APAT Announce Welsh Amateur Poker Championship

[desduffy]

London, January 18, 2007 – The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (“APAT”) today released entry details for the third live event in its critically acclaimed Tour for non professional players.

APAT, the world’s first combined Poker Association and Tour, will hold its third live event, the Welsh Amateur Poker Championship, at the Grosvenor Casino in Cardiff, on February 24th & 25th, 2007. Players will start the event with 10,000 in chips and a tournament structure which has been designed to encourage creative play throughout. APAT tournament rules, which have been standardised across all tour venues, will be in operation at Grosvenor Cardiff.

The event, which will have a capacity of 180 players, will attract some of the finest amateur players in the United Kingdom¸ who will compete for the Welsh national title, a first prize of £3,500 and an $8,900 expenses paid entry to the German leg of the European Poker Tour in March, courtesy of Tour sponsor PokerStars.com.

Entry to the Welsh Amateur Poker Championship will be open exclusively to members of APAT, and tournament seats will be allocated in the following way:-

• Ten seats will be available via two online satellites on PokerStars.com. The $10 + $1 tournaments will run on January 21st and 23rd at 8.00pm. Registration will open 24 hours before the event and the top five players in each satellite will win a guaranteed seat in Cardiff plus the balance of available prize money for expenses. The satellites can be found under Tourney / Special on the PokerStars.com client from this coming weekend.

• Five seats will be available via a live satellite taking place at Grosvenor Cardiff. The £10 + £3 tournament will run on January 25th at 8.00pm. Registration for this event will be available via Grosvenor Cardiff, and Grosvenor Casinos nationwide, from January 20th at 2pm. A maximum of 120 players will be able to enter the satellite, and the seats plus the balance of available prize money will go to the top five players for expenses.

• One hundred and sixty five seats will be on sale at www.apat.com from January 27th at 8.00pm sharp. Seats will cost £75.00 each and 100% of entry fees will go directly in the prize pool.

APAT’s previous event, the United Kingdom Amateur Poker Championship sold out two hundred and ten seats in a record twenty nine minutes.

APAT Chairman, Tony Kendall, stated: “APAT is delighted to partner with Grosvenor, the leading provider of live tournament poker in the UK. APAT has established itself as the affordable proving ground for talented amateur players in the UK, and we look forward to bringing our members to Cardiff, for what should be an outstanding event, at an outstanding venue.”

Russell Tamplin, National Poker Manager for Grosvenor, added: “Grosvenor Casinos are very happy to be hosting such a prestigious tournament for APAT, at our Cardiff Casino. We feel that it will compliment our own GUKPT tournament taking place at Cardiff in March, and very much look forward to working with APAT on this exciting event.”

Membership of the Amateur Poker Association & Tour can be obtained online at www.apat.com. Individual membership costs £10.00. Tournaments scheduled throughout the next six months include the Scottish, Irish, European and World Amateur Poker Championships.

For additional information, logos or images, call Richard Prew on 07887 987044, email: media@apat.com, or visit the Press section at www.apat.com.

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[Alex_B]

Cheers Des, will deffo try and get a seat for this one.

[waltypies]

Typical! Going to have to be a bloody clickfest!

[Prowler]

walty STILL on apat tilt ROFL

[waltypies]

walty STILL on apat tilt ROFL

No i just prefer the first way they did it. Not many people i know sit in front of their computer saturday night at 8pm!!

However i will try and get a seat this time as its only Cardiff and the girls there are easy! Good job as no doubt i will bust out early

[jglenny]

May try and also get a seat, the one in brummie was good, though i did cut it fine geting there last time

[waltypies]

May try and also get a seat, the one in brummie was good, though i did cut it fine geting there last time

Fine!!! You had about 2 seconds to take your seat ROFL

[CitrusSR]

Cheers.

Yeah I'm gonna try and get in this one too as Cardiffs not too far

[waltypies]

Cheers.

Yeah I'm gonna try and get in this one too as Cardiffs not too far

Coolio! If we all get seats i can smell a gambling.co.uk piss up brewing

[desduffy]

Hi Des, welcome to the forum

Feel free to submit this as a press release. This will appear across our network of sites and on any other site who chooses to syndicate our news.

Thanks...I will submit via the PR link.

Look forward to seeing some of you in Cardiff.

Cheers,

Des.