Pick of the Pubs Competition - Victoria

• The winning pub team will be crowned "PICK OF THE PUB CHAMPIONS", and will be presented with the perpetual Victorian Pick Of The Pubs trophy.
• The winning pub will defend their trophy at the next pick of the pubs tournament in April.
• There will be great prizes and plenty of pride at stake!!
• Click on your region and then your pub below and find out if you are in the top 8 or not as of today.
• A final top 8 qualifiers list will be live after March 17th.

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:

1^st TEAM ELTHAM: Tom Karadimos and Adrian Sticca
2^nd TEAM GLEN GALA: Lukas Nguyen and Frank Ellis
3^rd TEAM WEST SIDE: TIM COOPER-solo team
4^th TEAM ROYAL ESSENDON: Iby Kaakour and Chris Xuereb
5^th TEAM PLOUGH HOTEL: Paul Gianfriddo-solo team
6^th TEAM THE POWELL HOTEL: Justin Seto-solo team
7^th TEAM SKYWAYS: Darren Melia and Darren Griffen
8^th 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:

1^st TEAM SANDOWN PARK : Ryan Faoro and Alex Spiridon
2^nd TEAM FERNTREE-GULLY HOTEL : David Loosz and Chris Harvey
3^rd TEAM OAKLIEGH JUNCTION : John Delivigro Peter Donahoe
4^th TEAM THE PIER HOTEL : Norman Kwon-solo player
5^th TEAM CENTURY CITY TAVERN : Jamie Sheen and David Pascoe
6^th TEAM MONASH HOTEL : Rod Hubbard and Jason Wylie
7^th TEAM KEYSBOROUGH : Mitch Mark and Jo Gilmour
8^th 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!!!!!!