APAT announces details of the Irish Amateur Poker Championship

[Geo the Sarge]

I have found a fool proof solution ....   





















Forget the poker, just book a flight now for those dates and go on the piss in Dublin instead ... if you get a place in the comp GREAT ...if not..shame, but Dublin is the bestest city in the world and the craic is good

Might well be a plan!  You going?

I'm going, regardless of entry, plan can be discussed this weekend.

Geo

[kinboshi]

 

[FlyingPig]

to quote the man himself on t'other thread

"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"

What if someone forges the header on the email to show an earlier time?

This does spring to mind....and it is quite easy to do.....There is also the possibility that the first one sent may not arrive due to servers and all the different doo-daa that can go wrong. What happens if it gets posted at 9 oclock on the website, but one arrives in the inbox at 8.58? Hmmm, lots of possibility's for error and judgement calls. No one way is right I know, but IMO this is joint worst along with drawn out of a hat.

E-bay with the 'buy it now' at the price with the quantity. That way you could not of oversold, there would of been plenty of different payment options. The only thing is you have to become a memeber of E-bay....

Not that anyone is doing any wrong, its trial and error, and I understand it must be hard for the people who have to make the decisions.

[Ironside]

ebay wont do it flying pig as its entryto a gaming event and ebay/paypal don't approve

mind you with paypal not supporting betfair and ladbrookes it could be an optiion in the future

[FlyingPig]

Yeah,,, i know it was half in jest... anyone could buy one then and have entry into the event....

[ElC]

is it just me or is the apat site not working?

[kinboshi]

is it just me or is the apat site not working?

Just you I think, or it could be a temporary issue.  It's fine for me at the moment...

[ElC]

site works again ... Ireland could be fun - I am considering to have my first APAT offline appearance (if I get a ticket)

[kinboshi]

site works again ... Ireland could be fun - I am considering to have my first APAT offline appearance (if I get a ticket)

See you there (hopefully)

[Paullie_D]

I have found a fool proof solution ....   

Forget the poker, just book a flight now for those dates and go on the piss in Dublin instead ... if you get a place in the comp GREAT ...if not..shame, but Dublin is the bestest city in the world and the craic is good

Hotel....Booked!
Flight...Booked!
Euros..Bought!
Poker...well, as I'm there anyway...there's loads of other cardrooms in town!

 

[RichD]

Awesome, cant wait never been to Ireland so really wanna go, then again i'd never been to Scotland and ive been on this planet almost 22 years...

[RioRodent]

I just read this on the same thread on THMF...

APAT has been great for amateur players and hopefullyit'll continue to grow in its second year and onwards. The guys that run it are all brand new and are putting a lot back into the game.

I'll bet that's the first time tikay has been described as 'brand new' in a long while!! 

 

[dougal7878]

APA guys, say for instance there was one big online qualifier, how many people do you think would reasonbaly log on and play....then the amount for the tourney qualify for the live event??

[RioRodent]

•   Twenty Seven seats will be available in total, via three online satellites at PokerStars.com, taking place on Sunday 29th & Monday 30th of April and Tuesday 1st May at 8pm sharp.  These events will feature a $20 + $2 entry fee.

Any one managed to find these on PokerStars yet?

[mickyp]

Cant find them any where