NEWS

Management Change.

From all of us at MPC I would like to give a very warm welcome to our newest shareholder/manager Mike Hawkins, he takes over from Andrew Renwick who we would like to thank for his dedication and service throughout his tenure, although with a great love of the game Andrew has decided he needs to concentrate on other matters and so with a sadness he has decided to call it a day and hand over to Mike. We now look forward with excitement to the fresh ideas and impetuous Mike has brought with him.

Club Changes

Well here we are in a New Year and with a few changes, ever trying to keep the game fresh we here at MPC have implemented a few changes to our Friday night format, the first thing we have done is to increase the starting chip stack from 10,000 chips to 15,000 this gives lots more play to the game. Another change is that every 5th week we will be running a Bounty shoot out game, here every player is issued with a bounty chip that can be cashed in at the end of your game, the more bounty chips you have the bigger the prize. The points league has also altered with only 8 qualifying from monthly finals there is now a seat to be won for the yearly final table with a super satellite game to be played on Sat 10th November also we have introduced a loyalty system - that is for every points game you play here at MPC you will be awarded a loyalty point that will count towards 200 chips for the yearly final table should you qualify and with a possible 40 weeks to play for those points you could end up with 8,000 extra chips. With other new and exciting things to come throughout the year why not give us a try in 2012.

Poker Champion 2011

Congratulations are due to me, yes me after 4 years of trying I finally won the big game, my aim was to win the trophy but that didn't work out, Joe Pattinson took that honour so the next best (and some would argue the best) option was to win the yearly final table. Well done to all those who qualified it was an excellent game with a good atmosphere and good banter throughout, so it only leaves me to say well done me. David Renwick.

CONGRATULATIONS

Poker Player of the Year

Congratulations are in order for Joe (the silent assassin) Pattinson who has won the Maryport Poker Player of the year this year, it was a close run game right up to the wire against Paul Haig who won last year, with only 3 points in it at the end it could hardly have been closer. Congratulations are also in order for Paul who defended his title well and has been a great champion and a great ambassador for the game.

Well done both of you for an excellent final and an excellent year.

Buy in

Due to the number of players refusing to buy a raffle ticket we have introduced a £1.00 levy onto the buy in this will entitle you to a raffle ticket, the raffle ticket sales raises the money to provide you with a buffet/snack at half time, as most of the players eat the fayre provided then it is only fair that it be paid for, if any player objects to the £1.00 addition then that is ok but they will not be entitled to a half time snack as is provided by the club, the raffle ticket also entitles you to a draw for the prizes.

I have noticed that while many of you look at the points page and News items very few of you bother to look at the Forum, this is where you can have your say and put forward your ideas, it's easy to join and log in so why not give it a try plus there is always news posted there that isn't always on the main site. Have a look today and have your say we value your input. Dave.

Kiss of death.

It has been said that every time I mention a player on this site and how well they are doing I seem to put the kiss of death on them, for weeks after being mentioned their game goes to the wall, the only thing I can say about that is watch out all you table leaders, If I think you are doing too well then you ARE going to get a mention on this page, lol. Dave.