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The Amateur Poker Association & Tour have today announced details of the seventh annual World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP).

The blue ribboned festival in APAT’s annual schedule will take place at Aspers Casino in Stratford over a ten day period between March 28th and April 6th, 2015.  Featuring twenty bracelet events, the WCOAP will perhaps offer the most diverse range of poker disciplines outside of the World Series of Poker, and certainly in a festival designed for amateur players.

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Disciplines scheduled include Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Razz and Horse, sitting alongside new formats like Crazy Pineapple, Irish and Open Face Chinese.  These games will be played in a wide range of formats including Shootout, Antes Only, Six Max and Heads Up, while the World Amateur Team Championship will bring several countries to London, to compete for the title won by France in 2014 and England in 2013.

Each event will feature added value in addition to championship medals and bracelets.

The full daily schedule is as follows:-

Sat 28 March

14:00 Event #1 Pot Limit Omaha Championship – 8 Handed – Day 1
19:00 Event #2 Irish Championship

Sun 29 March

12:00 Pot Limit Omaha Championship -8 Handed – Day 2
14:00 Event #3 Antes Only Championship
19:00 Event #4 Open Face Chinese Championship

Mon 30 March

12:00 Event #5 Mix Max Championship
17:00 Event #6 Pot Limit Omaha Championship – 4/5/6 Dealers Choice

Tue 31 March

12:00 Event #7 No Limit Hold’em Championship
17:00 Event #8 Mixed Game Championship – Round Of Each NLHE & PLO

Wed 1 April

12:00 Event #9 Stud Championship
17:00 Event #10 High Roller Championship

Thu 2 April

12:00 Event #11 World Amateur Team Championship – Phase 1 – Heads Up
15:00 Event #12 Six Max Championship
16:00 World Amateur Team Championship – Phase 2 – NLHE
18:00 Event #13 Razz Championship
20:00 World Amateur Team Championship – Phase 3 – NLHE & PLO8

Fri 3 April

12:00 Event #14 Shootout Championship
12:00 World Amateur Team Championship – Phase 4 – NLHE & PLO
15:00 Event #15 Cash Championship – Day 1a
16:00 World Amateur Team Championship – Phase 5 – MTT
20:00 Event #16 Crazy Pineapple Championship

Sat 4 April

12:00 Event #17 World Amateur Poker Championship – Main Event – Day 1a
18:00 Event #18 Pot Limit Omaha 8 Championship – 8 Handed High / Low
21:00 Cash Championship – Day 1b

Sun 5 April

12:00 World Amateur Poker Championship – Main Event – Day 1b
16:00 Event #19 HORSE Championship

Mon 6 April

12:00 Cash Championship – Day 2
12:00 Event #20 Heads Up Championship
14:00 World Amateur Poker Championship – Main Event – Day 2

This looks awesome!

Looks amazing. Not the sort of schedule you could have regularly in the UK but a great once a year jobby and a brilliant primer for the WSOP.

Crazy Pineapple is lots of fun, played that in Australia.

Very well done APAT, that looks a cracking schedule.

Will do my best to play the PLO & PLO8.

so what exactly do i have to do to be able to play one of these?

do i need to be in a league or is it a case of turn up, pay and play?

Turn up (membership is free), online buy in before the event. they will be sold out before the day (typically)

http://www.apat.com/ for details etc

Do we have any idea of capacity, and what size of fields?

Brilliant, appreciate this and I'm sure you'll have a cracking time if you come down (up, sideways...).  :)

Thanks Barry.  We're very proud of how this festival has developed over the years.  Everything pretty much always sells out, so it'll be interesting to see whether we can see that demand over ten days - which is five times longer than we're comfortable with!

That would be fantastic Tony and I really hope you can make it.

That next layer of detail is being written up through the xmas break, but I can point you to what we did last year as a guide. 

A number of the events are new this season, but you'll get a good idea of typical capacities, structures, etc.

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=15289.0

crazy pineapple is that not 4 card irish by another name

i would love to be fit to be able to goto the pineapple and the o8

think its unlikely currently but stranger things have happened

I believe Pineapple is 3 cards, muck one on the flop.

Yup. And pineapple is the same but you much one card before the flop. Actually prefer pineapple because it's easy to spot people's 'ahhhh shit' faces when they would have flopped a monster had they mucked the right card.

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Looking forward to this. Will be there Sunday thru to Easter Monday for plenty of non-holdem shenanigans.

Hopefully see a good Blonde presence?

Currently, I am.....

95% certain to play this Saturday's PLO

50% to play Monday's PLO 4/5/6. Depends on work, really. Would LOVE to play it though.

5% to play the PLO8 on Saturday week. Bad timing, I have a visitor all weekend. Mind you, she likes shopping, shame there are no shops near Aspers.

So I'm 50% to get Moorman's book :)

1st - 6th April. Stud/Razz/HORSE/Shootout and Main.

amcgrath1uk going as well for same dates lol!

I'm taking 'er indoors' to London that weekend and I'm going to pop in to Aspers and take Des for a coffee while the little lady check out the Westfield centre, just in case you are at a similar loose end.

What a beautiful shed. In for most the mixed game tourny malarkey - thus avoiding all the NLHE square-head comps     .......      "perfick", as H E Bates once wrote.

That'd work if I could square it. I'll letcha know.

I'll buy (just to get it on record in an APAT thread)  :)

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Registered for 6 max Thursday, might come along Sunday too for Main will decide later.

Blonde's very own looking dapper and ready to show those amateurs how to play Pot Limit Omaha

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