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So far Paul Peros and Frank Hogarty are unable to play next Monday's end of season play-off game.  Big Dick and Richard Taylor are the next in line to take their places.  Not sure if I have Richard Taylor's email so if anyone bumps into him please let him know.

If anyone else cannot make it please let us know asap. League places and chip counts for the play-off game can be found here.   Thanking you please.

Next Monday March 2nd will be the league play-off game. Four seats for the Cheltenham Festival game are up for grabs. The fifth place finisher will be awarded a cash prize somewhere in the region of an awesome £15, which we suggest should not be spent all at once.

If you have not finished in the top 16 but would like to play the Cheltenham game you can buy in directly on the day, March 8th with a 2:30pm kick-off for £230+20. We'll have a 40 minute clock and 10,000 starting chips.

The top 16 players who have qualified for the play-off (with chips counts) are shown below: 25 chips per point. If you have qualified but know you cannot make the game please let us know as soon as possible so we can register another player.

Monday's game will be a £10 re-buy. It's a satellite tournament into the £230+£20 Cheltenham Festival game on March 8th at 2.30pm.

One seat per £250 obviously, the remaining monies given as a cash prize. 8.05pm start as usual. Well worth having a stab at this as the Cheltenham game usually offers a pretty decent prize pool.

Due to a miscalculation with the schedule, Monday night's game was in fact the last game of our abbreviated season. Jimbo of Norden was the winner beating Paul of Peros and that as they say, is that.

Next Monday (February 23rd) will be a satellite for the Cheltenham Festival £250 freeze-out to be held on Sunday March 8th at 2.30pm. The satellite tournament will be a £10 re-buy NLHE starting at the usual time of 8:05pm. One seat entered into the Cheltenham game per £250. Bring many many £10 notes, it's for the best.

The end of season play-off game will be held the following Monday on March 2nd. So then, Gideon Long is our new Champion. Points totals and chip counts for the play-off game for the Cheltenham Festival tournament are as follows.

Thank you to everyone who has played this season, keep checking this blog for details of the new season which should start late March or early April.

Monday's game will be a £20 Texas Hold 'em re-buy. Three 30 minute levels for the re-buys; 2,000 chips; twenty minute clock for the freeze-out period.

I've done some equations and estimate the game will end around 12.37:21am.

The next game on February 16th will be a Texas Hold 'em £20 re-buy - 2,000 chips - 3 x 30 minutes levels for re-buy period, 20 minutes thereafter. It won't be snowing next week they tell me so hope to see more runners.

Result

1. Little Dick £360
2. Farmer Pickles £220
3. Farmer Jim £140

Monday's tournament was played out by a hard-core 13 runners who weren't going to let a few centimeters of crystallised water stand in the way of a roaring good night of poker. Mark Waites was the eventual winner and why not?

Next Monday's game is a £10 re-buy. Pot Limit Omaha for a change though and hopefully the snow will melt in time to allow the delicate lambs to come along who couldn't cope with the snow.