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Hi all,

I have registered an interest in entering a blonde team into this annual event.

Details are as follows (taken from APAT forum):

25 teams of 8 players each will compete for both a team and an individual prize pool in the Team Championship, which will consist of a 200-runner MTT (TBC).
 
Entry is £400+£40 per team, with the total buyins paid out on a 50/50 basis to the top 3 teams and the top 20 players from the MTT (TBC). This would be £55pp.

The top 100 players in the MTT will score points for their team with 1st=100pts down to 100th=1pt (TBC).
 
Teams are to provide their own matching-colour team shirts for their members for both days of the event – if desired, these are available from APAT at a cost of £15 per shirt and can be branded with the Team Name and player ‘name/nickname’ on the breast of both shirts.

This event has seen huge demand in previous years, and we are expecting similar interest for 2014.  The event has also on occasion suffered from ‘team last minute dropouts’ in the past, and therefore for 2014 we will maintain a reserve list and require all successful teams to pay the entry fee in advance by 12:00 noon on Friday 17th January 2014.  Any team failing to meet the buyin deadline will have their entry offered to teams on the reserve list.  Any team that pays the full buyin and has a last minute need to drop out will have their entry offered to the next team on the reserve list and whichever team takes up this option will have their buyin used to reimburse the team that had to drop out (via APAT).

Further and full details of the event will be posted on the APAT Forum by 18th January 2014 at the latest.

So - who is interested?


Interest list
sharplea
amcgrath1uk
Beaver808
Rodders
Graham C
Paul Ho
Delboy
BorntoBubble
Ironside (if he can travel)
Cormach
ThisnThat
Rexas
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It's the highlight of the year for me, an absolutely cracking weekend.

I'm very interested!

 ;whistle;

How Blonde have never won this before is beyond me.


Get Tighty on the team to start with.

Then you want the best player in the Bedi household, don't stand for second best.

Kinboshi had won APAT gold before anyone knew how to play poker, so he must be good.

Get Ironside out of semi-retirement.

Tikay loves a good team event.


The rest of the teams won't know what hit them.

Happy to play if required, my current form is live events is terrible though (not expecting to get selected tbh).

If I don't get picked I will certainly be following the updates and supporting Blonde.

Surely your a shoe in!

Nowt to do with me ofc but APAT regs should definitely get precedence for team selection imo.

doesnt Apat have a few teams themselves though.

They have one team, same as all other forums. Once or twice they have had more than one - but in the most recent events they had one forum team and one team which was their team league winner.

I've just noticed above that the entry fee has to be paid in advance.

Whomever is picked as captain (i'm certainly not appointing myself after last year's argument!) will have to arrange the payment of this and source monies from all other players.

I would assume that if someone is chosen, pays up then cannot make it, that person would be refunded personally by their replacement. I would also assume that blonde as a company would not be expected to cover this.

Why? It's a blonde team. Apat will have their own team.

Get back to clicking buttons.

Asa for captain.

i would be in but there is a 98% chance i wont be fit too tavel and stay away a whole weekend

Is there a date for this? I seem to be missing it, if there is.

the whole month of February can you not read

It's an APAT Open event, so anyone can play (including pro's)

I think Blonde should put together the strongest possible live MTT team that they can.

Would like to be considered for a place.  Where is it? 

Person A is involved with APAT and BLONDE, Person B is involved with BLONDE, picking person A everytime, simples fish.

I would like to nominate  Keith 'The Camel' for the team  ;D

My whistling wasn't interest just a nod to last years thread

Yeah Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd Feb

link?

In if I'm selected

Ha, 1 day clock and 8 million chips :)

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=14531.0

Vice captain.

trophy for Ho

Put my name on the list please Adam.

Also.

Asa for Skipper!

36 hour clock and 2 million starting stack dont want too many chips on table but want a gentle structure so there is still an average 40bigs HU

Is Asa captain yet?

I would be interested in joining up!

Updated to here.

Asa for captain!

Would like to be considered for the Blonde Team.

Good shout. Missed out last time.

Vice vice capt.

Asa mcCaptain is captain.

Paul Ho vice captain.

would like to put my name in the mix
cheers

and good luck to whoever plays

Bumping to see if there is any more interest...

Anyone suggested Asa as captain yet?

Mainly people who don't seem to be playing... ;)

I'm obviously more than happy to be the captain :)

Really enjoyed this last year and quite tempted to put myself forward again, but can't really commit to it atm so will leave it to people who might actually have a chance of getting some points :)

In the spirit of the thread, I also agree that Asa would make an excellent captain.

Only just seen this, I might well be interested though, looks like a fun event. However, does this clash with the sky poker ME in dusk?

No the Sky event is later in February, hope this helps

Nominatin Aaron as captain.

Yes, this event is on 1st and 2nd Feb (UKPC is 19th to 23rd Feb)

Excellent event worth going too if you can make it.

 :hello:             would like to be considered

yeah, in that case, ill play if im wanted :)

Even if I don't get in
nominate ASA as captain !!!
 ;kneelsucker;

Updated list to here.

There was some discussion last year as to how team was to be selected
last year i think it was mods appoint captain and captain picks team
in previous years mtt league was run
of course team could just be picked out hat

what does every body think how should team be selected assuming more than 8 confirm interest ?

Selected my Mods imo. Or Mods pick captain who picks team.

Unless Tightly is going to select it of course.

I've actually sent Tighty a message asking him if he's ok with myself being captain ( going off the posts I'll assume most will be happy)

If/when that is sorted out, I'll want to get the team sorted asap, as I have to have all the money in advance, and to pay the team in online in advance. This is all assuming we get a place of course ( which shouldn't be an issue)

Just wondering if any news about this
cheers ;carlocitrone; ;carlocitrone; ;carlocitrone;

May sound stupid but who is asa?

amcgrath1uk
Hero Member
*****

Door number 4
Door number 4

I am not sure if I am required to do anything here, but happy to endorse amcgrath1 as captain and to select the team from those interested

the captain has to collect the cash etc this year, so its a bit more onerous. If Asa wants it, seems ok for him to do it to me

Ohh ok I see he posted 10 times this year but did recognise the screen name.

Dont think so. Leave it all up to Asa as captain. Whoever is captain needs to let me know as I need to change the contact details with APAT, as I put the request in.

Think we get told which teams have a place after 15th December, but will check.

ETA/ Just checked. Teams are due to be announced by Friday 20th December. All monies have to be collected by the captain (£55pp) and sent to APAT by 12.00pm Friday 17th January 2014. Shirts then need to be arranged, but APAT will do this for £15 per shirt.

Think it's good to let Asa pick the team, as he has to organise it and collect the money etc. I'm happy to help with the selections too, if needed.

Anybody else wish to be considered?

No but out of interest, do you not?

I want to play. Don't want to captain!

Yeah I'm more of a lurker these days, by the time I get to a thread, most things have been said!


Cheers :) Once APAT have confirmed we have a team ( which shouldn't be an issue), then I shall get to selecting the side. I will be sending messages to everyone who has shown an interest over the weekend as well to find out a bit more about you all!

Right I've sent everyone on the interest list a message, so check your pm's.

Just waiting on replies from Rexas and Borntobubble

APAT announced teams for febs  and BLONDE are IN LOL ;yippee; ;yippee;

Now up to captain to pick a team !!!!
whoever plays good luck !!!

Here's for a  ;first; ;first; ;first;

Good stuff

the next step is with Captain Asa. Down to him to pick the winning team

Asa if you need assistance or advice, ask any mod of your choice. Even celtic

Asa is captain? Ridic decision.

Have just been selected for the Edgworth Team. Good luck to Asa and the Blonde team. See you all in Stoke.

Will be announcing the team at some point tomorrow.

As always it's ridiciulously difficult to decide who is in and who misses out. Apologies to those that have missed out. I've gone for a mixture of players, those that I know can grind, those that I know will accumulate chips, reglars from the APAT tour, those who have been on Blonde a good while, as well as the newer players..but most importantly, all of these players I know will make the team a good one to play in and to be around.

The team is:

Amcgrath1uk ( captain)
Paul Ho ( vice captain)
Graham C
Rodders
Sharplea
Rexas
Borntobubble
Delboy

Congratulations to all those who have made the team, and again, commiserations to those missing out. I will be in touch soon regarding the details, but if you can, pm me your shirt size!!

Many thanks for the selection Asa. From the people I know in the team looks like it should be a great event. Come on Blonde let's finally win this thing!!!

Great, thanks for the pick, should be fun.

Any ideas on where you'll be staying and if you'll be going down Friday or Saturday?

The quality hotel is right by the casino and is currently only £40/night. It is an OK hotel too. Can I recommend this as the team hotel.

http://www.laterooms.com/en/p3623/hotel-reservations/13185_quality-hotel-stoke-on-trent.aspx

I would say book in quickly as it will sell out reasonably soon.

There is a cash championship event on the Friday night for anybody who fancies that, there is also a decent event on Sunday offering a an APAT WCOAP passport for the other teams who are not all still in the main event. I don't think I can get to this one until the Saturday but have booked in Sat and Sun night at the moment.

Looking forward to this one lot's.

Cheers, will sort it later on.

What's vice captain do?

Thanks for the pick

Proud to represent blonde even tho I have been banned previously

Vice captain Ho. :)

Good luck all.

Cheers for the pick! Will look in to hotels soon but happy to share/pass out on the floor somewhere planning Friday-Sunday!

Get the drinks in.

Organise the Vice  ;)

Good luck to the blonde team

Thanks for the selection Asa.

Looks like a great team to be part of.

Quality Hotel booked for the Friday to Sunday.


Edit:

Shirt size XL.

If you need the twat hat let me know. Gl team blonde

Definitely. The Twat Hat was awesome fun.

Awesome :) Will get hotels booked ASAP, and shirt size.... I'm gonna go with medium, but i am rubbish at this sort of thing :p Thanks for the pick anyway, gl us :)

Have booked in the Quality Inn for Friday and Saturday night, will go home on Sunday after the events have finished.  
Better have an XXL shirt, for comfort, of course.

gl team blonde enjoy

I will almost certainly be taking a look at the cash tournament thing on the friday, missed out playing it at dusk a while back and it definitely looks like a fun concept

Good luck to team blonde

here's to a 1st

take it down  ;D ;D

Good luck to Team Blonde.

About time we won one of these!

Any guys wanna nit it out n share hotel?

All the names and shirt sizes have been sent over to APAT.

It looks like we're pretty much all going to be staying at the same hotel, will send out messages tonight / tomorrow night about payment & other plans etc

Will DTD be wanting the team to be wearing any branding?

Hats? Patches? Etc

As the forum sponsors, I think they should be offered the chance to push their latest promotions.

I have some new blonde patches you can have for Stoke

Will ask next time I am up if DTD have some spare hats etc

Cool, thanks Rich

That was the next PM on the list, saved me a job, cheers :)

Your welcome Skip.

 ;grr;

Sack Asa, make delboy captain.

Asa more than qualified for the job..........

I was acting above my pay grade and will, no doubt, pay the first forfeit of the weekend  :)

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=14819.0;topicseen

Suggestion on the APAT forum could be good anybody in our team up for it?

Paul Ho has had to pull out, meaning we have a spot in the team.

If Beaver808 and h are still interested and can play, can you PM me asap. Cheers

Hey Asa don't think you will be but i'll be down for the weekend anyways, if by any chance you do end up short just send me a message on Apat (hi_am_chris) or on here,

Chris

Cheers Chris, will give the initial applicants first choice on the matter, then you'd be next!

GDP luck to the Blonde Team. I've been picked to play for Team HitSquad so hopefully I'll get to play against some of you. See you on the beize.

Hi Team Blonde

Really looking forward to this event now two weeks Saturday. When is everybody planning to travel to Stoke?

Just on the APAT forum btw and think you all need to read this page of their thread

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=14532.135

Can we please ensure that we deal with their teams at the event. Let's be honest it is not like it is hard to figure out who the better team is. They have got a former Europeans Champion in their team or something from a long long time ago. I hear he is a Sunderland fan.  ;whistle;

I'm going to trundle along Friday afternoon at some point.  May or may not play the cash tournament. On one hand I'd like something to do on Friday night, but on the other I'm terrible (prob should have mentioned this previously ;))  I'll definitely go to the casino to register either way.  Do they have a normal Friday night tournament on by any chance?

Hi Graham this is the normal Friday comp.


 £30 FREEZE OUT
 £1,500 GUARANTEED PRIZEPOOL.
 Starts 8.15pm
10,000 starting stack. 1 x £10 rebuy/add on.

Usually bonus chips for reg before 8pm.

 

Great, thanks Kev, will prob play that.

You are in trouble Mr Rodderick! That is taking the banter too far :)

Thought you were sunderland fan STU as they are highest placed team in the leagues LOL ( near you ) ;yellowcard; ;yellowcard; ;nana;

I knew there was a reason I didnt like you...
 
We arent all glory supporters :p

AND for the record, Aitor Karanka will have us back in the Premier League soon.

;welcome;

Hello Chief Scout Welcome to Blonde.

Has Technolog sent you on a scouting mission to compile a report on the Blonde Team? Oh - I hope he does not run the APAT team like they use to run the Roman Empire, when scouts came back with bad news about their teams prospects in the upcoming battle they use force them to stay sober for the whole weekend (or something like that anyway). I hope he is more understanding when you explain to him how little chance you have.

To be honest STU staying sober rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao , mind you looking at the rest of the APAT team  :dontask:- SOBER does not spring to mind  rotflmfao rotflmfao

Anyone got a spare room for Saturday night? Or floor!

Good luck blonde team this weekend

You have an illustrious blonde history in this event to uphold. Possibly.

Reports, updats, pictures...all welcome please, keep us in touch

Will try my best to get some photos up etc during the weekend the good the bad and the ugly!

Hopefully we won't have time to report cos we'll all be winning drowning our sorrows...

Good luck all.

Will keep everyone as up to date as we can over the weekend.

From the sounds of it, the guys are up to the challenge and looking forward to it.


I'm sure we'll sort something out between us.

Got a floor sorted!

Stu covers the latter two of those categories in one shot

Seat draw is up

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6bHoxQFblX7LTZ4TzV0NEFJS2M/edit?pli=1

good luck team blonde

Blonde have recorded their first win of the weekend! I triumphed over a 6 man field, made up of myself and members of team Henson mob, in a DC hyper turbo sng, which took place in the lobby of the Holiday Inn during the small hours of the morning. To say that they were broken would be an understatement.

As far as I'm aware we are all still in at first break think Texas ranger is leading the way with 22k

We've just lost Delboy and Rexas. Down to 6 of us.

4 left. I think!

I'm out after losing AK< 55 and QJ<88

I will be on updates after dinner break! Does anyone know of APAT have out up the team photos yet? If so if you would kindly like to tell me where :)

I may need to give myself a drink cut off point for posting as well. I'm going to set it at about 8 pints and 4 jagers.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-RUwTkI07s8U/Uu0D9OQzAHI/AAAAAAAA-DA/l5qDTnkYOgI/s912/IMG_7642.JPG)

From APAT live update

Geo

Didn't think blonde had 2 teams in  ;D

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-vMHdpz0uvvM/Uu0RDELk1UI/AAAAAAAA-GQ/6Ehgsk49QQE/s912/IMG_7668.JPG)

Geo

We don't seem to have any players through to Day 2

Next time we're picking EPT, WPT and WSOP winners and refusing them entry to the bar first.

Nope, it's fair to say we ran pretty horrendously.

Nut flush into full house
Nut flush draw vs 10 hi flush draw and lost
Matt Harris ran into AA 4 times in 5 hands
Adam Sharples all in pre AQ v AJ and was more or less dead on the turn
Rodders ran into the only actual hand that could beat him

Graham ran deepest, spending a  good few hours on the feature table, and was finally knocked out in the 40s.

I so need to get fit so I can lead the way












To the bar

Just like to say enjoyed the weekend even though  as ASA mentioned above the results never went our way , you need a bit of luck aswell and this time it didn't happen , met a load of new faces who i hope to play with across the table in the future !!
This has to be one of the best team events of the year , a bunch of great players getting together , having a drink and in some cases playing a bit of poker LOL  :D :D
hope to see more of BLONDES in the future - can't wait !!