 3 of the games...


While I appreciate some people have cashflow issues, I have tried to give a bit of notice so hopefully you can find a way of getting a few quid online to have a bash at the $11 games.


GOOD LUCK ALL.

anyone wanting staked for these 3 comps can send me a PM

;goodluck; all

sounds good kev

now to download the blonde skin!!

Good selection Kev,

just recently seem to have my cnx probs sorted too, hope it lasts.

Can we set a separate thread nearer the time to register participation and record results.

Geo

ok had one request for staking so far, this is the deal i am offering if anyone else is intrested.


$33 total stake i get stake back then 60% of winnings combined
unless you make final table of any of the events in which
i would then just get a 50/50 split with no stake back

you get to keep the seat in the team tourny and 100% of winnings

i will need to know your blondepoker cardroom username and email and also if your account is in $s or £s

sounds shit kev gg me

have you tried the software in the last couple of days?

Meh. Can't please everyone.

UL Dunk.

Its Dunk FFS surely the aim is to exclude him?

Worked for you last year.

maybe that's the problem - he knows lightning rarely strikes twice?  :dontask:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2368/1585097780_6899dae613.jpg)

just tried it seems to be workin

now just get a seat won

ok those that have asked for staking should be getting funds soon
those in $s should have in accounts now
those in £s will get as soon as kev can sort it out

good luck my horses

When is this Iron?

Room for one more?

let me know if you can play all 3 if not how many you will play

i will need your blondepoker display name and your email

send via PM

doubt it they are the regualr daily events

normally listed the day before i think

ye i just actually read the post properly lol. and went to modify and acidently hit delete haha.


Screen Name - viiperUK19

I can defo play this wednesday the 18th!

The other 2 im working but may be able to get swaps but id know more next week!

is your account in $s?

if it is drop me a PM when ever

if it isnt drop me the PM asap

quick question, are the scores combined here?

like if i come in top 30 of the comp is there any point in playing the next 2 weeks etc?

Not combined scores.  So if you win the first one, you won't have to play the others.

;)

yes there is point MONEY

HI GUYS,
I'm new to the BLONDE POKER FORUM.
Love to try my skills against you lot.If you play as good as you talk,this will be an unbeatable team, lol.Just opened my account on the Blonde skin as (cormach123) so count me in for 18/11/09.Good luck everyone.
Frank.

hello and  ;welcome;

see you on wednesday.... glglglgl

welcome mate and cya wed :P

Welcome Frank ... Gl in the comps.

Oh and have a look at this, might be of interest to you. http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=45351.0

Cheers

Kev.

on deadline for anyone wanting staked by me in this is 6pm tuesday 17/11/09

Sounds like fun, might have to try it as I have been meaning to play an APAT for ages anyway.

Frank!!!  Hiya and welcome to blonde!  

This guy can play a bit so beware.  

since when have you been sober enough to tell?

Played plenty of Sunday nights as Dublin team captain and drank water during a good few of them.  Not all, mind...but a good few.  rotflmfao