APAT Irish Championship - Dublin, May 30th - 31st

Laxie

Irish Amateur Poker Championship - Fitzwilliam, Dublin - May 30th & 31st

Buy in £75 with no reg fee.

Seats on sale Thursday, April 23 at 9:00pm via the APAT homepage. http://www.apat.com/

Online satellites available on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm for those who would like the chance to avoid the clickfest. Sat details here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055543545

1. Who is running the event - APAT
2. The purpose of the event - commercial
3. Date and Location of event - Fitzwilliam, Dublin - May 30th & 31st
4. Registration and Start time of event. - Registration online April 23rd via http://www.apat.com/ Starts at 2:30 on May 31st
5. Any prerequisites - Must sign up (free) to APAT. http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php
6. How can tickets be purchased & is there a maximum number - Online via APAT homepage
7. Type of Tournament - NLH F/O
8. Cost of entry and any subsequent rebuys/top-ups etc. - £75
9. Cost of registration - £0
10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund - 100%
10a. Is any money from the prize fund held back for future tournaments, if so, how much - No and none
11. Any guarenteed prize pool - No
12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind levels - N/A
13. Starting Chips - 10k
14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts - N/A
15. Blind levels - all levels and antes.
16. Blind timeframes - 45 mins
17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash (free entry to other tournie, merchandice etc) - 10% of field. Blue Square added value of GUKPT seat to winner
18. Are there going to be dealers - and their level of skill - Fully dealer dealt
19. Will there be a documented list of rules - Yes
20. Is there a tournament director - Yes
21. How are disputes handled - who has final say - TD using APAT rules
22. Are there any cash games offered, if so, please outline the rake for each limit offered. - Up to the venue. APAT has nothing to do with cash games.

Lady Di

Will this be sold out in minutes?

cuterob

how do you buy a seat?

Laxie

The APAT powers that be are saying it will definitely sell out within minutes.

UK laser/debit card is the only way to purchase a seat online via the APAT homepage http://www.apat.com/

Des has worked something out for boards members:

The first 20 players to get their entry fee of €85 to Denise at the Fitzwilliam are guaranteed a seat. They will need to leave their email addresses along with their name if they are not currently APAT members.

There's not a great deal we can do about the debit card situation unfortunately, so this will hopefully give an option to some of the boards members who want to take part.


Also, don't forget the satellite tonight on Blue Square/GJP at 8pm. $10 +$1 NLH freezeout. Win your way to Dublin tonight and you won't have to worry about clickfests on Thursday.

Lady Di

OK well I haven't a hope then!

Laxie

You can always keep an eye open in their forum under the seat exchange section - http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?board=37.0

Omega28

So you have to go to Denise in Fitz and give her 85euro? just to clarify things. And there's no other way of entering?

fatguy

I'm gonna try to get a ticket with my UK card. I'm not 100% sure if I'll be attending, but if I decide to sell it I'll post it here first.

Laxie

Dylanmc111 wrote: »

So you have to go to Denise in Fitz and give her 85euro? just to clarify things. And there's no other way of entering?

There are 4 ways to enter -

1) Win a satellite.
Last of those is on tonight at 8pm.

2) Buy a seat online tomorrow night when they go public at 9pm.
No credit cards accepted. Payment cards accepted are 'Delta', 'Electron' and 'Maestro'.

If you hold a 'Visa' debit card, then our understanding is that you should choose the 'Delta' payment option and not enter a 'Valid From' date.

Irish cards will not work due to Irish banking rules.

3) Call in to Denise at the Fitz with €85 to secure your seat.
Only 20 seats on hold for boards members and not sure how long they'll be held as APAT has never done this before.

4) Show up early on the day and get your name on the alternates list.



The holding of seats has never been done before. It's usually a straight forward online buy in, sold out within minutes and tough luck to the ones who don't get a seat.

The offer to put 20 aside for boards members was done to give more of you a chance of getting there.

max_power

So you can't use an irish bank card? Seems a bit retarded imo that for a tourney being held in Ireland you have to have a UK bank a/c.

Laxie

Only one leg of the APAT tour is in Ireland and the payment processor APAT uses isn't Irish based.

It's unfortunate that our banks won't let us use our cards for payments outside of Ireland, but luckily you have the option to walk right into the Fitz and book your seat.

fatguy

Currently 2nd out of 23 in this. I see a Smurph is 3rd. See you at the FT Smurphette.

Laxie

Brilliant stuff!!! Will pull it up now to rail ye.

fatguy

Ugh. Just went out in 17th. Witnessed some shocking bad beats, including my own exit. A8 < A5s.

Laxie

Ugh. Explains why I couldn't find you. Smurf still going, but blinds are getting a bit crazy now. Not much room for poker...just shove or fold. Hang in there Chicka!!!

Get In There

If I were to get a seat on Seat exchange, could I possibly let myself be blinded out for the first two hours of the tournament as I've got engagements earlier in the day and will probably be able to make it to the Fitz at 4pm-ish?

Thanks

fatguy

Did you get a ticket Smurph?

smurph

That wasn't me who was playing it was Martin...

My username is Camogie31 on GJP, his is Smurph31 or something like that. He asked me if I new a fatguy from boards,

I started a pc reply, well there is lots of men and women on boards who like myself could shed a few pounds, but could he narrow the range down a bit....

The reply came something like No a guy who's Boards name is Fatguy ya spa..... or something to that effect.

I don't know if I actually know who you are, but I said yep, he's posts quite a bit..... he mentioned you were on his table....

Anyways he went out 11th I think, something like that.

Laxie

Get In There wrote: »

If I were to get a seat on Seat exchange, could I possibly let myself be blinded out for the first two hours of the tournament as I've got engagements earlier in the day and will probably be able to make it to the Fitz at 4pm-ish?

Thanks

As long as you're paid up and have confirmed the exchange with APAT, it's ok if you're late. If you'd like to be extra sure, you can send me a PM with your real name and APAT forum name and I'll be sure to follow up with Des on the day.

fatguy

smurph wrote: »

That wasn't me who was playing it was Martin...

My username is Camogie31 on GJP, his is Smurph31 or something like that. He asked me if I new a fatguy from boards,

I started a pc reply, well there is lots of men and women on boards who like myself could shed a few pounds, but could he narrow the range down a bit....

The reply came something like No a guy who's Boards name is Fatguy ya spa..... or something to that effect.

I don't know if I actually know who you are, but I said yep, he's posts quite a bit..... he mentioned you were on his table....

Anyways he went out 11th I think, something like that.

Ah ok. No we don't know each other in real life, I just recognised the name, figured it was you, and said hello and gave a bit of encouragement. My username gets some good reactions, alright.

DAMO72

I played in this and if thats the way these guys will play live ,i have no interest in playing with them again . My exit hand went like this,Blinds are 15/30 I have QQ UTG+2 with 2 limpers and i make it 270, the BB calls and the limpers fold , Flop is 962 , BB bets 180 and i make it 360 then he min raised it to 720 and i shoved for 3,200 and he snapped called with 33 and of course he hit his 3 imediately on the turn. I mean cmon wtf is happening here???

smurph

DAMO72 wrote: »

I played in this and if thats the way these guys will play live ,i have no interest in playing with them again . My exit hand went like this,Blinds are 15/30 I have QQ UTG+2 with 2 limpers and i make it 270, the BB calls and the limpers fold , Flop is 962 , BB bets 180 and i make it 360 then he min raised it to 720 and i shoved for 3,200 and he snapped called with 33 and of course he hit his 3 imediately on the turn. I mean cmon wtf is happening here???

Damo,
You come to the fitz, you witness hands like that above, you say nice hand, you go to pub have 5 swift pints, come back and wait for said player to get knocked out of tournament and sit down beside him at the cash table...

rinse and repeat for the weekend.


I played the apat game 2 years ago, and I was amazed at some of the play, but I have since regularly played the Friday night Scalps game in the fitz so am no longer amazed by anything I see at the poker tables, or indeed at any card game. (except maybe Donal Norton)

DAMO72

smurph wrote: »

Damo,
You come to the fitz, you witness hands like that above, you say nice hand, you go to pub have 5 swift pints, come back and wait for said player to get knocked out of tournament and sit down beside him at the cash table...

rinse and repeat for the weekend.


I played the apat game 2 years ago, and I was amazed at some of the play, but I have since regularly played the Friday night Scalps game in the fitz so am no longer amazed by anything I see at the poker tables, or indeed at any card game. (except maybe Donal Norton)

Are you gonna play this 1( Donal is a brilliant poker Player, Shame on you)

smurph

DAMO72 wrote: »

Are you gonna play this 1( Donal is a brilliant poker Player, Shame on you)

Yes im playing in this.

I was refering to Donal checking himself out of the hospital (with kidney stones etc.,) to play in the Irish Open.....

DAMO72

smurph wrote: »

Yes im playing in this.

I was refering to Donal checking himself out of the hospital (with kidney stones etc.,) to play in the Irish Open.....

PM sent

Laxie

smurph wrote: »

Yes im playing in this.

I was refering to Donal checking himself out of the hospital (with kidney stones etc.,) to play in the Irish Open.....

:eek: Flippin heck!


Well, I've just confirmed the seat winners from last night and they are the following:

5kinEM
scouse3465
technolol
spudgun007fizzle
HucknalEms

It took over an hour for the final table to play down to 5, despite ave. stack being less than 10bb. A good friend of mine went out on the bubble (6th) when his AA was cracked by QQ. AIPF and Q's make a str8 by the river.

Anyway, tonight is the clickfest for those with the means to do so.

Denise will be in tomorrow night for those who wish to pay in person at the Fitz and grab one of the 20 seats on hold.

I'll post the list of runners once we get the lot sorted.

fatguy

Can anyone get to the site to buy their ticket? It seems to have been hammered down.

copperfacegaz

fatguy wrote: »

Can anyone get to the site to buy their ticket? It seems to have been hammered down.

having the same problem , cant get onto the site !!! id say we havent a hope now of getting a ticket !

fatguy

copperfacegaz wrote: »

having the same problem , cant get onto the site !!! id say we havent a hope now of getting a ticket !

Yup. Guaranteed anyone who got the page to load has spread it through MSN by now, and all the tickets are gone. Laxie, you're gonna have to come up with a better system for the tickets. This clickfest business is silly. Not accepting credit cards is silly. Not accepting Irish debit cards for an event in Ireland is sillier than silly.

copperfacegaz

fatguy wrote: »

Yup. Guaranteed anyone who got the page to load has spread it through MSN by now, and all the tickets are gone. Laxie, you're gonna have to come up with a better system for the tickets. This clickfest business is silly. Not accepting credit cards is silly. Not accepting Irish debit cards for an event in Ireland is sillier than silly.

+1

fatguy

Well I got through to the payment page at 9.35, but now it doesn't accept my card. All the details are spot on, so I declare it to be a stupid system. :mad:

strewelpeter

fatguy wrote: »

Well I got through to the payment page at 9.35, but now it doesn't accept my card. All the details are spot on, so I declare it to be a stupid system. :mad:

Exactly the same what a shambles.

APAT

Sorry guys, we experienced technical problems like we've never seen before at APAT. This started exactly at 9pm and stopped pretty much at 9.40pm. The seats are still on sale, so anyone who has purchased to date, will have a seat. If your card has failed then stop trying to re-purchase. I will speak to the payment provider about these tomorrow and I have the data in order of attempted seat purchase. We are very willing to allocate seats against those failed payments and send you a payment link in 48 hours time, when your card should be okay to use again. I will publish the list of successful entrants at 11pm on the APAT site and the list of people who have been allocated a seat, subject to payment.

Apologies again.

One other thing. Nobody thinks it's more stupid that APAT cannot accept Irish cards than we do. As Laxie mentioned earlier, APAT is based in the UK and that is where our payment provider is. It's is one of the biggest payment providers to the gaming industry, but unfortunately due to Irish legislation, they cannot take Irish cards. We've allocated a number of seats to Denise and will do everything we can to help you play if you cannot get one. We will allocate any cancellations during the last week to Irish players who will be able to pay APAT on the day at the Fitzwilliam. You will be able to book any late cancellations through the APAT Seat Exchange as and when they become available.

Omega28

I went into Fitz last night to get a seat for the APAT, had my 85euro in hand and was told to return on Friday? Are there still seats available in the Fitz? As I really want to play this event.

Laxie

Phew. Soooooooo glad Des called in here! I went MIA this evening and only just heard of the trouble purchasing seats in the clickfest. Everyone was affected, not just Irish buyers, but apologies again.

For the record - I predicted trouble on boards over a week ago regarding our payment processor and contacted Des. He in turn came up with the solution of holding seats for boards.ie members to purchase at the venue. We really have been trying to think 'outside the box' on this one to look after you lot, so please bear with us.

Will post the list of names as soon as they're up and we can work from there on whoever missed out.

Laxie

Dylanmc111 wrote: »

I went into Fitz last night to get a seat for the APAT, had my 85euro in hand and was told to return on Friday? Are there still seats available in the Fitz? As I really want to play this event.

Denise is the only one who can sort the transaction at the Fitz and will be in tomorrow to look after it for you. I'll phone to be sure of ticket numbers and post as soon as I have them.

Laxie

Taken from the APAT site

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=3329.0;topicseen

The following players have confirmed direct buy in's for the event at the Fitzwilliam on May 30th & 31st.

Anthony Williams
Ben Dixon
Cara Dunn
Ciaran Lynch
Colin Joseph
Craig Dunn
Derek Liddle
Dewi James
Doig Rudling
Dominic Marley
Don Roberts
Donna Bairstow
Gary Martin
Ger Smyth
Gerard Harraghy
Gerard Smyth
Gianluca Ragusi
Grant Saunders
James Edwards
Jamie Edgell
Jason Green
Jeldon Fernandes
Joe Carr-Hill
John Murray
Jon Hardwick
Karen Yates
Keith Joseph
Lynne Etches
Malcolm Howell
Mark Barsley
Martin Rice
Martyn Sharp
Matt Mckinlay
Matthew Doheny
Michael O'Prey
Nigel Johnson
Paul Garnham
Paul McGuinness
Pete Winter
Phil Tompkinson
Philip Colls
Richard Rudling-Smith
Rob Swindells
Robert Spencer
Steve Jones
Steve Lister
Tim Magnus
Will Young

The following players have an option to buy and will be sent a payment link on Saturday evening. If you do not receive the payment link by email on Saturday night, please pm me here and I will pm the link to you by return.

Andrew Brennan
Andrew Tracey
Chris Peers
David Pilkington
Don Logan
Gary Coulahan
Lou Saban
Mark Lassman
Mark Redshaw
R A Coull
Raymond Kerley
Richard King
Roland Shorcott
Ste Murray
Tony Rafferty

The field will also contain several qualifiers from Blue Square and several players who have bought in direct at the Fitzwilliam in Dublin.

In addition, the defending champion and several members of the top ten in the rankings will be playing. These names will be added to the player list and published here when finalised.

Omega28

Laxie wrote: »

Denise is the only one who can sort the transaction at the Fitz and will be in tomorrow to look after it for you. I'll phone to be sure of ticket numbers and post as soon as I have them.

thanks! I'll be in there first thing tomorrow, I was gutted I couldnt play last yr and I cudnt register online coz I have no credit card, but I'll be in to register tomorrow!

Laxie

Denise phoned from the Fitz this evening and has 10 seats left. Still waiting on a final list from last night's fun, but will post it as soon as it lands.

copperfacegaz

Laxie wrote: »

Denise phoned from the Fitz this evening and has 10 seats left. Still waiting on a final list from last night's fun, but will post it as soon as it lands.[/qu


i got my ticket last nite from denise at about 9.30pm , think she still had a one or two left .

fatguy

I didn't get any email, Laxie.

Laxie

The link to buy is still live as a result of the hassle the other night. Just go here http://www.apat.com/index.php/transaction/ and follow the steps to purchase online. If you still have trouble, give me a shout and I'll PM Des who can help you further.

Laxie

UPDATED LIST OF ENTRIES:

The following players have confirmed direct buy in's for the event at the Fitzwilliam on May 30th & 31st.

Andrew Murphy
Anthony Williams
Ben Dixon
Cara Dunn
Chris Peers
Ciaran Lynch
Colin Joseph
Craig Dunn
Derek Liddle
Dewi James
Doig Rudling
Dominic Marley
Don Logan
Don Roberts
Donna Bairstow
Gary Martin
Ger Smyth
Gerard Harraghy
Gerard Smyth
Gianluca Ragusi
Grant Saunders
James Edwards
Jamie Edgell
Jason Green
Jeldon Fernandes
Joe Carr-Hill
John Murray
Jon Hardwick
JP Round
Karen Yates
Keith Joseph
Lou Saban
Lynne Etches
Malcolm Howell
Mark Barsley
Martin Rice
Martyn Sharp
Matt Mckinlay
Matthew Doheny
Michael O'Prey
Nigel Johnson
Paul Garnham
Paul McGuinness
Pete Winter
Phil Scott
Phil Tompkinson
Philip Colls
Richard Coull
Richard King
Richard Rudling-Smith
Rob Swindells
Robert Spencer
Simon Auckland
Steve Jones
Steve Lister
Steve Murray
Steve Redfern
Tim Magnus
Vincent Diver
Will Young

The following players have an option to buy and will be sent a payment link on Saturday evening. If you do not receive the payment link by email on Saturday night, please pm me here and I will pm the link to you by return.

Andrew Brennan
Andrew Tracey
Bobby Murphy
David Pilkington
Gary Coulahan
Mark Lassman
Mark Redshaw
Raymond Kerley
Roland Shorcott
Tony Rafferty

The field will also contain several qualifiers from Blue Square and several players who have bought in direct at the Fitzwilliam in Dublin.

In addition, the defending champion and several members of the top ten in the rankings will be playing. These names will be added to the player list and published here when finalised.

Laxie

Any Dublin locals know of B&B's near the Fitz? Fool-o here didn't book her room in time and now The Fitz Townhouse is booked out for that week-end. Cheers!

smurph

Baggot Court Townhouse, 92 Lower Baggot Street

Google maped here about 1 Min from the Fitz

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Morehampton B&B 78 Morehampton Road

Google mapped here about 20 minute walk to the Fitzwilliam

kennyrsb

can i still pay in cash for this in the fitz?

Laxie

There were 25 seats left when I checked the other day. Give Denise a ring at the Fitz before you travel in...just to be safe. If you've any trouble, give me a shout and I'll do what I can to help.

Fatboydim

Laxie is Des on holiday at the moment or just on a different email addy? I've been trying to get in touch with him.

Laxie

He's been up to his eyeballs lately with all things Sky related. I don't have an email addy for him, but try sending a PM on APAT and he'll get back to you as soon as he can.

5starpool

I believe Denise has given away all the seats for the APAT that were the Fitzs to allocate/sell. she saved me one though

I doubt she will care now though as she is on holidays for 2 weeks starting yesterday.

MrStuffins

So the only way to play now is by buying a ticket online? (or being an alternative?)