The wait is almost over for hundreds of amateur poker players who have been counting down the days until the 2025 World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP). Scores of the Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) community will descend on Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham between August 20-25 to battle it out for prize money, medals, bracelets, and the prestige of becoming a champion of amateur poker.
The bulk of the 2025 APAT WCOAP runs from August 20-25, although Day 1a of the £210 NLHE World Amateur Poker Championship is scheduled for August 17. This tournament, the Main Event, features four flights, each played as a freezeout. Each flight plays down to 15% of the field, with Day 1 survivors progressing to Day 2 with a min-cash in tow.
Players can enter as many Day 1s as they wish. However, anyone who progresses to Day 2 but chooses to enter another Day 1 automatically forfeits their initial stack and will not receive a min-cash. Only stacks that are in plan are eligible for the min-cash.
Last year, the WCOAP Main Event attracted 518 entrants, creating a £90,650 prize pool. Nick Bowyer claimed the title of champion, a WCOAP bracelet, a coveted APAT gold medal, and a career-best score of £15,000.
2025 WCOAP Schedule
Expand the table below to see the 2025 WCOAP schedule in all of its glory. As you can see, the WCOAP is akin to the amateur version of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), with several formats and disciplines designed to test players' skills to their limits.
Over the course of the festival, world champions will be crowned in games including T.O.R.S.E., Pot-Limit Omaha, No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max and Mix Max, Crazy Pineapple, NLHE/PLO Round of Each, Omaha 8/Stud 8 Round of Each, and more.
Date
Time
Event
Sun 17 Aug
2:00 p.m.
£210 NLHE World Amateur Poker Championship Day 1a
Wed 20 Aug
4:00 p.m.
£140 NLHE WCOAP International Team Championship Phase 1
5:00 p.m.
£140 T.O.R.S.E. WCOAP Championship
6:00 p.m.
£70 NLHE Turbo
8:00 p.m.
WCAP International Team Championship Phase 2
8:00 p.m.
£140 PLO WCOAP Championship
9:00 p.m.
£70 NLHE Mini Main Day 1a
Thu 21 Aug
1:00 p.m.
WCOAP International Team Championship Phase 3
2:00 p.m.
£140 NLHE WCOAP 6-Max Championship
5:00 p.m.
£140 2-7 Triple Draw WCOAP Championship
6:00 p.m.
WCOAP International Team Championship Phase 4
7:00 p.m.
£70 WCOAP Crazy Pineapple
9:00 p.m.
£70 NLHE Mini Main Day 1b
Fri 22 Aug
1:00 p.m.
£150 8-Game WCOAP Championship Day 1
2:00 p.m.
£210 NLHE World Amateur Poker Championship Day 1b
3:00 p.m.
£350 NLE WCOAP High Roller
6:00 p.m.
£140 NLHE WCOAP Bounty Championship
Sat 23 Aug
1:00 p.m.
£210 NLHE World Amateur Poker Championship Day 1c
2:00 p.m.
WCOAP 8-Game Championship Final Table
2:00 p.m.
£70 NLHE/PLO Round of Each WCOAP Championship
5:00 p.m.
£140 Omaha 8/Stud 8 Round of Each WCOAP Championship
7:00 p.m.
£210 NLHE World Amateur Poker Championship Day 1d Turbo
The 2024 WCOAP saw 22 events pack the vast Dusk Till Dawn cardroom. Open to all, the WCOAP tournaments have affordable buy-ins aimed at players at the more recreational end of the scale. That said, the £210 WCOAP Main Event saw 518 players build a £90,650 prize pool, from which champion Nick Bowyer claimed £15,000.
Similarly, the £350 buy-in High Roller awarded its worthy champion, Gholamreza Moghaddam, an impressive £10,780.
APAT regular Dave Howard was in incredible form at the 2024 WCOAP. First, he cashed in the £70 Mini Main Event, finished fifth in the £70 Triple Stud event, then won both the £70 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout and the £140 Limit Championship. Will you have similar results this August?
Expanding the table below reveals the results from all 22 events that made up a spectacular 2024 WCOAP at Dusk Till Dawn.
Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.
