Game play at the Bluebell has changed from big stack to to the re-buy system, which has proved popular!!

Always a warm welcome players old & new, food supplied at first break, come along and join us!!!!

the royal flush pot  finally went at the  masons £273 to tom thumby, woo hoo

We have recently joined the league and offer a friendly game of poker on Sunday nights, beginners very welcome.

Low stakes game (£5 buy-in). Plenty of parking.

Good luck to everyone in the regional game at Bristol

Pub website www.globe-inn.co.uk

Another good game at the romany, which ended in a debate. 55566 was the final cards on the board with the remaining 2 players having  QJ and 68 respectively. The debate was around if this was a split pot as each player was playing a full house, but player two had the six, therefore making 66655 as the top cards….In the end, I was helped to understand (thanks Glen and Ged) that the player with 666 had the highiest full house, but at the time I could not see it and thought both players were playing a full house…..Any thoughts or similar hands we need to beware of ?

Slev (Romany) Northampton

We held our first CPL event last week which we had 10 runners which is down on our average turn out, but every one had a great night with Robert Cassidy taking first place ahead of our Robin boyle. We need more venues in newcastle who are running CPL so our players can also play at there venues. Week 2 tonight and im sure we will have alot more players.

We had our first 8 players this week, which made for a much better game!. The first hand saw an ‘All In’ with a flush winning, gripping stuff. Thanks for the new guys who played and we are hoping to see more players down at the Romany Pub on a Wednesday evening for 9pm.

hi folks,

            the spinning wheel on woods road chaddesden has joined the poker league and would like to welcome any one interested in joining us on thursday nights 8 o clock kick off. Free play at the moment but may change if majority agree.

look forward to seeing any new faces…..All welcome .   Mel.

Hi, Just thought I would drop a note to anone who fancies a game on a Wednesday night in Northampton. We have played to games now and it normally kicks off at 8.30 - 9pm. We currently have 6 players, both nights have seen 5 players. The first game, the local area manager David got us started, we also play a small £5 low stake, winner takes all. Both games have been very good, with lots of shouts of “all in” wraps up about 11pm, we set a time limit for the person with the highest chip count wins. If your looking to come along, then please do.

Stephen (Slev)

Let me set the scene. Going into the final game of the season last Sunday, about 12 weeks, you might be forgiven for thinking that numbers and interest would be low as all key issues would have been decided, but oh no, not down at The Admiral Macbride. We had (forgive the football analogy) a title shoot out between Rob Knox and Joseph Alexander, 19 points seperated them with Rob holding the lead. We also had a champions league decider, Rob and Jo had already garunteed themselves a place in Bristol but the other two places were up for grabs and there were four going for it; Leigh Acton (current regional champion) in 3rd, Dave Nicholls two points behind in 4th; Edd Butters a further 7 points behind in 5th and an outside chance for Paul Wonnacot, who only joined 5/6 weeks ago but if he won the tournament, there was a slim chance he could still make the regional final.

So, play started with 10 players, early chip leads were shared about; Leigh Acton picked up a few early pots, but Edd Butters gained a substantial chip lead before the end of the 3rd level re-buy. The atmosphere was quite tense, a bit of banter ensued and the game continued, this time, everybody knowing that every move they made would be crucial.

Rob Knox, chasing any finishing place above Jo Alexander to take the title was not having the best night, not catching many hands, although on an all-in flopped quad-6s against Jo’s Ace to take a nice pot. However, that proved to be of little help as Rob still failed to catch a decent hand and was blinded away until he had no choice to push A7 under the gun and got called by Ben Hoyal with AQ of spades. Unfortunately for Rob the board came with two 9s and an Ace and was out-kicked and dead. His title chances were still alive, if Jo finished 9th or 8th then he would still pick up the title although obviously disappointed with his position. It was not to be however, as Jo started to make his moves and before we knew it, we were down to 6 and Jo had already claimed the title.

 Paul Wonnacot fell in 6th place, happy with his efforts over recent weeks saying, “I was always looking at next season anyway” and if he carries on playing the way he has been, there will be another contender for the crown next season. So down to five, Jo, Leigh, Edd, Dave all still in the shake up along with Ben Hoyal who has recently moved from Bridgwater’s The Great Escape. Ben busted out in 5th place leaving the other four to play it out and the battle for Bristol was on.

Leigh Acton played a few hands aggressively and won some nice pots through pushing all-in, Edd Butters and Jo had a chip lead shared between them, so inevitably it was between Dave and Leigh to go out next. Leigh raised the pot big pre-flop, Dave re-raised, Leigh went all in, Dave called and the cards were turned over. Leigh showed KQ clubs whilst Dave turned over one Ace, followed by another. The flop came with A,10,3; Dave had hit trips, there were no clubs to help Leigh, he needed a Jack to take it but it never came and was left with about 1000 chips whilst Dave took an impresive pot to rival Edd or Jo. Leigh fell after he was all-in on the big blind with 9,3 and no help lead to him being eliminated in 5th place and now the current South West champion waits to see if he gets given a wild card entry to Bristol. With everything settled, play moved quickly, Edd Butters picked up 3rd place on the night, 4th overall and Jo Alexander beat Dave Nicholls heads up to take the crown in style whilst Dave finished 3rd overall.

After a season of high quality tight poker, these four guys are sure to cause waves at Bristol. Next season will be very interesting!

Another great night was had at the Masons poker den. lewis (wiss ) hanson was the first to drop, aq suited vs rag and the rags hit 2 pairs.

Next to be taken out was the amazing double deuce and dave pilling. Both were taken by the irrepressible Dazbo 1967. Dave push all in on a/k suited and double deuce called with 5 / 8 off suit when the flop showed, 6h 7d 9d, dazbo called the all in and turned 8/10. The fourth card was a 4 and the next was a dead draw leaving dazbo to clean up. pdiff pdang was the next victim when dazbo hitkk vs bdiffs all in low stack of qq, but the kk held up.

The days work was not done as Dazbo, who was on a hot streak went randomly in on qq vs k4 suited vs j/10 suited. Dazbo went all in and everyone called, but the queens stood up and cleaned the table.

What a mad day that was the tilt monkeys were swinging high and only Dazbo had the right banana.

Well done daz and better luck next birthday pdiff.

PS well done  joshua i mean pete  lol