The 2024 Newbie Poker Affiliation & Tour (APAT) World Championship Of Newbie Poker (WCOAP) wrapped up at Nightfall Until Daybreak over the weekend, and what an unimaginable pageant it was. Twenty-two occasions topped their worthy champions, every now claiming to be the most effective newbie participant in that format.
The largest winner of the 2024 WCOAP was Nick Bowyer, who ceaselessly will get to name himself the 2024 Newbie Poker World Champion after he received the £210 WCOAP Essential Occasion.
Each APAT WCOAP occasion is fiercely contested as a result of the pageant is akin to the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) for newbie gamers. Nevertheless, essentially the most bragging rights and, after all, prize cash are reserved for the Essential Occasion.
This yr’s WCOAP Essential Occasion attracted 518 entrants, making a £90,650 prize pool shared by the highest 76 finishers. A min-cash weighed in at £350, with the highest 18 finishers successful at the least £1,000 and all 9 finalists scooping at the least £1,900.
Nicolai Cravciuc is the 2024 APAT European Champion of Newbie Poker
2024 APAT WCOAP Essential Occasion Remaining Desk Outcomes
Marius Mantu busted in ninth place for £1,900, persevering with the spectacular begin to his poker profession. Mantu’s first recorded dwell money got here in April 2024. He has since racked up a dozen extra cashes in low-stakes occasions, together with 9 last desk appearances.
Nightfall Until Daybreak common Waheed “Wadey” Ashraf fell in eighth for £2,150 earlier than Jonathan Brown adopted up his money within the PokerStars UKIPT London Essential Occasion with a seventh-place end right here, value £2,500.
Ricky Kershav ran out of steam in sixth, a end value £2,900. Newcastle’s Dane Tallen joined the record of eradicated gamers, his fifth-place end incomes him £3,400. Tallen triumphed within the 2017 version of the APAT UK Newbie Poker Championship Essential Occasion however fell quick on this occasion.
Tallen’s elimination left the 2024 WCOAP Essential Occasion on the medal bubble; the highest three finishers seize bronze, silver, and gold medals on high of their prize cash. Matas Gerdziunas was the unlucky soul who popped this secondary bubble. Though dissatisfied, Gerdziunas banked a career-best £4,000 for his efforts.
The bronze medal and £6,000 went to James Morris, which left Nick Bowyer heads-up towards Daniel Fisher; each gamers have been assured their largest ever rating. Finally, Bowyer got here out on high, resigning Fisher to the silver medal and £9,000, whereas claiming the gold medal, a commemorative bracelet, £15,000, and the title of 2024 APAT WCOAP Essential Occasion champion.
2024 APAT WCAOP Outcomes
Gholamreza Mohammadi was the most important single winner outdoors of the Essential Occasion, due to taking down the £350 Excessive Curler. Some 107 gamers turned out for the Excessive Curler, and Mohammadi outlasted all of them, turning his £350 funding into a powerful £10,780.
A particular point out goes to David Howard, who bagged two 2024 WCOAP titles. Howard clinched the £140 Restrict Maintain’em Championship and the £70 No-Restrict Maintain’em Shootout bracelets. Howard already had 4 APAT gold medals to his title, together with the 2017 World title. Prime work, that man.
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What’s Subsequent on the 2024 APAT Schedule?
Whereas there is no APAT occasion in September, it is going to be a busy finish to the yr for the favored tour. In October, APAT heads to Asch within the Czech Republic for the APAT German Newbie Poker Championship earlier than returning house to the seaside city of Blackpool for the APAT English Newbie Poker Championship, additionally in October.
November sees the tour head to sunnier climes with APAT Malta Poker Pageant in St. Julians, with the APAT UK & Eire Newbie Poker Championship operating in Newcastle, United Kingdom, in mid-November.
As December arrives, the eagerly anticipated APAT Poker Squads takes place at Nightfall Until Daybreak.
