Poker Nights 2018

FRIDAY 28th of September 2018 : Start 7:30pm

Venue : Dales House in the middle of nowhere (contact me for SatNav)

Format : Texas Hold'em (Time restricted re-buy and Free add-on for those who have not had a re-buy format, winner takes all)

Runners so Far 6

Dale
Tony
Mitch
Steve
Peter
+ 1 other

Regular Poker Night

Guys,

New poker regular poker date is he first Friday in every month, New format for the games based on the successful format we have adopted recently. See the Google Calendar link in the sidebar for the dates, next Match is Friday 3rd of October 2008.

• Up to three games of Texas Hold'em no limit poker
• A £10 buy in per game, Total Chips allocated per player Ten x 100 (black) + Ten x 50 (blue) + Ten x 25 (green), BLINDS rise every 2 orbits, until two players remain, then every 15 minutes.
• Food provided by the host
• Bring your own beer......Fridge space limited on a 1st come 1st served basis
• Min 4 players, Max 8 players,
• Dealer provided, Ernie Cossey, fastest dealer in the west.

POKER NIGHT Friday - 12th of September 2008

Guys,

New poker date is this friday, 12th of September 2008, sorry about the short notice but i spoke with Rich and decided to try and get a game in before we all were 60, normal format for normal attendees

• Up to three games of Texas Hold'em no limit poker
  

• A £20 buy in per game
  

• Food provided by the host

• Bring your own beer......Fridge space limited on a 1st come 1st served basis
  

• Min 4 players, Max 8 players

• dealer provided, Ernie, fastest dealer in the west.

Short Notice Game of Poker Friday 21st of March

Guys,

New poker date is this friday, sorry about the short notice but i spoke with Rich and decided to try and get a game in before bank holiday weekend, normal format for normal attendees

• Up to three games of Texas Hold'em no limit poker
  

• A £20 buy in per game
  

• Food provided by the host

• Bring your own beer......Fridge space limited on a 1st come 1st served basis
  

• Min 4 players, Max 8 players

• dealer provided, Ernie, fastest dealer in the west.

• Entry by Invite ONLY, normal email invites have been sent Sunday 14th of October 2007

Cricket Club Poker this Saturday

Guys

Don't forget Richards cricket club is playing poker this Saturday (16th feb) in a freeze-out style.

Tony

poker on the 11th

OK, we have 4 for poker on friday the 11th, lets go for a 7:30pm start....

Poker evening 11th of January 2008

Roll up, Roll up, next poker evening at Tony's flat on Friday 11th of January!

Please contact me to confirm your attendance

New Poker Night - Friday 23rd of November 2007

Guys,

New poker date is this friday, normal format for normal attendees, unless you want to suggest a new format for the game.......

• Three games of Texas Hold'em no limit poker
  

• A £20 buy in per game
  

• Food provided by the host

• Bring your own beer......Fridge space limited on a 1st come 1st served basis
  

• Min 4 players, Max 8 players

• dealer provided, Ernie, fastest dealer in the west.

• Entry by Invite ONLY, normal email invites have been sent Sunday 14th of October 2007

New Poker Night Friday 19th of October 2007

Roll up , roll up, the greatest poker show on earth, well upminster anyway :-)......

Friday Night 19th of October at 19:00, I will be hosting a poker evening.....Normal rules:

• Three games of Texas Hold'em no limit poker
  

• A £20 buy in per game
  

• Food provided by the host

• Bring your own beer......Fridge space limited on a 1st come 1st served basis
  

• Min 4 players, Max 8 players

• dealer provided, Ernie, fastest dealer in the west.

• Entry by Invite ONLY, normal email invites have been sent Sunday 14th of October 2007
  

Poker Evening 6th July 2007 New Format

OK so we have a new format suggested by the 'dream team' of Mitch & Stu, its a combination of a cash game format but with an entry fee and rebuys. our next game on the 6th will be run to this format.....

Here goes.

• Players buy in for £20 and get 2000 in chips
• when a player runs out of chips in the first 90 minutes, they can rebuy for £20 for 1000 chips, then its a fight to the finish.

There are some disadvantages and advantages associated, here is a small list of things which may prompt discussion.

• After a while a player is better off going broke, if you have 600 chips left you just keep going all in as you will have a 1000 if you lose.
• How many games will we fit in?
• People may end up spending more money than we have in past, £60 was your total downside before
• At least nobody has to sit out.
• Its different
• We should try all options so EVERYONE enjoys the night, thats why we are there.
  
• When you are out its going to be a long wait as there are more chips in play
• If we get dialup rebuys may be scarce :-)
• Instead of limiting rebuys to 90 mins we could have a SINGLE game that lasts for 4 hours, winner is the biggest chip holder. we could have 1st 2nd 3rd as well in this format
  
• We could just pay for cash - each chip is worth xx in sterling. Riot squad on standby.

On slightly different note why don't we organise a group visit to speilers in Southend in the next few week, we should go mob handed and tooled up of course :-) SEE http://www.spielers.co.uk/

New Date for Poker Evening

Due to popular demand we neow have a new Poker evening on Friday the 8th of June 2007, click on the public google calendar link below to subscribe

New Poker Night 16th of March 2007

The date has been adjusted to one night earlier IE FRIDAY 16th of March 2007.

From 19:00 until late.

Location: Tony's Flat (which is number 5)

New Poker Night 17th of March 2007

At last a new poker evening in Upminster, three games of Texas Hold'em no limit poker at £20 buy in per game, food provided by the host and bring your own beer. Min 4 players Max 8 players, dealer provided.

From 19:00 until late.

Location: Tony's Flat (which is number 5)

Poker Night Blog Re-Visited

I have decided to relaunch the Upminster Poker Ring Blog, its been ages since i updated the service as simply not many players were viewing it. Our latest game is booked for Saturday the 16th of December 2006 at my flat. However we as yet do not have enough palyers to start.



I have purchased some nice kit including new chips and some Red Rock Casino playing cards, so it would eb shame not to play, i will mail all the players involved to drum up interest.

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Poker on Friday 23rd of June 2006

Guys,

Poker is ON this Friday; One thing, we are changing the start time as my mum had a stroke on Tuesday, which was a massive shock after her recent illness and operation, thus my dad and i will be at oldchurch until 8pm visiting her. She has been lucky as its a light stoke but its killing both Ernie and i seeing our 'Irene' in such a predicament. Both Ernie and i want to make sure the poker night goes ahead as it will take our minds off the current horrible situation.

Dean will be at my flat as he is coming home from work with me and will give everyone access to wait for Ernie and my arrival at about 8:20-30pm.

Confirmed Players
Tony Cossey
Steve Watts
Wayne White
Mitch Dawson
Richard Thomas
Steve Yon Thomson
Dean Stubbings
Stuart Mac

Dealer
Ernie Cossey

Possibles
Dale Bennett
Iain Kennedy

PS - If everyone makes it we may have to adjust starting chip counts and borrow some chairs as we have 8 chairs and 1000 high quality chips. Thus if you have a folding chair or something let me know.

New Poker Game

Poker evening this Friday 26th of May 2006 starting at 8pm: Min 4 Players, Max 10 Players

SUPPLIED: No Limit Texas Hold em, Las vegas chips and cards, full baize poker table, selection of Sarnies & Nibbles, plus stripper*

BRING: Beer, Spirits, Cider and £20 for 1500 in 11.5g chips per game

*Stripper comment may be a lie

If 4 players are not available then the game is called off and will be rebooked.

Revised Poker Date

Ok i know you all can't beleive i am a project manager after my mistake on the dates in my email :-)

It seems many people cant make the 14th of April, hence we now going for the following.

Saturday 22nd of April 2006 8pm@My Flat in Upminster

Please drop me an email to let me know if you will be there, as per normal i will provide food and 'some' beer/cider but please bring your some of your own booze as well.

Poker Web Sites

Poker ring boys, check out these websites, they may be able to give us some tips to beat wayne :-)

http://timesonline.typepad.com/poker/
http://www.allinmag.com/

Match Report for Poker Evening 24/02/2006

The upminster poker rings monthly game took place at Tony Cossey's flat on Friday 24/02/2006, the evening started at 8pm and after 3 marathon games ended at 03:45am. The regular players were joined by Wayne White a part time poker professional, the claim to fame for Wayne is his 2005 ranking, which currently makes him 830th in Europe, no mean feat. The experience and advice wayne provided our group will enhance future games as now we have adopted amended techniques for dealing and calling our bets, which match the European Poker tour standards, if only our play could match the standards set there :-)

Wayne White won both the initial games of Texas holdem (NO SHOCK THERE), partnered in the final matchup's by Stuart McClemments & Steve Watts respectively. In the third and final game Wayne went out early after misjudging an ALL-IN. The final three players, Richard Thomas, Steve Watts and myself (Tony Cossey) fought for an extended period before a river card spoilt my night and gave us a match up of Steve Versus Richard, which has been a popular final pairing since our regular game started. These final two players played well and ended the evening on a spectacular showdown won by Steve. All-in-all another enjoyable evening was had by everyone, it may be sensible to move our fixture to Saturday as everyone was clearing showing fatigue after the late finish and working all day, this will be reviewed before the next game.

Dealer
Ernie Cossey

Players
Tony Cossey
Richard Thomas
Dale Bennett
Stuart McClemments
Denis Sheriden
Steve Thomson
Steve Watts
Wayne White

Poker dates in swap shock

Guys,

Thanks for all the email replies, yes all the comedy kings pointed out that
i meant 4th of February 2006 not january 2006, well it seems that we don't
have enough players for a game this Saturday.

Thus a new suggested date is as follows

Friday 24th of February 2006 8pm @my Flat in Upminster

Please let me know if you can make it.

All feedback humour to be upgraded in quality please, a Tardis mr kempster, nice 70's touch. Talking of which who was your 1st 'doctor'? Mr Kempsters 1st 'doctor' i suspect was also worzell gummidge, mine is the voice over for little britain. Yours? Yon?

Nice Poker BLOG

Players, this is anice blog about poker written by a very experienced poker player, plus its backed by the times newspaper

http://timesonline.typepad.com/poker/

hard nosed old fashioned poker

Players,

Poker evening suggested date: This Saturday (January the 4th 2006)
Venue: My Flat

Normal rules apply, email me for confirmations or questions, updates on the blog.

Blog: http://upminsterpoker.blogspot.com
RSS: http://upminsterpoker.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Help: http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/20questions.html

Poker Raincheck

Guys,

Please note i have postponed the poker this Friday (20/01/2006) as we do not have enough players, watch this space for details of the rebook.
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Friday the 20th of January Poker Night

Guys,

I have had some people confirm to me, the current list is below this
paragraph. As you can see, we could do with one or two (or three) more
players. Our normal poker night rules apply IE £25 buy in for each
game, which we can adjust the buy-in on the night if needed to make it
cheaper for new players. We always have at least two games with at
least 6 players and then play it by ear.

Poker Night. Friday @tony's flat in Upminster 20/01/2006 8pm

Shows;
Ernie Cossey (Dealer)
Tony Cossey (mug punter specialist)
Stuart McClemments (river card specialist)
Richard Thomas (online specialist)
Dale Bennett (beer specialist)

No Shows;
Steve Watts, Chris Adams, Mo Bennett, Lord Lucan.

Stuart Cleans Up

The latest poker night left Stuart McClemments at the top of the pile as he won three consecutive games to become the ONLY winner of the night, well done Stu! - Full Report to follow

Poker Nights

There are two poker nights planned for the following dates;

Poker Night 1 - 30th of December 2005 @8pm @Tony's flat in Upminster
Poker Night 2 - 20th of December 2006 @8pm @Tony's flat in Upminster

I will be obtaining confirmations over the next few days, please email me at tonycossey@gmail.com to confirm

Rich and Steve hit form again

On the second of the Upminster poker rings texas hold'em evenings (11/11/2005) the two players emerging as the most consistent 'finalists' prevailed once more. Both Richard Thomas and Steve Watts shared the buy in's in the two games played, although strong showings from Dale Bennett in both games also was commendable. I showed strongly in the second game but went an 'all in' to far (with JK-JK) and missed out on being in the final pair.

Thanks to Dale Bennett for buying a supurb poker table top with a nice surface, drink and chip holders built in, this added to the enjoyment and feel of the game. The increased food and beer allocation meant that nobody was needing a take away at 11pm.

It was decided to run the poker games every 6 weeks in the future as once a month was proving difficult to schedule with everyone having very busy diaries. Thus our next poker evening with be first week of January 2006. Another decision was to log the significant hands to place on this blog for future reference.

Players for Friday 11th November 2005

Players for Poker;

Ernie Cossey - Dealer
Tony Cossey
Richard Thomas
Dale Bennett
Steve Watts
Stuart McClemments
Steve Thomson
Ross
Peter Kempster (Arriving late)
Denis Sheriden (Arriving Late)

Poker Evening II

Guys,

After some delay i am now suggesting a date for our second Texas Hold'em Poker evening. Please email me back with your availability for the date below ASAP.

VENUE: Tony's Flat in Upminster
DATE: Friday 11th of November 2005 8pm til late
DEALER: Ernie Cossey (Late Night Again Ern)
PLAYERS: Max of 9 with Priority to regular players

Remember; you get £1200 in chips each game for a 'buy in' of £25 for each game. Last time we fitted in a few games and adjusted the 'buy in' according to how many players lasted the course.

This time, i will be organising better food and i think those drinking should bring a few beers, i will get 24 bottles in the fridge but this lasted about 20 minutes last time (as peter turned up) :-) I still have gook's chipset and the cards from vegas itself so we can expect another tension packed evening.

New Poker Blog

After the success of a Texas Hold'em poker evening hosted by Tony Cossey in September 2005 a group of players decided to organise a regular game. The rules, which limited the downside for players, ensured the whole evening was competitive and highly enjoyable. The report on the first poker evening can be found of Tony Cossey's blog at http://tonycossey.blogspot.com. This blog has been created as the evening has proved so popular, this blog will be used as a communications hub for players and others interested in the upminster poker ring.