L-R: Simon Gibson, Marketing manager for Carlsberg UK, Stuart Blomeley the JW Lees Poker Champion and Mark Welch Pub Operations Director for JW Lees at the final on Sunday. 

The final of the inaugural Carlsberg JW Lees Poker tournament took place at the Ratcliffe Bars on Sunday 1st June with the top players from 59 competing pubs and clubs battling it out for the £100 first prize and the trophy. Players had been competing over six weeks throughout the JW Lees estate throughout the north west of England and north Wales.

The top forty places in the final were as follows: