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Cheating will not be tolerated. We have now adopted a zero tolerance attitude towards cheating in any manner, including collusion, coaching, mechanics, chip scamming, chip dumping, etc. Any player suspected of cheating will be warned, and any player caught cheating will be ejected from the tournament with the possibility of a ban from our games entirely.
Cheating is not part of poker and is considered the most heinous offense in a game. We won't hammer your fingers off like they do in Vegas, but we sure won't let you come back!!
Games will start 1 hour after registration.
Please make sure you bring your resistration card to all NPPL events. This will ensure that you receive all points in a correct and timely manner. If you dont bring your registration cards, theres a chance that your points will be LOST. This makes everyone unhappy, including your NPPL Admin staff. Make your life, and everyone elses easier - BRING YOUR REGO CARD!!!
All players who bring their registration card to events will receive a NPPL lanyard. Be the envy of all your poker friends and the apple of the NPPL's eyes! Never forget your registration card again!
Coming soon to an event near YOU!
Fancy taking a luxury cruise from Brisbane and playing for mega bucks?
Feel like winning big while relaxing on a 7-day cruise aboard the Pacific Dawn?
The Next NPPL Cruise will depart in November 2010.
Further details available by contacting Tim Phillips 0419-277203
NPPL is giving even more opportunities for players to earn more cash by playing at their local NPPL venue. Instead of holding regional finals every 3 months, NPPL will be holding regional finals every 4 weeks in your region!
Even better news is that we have increased the number of regions meaning players have less pubs to compete against for the prize!!
Click here to find out more!
How does the new season work?
Instead of the traditional 13 week season plus regional, we will now be having 4 week seasons, each followed by a cash final.
How do I qualify?
Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Cairns, Gladstone and Rockhampton will now be all players who have made a final table during the season.
Brisbane areas - qualifying criteria will be the winner plus runner up at weekly event; plus the top 10 point scorers at the venue who didn't win or finish runner up. Where there is more than one game per week at a venue, the top 20 point scorers will qualify.
Can I get a seat from a friend who has 2, or give one of my extra ones away?
NO - in the new format, seats are not transferable, but the bonus is that the more seats you win, the less players you are playing against for the cash final.
Are all the venues involved?
Yes, all NPPL venues are involved in the new format, depending on which state you are in, the format is a little different: E.g Victoria has 2 regions (Red and Black). This is made up of around 25 venues each, each will have their own 4 week season and cash final every month.
Can I qualify for more then 1 region to play in the monthly final?
Yes, because the finals will be held on different days, you can qualify for both of the cash finals by winning an event in both the regions (Red and Black).
Are there still National Finals?
Yes, there will be 3 per year. Qualifiers will be made up of the top 16 players from each cash final. The national you qualify for will be the next national being held. It will either be in Vic, Qld or SA.
The top 25 point earners in each state will also be invited to the national finals.
You can find some more information here
Any other questions regarding the new format you can ask:
Luke - luke@npplpoker.com.au in Victoria
Darren - npplsa@ozemail.com.au in South Australia
Tim - timothy.phillips@bigpond.com in Queensland
Cheers
NPPL Eat, Drink, Play
Please note that due to NPPL's responsibility to keep in line with correct and auditable accounting procedures - NPPL will be paying all cash owed to prize winners by direct credit into the relevant player's account.
Please give your bank details to the host at the game. Please also note that NPPL reserves the right to take up to 14 days from the date of the event to complete these payments.
Thanks for playing NPPL.
If you have any comments or feedback for the National Pub Poker League then we invite you to fill in our contact form and let us know what you think.
All constructive comments are welcome and of course all feedback is strictly confidential. We have provided some 'food for thought' to get you started with an online questionnaire, so click here and let us know what you think.
Thanks for playing NPPL.
*** Finals Info Update ***
The final has now been set and will be at Highpoint Hotel on Friday 8th January. Registration will open from 6pm with the game starting 7pm sharp.
Starting from the 12th of October high point is going to be having a course of 20 games finishing by Wednesday 23rd December.
In between this time, if you finish in the top 4 on any of the nights in this time you will qualify for the monthly cash finals also getting you into another tournament at High Point.
So, there will be 60 80 players that will qualify to play off for the following Prizes.
1st $250 phase 2 aussie million satellite seat + Seat into the National Finals + a hamper of goods
2nd $250 phase 2 aussie million satellite seat + Seat into the National Finals + a hamper of goods
3rd La Porchetta Voucher + hamper + Seat into Both Red and Black Regional Finals
4th 8th Seat into Both Red and Black Regional Finals
If you would like any more information about the new High Point competition don't hesitate to contact your NPPL host.
SA Pick of The Pubs 2009 was run and won on Sunday 6th December @ The Highbury Hotel...
With a fantastic turn out, having 19 of the 21 pubs represented we sat down to a slightly different format with over 155 players..
Pick of The Pubs Pairs Tournament:
Each pub had 6 8 qualifiers, who sat together at their pub table and played a shoot-out style game until they reached heads-up.
It was these two left in the heads up position that became a pair for their pub, and entered the main game to discover just which pub had the Champion Pair
The first pub pair was decided within 35 minutes, with the guys from The Stockade knocking each other at a rapid rate.
It was another 3 hours of grinding poker until the last pub The Highbury finally reached their heads up pair... great slog guys!!
So at 5pm with a field of 19 pairs we began the second leg of the journey one player of the pair sat down with $10K, and had to survive the first blind level.
As the blinds changed, the other partner sat in with their own 10K plus whatever player one left in their stack.
From this point on it was a freeze out, a battle royale, reducing pub by pub pair until only 8 pairs remained.
At the final Pick of The Pub Pairs table we had the following Pubs represented:
· Eureka Jamie & Boyle
· The Hub Matt & Dags
· Bridgeport Helen & Dean
· The Rex Paul & Bill
· The Rose n Crown Jasmine & Andrew
· The Highbury Gavin & Peter
· The Finsbury Kelly & Shane
· Gepps Cross Ruth & Eric
Tension really mounted here, with no player wanting to lose for his/her partner, but one by one they slowly dropped
Heads up in the Pair Event was The Finsbury & The Rose n Crown....
And after some big pushes and gutsy calling it was The Rose n Crown Pair that claimed the title of Pick of The Pubs Champions for 2009
Jasmine Osborne & Andrew Collins received a direct seat into the next NPPL National Final (Adelaide 2010) as well as their names engraved on the Champions Perpetual Plaque
Each Pub Pair will have a framed photograph to go into their pub for their achievement but...
The ultimate bragging right goes to The Rose N Crown until our next big Pick of The Pubs Champions Event
Regards,
Darren Shaw
NPPL SA Manager
The National Finals were recently held at the Lone Star Tavern.
For a full wrap of the weekends events including all the winners please click here.
To view photos of the event please click here
There will be another NPPL poker venue joining the Black region in Vic with the St Albans Hotel starting poker on a Thursday and Saturday evening.
First game kicks off Thursday 7th January with another on Saturday 9th January and each week after. Registration opens for both nights at 5:30pm for 6:30pm sharp start.
See you there!
NPPL is happy to announce The Keysborough Hotel will now be hosting poker on a Sunday afternoon as well as the regular Wednesday night game.
The new Sunday games open for registration from 1pm for a 2pm start time.
See you there!
Vic Players please note that the Palace Hotel in Camberwell will be shifting nights. Instead of Tuesday night poker the games will now be hosted on a Wednesday, rego and start times remain the same.
Get down to the Palace in camberwell on a Wednesday night, games open for registration from 6pm for a 7pm.
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Just Before Christmas Victoria had their First Pick of the pub Competitions (POTPC)2009. The idea is the top 8 point scorers from each pub (over a 3 month season) were selected to compete in a team shoot out against the other pubs!!
The prize?
A perpetual trophy to take back to the winner's pub (and massive bragging rights) until the shield is defended at the next pick of the pubs in April.
The current 3 month period to qualify in your pub's top 8 for the April shoot out games is Dec. 7th 2009 to March 14th 2010. Check your progress out on - Pick of the Pubs - Victoria
There were two Pick of the Pub Comp games Played in 2009. Black Region at High Point Hotel Known as the High rollers Pub and Red Region at the Manhattan hotel. At Black Region (POTPC) we had 13 Venues with 37 players in total not huge but still a fun day.
With the "Sit and Go" games each venue had played for 1 1/2 hours of poker to decide who was going to be our two players from each venue to represent for the team event.We had some venues with only 1 player turn up automatically making in it into the team event later that day.
The Following people represented their venues in the (POTPC) in 2009 and were placed as follows. Well Done To The Following Players:
1st TEAM ELTHAM: Tom Karadimos and Adrian Sticca
2nd TEAM GLEN GALA: Lukas Nguyen and Frank Ellis
3rd TEAM WEST SIDE: TIM COOPER-solo team
4th TEAM ROYAL ESSENDON: Iby Kaakour and Chris Xuereb
5th TEAM PLOUGH HOTEL: Paul Gianfriddo-solo team
6th TEAM THE POWELL HOTEL: Justin Seto-solo team
7th TEAM SKYWAYS: Darren Melia and Darren Griffen
8th TEAM HIGH POINT HOTEL: Ross McLaughlin and Tony Piperno
At the Red Region (POTPC) we had 23 Venues with 87 players in total pretty good for their first game and was it a great game or what. With the "Sit and Go" games each venue had played for 2 hours of poker to decide who was going to be our two players from each venue to represent for the team event. The Following people represented there venues in the (POTPC) in 2009 and were placed as follows. Well Done To The Following Players:
1st TEAM SANDOWN PARK : Ryan Faoro and Alex Spiridon
2nd TEAM FERNTREE-GULLY HOTEL : David Loosz and Chris Harvey
3rd TEAM OAKLIEGH JUNCTION : John Delivigro Peter Donahoe
4th TEAM THE PIER HOTEL : Norman Kwon-solo player
5th TEAM CENTURY CITY TAVERN : Jamie Sheen and David Pascoe
6th TEAM MONASH HOTEL : Rod Hubbard and Jason Wylie
7th TEAM KEYSBOROUGH : Mitch Mark and Jo Gilmour
8th TEAM SEAFORD HOTEL : Gail Williamson
All in all a lot of fun was had by all players - and we are all looking forward to taking on Team Eltham and Team Sandown park when they defend their Crowns in April!!
Details of the final venues and times will be posted on the website soon.
Get down to your local and qualify in your pub's top 8 and be part of the fun - and thanks for playing NPPL!!
EAT, DRINK, PLAY!!!!!!
NPPL Poker is happy to be back at the Noosa Reef Hotel. Starting up on Wednesday 3rd Feb, poker will be held on each Wednesday after.
Registration opens at 6pm for a 7pm game start. See you there!!!
The Albion Charles Hotel in Northcote will be starting a second poker game starting on the 21st Feb. The game will be held each Sunday afternoon with registration open from 3pm for a 4pm start.
The Albion is still hosting its regular Tuesday night games, 6pm rego, 7pm start.
There are new NPPL poker games starting up in Victoria.
The Westend Market Hotel in Sunshine is offering poker on a Saturday afternoon, starting 20th Feb and then each Saturday after. Registration for games opens from 12 noon for a 1pm game start.
The Sandy Hotel in Sandringham is hosting poker again on a Thursday night. Kicking off Thursday 18th February and each Thursday after. Registration open from 6pm for a 7pm game start.
Also on Thursdays the Sylvania Hotel in Campbellfield will be starting poker on 18th February. Games will open for registration at 6pm for a 7pm start
See you there!
The Prince Mark Hotel is the latest venue offering NPPL poker. Starting on the 18th February and each Thursday night after, games will open for rego from 6pm for a 7pm start.
So players get down to Doveton and head to The Prince Mark Hotel on a Thursday night for a great time playing poker.
The Preston Hotel in Vic is the latest venue to start offering NPPL poker games. Kicking off on the 18th Feb The Preston will be hosting matches on a Thursday night. Game rego starts at 6pm for a 7pm prompt start.
So get your friends together for a Thursday night drink and friendly game of poker at The Preston.
See you there!
There are two new nights for poker in SA with the Willaston Hotel starting up Tuesday and Thursday night poker games.
Play kicks off on Tuesday 2nd February and will be each Thursday and Tuesday after.
Games start at 7pm with registration open from 6pm. As an added bonus any player registering before 6:30pm will receive a bonus of $1000 chips!!!
NPPL Punters please note that the Varsity Lakes Hotel is switching dates and times. Games will now be held on Sundays with registration open from 2 for a 3pm start.
The first Sunday game will be 14th Feb. Please contact your host for further information.
Capalaba Tavern, 30 Old Cleveland Rd, Capalaba, will be starting up NPPL Poker on a Thursday night from March 4th and each Thursday night after.
Registration opens from 6pm so get in early for a prompt start to the fun at 7pm.
The Skyways Taverner, 113 Matthews Ave Airport West,
are starting Monthly Saturday games, just perfect for those who like to have some fun when you catch up with friends at the pub.
There are great EXTRA PRIZES on offer - details coming soon or ask your NPPL host.
Next Game on: SATURDAY MARCH 20th
- and in April on Saturday 24th.
Registration at 6:30pm for a 7pm kick off.
So Get your friends together, Get in the game and have some fun!!
Skyways Taverner
Phone: (03) 9338 1300
Poker lovers take note that there will be another new venue to play poker at in the Brisbane area.Redland Bay Hotel will be starting Tuesday night poker from the 23rd March.
Games will open for registration at 6pm for a 7pm start.
SO all punters in the area make a note to get down to the Redland Bay Hotel for a Tuesday nights FUN!
The Meadow Inn is the latest venue to join in the NPPL fun.
Starting on Friday 19th March and each Friday night after the Meadow Inn will be hosting poker.
Games open for registration from 6pm for a 7pm sharp start so get your weekend off to a fun start on Fridays at the The Meadow Inn
NPPL is happy to let all punters know that the Redbank Plains Tavern will be hosting poker again on a Thursday Night.
Registration opens at 6pm for a 7pm start so be sure to get your friends together and head down to the Redbank Plains Tavern for a friendly nights poker.
See you there!
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