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The UK pub poker circuit has brought the game of poker to the average man in the street.
Rebranded as a low-risk, low stakes and high-entertainment game, pub poker has taken off across the UK.
The Nuts Poker League was launched with the help of £60,000 given by the BBC’s Dragon Den. Entrepreneur Steve Bellis won the cash investment on the show where contestants pitch their business ideas to a team of venture capitalists who then pick the ones with the most potential to invest in.
In Scotland, over 80 pubs have joined the game, with weekly poker nights.
Bets are capped at £5 and the top prize on offer is £100 – not bad for a night out at the local pub. The aim of this low stakes version is that everyone can participate without the danger of getting in too deep.
You don’t have to be an expert to join the league, in fact it’s the perfect place for beginners to learn the ropes, whilst having a chance to win some money.
The pub poker league is very sociable, and a great way to meet new people, one of the reasons this idea has grown so quickly.
Each player puts £5 in the pot, and the total is divided up by the winners.
The poker games are good news for pubs, bringing in business on typically quiet weekday nights.
It seems that pub poker is replacing the great British institution of the pub quiz, where locals get into teams to answer trivia questions, to win a cash prize. It is not surprising that this new activity has inspired so many Brits, since poker as a global phenomenon is on the rise.
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Norwegian gambling laws force poker championship overseas
This month sees the annual Norwegian Poker Championships taking place. However, due to the tightening of gambling laws in Norway, the tournament has been forced to seek an alternative venue.
Poker is currently classified as illegal in Norway and police raids have been carried out on some clubs.
Unable to hold the annual championships in their home country, hundreds of Norwegian players will be travelling to the UK to participate. Special flights are being reserved to accommodate the players, estimated at 500.
The temporary home for the Norwegians will be the Dusk till Dawn poker club in Nottingham, in the Midlands. This is one of the biggest poker venues in Europe, and having only opened several months ago, is thriving on the British poker scene.
Norway has produced several poker champs in recent years and has a respectable poker history, with famous names including Thor Hansen (2 WSOP bracelets), Johnny Lodden, and most recently Annette Obrestad – the young winner of last year’s WSOP Europe event.
Annette became the youngest ever winner of a WSOP bracelet when she won the London event last September, aged just 18. She has since made a name for herself in the online poker world, with consistent wins and several poker site partnerships.
The Norwegian Poker Championship will take place from April 28th to May 5th 2008. It will include pot-limit Omaha, limit Hold’em and no-limit Hold’em in the main event. The prize pool is expected to be around £350,000, with the winner receiving a seat at the World Series of Poker main event – a coveted prize.
With two to three games scheduled on each day of the eight-day championship, it’s sure to be an action-packed event, all captured on camera for a TV documentary.
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