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Congratulations and Welcome to Max Steele who is our 17,000th member. The Fox Poker Club will be celebrating it’s first birthday in September – watch out for news of an extra special promotion.
Since opening it’s doors over £1.5 million pounds have been won in tournaments at the Fox Poker Club which now offers Cash Action all day and night. See detail of upcoming special events and promotions here…
www.foxpokerclub.com/news/promotions/
Thanks to everyone who participated in last weekend’s first FPC Team Tournament. The Really Not Fussed Team took the honours and the £800 prize after Craig Perry and Nick Peters finished 1st and 4th respectively narrowly beating team MKT by one point. For more information on the Team Tournament including results see the event page.
The Fox Poker Club offers a wide selection of poker tournaments from regular the Heads-Up Championship to Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo and regular HORSE tournaments. This coming weekend sees the return of the Super Specials Weekend:
Saturday 30th July at 3pm
£100 +£10 Limit HORSE Special
10,000 chips, 30 minute clock
Sunday 31st July at 3pm
£150+£10 NLH Super-Sunday
15,000 chips, 30 minute clock
Read more about all the upcoming special events, festivals and promotions at the Fox Poker Club online here:
http://www.foxpokerclub.com/poker
Nick Holbrook is a familiar face at the Fox Poker Club and on the UK poker scene, he represented the club admirably at the Asian Poker Tour in the Philippines earlier in the year by winning a side event after being eliminated on Day 2 of the Main Event. We caught up with Nick this week just after he had returned from playing in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas…
FPC: You just got back from the sun baked desert of Vegas to be welcomed UK by the rain… How it did the trip go?
Nick Holbrook: Vegas is always a great experience. After having cashed in a WSOP event in the UK, on this trip I played my first WSOP event on US soil… Event 56, a $1,500 No Limit Hold-em event.
There were 3389 runners and for a large part of day two I was battling for the chip lead. With about 150 players left I lost two races that put me on around average stack and went out in 111th place after flopping top two pair versus an over pair. The guy caught a runner runner to put me out… “Marv!”. Still, it was a cash of $4,500.
I also managed to make day 2 of the Main Event [the $10,000 buy-in World Championship], it was a day where everything I tried went wrong and my opponent always had one hand bigger than mine. I have no bad beat stories and don’t feel sorry for myself. This is such a grueling event, every decision seems intensified and draining. As I said, it was a great experience, though next year I’d play differently!
With all the partying and poker out there it was a very enjoyable trip, though I’m hoping next year will be more profitable. I won a small tournament at Caeser’s Palace which finished the trip off nicely.
FPC: You won a package to go play in the Asian Poker Tour at the club after qualifying for £45 – that must have been another great experience…
Going to Manila in April was fantastic, so a big thanks to the Fox and the APT for sending me to a great event. The resort itself was beautiful, everything you could need in one location. The hotel you get put up in is swish, good food, gym facilities, pool and entertainment on your doorstep.
The main event was again a tournament where I made day two, but I went back short stacked. I had been rivered on one of the last hands of day one: that was one where I felt sorry for myself.
Sometimes its just meant to be though… the next day I won one a side event and felt I had represented Fox Poker Club with class. I would recommend everyone to enter the satellite coming up as the Manila experience was very enjoyable and highly recommended…
FPC: Assuming you don’t win a package again, do you have any tips for the qualifiers to take with them?
1. Try to get on Manila time as soon as possible. I suffered jet lag for the first few days, so I’d recommend playing the second of the start days, just to give yourself a little extra time to adjust your body clock.
2. Play Your Game… don’t feel pressured, or feel expectation upon yourself. You may be representing Fox Poker Club and UK poker to a degree, but you are also representing yourself. I have played events before where I have played tighter or cautiously as a result of not wanting to let anyone down. So, just Play Your Game… remember you won the satellite and yes, you may have been lucky, but you also did something right. What shall be shall be.
3. Remember the usual advice to eat well – breakfast in the hotel offers a great range of fresh fruit and cereal but you could also treat yourself to pancakes and french toast. Try to exercise… one of the best ways I found to get rid of jet lag is to use the gym in the evening to tire myself out before bed. Or alternatively you could go party in the club at the resort!
4. Enjoy the experience – You’re in Manila for God’s sake, soak up the experience!!
If anyone wants further advice on the trip just ask me next time you see me in the club…
Wednesday August 10th you can win a package to go to the Philippines and play the APT Asian Series. The £2,000 packages include flights, accomodation and tournament entry. Read more about how to qualify here:
www.foxpokerclub.com/apt
The Fox Poker Club is now open 24 hours a day for your poker needs… we have cash action for all levels including £1-£2 with a £50 minimum buy-in alongside the ever popular £1-£1 with a £25 minimum. Mixed Games (especially Pot Limit Omaha) are encouraged along with larger stakes games (£2-£5 and above) for information call the club on 02074943020 and ask for the registration desk.
Over £1.5 million has been won in Fox Poker tournaments of which there are over 20 a week. To take advantage of the extended opening hours the monthly £300+£25 Main Event is now played to a finish over two days – the next event starts Saturday 6th August at 3pm with play continuing the next day at 2pm.
There are new late night tournaments including £20+£5 One Rebuy Satellite Qualifiers at 10pm on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday leading up to the FPC Main-Event: the club is guaranteeing at least one seat if there are over five players registered.
We hope to see you soon at London’s only venue dedicated to poker…
The Fox Poker Club is annoucing today that due to popular demand the FPC Main Event will now be played to a finish over two days. This has been done without compromising the great tournament structure – 20,000 chips and played at 45 minute levels throughout. Last month’s event had 115 players enter over the split starting days and the hope is that the same and more will come to play the new event that starts on a Saturday at 3pm.
The tournament is supported by new satellite qualifiers which include a £40+£5 Freezeout on the Wednesday with 3 seats guaranteed (there are usually close to ten on offer) and 10pm £20+£5 One Rebuy qualifiers with one seat guaranteed*
Read more for full event information, including full schedule and dates of upcoming events
http://www.foxpokerclub.com/poker/main-event/
* Five players minimum
Congratulations to all our winners in this month’s £300+£25 FPC Main Event. The champion is Matthew Stone who defeated Nathan Gentry from Atlanta Georgia to the title after entering heads-up play the underdog. A deal was struck to even out the payouts but the title meant so much to the final two players that they took the heads-up battle very seriously. This month’s event attracted 115 players who competed for £34,500 in prize money.
Scott a 20 year old from Ulster who is serving in the Irish Guards defeated Gentry in a marathon heads-up battle ending with his Ace-Ten beating Ace-Eight.
The winner’s list in full
| 1st | £9,000 | Matthew Scott |
| 2nd | £8,250 | N. Gentry |
| 3rd | £4,140 | D. Mackie |
| 4th | £3,100 | J. Goldman |
| 5th | £2,420 | A. Berkecz |
| 6th | £1,720 | P. Burford |
| 7th | £1,380 | R. Dsliva |
| 8th | £1,040 | V. Hoang |
| 9th | £690 | T. Hoang |
| 10th | £520 | P. Souki |
| 11th | £520 | M. Edgington |
| 12th | £520 | P. Godden |
| 13th | £300 | G. Husnu |
| 14th | £300 | P. Luckraft |
| 15th | £300 | N. McCullough |
| 16th | £300 | V. Geidans |
The next £300+£25 FPC Main Event is scheduled for the first weekend in August and we have just announced the London’s Calling mini-festival with a £500+£40 Main Event Sunday 28th July at 3pm
Matthew Scott despite being short stacked has fought his way back into the game he doubled up to around 700,000 when he moved all-in on the turn when the board was reading…
Nathan Gentry turned over 
but was losing to the 20 year old’s 
The river changed nothing and suddenly the comeback was on.
Nathan Gentry from Atlanta GA
Scott took the chip lead by outdrawing Nathan’s flopped trips by hitting a flush draw…
Flop
Scott 
Gentry 
Turn 
River: 
Now it was Nathan who was shortstacked with around 800,000 to Matthew’s 1,650,000. A few hands later it was all over in true outdraw style. Matthew called the button raise all-in with 
against the 
.
The flop brought no help for either player reading 
Gentry from Atlanta Georgia was the first to outdraw by hitting the 
on the turn but the final honours went to the 20 year old hailing from Ulster when the 
fell on the river.
Matthew Scott seems to have relaxed a little now he has secured a deal and has even lowered his hood and taken his sunglasses off. Smiling, he informs us that he’s pretty happy to have done well in the event seeing as he had come to the Fox to play a £35 tournament instead:
“I came to play the regular friday night tournament but when I got here I was a way down the reserve list so I decided to play the £300 instead of waiting!”
Not bad to be taking home over £8,000 for your troubles then…
After stacking up his chips Matthew Scott proposed a chop. Nathan Gentry who had a 3 to 2 chip lead suggested they play it out for £750 guaranteeing them both £8,250. The deal was struck and the game continues to see who will be crowned the FPC-ME Champion for July.
A few hands into the heads-up Nathan extended his chip lead after they build a big pot on a board reading:
Matthew had build a pot holding 
against Nathan’s 
. The river came the to counterfeit the two pair and make the chips distribution about 2 million for Nathan to 500,000 for Matthew
Duncan Mackie is out in third place. Nathan Gentry was running away with the chiplead after taking a big pot from Matthew Scott with on a ten high flop. To take him out of the tournament Duncan pushed on the button with 
and was called by Matt from the big blind with 
. An Ace high board sent Duncan out of the tournament.
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