Hi All
Welcome to the December edition of your newsletter. The team at The Nuts Poker League would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and good wishes for the new year.
Please check with your venue to confirm that your normal events are not re-scheduled due to the festivities over the Chrismas and new year holidays.
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| The Badger Bounty is back
A TNPL exclusive – The Badger Bounty – Yes Its Back!!! Circus Poker has teamed up with The Nuts Poker League to offer you the very best in welcome bonuses and great offers. You might recognise Circus Casino as the venue for several of our regional finals.
A TNPL exclusive – The Badger Bounty – Yes Its Back!!!
To celebrate our arrival on Circus Poker we’re re-launching the famous Badger Bounty tournaments. Every Sunday evening at the usual time of 19:30 TNPLBadger will put his scalp up for grabs. The buy-in is $5+$0.50 and The Badgers scalp is worth $25.
That’s not all, every week until December 27th the nice folks at Circus Poker have agreed to add $100 to the prize pool.
To access the tournament you MUST click here to register
click here
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| Special £1,000 on-line Freeroll with Sky Poker
We are pleased to announce that sky poker have offered to stage another £1,000 freeroll purely for Nuts Players who currently do not have a Sky account.
The second one will be held on Sunday 13th December 2009.
If you currently do not have a sky account, and would like to play in the events, you have to click on the link below, to open an account and then register for the events.
click here to register
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| Where has the money gone?
 A special mention must go to Steve Bellis, who aged 10 years in two minutes thanks to a prank played on him plotted by Doug Forbes and Steve Fowkes.
It was a cruel, rotten, vindictive, and heartless joke, so of course I was happy to assist.
For some reason £1000 of the £2500 top prize money went ‘missing’. Had he given the wrong envelope to another prize winner? Had he thrown the wrong envelope away? Had something a bit more sinister happed? Was the winner, Christian worried? (of course, not – he was in on it as well!).
Whilst Steve was busy panicking himself about the ‘missing’ prize money, he just couldn’t understand why photos were still being taken and seemed somewhat irritated that some muppet with his camera was busy snapping while he was busy panicking. Perhaps the look on his face was worth a picture, eh?
All in all, it was an extremely enjoyable day with some excellent poker being played.
By Steve Fowkes (Cardiff)
(Note from the Editor - I shall have revenge)
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| Nuts player Clive Padden does it again
 A Big WELL DONE to Clive Padden from Shropshire who cashes yet again at Blackpool.
GUKPT Results
Venue:G Casino, Blackpool
Date:13/11/2009
Event: £100 NL Hold'em Freezout
Length: 1 day
Runners: 111
Total Prize Pool: £11,100
Place Prize
1st Clive Padden £3,580
2nd Lee Davy £2,330
3rd Paul Marvin £1,610
4th Ryan Andrew £1,000
5th James McCulloch £720
6th Johnny Steward £560
7th Adam Wilkinson £440
8th Wayne Moffat £330
9th Neil Jones £220
The winner also gets a seat in the Champion of Champions tournament @ Luton 5th / 6th December
If you fancy your chances to play against Clive, he can usually be found playing in the Cock Inn, Hanwood, Shrewsbury.
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| Cypriot police raid exposes den of gambling grannies!
 To the locals they are plucky super-grannies making the most of their twilight years. But the law being the law, police felt obliged to raid a private house in Cyprus after neighbours complained that pensioners were using a private house as a noisy gambling den.
A total of 42 elderly women were hauled off to a police station in the coastal town of Limassol after a police raid, which netted less than 100 in stake money.
Most of those arrested for playing poker and gin rummy were aged between 75 and 85. The oldest was five years short of her 100th birthday.
"They were charged and released", a police spokesman said. A date for their court appearance has yet to be set.
As well as the small bundle of notes and coins, police confiscated 830 playing cards and 536 poker chips.
Many Greek Cypriots are passionate card players, but it is a criminal offence to play for money, even in the privacy of one's home.
The state lottery, horse-racing and football betting shops – which are as common as pubs in Scotland – are the only legal forms of gambling in Cyprus.
Unregulated online gambling is also huge growth area, with Cypriots squandering an estimated 100 million a year on electronic bets.
Greek Cypriot gamblers are said to splash out a similar amount in the many casinos in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of the island.
The 42 women are unlikely to receive anything more than a small fine, if convicted. Any harsher penalty would appear unfair, given the many legal forms of gambling available, the advanced age of the accused and the paltry size of their bets.
Elderly women netted in previous gambling raids have claimed they were playing only for "social recreation", while the press criticised the police for wasting time chasing old ladies when they should be pursuing hardened criminals.
Politis, a leading daily, said yesterday: "The police raid was upsetting for these elderly women… They were only playing for small change which they hadn't given to their grandchildren to use on fruit machines."
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| New venues
We have new venues starting with the biggest brand in pub poker every week.
**NORTH WEST REGION**
The Rigger - Elton
The Prospect Inn - Runcorn
Queensferry Hotel - Garden City, Deeside
George - Higher Bebbington
Childwall Fiveways - Liverpool
J D Wetherspoon - The Greyfriar - Preston
Stalybridge Labour Club - Stalybridge
Mechanics Arms - Hindley Green
Morgan Lloyd - Caernarfon
Legends - Stalybridge
Stuart Hotel - Liverpool
Brymbo Sports & Social Club (Buy in Event) - Wrexham
Padiham Snooker Club - Padiham
The Bouverie - Chester
The Headless Woman - Duddon
Bowling Green - Wrexham
Student Guild - Plas Coch Campus, Wrexham
Anfield Hotel - Walton, Liverpool
Mascrat Manor - Woolston
Morris Dancers Hotel - Bolton
Welsh Harp - Flint
Royal Oak - Wrexham
The George - Southport
Zetland - Southport
Dell - Birhenhead
Cross Keys - Buckley
Piccadily Inn - Caerwys
Red Lion - Litherland
Victoria - Southport
Red Lion - Mold
Queens Head Inn - Mold
**NORTH ENGLAND REGION**
Jelly Bar - Barnsley
Royal Shepherd - Skipton
Champs - Sheffield
**EAST ENGLAND REGION**
The Canary - Norwich
The Gemini - Dereham
The Fox - Norwich
**SOUTH & WEST ENGLAND REGION**
Poplar Kitten - Harlow
New Queens Head - Winchester
Bluebell - Newbury
Swan - Sandhurst
Butler - Reading
Baddersley Arms - North Baddersley
L A Bowl - Ryde, Isle of White
Plough Inn - Thacham
Fit Jyms Bar - Winchester
Salt House - St Johns Wood
The Dog & Partridge - Yateley
Three Tuns - Bungay, Suffolk
Roebuck - Winchester
Chandlers - Ealing
**MIDLANDS REGION**
Abbey Sports & Social Club - Telford
Bell Inn - Wigston
Crown & Plough - Melton Mowbray
Newfoundpool Working Mens Club - Newfoundpool
Old Crown - Coventry
Britannia Inn - Telford
**SOUTH WALES REGION**
Phoenix - Llanelli
Morgans - Llanharran
Eli Jenkins - Swansea
Kings Arms Tavern - Swansea
Potters Bar - Canton
**SCOTLAND REGION**
Railway Inn - Banff
Bucks Head - Strathaven
Quarry Bar - Hamilton
Black Bull - Lanark
The Murray - Polbeth, West Calder
Miller Inn - Ayr
Bar 147 - Hamilton
Cotters Bar - Glasgow
Crown Inn - Sanquhar
Crown Hotel - Castle Douglas
Star Inn - Strathaven
Cross Guns - Cowdenbeath
Maxwell Arms Hotel - Dalbeattie
Forresthills Hotel - Fife
Victoria - Rutherglen
Fountain Bar - Coatbridge
Argyll Bar - Coatbridge
click here to find an event
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Finally, we would like to wish you all good luck in your games and in qualifying for your next regional event.
Sincerely,
The Team at The Nuts Poker League |
