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Yet another well mannered game with 8 players vying for a place on the yearly final table. The game set off as per usual with tentative play but soon hotted up with some early casualties it slowed down again when it got to the last 5, after a short break it was back to business and 3 players went in quick succession leaving Paul Haig and Andrew Renwick heads up, Andrew had taken a big pot off Paul earlier in the game and Paul did well to make the final but on the last hand Andrew hit 2 pair K-10 against Pauls Ace , well done to both players and congratulations to Andrew on his yearly final seat.

June's monthly final table - played July 14th

As always this was another well mannered game with a tentative start, I (Dave Blues) led out 1st in a pot with Jason Borrowdale and took a large chunk of his chips with a straight against 2 pair, Jason never really got back into it after that and went out after about an hour, the rest of the game went to and fro until Wedgy took a huge pot and went chip leader, both Wedgy and myself remained chip leaders and eventually met head to head after seeing off all the others, on a quick chip count I had 370.000 chips to Wedgy's 430.000 when we went heads up, after a change of dealer the cards went dry for me and I bled chips nearly every hand and with the exception of a pair of Jacks I picked nothing up that was worth playing, soon Wedgy got the better of me when I went all in with a marginal hand and Wedgy called with a better one and took the honours, he has now qualified for the yearly final table. Well done to Wedgy and to all who made the monthly final.

May's monthly final table - played June 9th

This was another keenly fought monthly final with eight qualifiers all vying for that elusive place on the yearly final table however as with all these games there can only be one winner and this time congratulations must go to Sean Scholey who took the coveted seat. Well done Sean and well done to all those who qualified in the first instance, better luck next month.

April monthly final table - played 12th May

This monthly final saw all 8 players turn up and proved to be very aggressive from the start. There was some yo-yo luck going on and it saw 3 early casualties. In the end we had a tight heads up between Dan Banton and Rob Grimwood. Rob done his fair share of bluffing and also played very aggressive which resulted in Dan bleeding chips. In the end Dan was forced to go all in with Rob clinching VICTORY. Well done Rob and good luck to all those fighting for this coming months monthly final.

Report by A.J.R.

March monthly final table - played March 31st

The March monthly final was played early to fit the schedule of most players, shift patterns etc and by all accounts it was an interesting game with some players getting short stacked on more than one occasion only to rally and pull it all back, it was still all players on the table at half time so no one wanted to give up the chance to qualify for the yearly, however it whittled down to two that being Andrew Renwick and Peter Gibson for the heads up and despite some brave play by Andrew it was Peter who finally took the honours flopping an Ace high straight when Andrew went all in. Well done Peter and commiserations to Andrew.

February's monthly final table - played March 10th

This was the second monthly final out of nine all eight qualifiers turned up and it was a pleasant and at time humorous game but as always there could only be one winner and this time it was Maurice Wigham who qualifies for the yearly final, well done Maurice.

January's monthly final table - played Feb 10th

February saw the 1st monthly final table with eight players all vying for the yearly final table seat, it was an interesting game with some early chip leaders, but as these things go it isn't the early leaders who always win and so it was the case with Jeff Cass after a slow start making it count when it mattered. Well done Jeff on your win.

Congratulations to Graeme McCormick on winning the

2009 MPC Poker player of the year.

After what can only be described as the closest run up to a final since MPC began some 3 years ago Graeme secured his victory in the last game of the year by playing his usual tight style allowing his two nearest rivals to go out. Congratulations to Graeme on what has been an excellent year for him, well done.

Graeme McCormick took the coveted title of MPC Poker player of the year 2009 with an impressive 620 points his nearest rivals were Dave Renwick and Billy Pegram who came close but just couldn't quite close the massive gap Graeme had set. Graeme topped the points board for most of the year slipping back only occasionally but with his tight no nonsense play he was always going to be in the running. All in all it was a riveting year with some excellent play and some new rising stars.

Maryport Poker Player of the year

We at MPC had a brilliant 1st year with many new players joining us and all had a chance to compete for our 1st ever trophy.

After each game points were awarded according to the finishing position of each player making the final table and although it was a close run thing near the end only one person could win it and that was Peter Gibson.

Well done Peter from all of us at MPC.

Year two saw another new winner with Ryan Dixon taking the trophy adding to his yearly final champion status making this a clean sweep for Ryan.

Well done Ryan from all of us at MPC.

Year three and yet another new face took the trophy, this time it was Graeme McCormick (Stash) after a very tight run up in the last few weeks Graeme kept his cool and his momentum to take the championship on the last game.

Well done Graeme from all of us at MPC.

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