Since we introduced the new competitive spirit of representing your pub and playing for the right to host the final at your pub we have seen many many months pass without the final being held at the Waterloo Hotel. As the play for the right to host at your pub has been popular we don't want to change it but ...

The upcoming freeroll for season 15 is to be held on Sunday 8th August at Cedar Tavern. This is two weeks after the season ends. This is a one off and all future freerolls will return to being one week after the season ends. Every effort has been made to alert everyone of this in good time. If you read this and ...

From this day forward should anyone that has won their place in to the pub freeroll be unable to make it on that day then a substitute will be allowed to take that persons place. This new rule change is made with immediate effect. Preference will be awarded to another player wishing to take the role of substitution who represents the ...

At the last final I promised a number of you that I would announce on the website if there were to be any changes to the way the host of the final gets decided. There is to be no change at present. That is, when somebody wins, the next final will be offered to the venue that the winning player usually ...

This seasons freeroll began with 17 people all playing it out at Chequers Social Club. The atmosphere was fun and friendly as always as our members got to gather again to battle it out to win their share of £100. After a couple of breaks and a number of knockouts we were down to the final six people and drawing closer ...

The final of the Blackpool Pub Poker League is confirmed to be held on Saturday 13th February at Chequers, Warton. We have changed it from the usual Sunday so all you romantic creatures can enjoy Valentines Day with your better halves. As chequers is a little further out of the way for a lot of you we found last time ...

A suggestion to alter the prizes amongst winning players was put forward last week and after gathering the opinions of a number of people attending the last final we have decided to go ahead and alter the prizes so that 1st place gets a bigger portion of the pot. The general consensus was that after playing for such a long time ...

Sunday 17th January saw 19 players gather from all the participating venues in the Blackpool league. It was a great mix of familiar faces mixed with some new blood entering the fray. Ok, so I'm exaggerating the fierceness of the competition as there was more laughs over a certain Mrs Cain escaping what seemed like certain elimination on the river ...