3/3/2012

Yes, YET ANOTHER Player Bonus.. NPS are offering 500 extra chips at our live events to all players that reserve their seat at the event a minimum of 72 hours before the start of the tournament. This will be a Thursday evening for a Sunday tournament. In addition to this, to help us to get the events started on time, any player that is fully paid up a minimum of 15 minutes before the start time at each event will be given an extra 500 chips. These incentives enable us to give the dealers ample notice that they are required to work, and for us to get the events started promptly. In future any self-deal table will be SELF-DEAL. Each player at the table will be required to deal when it is that players turn.

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4/10/2011

We have for sale, seven cases of Nexgen Las Vegas poker chips, which are 11.5g in weight and are fully denominated on both sides with high quality laminated vinyl stickers. They come in the following colours / denominations: Yellow / 25, Red / 100, Blue / 500, Purple / 1000, Black / 5000, White / 10,000, Green / 25,000. These chips are tournament standard chips and we have enough to host a 100 seater tournament. If any poker club / individual is interested in purchasing these chips, either email me - ken@northernpokerstars.co.uk or call me on 07860697204

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9/5/2012

The Northern Poker Stars Individual Championships 2012 will be held at The Ukrainian Club, Carlisle on Saturday 21st / Sunday 22nd July. The event will start at 1pm on Saturday 21st and we will have 12 hours of play or play until the bubble has gone (whichever is first). Last year we had a prizepool of over £10,000 and this was the largest ever payout at a poker event in Cumbria. I hope that we can get another five figure payout, to add to the beautiful silver trophy that our Champion will receive. ***** TO DATE 10 SEATS HAVE BEEN SOLD - £2000 IN THE PRIZEPOOL ***** I will update this as we sell more seats.

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16/4/2012

Many thanks to all who attended yesterday's fundraising event at The Ukrainian Club in aid of Paul Lamonby, our Carlisle Tournament Director. Paul will be unable to work for a long time after being bitten and contracting severe cellulitis as well as a very rare condition of a horseshoe abscess. He has had numerous operations to remove the infection and reduce the swelling in his left hand. These operations have left him with no feeling in his hand as well as very limited movement. Our event yesterday raised £410 and our players that could not attend yesterday's event contributed a further £760. These contributions included a very generous £500 donation from MPM North West Ltd. The company director, Mike Hawkins is also one of the directors of Maryport Poker Club as well as being a regular player at Northern Poker Stars events. I would like to thank Mike for this fantastic donation and I hope he see's this returned to him many times over on the poker tables. I'm sure you all join me in wishing Lammy a speedy recovery. You are missed at the events Dude. *** Paul has posted a blog to thank you all for your support. ***

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17/5/2012

For the League's fifteenth venture, we're forming a band of merry men by giving away two free seats into the recently announced Black Belt Nottingham Live II, including an exclusive package for the overall champion. Set to return to the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club on August 10-12, Nottingham Live will once again see players battle it out across the live felt for the paltry price of $200+20, with the usual array of bounties, bonuses and added value. But before you reach for that cyber wallet, however - we're offering you a bargain-bucket route to the East Midlands with our latest Black Belt Poker League, spanning eight legs starting from 19:30, Tuesday, May 22. The eventual champion in the final standings will receive accomodation, travel expenses, and free entry into the Main Event, as well as a personalised Black Belt Poker hoodie and those all-important bragging rights. Meanwhile, the remaining top 10 will win satellite tokens and Belt Points, whilst all leg winners will be automatically entered into a Second Chance SNG to compete for a second Nottingham Live seat. In addition, anyone who participates in every leg will earn a loyalty bonus of 200 Belt Points. The event will appear in the lobby under Scheduled > Black Belt Tournaments and costs $5+0.50 to enter. You can also buy in using Spending Points by purchasing a token in the Black Belt Poker Store. Points for each leg will be awarded in reverse order, so that in a 50-runner event, 50th would earn 1 point, and 1st 50 points. The top 10 finishers per leg receive the following additional points: 1st 25 Points 2nd 18 Points 3rd 15 Points 4th 12 Points 5th 10 Points 6th 08 Points 7th 06 Points 8th 04 Points 9th 02 Points 10th 01 Point Prizes will be awarded as follows: 1st Nottingham Live Package & Personalised Hoodie 2nd 1,000 Belt Points & $30+3 Nottingham Live satellite token 3rd 800 Belt Points & $30+3 Nottingham Live satellite token 4th 700 Belt Points & $15+1.50 Nottingham Live satellite token 5th 600 Belt Points & $15+1.50 Nottingham Live satellite token 6th 500 Belt Points & $5+0.50 Nottingham Live satellite token 7th 400 Belt Points & $5+0.50 Nottingham Live satellite token 8th 300 Belt Points & $5+0.50 Nottingham Live satellite token 9th 200 Belt Points & $5+0.50 Nottingham Live satellite token 10th 100 Belt Points & $5+0.50 Nottingham Live satellite token

http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/articles/read/Poker-League-Nottingham-Live

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18/9/2011

Northern Poker Stars are extremely proud to announce our new online partnership with online poker's highest kicking poker room - Black Belt Poker. Neil Channing's Black Belt site offers a very unique rewards system with loads of value-filled freerolls for Orange and Purple belts and some highly valuable training packages for those who want to make a more serious attempt at making money from online poker. The Black Belt online community is a great place to discuss hands, read strategy articles, catch up on other poker news, and chat to the other community members. The ipoker network is Europe's largest and offers a wide variety of poker variants, game types, and buy-ins to suit most. Download Black Belt Poker from one of the many banners on this website. Don't forget to create a Community Account - you don't start earning belt points until you create a Community Account. Please use the Referral Code "temporary" to identify you as a Northern Poker Stars player.

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18/9/2011

For more information on all of the above please head on over to our facebook group page 'Northern Poker Stars' and the Discussion Board. You will also receive notification of any further news and invitations to all our online and live tournaments.

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28/2/2012

After the biggest field of runners in any local poker tournament in a while, Northern Poker Stars have introduced an incentive to keep the numbers up. Any player that introduces two new players to the Northern Poker Stars live events will be refunded the rake from that event. This can be one new player at one event and the second new player at another event, as long as the events are within a month of each other. A player can introduce as many "pairs" as possible and get the reward each time the new players are brought along to the live events.

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28/2/2012

All poker players prefer live tournaments that give them lots of value. The best value that they can get is primarily large fields rather than events with 20 odd runners. On the back of the Northern Poker Stars £25 Double Chance event featuring Neil Channing and Jamie Burland, where we got an incredible 75 runners, NPS are introducing some new incentives to give the local poker scene what it needs.. Well organised, large events with added value. In future, at all events where we get over 50 runners, we will pay "The Bubble." We will give the player finishing on the bubble, an online bankroll to use for one month. The player will get to keep 50% of any profit made from this bankroll after the month and the other 50% will be added to the online bankroll for the next bubble player to use. Nobody is better equipped or better experienced to host these large events and we are rewarding the loyal players that support us. Northern Poker Stars brought Neil Channing and Jamie Burland to Cumbria. That shows the respect that we have in the UK poker scene. This I hope is the first of many visits by top Pro's to our events. Support NPS and we will deliver...

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28/2/2012

Northern Poker Stars are introducing late registration at all our live events in Carlisle and West Cumbria. This will come into effect from our £25 Double Chance event @ The Ukrainian Club, Carlisle on Sunday 11th March 2012. Late registration will be available up to 4pm on the day of all our monthly events. Another incentive to play your poker with Northern Poker Stars..

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