After finishing in the qualifying positions on the last two West Midlands regional finals, Janet Page from the Golden Hind in Kingstanding is looking to make it a hat-trick at the Circus Casino at Star City in Birmingham.
This time Janet had qualified as pub champion, having previously won through to the regional as play-off winner and runner-up in the pub.

The excellent Circus Casino at Star City in Birmingham hosted first of two West Midlands Regional Finals. The venue is a big favourite amongst Redtooth and it’s players and they certainly delivered once again.

A tactical battle ensued on the final table as one would expect after over six hours of play to get there. The final table short stack Chris Dorricott from the Peacock in Shrewsbury performed a minor miracle to have his 23k starting stack carry him through to fourth place. The final table chip leader, Daniel Careless from the Britannia in Tewksbury ended up in third place after quite a three way tussle with the chip lead changing hands on a number of occassions. With the clock past 9pm, Peter Webb from the Raglan Arms in Rugby was crowned the West Midlands One Regional Final winner when his QJ defeated the J8 of Ashley Dace, though with a board of Q7T K, Ashley still had a number of outs but the river 4 sent him away a gallant loser with two hundred quid to boot!

National Final Qualifiers & Cash Prize Winners
1st Peter Webb – Raglan Arms, Rugby
2nd Ashley Dace – Bar NV, Walsall
3rd Daniel Careless – Britannia, Tewksbury
4th Chris Dorricott – Peacock, Shrewsbury
5th Aled Jones – Red Lion, Wales
6th Steve Slade – Rose & Crown, Hereford
7th Gary Titley – Merry Boys, Wolverhampton
8th Ben Huskisson – Amber Tavern, West Quinton

Regional Final weekend saw a small drop in numbers for week 5 of the Red Tavern, macian1957 took full advantage by claiming the 100 points. The win puts him up to 7th place overall.

Here are the current Regional Final qualifying positions.

For the league table in full, click on the thumbnail below.

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The Stanley’s Circus Casino in Manchester hosted our North West One Season 4 Regional Final, with 127 players in attendance.

The top eight would receive cash prizes totaling £1000 with the top six receiving a National Final invite.

10 players would take their seat for the final table meaning two unlucky players would be leaving empty handed. Eric Bradbury from the Dog & Partridge in Morcambe would start as the chip leader with 135,000 in chips with Daniel Birch from the Golden Lion in Todmorden starting as the short stack with only 10,000. A comeback never materialized for Daniel as he was to be the first player out in 10th place.

The heads-up match would come down to Craig Knight from the Waggon & Horse in Wilmslow and Carl Ringland from the Spring Inn in Rochdale. The final hand of the night saw Craig’s 67 flop an open ended straight draw with Carl flopping top pair holding J9, a 10 on the turn would give Craig the straight but also giving Carl a chance of a re-draw to a bigger straight. The river bricked which left Craig as the North West One Regional champion. £500 goes to Craig along with a Redtooth glass trophy and a National Final invite.

National Final Qualifiers & Cash Prize Winners
1st Craig Knight – Waggon & Horse, Wilmslow
2nd Carl Ringland – Spring Inn, Rochdale
3rd Rod Williams – Royal Hotel, Atherton
4th Andy Taylor – Royal Hotel, Atherton
5th Aaron Bailey – Blue Bell, Manchester
6th Eric Bradbury – Dog & Partridge, Morcambe

Other Cash Prize Winners
7th Sam El-Barbisi – Varsity, Manchester
8th Paul McGarry – Bowling Green Inn, Oldham

A record 222 players arrived at the Gala Casino in Bristol to compete in the South West & South Wales Regional Final with a record 18% of the runners being female. 15 of the competing pub champions were ladies.

The eventual winner, Daniel Mitchell from the Brookhouse Farm in Swindon qualified through the online Sunday afternoon Redtooth Tavern tournament. Daniel began the final table as chip leader with 300,000 in chips followed by Martin Brough of the Birchgrove in Cardiff with 205,000. These two players engaged in a long battle with Chris Drage from the Village Inn as the field narrowed down to the final three players. The lead was exchanged between all three players before Chris’s challenge ended in 3rd place and then Daniel and Martin battled it out with Daniel taking the first prize of £500 when his two pairs (10s and 7s) defeated Martin’s pair of 7s.

National Final Qualifiers & Cash Prize Winners
1st: Daniel Mitchell – Brookhouse Farm, Swindon
2nd: Martin Brough – Birchgrove, Cardiff
3rd: Chris Drage – Village Inn, Cardiff
4th: Jack Evans – Two Brewers, Brackla
5th: Mark Singleton – Star, Kingswood
6th: Adrian Knight – Sun Inn, Cheltenham
7th: Allan Vickers – William IV, Truro
8th: Perry Williams – Ebdon Arms, Wick St Lawrence

Other National Final Qualifiers
9th: Dave Chandler – Riley’s, Plymouth
10th: John Williams – Royal Oak, Gloucester

The Gala Casino in Sol Central, Northampton once again played host to the Redtooth Central England Regional Final. 177 players battled it out in their last opportunity to qualify for this year’s National Final.

Play started promptly at 2.00pm with almost everyone playing cautiously in the early stages. After the buffet break, the blinds began to have an effect with more and more players being eliminated as the afternoon went on.

The real stories of the day though, came on the final table where 10 players battled it out for 8 seats at the National Final. The final 10 were headed by Lee Girard of the Blue Boar in Wantage, who had over 1/3rd of the chips in play (330k), however the poker gods deserted Lee and he eventually finished in 6th place. The only other players on the final table with 100k+ chips were Craig Dunkley from the Squirrels in Northampton (160k), Sam Powell from the Blue Bell Inn in Northampton (130k) and Elizabeth Whitty from the Queens in Didcot (110k). The remaining six players all came to the table short-stacked; Steven Byrne from Kennington SSC in Oxford (60k), Richard Wardale from the Golden Hind in Cambridge (50k), Pippa Wilson from the White Lion in Hemel Hempstead (40k), Jon Ainsley from Trimley SSC in Felixstowe (40k), Tiago Nunes from Empress in Cambridge (30k) and Jamie Pedder from the Netherfield Tavern in Milton Keynes must all have been fearing an early exit.

The unlucky duo finishing 9th and 10th respectively, just missing out on National Final seats were Jon Ainsley and Jamie Pedder. Finishing in 7th and 8th were Richard Wardale and Elizabeth Whitty. It looked as though there would be two more casualties within minutes, with the blinds at 20k/40k Pippa was down to 20k with Tiago also under the 100k mark, however both recovered from this precarious position and it soon appeared that a long battle was in prospect with all five players having almost equal chips. On a very active table there were very few cheap flops, with Craig and Sam mainly responsible for keeping everyone “honest”.

Craig eventually finished in 5th place, with Sam coming a very creditable 4th, Sam, unfortunately, will miss out on the National as he will be away on holiday in Gambia, however he does have the consolation of beating his dad’s best finish, 14th at the previous Regional Final. Having disposed of Sam by hitting a straight, Tiago then proceeded to bring the event to a finish by eliminating Steven (3rd) and Pippa (2nd) in the next two hands, remarkably by completing a straight each time.

Congratulations go to Tiago on finishing as the Central England Regional Champion, good luck at the National Tiago. Pippa, the runner-up, will also be missing from the National as she will be honeymooning in the Caribbean, it must have been a tough decision – marriage or the Redtooth National Final!

National Final Qualifiers & Cash Prize Winners
1st Tiago Nunes – Empress, Cambridge
2nd Pippa Wilson – White Lion, Hemel Hempstead
3rd Steven Byrne – Kennington SSC, Oxford
4th Sam Powell – Blue Bell Inn, Northampton
5th Craig Dunkley – Squirrels, Northampton
6th Lee Girard – Blue Boar, Wantage
7th Richard Wardale – Golden Hind, Cambridge
8th Elizabeth Whitty – Queens, Didcot

The popular Loose Cannon Club hosted the first of two London Finals, this weekend was the turn of our East London Regional Final.

A 9 player final table meant that one unlucky player would miss out on a cash prize while the top six would receive a cash prize and a National Final invite. Chris Beauchamp from the Earl Beatty in Surrey was the unlucky 9th place finisher and that left the cash winners to play for our National Final places.

As it turned out, our two chip leaders at the beginning of the final table would end up in the heads-up match, both Jamie Barker from the Nags Head in Welling and Paul Schacht from the White Hart in Chelmsford looking to win the £500 cash prize. The match looked all but over when Jamie doubled up leaving Paul with only 10,000 in chips. But Paul was on for a comeback of all comebacks as he got two double ups in consecutive hands, but the third double up was asking a little too much as Paul’s T5 couldn’t find any help on a 4A4 Q 6 board to outdraw Jamie’s J7. Congratulations Jamie.

National Final Qualifiers & Cash Prize Winners
1st Jamie Barker – Nags Head, Welling
2nd Paul Schacht – White Hart, Chelmsford
3rd Graham Lear – Treacle Mine, Grays
4th Larry Biggs – Crown & Crooked Billet, Woodford Green
5th Christine Bellili – Riley’s, Folkstone
6th Kurt Offer – Victoria, Cheshunt

Other Cash Prize Winners
7th Malcolm Redman – Shirley Inn, Croydon
8th Michael Harding – Eagle & Hind, Chelmsford

Here is Paul Gedman who can certainly be described as the best dressed poker player this weekend. Paul fell just short of the final table by hitting the rail in 19th place during his East London Regional Final. Unlucky Paul, better luck next time!

A stunning day was enjoyed by all at the Leo’s Casino in Liverpool. 130 players took their seat to find our first North West champion of 2010.

Play got underway on time at 2pm and Tom Crook from the Queens Hotel in Lytham was the first elimination of only a few during the first hour. Further eliminations were swift thereafter as we had a final table after only 5 hours of play.

The final table was set once Joe McGowan from the Priory in Liverland was eliminated in 11th place, leaving the final 10 players to play for eight cash prizes and six National Final places. Craig McKenzie started as the big chip leader with 210,000 in chips, but it was only enough for a 3rd place finish. Craig at least received £100 and a National Final place in Nottingham.

Craig’s elimination left Charlie Williams from the Merlin Hotel in Crewe and Francis Egan from the Mulberry Tree in Warrington, who came back from only 10,000 in chips as the final table began, to play for £500 and a Redtooth glass trophy. Charlie started with the bigger stack of the two, largely thanks to being dealt AA twice and KK once during the final table. Francis was given some hope during heads-up as his AA held up against Charlie’s 1010. Shortly after though, there was a new North West Two champion crowned when Charlie’s A8 suited kept it’s advantage over Francis’ Q10 as the final board ran out 757 2 3. This was Charlie’s first ever Regional Final and afterwards said he was only interested in playing for the win, just like he will be at Nottingham later this month. Well played everyone.

National Final Qualifiers & Cash Prize Winners
1st Charlie Williams – Merlin Hotel, Crewe
2nd Francis Egan – Mulberry Tree, Warrington
3rd Craig McKenzie – Hillfoot, Liverpool
4th Neil Clowes – Old Wirral 100, Great Sutton
5th Samantha Sinclair – Sandhills, Lytham
6th Folkert Lace – Priory, Liverland

Other Cash Prize Winners
7th Paul Harman – Air Balloon, Blackpool
8th Dean Blake – Salt Cellar, Middlewich

142 players entered Duffs Full House for the South England Regional Final.

James Purkiss from the Famous Old Pines in Bournemouth was the first player out in 142nd, with their other two qualifiers fairing much better coming home in 16th place and 30th place respectively. The team from Plough On The Green in Newbury had a day to remember as two of their three qualifiers made the final table, these being Rob Allen and Emily Hayes.

As the final table began, Michael Brant from the Locomotive in Little Hampton had a huge chip lead with 374,000 in chips, a staggering 236,000 more than his closest rival. Michael’s chips dwindled slightly as the rest of the runners tried to up their game and close thegap. However, after a lengthy final table, Michael found himself in a heads-up match against Plough On The Green’s Rob Allen. The match ended when Rob went all-in with K6 only to receive a quick call from Michael, holding A7. The tension built as the flop turn and river were dealt, but there was no help for Rob as Michael’s A7 secured the win when a 3J8 10 and 7 hit the felt. Michael becomes our new South England champion and takes home £500, a Redtooth glass trophy and a place in our annual National Final.

National Final Qualifiers & Cash Prize Winners
1st Michael Brant – Locomotive, Little Hampton
2nd Rob Allen – Plough On The Green, Newbury
3rd Robert Higgins – Cuckoo Pint, Fareham (Already Qualified)
4th Paul Bennett – Hop & Kilderkin, Bournemouth
5th Steve Johnson – Old Farmhouse, Southampton
6th Jimbo Stewart – York Hotel, Bexhill On Sea
7th Emily Hughes – Plough On The Green, Newbury

Other Cash Prize Winners
8th David Stimson – Old House At home, Havant