APAT UK Team Championship won by Gambling Network Forum
This was published 27-10-2011The Amateur Poker Association and Tour (APAT) United Kingdom Team Championships was held at the G Casino, Luton on 22nd to 23rd October, 2011 when twenty three eight-player teams drawn from some of the largest United Kingdom poker forums and communities participated in the event.
Players were once again treated to a 10,000 starting stack, 45 minute clock tournament so as to bring affordable deepstack poker to recreational players.
Half of the prize pool of £9,200 that was created by the 184 runners went to the top three teams (points scored for the top 50 finishers) while the other half of the prize pool went to the top individual finishers.
The Amateur Poker Association Tour once again provided added value to the winner of the United Kingdom Team Championship with aUnited Kingdomand Irish Poker Tour seat.
A packed season of Live and Online National Championships and leagues are enabling APAT members an opportunity to win added value. In addition, players are not required to pay any registration fee for any of the season’s seventy five amateur, professional and online tournaments.
Hetton Social League, Blonde Poker and Hendon Mob were the best performing teams in the very competitive early part of the APAT competition with not one of these teams losing a player until well into Day One play. Rob Swindels won a big pot against Alan Lake of Black Belt Poker in the last level.
Thirty five players remained at the end of the day with Black Belt Poker being the top scorers, due to finishes in the top 50 positions while six teams had three players remaining.
The competition ended with the Gambling Network Forum winning the 2011 APAT UK Team Championship and Nick Mazur of Black Belt Poker being the winner of the Individual element of the tournament.
