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Fairly good chance I will be in Nottingham next Saturday night with nothing to do.

DTD calendar says there is an APAT tournament Day 1a on that night.

Is that all there will be?

If no other tournaments, roughly what time will the cash games start?

Thanks.

Hooters

cash games?

pretty sure they'll be queuing up once word gets about....

You lucky lucky man Keith, if you can't get in the tournament, they are actually having the APAT Awards at DTD on Saturday. Maybe they'd let you present one.

I'm playing that APAT day one which has a 2pm start on Saturday Keith.

I'd say there's a very good chance that I'll be available for dinner.

The cash-games should be especially decent this weekend too.

I'll be there for cash games, and there is also the chance to get into some of the APAT events on the day (if you're there early enough).  Should be a good atmosphere at the club.

Second best thing to winning one!

Don't tell anyone.

Sounds good, especially if ostrich is still on the menu.

I'll be on every list you'll be on.

Pity you're not there on the Friday night Keith - APAT have a £250 comp that night.

If you want to try something a bit different Keith, we have a Saturday night special on the menu...

APAT WCOAP Cash Championship

The event is run over two timed phases and the key features are as follows:-

Phase One:

- The first phase will run over several tables for a three hour period.

- Players must buy in for £100 + a one off 10% fee.

- Players will be able to have one optional rebuy of £100 if they lose their entire first stack.  Their will be no fee on their rebuy.

- Players will be assigned a table and seat number as in tournament play.

- Blinds will be static at 50p / £1 in the first phase.

- Players can opt to leave with the cash in front of them. However, once they have exited, they cannot buy back in.

- There will be no alternates or late buy ins.

- Tables are balanced following exits as a tournament would be.

- At the end of the first phase, the leading eight cash stacks are carried forward to the final table.

- The game is over for the remaining players and they keep whatever cash is left in front of them.

Phase Two:-

- The final phase will run over three hours.

- The blinds will increase to £1 / £2.

- Players will draw for seat position.

- If players have not used their single rebuy, they can choose to add it to their stack before play recommences in phase two.

- Players can again choose to leave the final table at any point with the cash in front of them.

- The player who is either the last standing, or has the largest stack left after the three hour phase two period will be the event winner.

There's a bangle for the winner too, just not this particular one.

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Looks interesting Des, might give this a bash if there is enough interest and Uncle Ralph isn't free for Ostrich Tandoori.

Would it be too much to expect/hope for that after you've paid the entry fee the games will be rake free?

i am sure they are rake free after the fee is paid

Are they? :-) :-)

I thought they were raked normally. Awesome if true obv.

Just the fee. No rake.

Rake free Keith. Would be great to see you play and get some feedback on the format.

Hi, do i need to be an APAT member to play this?

Not at all, but if you like the format we'd appreciate the support.

Is the main full? Trying to register on apat forum now but its not easy!

Everything is pretty much sold out, but DTD do have some seats held back, so going via the cash desk is the best option now.

Thanks

One other thing on the cash championship, when we get down to phase two, we'll be streaming play live with commentary from Tighty and guests, until we award the bracelet.  The final stream will also replay on APAT in the coming weeks.

In the cash championship Des, once you have entered for your £100+£10 are the games cash championship exclusive and rake-free or are the cash-tourney players intermingled with regular DTD cash-games paying regular DTD rake until there is a final?

Think Keith is coming for the Awards Ceremony.

 ;marks;

It's an exclusive field Ralph. Very tournament like, except you can cash your chips in at any point.  So there's a whole new dynamic there.  What does a player do if sat with £300, a decent return on your £110, but he's sat outside the top 8 stacks with ten minutes left in

Possible to reserve a seat?

We're running it over four tables and all seats were reserved weeks ago. That said some players will still be playing in the earlier horse event, so I would be very surprised if some seats weren't free on the night.

Ha, be funny if you got me all excited and then I couldn't play!

Are all the apat tourneys sold out now?

Nobody delivers disappointment quite like me! Lol

Some seats still available at DTD Paul....and nearly as many trophies still up for grabs. 

Do I need to be a apat member?

That's not essential for our DTD events, but we always welcome the support.

 ;tightend; ;tightend; ;tightend; ;applause;

I've never played an APAT event but always wondered what makes it an "Ametuer" tournament?

Basically not tour regs., sponsored pros, or previous DTD deepstack winners ;)

When APAT first started there weren't any well-run big comps for the relatively small buy-ins, with the added value that APAT offered.  Although there are now lots of 'deepstack' comps being offered at the lower buy-ins and there's no 'need' to travel to play such comps, APAT is still doing well and a lot of that is due to the community aspect of it.  It's been the blueprint for others to follow, the Sky Poker Tour is definitely one.

^^^^^^ this, I was planning to say something similar in my victory speech on Saturday

Largely this excludes full time pros who make their sole income from playing Dave. In truths there is rarely a problem due to the size of the prize pools APAT events offer. We do ALS offer open events like the Cash Championship for example.

Out of interest Des, have you ever had to refuse/ban/tell someone off for pretending not to be a pro and playing?

APAT has always been a really good natured community focussed type of tour, so I presume you don't worry too much about that.

It has come up previously.  But like Des said, the prize pool isn't really appealing to a pro who wouldn't get out of bed for the 1st prize.  Think it might have been a bit different in the first season though with some amazing added value to the prize pools.

Thin

It's been at least a year since I mentioned it! :D

It's largely self policed, but once or twice we've had questions asked about certain players and had a friendly discussion with them.  On the two or three examples that this has happened the players have always had a good justification for playing.  That would have been true in S1 also when the payout structure was very top heavy and a player would have had to win an event to have paid for their weekend. 

What time is the cash championship starting?

Would a "pro" be allowed to play some of the more obscure tournaments? Not that I particularly consider myself pro but I'd love to play some live 7CS at some point. And o8 but no way under the pro definition would I be allowed in that.

Is there any info on whether or not this is now full?

This was reserved full last night when I was at DTD. However, Des was saying that he would recommend seeing if there are any seats at DTD at 5pm.

It starts at 6pm and will last approximately 6.5hrs.

Thanks! If not no doubt there will be some reg cash games by then

Not the amateur titled events, but we had a couple of open events in the WCOAP also. 

Enjoyed this thanks for running it.

Sorry I left the final early, but

a. I was really tired (and rather emotional after the delights of a free bar at the City Ground all afternoon)

b. The players in the final were really good

c. I had already endured 4 hours longer than my usual tolerance level for cash games.