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poker tours?
DaYoungGun
Member Posts: 19
hi guys im looking to do some poker tours with buyins around £100 does anyone know of any tours if so could you please leave there website address if possible thanks
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Your choice is very limited.
The GUKPT ME's are £1,000, the BMPT is £500, and two new Tours will be announced soon, one by Titan, with a buy-in of £1,000, & one by 'Stars with a £500 tag. (The latter starts in February, in Edinburgh).
So they are no good for you.
At the £100 Level, only two spring to mind.
1) The SPT, £100 Seat Value, but Online qualification only.
2) APAT. The APAT Events are £75, & are 10,000 chip 2 day Events, with no Reg-Fee & Added Value. Seats can be purchased by Members, (Membership is free), but the Seats usually sell-out within 60 seconds of being made available Online, so you need to be able to click fast! I should that I am APAT Chairman, in case anyone suggests I am being biased here. I am.
I am not aware of any other Tours which have a £100 Buy-In. Which help explains why the Sky Poker & APAT Tours are so successful - because we believe the regular guys have the same right to "proper, grown-up, Poker" as the millionaires & Pros. Whereas the other Tours don't, & that makes me very cross.
It really makes me mad that "regular" Players are effectively not given the chance to play Live Poker with decent structures, it's so elitist.
That was part of the reason I took the Post with APAT - because it looks after the regular guys. And proof that those sort of Tourneys are in demand is shown by APAT - evey single Tourney we have ever held has sold out within a few minutes, despite the fact that the Entry Fee has to be paid up to 3 months in advance.
When we first announced APAT, over 3 years ago now, we got absolutely slaughtered on the Poker Forums. One Thread ran to 170 - 170! - pages, & we were villified on every Poker Forum in Europe. They pulled us to pieces, they could not believe we would have no Reg Fees & Added Value for every Event, (nobody else had ever done that) & the APAT Officers would all work for free. We are still here though, & the keyboard warriors are not singing any more.
There - you've started me off now!
I will be looking to do some Satallites for the Sky Poker Tour (Glasgow and Newcastle) events. However i feel that i am a better live player (despite my temprament when tired which i think has already been shown here) and i can never afford the buy-ins for anything with players of top quality skill that i could learn from.
The "elitist" thing includes - or included - the WSOP too, by the way, & I was very critical of them in that regard.
But this year, they took a step in the right direction, & introduced a new "budget" Event, priced at $1,000. And were rewarded with the biggest field for a Live Poker Event ever.
How many played it?
6,012.
Poker for the People!
No, there are no Tours with lower buy-ins, I'm afraid.
The Big Tours always have Sideys - side Events - but even those don't go below £100.
But there are decent Events around where the Buy-Ins are affordable. Where do you live? - that may enable me to point you in the right direction.
Thanks Tikay its just at the minute im a part-time student and the rest made up by benifits so my cash flow isnt exactly the strongest just now.
Try ringing the Gala Casino, Maybury, ( 0131 338 4444) they have a nice range of affordable Tourneys.
But beware, the Cardroom is often full of Scots.
Thanks Tikay