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Hi Everyone,

Friends of the Grove Supporters Association invites you to a poker night on Saturday 6th June, it promises to be a fantastic evening, the game is No Limit Texas Holdem, it will be held in the James Grove Lounge and there will be a tournament for people who have never played before and also a game for the more experienced.

For the beginners, don't be shy if you have never picked up a chip before or held a playing card in your hand ever, myself and my brother Dale will help you learn the game before you start raking in mountains of chips !

The tournaments will be £5 to enter, but with that you will get a free raffle to win a fantastic prize, the prize pool will be half going to the FOTG and half to the winning participants, at present the tournaments can only hold 40 players in total so will be on a first come first served basis, simply reserve your seat by sending me a PM or seeing me Saturday, I will be in the James Grove Lounge from about 130pm.

To those who don't want to be involved, fear not your company will still be appreciated, enter the raffle for £1 and watch the action with a drink. We are hoping to get some kind of kids entertainment in the form of DVD bingo or like.

More details to follow.

Any questions or comments feel free to post or PM.

Cheers.

Darren

Never played poker in my life Daz,

But it sounds a hoot.

I'm definitely in.

So the most I can lose is £5? Is that right? Crikey, I can lose more money at the vending machine...

Thanks for the question and a good one it is Rob.

It's a £5 freeze out tournament so the most you can lose is £5, you will get an amount of chips and the aim of the game is to win the chips off everyone else. It's not a winner take all tournament, usually 10% of the participants will win cash prizes. We are going to organise the tournaments so that each player will be involved in the game for a while and not get eliminated after 5 minutes !

dazzlingdazza wrote:Thanks for the question and a good one it is Rob.

It's a £5 freeze out tournament so the most you can lose is £5, you will get an amount of chips and the aim of the game is to win the chips off everyone else. It's not a winner take all tournament, usually 10% of the participants will win cash prizes. We are going to organise the tournaments so that each player will be involved in the game for a while and not get eliminated after 5 minutes !

Can I have a burger with my chips please ;-)

£5 and beer money sounds easy enough. I have played a little before online but never had the chance to play face to face so it'll be fun I'm sure. Do I get a poker name?

When folk reserve a seat I will be asking them if they would like a name for themselves. Our club photographer has already put his name down so I suggest Dave "Soggy Bottom" Hawley

How about Rob "Pocket Rockets" Lloyd !?

dazzlingdazza wrote:When folk reserve a seat I will be asking them if they would like a name for themselves. Our club photographer has already put his name down so I suggest Dave "Soggy Bottom" Hawley

How about Rob "Pocket Rockets" Lloyd !?

I didn't catch you after the game Daz, did you have a good sign up for this?

Sorry Rob, yes I was too busy kicking the younger guys asses on the pitch ! Lol

We have about 15 names down so far which is a very good start, most are beginners who have never played before which is great, it would be fantastic if some of the players/ management team could make it too.

I won't come unless it's strip poker.