Steve Blake from the Copcut Elm in Droitwich went out to Mike Bunting from the Bulls Head in Wooten Wawen losing to quad nines.

Redtooth’s Richard Halford and Danielle Rawlinson at the West Midlands regional final.

Michael Nolan from the Shannon Inn in Birmingham was the first player out in the West Midlands regional final after less than three minutes. His full house list to four of a kind.

 Redtooth are pleased to announce that our growth in Scotland means that we will now have two regions. This means that there will now be two regional finals held in Glasgow and Dundee from next season – which takes the Scottish cash prize pool to £8,000 for regional finals alone!

This is great news for those loyal Scottish players who have travelled long distances to take part in regionals in the past and we look forward to seeing them at the new events.

We are also able to report that we have aquired the Scotland Poker Club – this is one of the largest poker leagues in Scotland and brings new pubs to the league. John Kay from Scotland Poker Club commented “this is  a great step forward for the league, it’s great to be part of the UK’s biggest pub poker league”.

Marston’s pub, Cobblers Hall gets a great turnout for the opening night.
25 players start to form the new poker community in Newton Acliffe and manager Collette is over the moon!
Collette says “”it’s a better turnout than we expected, the atmosphere is brilliant and the takings are up”.

Final Chance Friday is an online tournament for all players that were eliminated during the regional finals . The tournament will take place on friday 19th of June at 8pm on Betfred Poker.

10 seats are guaranteed into the National Final 2010 and a chance to become the UK Pub Poker Champion.

Please note: This tournament is only open to players that have been elinminated from the regional final events.

Scott Marsh

National Poker Manager

Huge congratulations go to Sonya Atkin of the Sun Inn, Eastwood who became our second ever female Regional Champion. Sonya made it to the final table of the East Midlands final, which was held at the Village Hotel and Leisure Club, Nottingham, with a modest chipstack of 90k and managed to beat the chip leader, Luke Taylor of the Nags Head, Sleaford who had 140k. When the final hand was dealt, Luke had a confident  Qd 10d against Sonya’s Kc 5s but the flop delivered 7c 5h 3s giving Sonya a pair of 5’s to win the game.

East Midlands Regional Final continued »

Another enjoyable day was had at the Ratcliffe Bar & Function Suite, Rochdale for the North West & North Wales final. Warren Gaskin of the Old Rectory, Stockport went into the final table as chip leader with 145k and no-one was able to defeat him, although Rick Makin of the George VI, Atherton put up a good fight starting the final table with just 50k and going heads up with Warren but just couldn’t pull it out of the bag to beat him.

Cash Prize Winners and National Final Qualifiers

• 1^st Warren Gaskin, Old Rectory, Stockport
• 2^nd Rick Makin, George VI, Atherton
• 3^rd Dan McKeown, Arkles, Liverpool
• 4^th Danny Jones, Brown Cow Hotel, Eccles
• 5^th Ronnie Allan, Stand Park Hotel, Liverpool
• 6^th David Irwin, Swan, Birkenhead
• 7^th Glenn Hopley, Spring Inn, Rochdale
• 8^th Michelle Ganley, Angel, Lees
• 9^th Martin Moran, Park Hotel, Southport
• 10^th Nick Cookson, Butchers Arms, Warrington

Seat number one was lucky for Zain Said of the Magic Lantern, North Shields as he finished 1^st at the North East regional final held at the Circus Casino, Newcastle. It was also a case of ‘third time lucky’ for Zain as he attended the previous two finals and was unable to win the title until now. The final heads up saw Zain with 6c 8c against Jim Robinson of New Seaham Conservative Club, Seaham with Js Jd, the flop revealed 6h Kc 6d giving Zain trip 6’s, enough to clinch the title, but there was still a chance Jim could snatch it back until the turn brought 8d and the river 4d giving Zain the Fullhouse.

Cash Prize Winners and National Final Qualifiers

• 1^st Zain Said, Magic Lantern, North Shields
• 2^nd Jim Robinson, New Seaham Conservative Club, Seaham
• 3^rd Ian Bertram, Bowes Hotel, Bardon Mill
• 4^th John Skelton, Cleveland, Middlesborough
• 5^th John Bassett, Eagle, Stockton on Tees
• 6^th George Bowman, Poachers Cottage, Newcastle

Other Cash Prize Winners

• 7^th Colin Fletcher, Baydale Beck, Darlington
• 8^th Stephen Peacock, Grey Horse, Penshaw

The Loose Cannon Club was again the host for the London regional final on Sunday 7^th June. The atmosphere was pretty tense at the start of the tournament but that soon changed when the first two players were knocked out in the same hand. Both Jason Elphick and Chris Elliott had their high pairs beaten when another player hit a straight on the flop, unlucky guys. The final table became quite a battle with everyone fighting to be the champion. A fierce heads up between Doug Sharp of Bar Malden, Surrey and Drew Hunt of Goose, Beckenham ensued and after several nail biting hands Drew won the tournament with his Ace high beating Doug’s King high.

Cash Prize Winners and National Final Qualifiers

• 1^st Drew Hunt, Goose, Beckenham
• 2^nd Doug Sharp, Bar Malden, Surrey
• 3^rd Tom Mahaffy, Rose & Crown, Woodford Green
• 4^th Tayef Quddus, Noble Vine, Walton On Thames
• 5^th Dougie Bater, Dutch House, Eltham
• 6^th James Crutchlow, Lord Palmerston, Walthamstow
• 7^th Jan Vermooten, Crabtree, Fulham
• 8^th Glen Cole, Four Seasons Basildon
• 9^th Sebastian Walick, Red Deer, Croydon
• 10^th Jamie McCarthy, Beacon Tree, Dagenham