News Archive

1/12/2008 - WAPL Season 8 Grand Finals! -

The Season 8 Grand Finals are this coming Sunday 7th December, 2008, at South Fremantle Football Club. Don't miss them! Even if you aren't qualified you can still come along, play some poker, and have an awesome day. We are fast approaching the end of another great season of WA Poker League Poker! With our 8th Grand Final coming up next Sunday 7th December, we have reached a huge milestone since starting the first Poker League in Western Australia back on May 2, 2006.

We are overjoyed to announce that the Prize Payouts in our coming Grand Final are going to signify a total payout figure of OVER $1,000,000 (that's right, over a million dollars!) paid out to WA Poker League Members since the League started!

We're obviously very proud of this achievement, and would like to thank our loyal members for helping make this dream a reality. We look forward to being able to pay out millions more to our Members in the future.

Here's lots more info about the coming Grand Final. We hope to have you there to help us celebrate!

1/12/2008 - King of the Hill Series Round Up -

The King of the Hill Series 1 is over! With the King of the Hill Final next Friday 5th December, these are our Top 10 overall placed players for the Series! Congratulations to Ian Slater for winning the Series itself, for his great efforts he wins a carton of Hofbrauhaus Lager! For the rest of the top 10, each will receive a 6-pack of Hofbrauhaus Lager. All 10 will play off for the Series Championship, where the "King of the Hill" will have their name on the perpetual King of the Hill Trophy! Come down to Claremont Footy Club next Friday to take part in Free or Pro League Poker, and to show your support towards the King of the Hill Finalists!

Rank	Player	Score	Total Events Played
1	Ian Slater	183	4
2	Jason Bertone	163	3
3	Alex Philp	157	4
4	Scott Cooper	149	3
5	Eunice Slater	147	4
6	Darren Cover	142	3
6	Len Histon	142	4
8	Mathew Lyons	137	4
9	Garry Pegg	135	4
10	William Chin	130	3

28/11/2008 - KOTH Final - Friday 5th Dec -

The King of the Hill Final, sponsored by Hofbrauhaus Lager (Awesome German Import Lager), will be held next Friday 5th December! This is an event being held at the same time as the Claremont Pro and Free League events!

The qualifiers for the King of the Hill Final are the TOP 10 ranked players on the KOTH Leaderboard at the end of the 4th KOTH this Sunday.

The Current Rankings are Here!

The tournament style WILL be King of the Hill, and if there are ties for 10th position, these extra players WILL be part of the final. Each Final Qualifier playing on the night will receive a 6-pack of Hofbrauhaus Lager, with the overall winner winning a carton of Hofbrauhaus, and become the first King of the Hill Series Winner, getting their name on our KOTH Perpetual Trophy!

So make sure you come down on the Friday to play some Poker and support your qualified friends! There will be plenty to do, Free League, Pro League, Cash Tables and Sit n Goes till Midnight!

As usual, 6pm Rego, 7pm Start, @ Claremont Footy Club.

24/11/2008 - King of the Hill #4 - 30th November 2008 @ SFFC! -

The next King of the Hill event is this coming Sunday!

For those who have played in either of the previous 3 KOTH's, the current rankings can be found here -

Current King of the Hill Rankings

WA Poker League King of the Hill!

Date - Sunday 30th November, 2008.

Time - Registration 2-2:45pm, Cash Tables and Sit n Goes from 3pm, Tournament Start 3pm

Cost - $30 buy-in (80% to prizes, 20% to South Fremantle Football Club Fundraising)

Location - South Fremantle Football Club, Fremantle Oval. Remember, the club is close to public transport, and has great club prices, with food and drinks available! If you're driving, there's lots of parking available too!

Pre-Event Ticket Sales - At events leading up to the King of the Hill, ask your Tournament Director to get pre-registered at your next event!

Please make a point of Pre-registering if you are coming to this event. After the huge response to our King of the Hill events, there's no knowing how many people will show up! There will be a PRE-REGISTRATION prize draw on the night, where all pre-registrered players have a chance to win a great prize, so now there's even more incentive to get pre-registered!

Details - This is a tournament variation we have designed and called King of the Hill. We hope you enjoy it!

• Each player starts the tournament with equal chips, and a "Crown". If you lose your chips, you lose your crown but have a "life" rebuy to continue in the tournament.
• If a player with a crown takes out another player with a crown, the losing player's crown is removed from the tournament.
• If a player without a crown takes out a player with a crown, they get the crown and therefore have another "life" should they get knocked out.

The winners are the last 3 players with crowns remaining in the tournament, and the overall winner will be crowned "King of the Hill"! The King of the Hill takes 60% of the prize pool, 2nd 30%, 3rd 10%! (80% entry total to Prize Pool, 20% to Club Fundraising).

There will be Cash Tables and both small and big buy-in Sit n Go tournaments running, so this is definitely a tournament not to miss out on!

This event is open to current WA Poker League members and/or members of South Fremantle Football Club. There is NO necessity to play in the event to take part in the Cash Tables and Sit n Goes.

Other important tournament notes -

• The "rebuy" for losing a crown is either 1500 in chips OR 2x the current big blind, whichever is greater. (Big blind based on the hand in which they went out in)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with more than one uncrowned player splitting the pot, the uncrowned player with MORE chips takes the crown. If they had identical stacks, the crown goes to the player left of button (worst position relative to the dealer)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with one uncrowned player splitting the pot with another crowned player, the uncrowned player takes the crown.
• If a shorter stacked uncrowned player is all-in in a hand vs multiple other players, which sees a higher stacked crowned player get knocked out by another player (either crowned or uncrowned), even if the short stacked uncrowned player wins their all-in, if they didn't have the crowned player's chips covered, they cannot claim the crown.
• To be eligible for a Crown rebuy, when getting out you MUST immediately raise your hand with the Crown and call over a staff member. If you try to hold off for the next blind change, etc, you will be disqualified from the tournament.

Unless altered above, all WAPL Pro League Rules apply to this tournament.

We look forward to seeing you at the King of the Hill event, and anticipate another great night of poker!

24/11/2008 - Merriwa Tavern -

Merriwa Tavern is going to hold off hosting WAPL events for the rest of the season. With a change in management and thoughts of moving towards Pro League in the future, we will let you know if this changes!

We'd like to thank our members who supported Merriwa, and remind you that there's still lots of opportunities to play WAPL up North, including the Boat on Mondays and Wednesdays, and Woodvale Tav on Thursdays!

15/11/2008 - Deep Stack Tournament Results! -

The Deep Stack Tournament held on Friday 14th November was lots of fun! With a good field of 26 runners, and an 18 player Free League, the atmosphere was great.

Right on the 2nd break, all our power went out, which made for some interesting times, lots of torches and some great jokes (along with some bad, mainly involving people mentioning being the blind every hand...)

Everyone still had a great night through the semi-darkness, and when the lights came back on we found our winner was Irwan Budiarto! With the Top 3 players paid out on the night, Irwan won a total of $1105 for his great poker! Will Jeffery came 2nd, winning $663, and Barrie Hosgood 3rd place with $442! Congratulations guys!

Great to see you down there, and we'll see you at an event soon!

Your WA Poker League Team

7/11/2008 - 14th November - Deep Stack Challenge! -

Coming up on Friday 14th November is our first Deep Stack Challenge!

Location - Claremont Footy Club, Davies Road Claremont.

Time - Registration 6pm, LAST Rego 7pm, Tournament Starts 7pm.

Buy-in - $100 (Or Free League if you aren't interested in the Deep Stack Challenge)

It's a $100 buy-in event, with a standard Free League event for those players who don't want to play in the Deep Stack Challenge.

The tournament will run as per our usual guidelines, but all players will be starting with 5000 in chips! Blind times may be altered slightly to allow us to work timing correctly with the player numbers. The player allocation will be 40 players, however if we have more than 40 pre-sale tickets we will increase the number of seats to a maximum of 50.

There will be cash tables and sit n goes running as per usual for our special events!

We look forward to another great night of poker on Friday 14th!

29/10/2008 - Upcoming Event Changes - Updated -

Due to other functions (Halloween / Melbourne Cup) the following events will not be running! They will be back the following week!

4th November - Murphy's Irish Pub Pro / Free Leagues (Melbourne Cup)

4th November - Paddy Maguire's Free League (Melbourne Cup)

4th November - Merriwa Tavern Free League (Melbourne Cup)

4th November - Southerlys Dongara - Rescheduled to Wed 5th Nov

9th November - Bar Orient Free League (Private Function)

11th November - Southerlys Dongara - Rescheduled to Wed 12th Nov

Thankyou for your understanding, we'll see you soon!

25/10/2008 - Daylight Savings Starts again this Sunday 26th Oct -

Please remember, Daylight Savings starts this Sunday, and you will have to wind your clocks forward 1 hour! As a result you will need to make sure you are down an hour earlier to the tournaments on Sunday (than you would be had we not had any Daylight Savings).

We will be sending out a reminder E-Mail regarding this and the King of the Hill shortly.

25/10/2008 - No Bar Orient this Sunday due to King of the Hill -

With the King of the Hill this Sunday, we won't be running Free League Poker at Bar Orient. It'll be back the Sunday after as usual!

We'll see you at the King of the Hill! 2pm rego, 3pm start. Don't be late!

20/10/2008 - Special Event - King of the Hill #3 This Sunday 26th Oct -

The next King of the Hill event is this coming Sunday!

PLEASE NOTE, DAYLIGHT SAVINGS COMES IN THIS SUNDAY! The tournament registration and start will be 1 hour earlier than the current time! Please remember to change your watch!

For those who have played in either of the previous 2 KOTH's, the current rankings can be found here -

Current King of the Hill Rankings

WA Poker League King of the Hill!

Date - Sunday 26th October, 2008.

Time - Registration 2-2:45pm, Cash Tables and Sit n Goes from 3pm, Tournament Start 3pm

Cost - $30 buy-in (80% to prizes, 20% to South Fremantle Football Club Fundraising)

Location - South Fremantle Football Club, Fremantle Oval. Remember, the club is close to public transport, and has great club prices, with food and drinks available! If you're driving, there's lots of parking available too!

Pre-Event Ticket Sales - At events leading up to the King of the Hill, ask your Tournament Director to get pre-registered at your next event!

Please make a point of Pre-registering if you are coming to this event. After the huge response to our King of the Hill events, there's no knowing how many people will show up! There will be a PRE-REGISTRATION prize draw on the night, where all pre-registrered players have a chance to win a $30 Poker Den Voucher, so now there's even more incentive to get pre-registered!

Details - This is a tournament variation we have designed and called King of the Hill. We hope you enjoy it!

• Each player starts the tournament with equal chips, and a "Crown". If you lose your chips, you lose your crown but have a "life" rebuy to continue in the tournament.
• If a player with a crown takes out another player with a crown, the losing player's crown is removed from the tournament.
• If a player without a crown takes out a player with a crown, they get the crown and therefore have another "life" should they get knocked out.

The winners are the last 3 players with crowns remaining in the tournament, and the overall winner will be crowned "King of the Hill"! The King of the Hill takes 60% of the prize pool, 2nd 30%, 3rd 10%! (80% entry total to Prize Pool, 20% to Club Fundraising).

There will be Cash Tables and both small and big buy-in Sit n Go tournaments running, so this is definitely a tournament not to miss out on!

This event is open to current WA Poker League members and/or members of South Fremantle Football Club. There is NO necessity to play in the event to take part in the Cash Tables and Sit n Goes.

Other important tournament notes -

• The "rebuy" for losing a crown is either 1500 in chips OR 2x the current big blind, whichever is greater. (Big blind based on the hand in which they went out in)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with more than one uncrowned player splitting the pot, the uncrowned player with MORE chips takes the crown. If they had identical stacks, the crown goes to the player left of button (worst position relative to the dealer)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with one uncrowned player splitting the pot with another crowned player, the uncrowned player takes the crown.
• If a shorter stacked uncrowned player is all-in in a hand vs multiple other players, which sees a higher stacked crowned player get knocked out by another player (either crowned or uncrowned), even if the short stacked uncrowned player wins their all-in, if they didn't have the crowned player's chips covered, they cannot claim the crown.
• To be eligible for a Crown rebuy, when getting out you MUST immediately raise your hand with the Crown and call over a staff member. If you try to hold off for the next blind change, etc, you will be disqualified from the tournament.

Unless altered above, all WAPL Pro League Rules apply to this tournament.

We look forward to seeing you at the King of the Hill event, and anticipate another great night of poker!

15/10/2008 - WAPL @ York Jazz and Soul Festival - Come play Free Poker! -

Your WAPL Team will be running Free Tutorials and a Free Tournament at the York Jazz and Soul Festival this Saturday 18th October!

If you're going to the festival drop in and see us at the town hall, and play some poker!

Tutorial Sessions are at 4pm, 5pm, and 6pm, with a Free Tournament starting at 7:15pm (Get there before 7pm to register).

For more information about the festival and how you can get involved, head over to http://www.yorkjazz.com.au !

Hope to see you there!

Your WAPL Team

10/10/2008 - Special Event - Venue Team Challenge! Friday 17th October! -

The next Team event! Get yourself and 3 of your friends from your favourite venue and come on down to Claremont Footy Club for the Venue Team Challenge!

Run similarly to the other team events we've held, the buy-in is $25/player ($20 to Prize Pool), with the top 3 teams paid out! (50%, 30%, 10% of Prize Pool) AND the overall Tournament winner taking a cash prize too! (10% of Prize Pool)

Please make sure you pre-register your team at events this week, to help us efficiently manage numbers.

This event will be held Friday 17th October, at Claremont Footy Club. There is heaps of parking and it's close to public transport. Also, Sit and Go / Cash Tables will be running from 6pm.

Registration opens 6pm, Tournament starts 7pm!

See you there...

3/10/2008 - Metro Hotel moves to Sundays from 12th Oct -

Metros will be moving to Sunday nights from 12th October! 5pm rego, 6pm start! Please come down and support Metro Hotel's Free League, and Sunday night poker!

23/09/2008 - King of the Hill #2 - This Sunday 28th Sept -

The next King of the Hill tournament is this Sunday 28th September!

Here's the info...

WA Poker League King of the Hill!

Date - Sunday 28th September, 2008.

Time - Registration 2-2:45pm, Cash Tables and Sit n Goes from 3pm, Tournament Start 3pm

Cost - $30 buy-in (80% to prizes, 20% to South Fremantle Football Club Fundraising)

Location - South Fremantle Football Club, Fremantle Oval. Remember, the club is close to public transport, and has great club prices, with food and drinks available! If you're driving, there's lots of parking available too!

Pre-Event Ticket Sales - At events leading up to the King of the Hill, ask your Tournament Director to get pre-registered at your next event!

Please make a point of Pre-registering if you are coming to this event. After the huge response to our King of the Hill events, there's no knowing how many people will show up! There will be a PRE-REGISTRATION prize draw on the night, where all pre-registrered players have a chance to win a $30 Poker Den Voucher, so now there's even more incentive to get pre-registered!

Details - This is a tournament variation we have designed and called King of the Hill. We hope you enjoy it!

• Each player starts the tournament with equal chips, and a "Crown". If you lose your chips, you lose your crown but have a "life" rebuy to continue in the tournament.
• If a player with a crown takes out another player with a crown, the losing player's crown is removed from the tournament.
• If a player without a crown takes out a player with a crown, they get the crown and therefore have another "life" should they get knocked out.

The winners are the last 3 players with crowns remaining in the tournament, and the overall winner will be crowned "King of the Hill"! The King of the Hill takes 60% of the prize pool, 2nd 30%, 3rd 10%! (80% entry total to Prize Pool, 20% to Club Fundraising).

There will be Cash Tables and both small and big buy-in Sit n Go tournaments running, so this is definitely a tournament not to miss out on!

This event is open to current WA Poker League members and/or members of South Fremantle Football Club. There is NO necessity to play in the event to take part in the Cash Tables and Sit n Goes.

Other important tournament notes -

• The "rebuy" for losing a crown is either 1500 in chips OR 2x the current big blind, whichever is greater. (Big blind based on the hand in which they went out in)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with more than one uncrowned player splitting the pot, the uncrowned player with MORE chips takes the crown. If they had identical stacks, the crown goes to the player left of button (worst position relative to the dealer)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with one uncrowned player splitting the pot with another crowned player, the uncrowned player takes the crown.
• If a shorter stacked uncrowned player is all-in in a hand vs multiple other players, which sees a higher stacked crowned player get knocked out by another player (either crowned or uncrowned), even if the short stacked uncrowned player wins their all-in, if they didn't have the crowned player's chips covered, they cannot claim the crown.
• To be eligible for a Crown rebuy, when getting out you MUST immediately raise your hand with the Crown and call over a staff member. If you try to hold off for the next blind change, etc, you will be disqualified from the tournament.

Unless altered above, all WAPL Pro League Rules apply to this tournament.

We look forward to seeing you at the King of the Hill event, and anticipate another great night of poker!

10/09/2008 - Postponed Events - The Boat 29th and Woodbridge 27th -

Due to the Queen's Bday celebrations, the Free League event for 29th September @ the Boat won't be on. Please don't head to the Boat for Poker on Monday 29th! Poker as usual on the Wednesday and Monday the week after!

Woodbridge Hotel will not be on Saturday 27th September due to the AFL Grand Final!

9/09/2008 - Queens vs Kings - THIS Friday 12th September -

We've got a great special event coming up on Friday 12th September that everyone will want a part of!

Western Australian Poker League presents...

More details :

Queens vs Kings Tournament : $25 entry, with great prizes! Two tournaments (one guys', one girls') ending with the top 4 from each playing off on a final table spectacle! Yes, the final table players will start with the same chipstacks as each other and battle it out for the prizes! Come along for your chance to win great cash prizes on the night!

Registration 6pm, Tournament Starts 7pm!

This is an open event to all WAPL members! (Note: No Pro League points from this Tournament)

Also available from 6pm are our standard Sit N Go tables and Cash Tables!

All in all, an awesome night! So spread the word, get your pre-registration tickets from our tournaments, as seats will be strictly limited! To keep your seat, DON'T BE LATE!

Let's get a great contingent of girls down to the event to prove that poker isn't just for the boys!

28/08/2008 - Upcoming WAPL Special Events -

Upcoming WAPL Special Events - Not to be missed!

Sun 30th November 2008 - King of the Hill 4 @ Sth Freo Footy Club ($30 buy-in)

Fri 5th December 2008 - King of the Hill Final @ Claremont Footy Club

Sun 7th December 2008 - Season 8 Grand Final @ Sth Freo Footy Club (Info)

26/08/2008 - Next King of the Hill - This Sunday 31st Aug! -

The next King of the Hill tournament is this Sunday 31st August! We have moved the King of the Hills to Sundays to give us some more time to run the event, which everyone will agree is a good idea given this long running tournament variation!

We will be running King of the Hill events more regularly now, as we get so much great feedback from you all about how much fun they are! Spread the word!

Here's the info...

WA Poker League King of the Hill!

Date - Sunday 31st August, 2008.

Time - Registration 2-2:45pm, Cash Tables and Sit n Goes from 3pm, Tournament Start 3pm

Cost - $30 buy-in (80% to prizes, 20% to South Fremantle Football Club Fundraising)

Location - South Fremantle Football Club, Fremantle Oval. Remember, the club is close to public transport, and has great club prices, with food and drinks available! If you're driving, there's lots of parking available too!

Pre-Event Ticket Sales - At events leading up to the King of the Hill, ask your Tournament Director to get pre-registered at your next event!

Please make a point of Pre-registering if you are coming to this event. After the huge response to our King of the Hill events, there's no knowing how many people will show up! There will be a PRE-REGISTRATION prize draw on the night, where all pre-registrered players have a chance to win a $30 Poker Den Voucher, so now there's even more incentive to get pre-registered!

Details - This is a tournament variation we have designed and called King of the Hill. We hope you enjoy it!

• Each player starts the tournament with equal chips, and a "Crown". If you lose your chips, you lose your crown but have a "life" rebuy to continue in the tournament.
• If a player with a crown takes out another player with a crown, the losing player's crown is removed from the tournament.
• If a player without a crown takes out a player with a crown, they get the crown and therefore have another "life" should they get knocked out.

The winners are the last 3 players with crowns remaining in the tournament, and the overall winner will be crowned "King of the Hill"! The King of the Hill takes 60% of the prize pool, 2nd 30%, 3rd 10%! (80% entry total to Prize Pool, 20% to Club Fundraising).

There will be Cash Tables and both small and big buy-in Sit n Go tournaments running, so this is definitely a tournament not to miss out on!

This event is open to current WA Poker League members and/or members of South Fremantle Football Club. There is NO necessity to play in the event to take part in the Cash Tables and Sit n Goes.

Other important tournament notes -

• The "rebuy" for losing a crown is either 1500 in chips OR 2x the current big blind, whichever is greater. (Big blind based on the hand in which they went out in)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with more than one uncrowned player splitting the pot, the uncrowned player with MORE chips takes the crown. If they had identical stacks, the crown goes to the player left of button (worst position relative to the dealer)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with one uncrowned player splitting the pot with another crowned player, the uncrowned player takes the crown.
• If a shorter stacked uncrowned player is all-in in a hand vs multiple other players, which sees a higher stacked crowned player get knocked out by another player (either crowned or uncrowned), even if the short stacked uncrowned player wins their all-in, if they didn't have the crowned player's chips covered, they cannot claim the crown.
• To be eligible for a Crown rebuy, when getting out you MUST immediately raise your hand with the Crown and call over a staff member. If you try to hold off for the next blind change, etc, you will be disqualified from the tournament.

Unless altered above, all WAPL Pro League Rules apply to this tournament.

We look forward to seeing you at the King of the Hill event, and anticipate another great night of poker!

19/08/2008 - Boat Poker Club AGM - 3rd Sept 6pm -

For those Boat Poker Club members and players, we have been asked to inform you that the Club Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 3rd Sept. Please try to make it down to the Boat for a 6pm meeting start before the usual Pro League event there on the 3rd!

19/08/2008 - Season 7 Grand Final Wrap! -

Well, another WAPL Grand Final has come and gone with a blast! We saw yet another huge day at South Fremantle Footy Club, with 161 runners in the Pro Grand Final and 66 in the Free Final, as well as many members who came down to take in the atmosphere, support their friends, or play on the many sit n goes and cash tables throughout the day!

In the Pro League Final, our final 3 places were swapping the chip lead many times as we approached the end of the tournament. The 3 players (Kevin Kenny, Dean McAskil and Len Histon) knew what was on the line... they had already made it into the money when they reached 16th position... they were already well over $1000 in prize money upon reaching the Final Table. Now they were battling out the top 3 spots, worth between $3500 and a staggering $20,000+!

After a tense heads up, we saw regular Claremont Footy Club and Market City Tavern player Dean McAskil emerge victorious to Len Histon, with Kevin Kenny taking 3rd place. Dean wins the overall title of Grand Champion for Season 8, the $20,000+ cash and the coveted $5000 WAPL Grand Champion Medallion! Congratulations Dean! Results from the Pro event can be found here!

In a just as tense Free League Final Table, we saw Steven Herbert take the title of Free League Grand Champion from Scott Hardie, winning in style by a Queen kicker when they both hit trip 8s on the flop! Congratulations Steven! Results from the Free event can be found here!

To all who attended the Final, we trust you enjoyed your day. Our thanks to you for participating during the season, and we look forward to bringing you more great Poker in Season 8!

To our staff. You have yet again done an awesome job. The Grand Finals are not an easy event to manage and run, and we must thank our staff for the super efforts they put in on days like these! Please make sure you show your appreciation for their hard work when you catch them at tournaments soon! They work very hard to bring such a high level of poker to you, our members.

Lastly, we are in Pre-Season for one week, and start Season 8 officially on Sunday 24th August! We wish you the best of luck for the new season, and remember to invite your friends down to join the fun of WA Poker League Season 8!

Your WAPL Team

15/08/2008 - Season 7 Grand Final THIS Sunday 17th Aug - Details! -

For those of you who haven't found the info on the Finals page...

Location and Date

South Fremantle Football Club, Fremantle Oval

The date will be SUNDAY 17th AUGUST, 2008!

Time

Registration opens 10am. Final registrations 12 Midday. You can preregister at events leading up to the final, which will allow you to skip the (often long) registration line. Please don't be late, as it's critical we start the tournament on time and we don't want to have to turn latecomers away.

Pro League Grand Final

• Top 240 qualifiers (240 seats, if they're not filled, they will be awarded to the reserve pro league players at the event, so come down even if you don't qualify but have played 10 Pro games this season for a chance to play!) You MUST be a Pro League Player to play, and qualifiers will always be given a seat in preference to a non-qualifying reserve Pro player. You cannot gain entry to the Grand Final if you have not qualified in the top 240, or become a reserve by playing 10+ Pro League Tournaments in the current Season.

• $100 buy-in (A small price to pay for what you might win!) with $90 going to the prize pool accumulated from the Pro League Season, and $10 to the club/charity we are operating the event with.

• Up to the top 24 places paid out! (Top 10% of the players!)

Free League Grand Final

• Top 80 qualifiers (80 seats, if they're not filled, they will be awarded to the next ranking reserve free league players at the event, so come down even if you don't qualify for a chance to play if you've played 10 Free League events this season!)

• No buy-in

• Free League Championship Trophy Prize, nothing of monetary value, but you're playing for the fun and the fame of becoming the Free League Champ!

There will also be tables running for players who get out of the Grand Finals, who wish to keep playing poker during the event! They will be supervised, and follow by our standard Sit 'N Go and Cash Table rules!

Important note on Reserves - Players who have played 10 or more games in one or the other Leagues this season, yet have not qualified for a seat, are on the Reserves List. They can take the place of non-attending Qualifiers, in order of Ranking.

Please remember, as a qualifier there is no need to have played 10 games, IF you are qualified. If you are outside the qualification, as a reserve you must have played 10 games. Reserve players are NOT guaranteed seats in the Finals, but will take the seats of qualifiers who don't show up on the day.

If you HAVEN'T qualified for either final, there's still lots of reasons to come down to the Grand Finals! Come to support your mates, come to play some poker on the sit and go or cash tables, and come to witness the huge event that is WAPL's Grand Finals!

We hope to see you there!

Your WA Poker League Team

28/07/2008 - New WAPL Venues and more Events! -

We're delighted to announce the imminent start of several new venues who have joined the WA Poker League, as well as some extra events at current venues!

Please keep an eye on our upcoming events page for exact start dates at these venues.

New Venues / Events by Day -

Monday - Murphy's Irish Pub (Mandurah) doing Free League in addition to their Tues night Free and Pro event.

Tuesday - Merriwa Tavern for another great venue up north. Initially Free League, but given good support it will turn free/pro. With plenty of parking, the Merriwa is sure to quickly grow into a big Tuesday night event!

Wednesday - Metro Hotel - Initially starting with Free League on Wednesdays, Metro offers another free venue just South of River for your enjoyment!

Friday - Atrium Hotel (Mandurah) - Starting Free League but moving Free/Pro, this will make for an atmospheric and fun tournament for Friday night Poker in Mandurah.

Sunday - Market City Tavern (Free) - In addition to their Wednesday nights, Market City Tavern will be hosting Free League events on Sunday afternoons, too!

Please do your best to check out and support the new venues. The quicker they grow the more fun for everyone!

The Venue pages on our site will be updated as we have more info sent to us by each venue. Once again please make sure you check the Upcoming Events page to be sure of the start date for the new events.

We look forward to hosting an event for you soon!

Your WA Poker League Team

11/07/2008 - No Poker @ Claremont Friday 11th July -

Hi, just to make sure noone misses it.. there will be no Poker at Claremont Footy Club this week, Friday 11th July, due to the Country Footy committments taking over both bars for the night! Sorry for any inconvenience, but we look forward to hosting your Free and Pro league Poker again next Friday!

7/07/2008 - King of the Hill 2 Round Up -

The second King of the Hill Event was yet again a great success, with 110 players, many spectators and other members who came down to take advantage of the Cash Tables and Sit and Goes running on the night. The night ran smoothly for the most part, and comments back so far have been very promising as to the amount of fun had at our King of the Hill events!

We are aware of the fact that there are some issues with timing for a tournament of this structure, and with us finishing at massive blinds (300,000/600,000) and literally millions in chips on the final table, the push to bring the tournament in on time is something we'll be working towards improving for the next one! We may well see a change of day from Friday night to a Sunday day/night to allow everyone some more time to get there for registration and for us to get it started earlier.

The one letdown over the whole night was unfortunately the conduct of one person, which led to a rather tense environment upon completion of the tournament. We would like to remind our members that good manners, etiquette and respect are a very important part of playing good poker, especially within a social poker league. We are all here to have fun, and although the person concerned did not direct his verbal outbursts at anyone in particular, the situation led to much frustration and annoyance. This sort of behaviour, although falling just short of us removing him from the tournament altogether, demonstrates the sort of mannerisms we strive to avoid at our tournaments, and said person has since been informed that his membership has been suspended.

The "bad boy" or "bad girl" image may be one that is infamously hyped in media poker coverage, but in a social poker situation it's not acceptable as we are here to make sure everyone has a good time, and we do our utmost to ensure that this happens.

As far as the night goes, we stand by our decision to not remove this player from the tournament due to the legalities involved in a money tournament. Had he been personally abusive towards people it would have been a different situation, however we have boundaries we must work within, and just because someone is being annoying is not a good enough excuse to remove them from a tournament.

As for those few people who voiced their opinions at the conclusion of the tournament, we trust that you have settled down now and can see the situation we were in, and why we handled it the way we did on the night and will do so in the future.

All in all, it was a good tournament, and thank you to those many people who have said how good a time they had, and how well it was run and handled. We'd like to thank our staff for once again running an exceptional event!

We look forward to another fun King of the Hill next time, and with the great turnout we had this time, trust that the next one will be even bigger and better!

Your WA Poker League Team

8/06/2008 - WAPL King of the Hill! -

WA Poker League King of the Hill!

Date - Friday 4th July, 2008.

Time - Registration 5:30-6:30pm, Cash Tables from 6pm, Tournament Start 7pm

Cost - $25 buy-in (80% to prizes, 20% to Claremont Football Club Fundraising)

Location - Claremont Football Club, Davies Road Claremont. Remember, the club is literally 2 minutes walk from Claremont Train Station, and has great club prices, with food and drinks available! If you're driving, there's lots of parking too!

Pre-Event Ticket Sales - At events leading up to the King of the Hill, ask your Tournament Director to get pre-registered at your next event!

Please make a point of Pre-registering if you are coming to this event. After the huge response to our last King of the Hill event, there's no knowing how many people will show up, and seats are strictly limited to make sure the tournament finishes in time, so pre-register to make sure you don't miss out!

Details - This is a tournament variation we have designed and called King of the Hill. We hope you enjoy it!

• Each player starts the tournament with equal chips, and a "Crown". If you lose your chips, you lose your crown but have a "life" rebuy to continue in the tournament.
• If a player with a crown takes out another player with a crown, the losing player's crown is removed from the tournament.
• If a player without a crown takes out a player with a crown, they get the crown and therefore have another "life" should they get knocked out.

The winners are the last 3 players with crowns remaining in the tournament, and the overall winner will be crowned "King of the Hill"! The King of the Hill takes 60% of the prize pool, 2nd 30%, 3rd 10%! (80% entry total to Prize Pool, 20% to Club Fundraising).

The first player knocked out of the tournament completely will win a $20 Poker Den Voucher!

There will be Cash Tables and both small and big buy-in Sit n Go tournaments running until midnight, so this is definitely a tournament not to miss out on!

This event is open to current WA Poker League members and/or members of Claremont Football Club. There is NO necessity to play in the event to take part in the Cash Tables and Sit n Goes.

Other important tournament notes -

• The "rebuy" for losing a crown is either 1500 in chips OR 2x the current big blind, whichever is greater. (Big blind based on the hand in which they went out in)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with more than one uncrowned player splitting the pot, the uncrowned player with MORE chips takes the crown. If they had identical stacks, the crown goes to the player left of button (worst position relative to the dealer)
• If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with one uncrowned player splitting the pot with another crowned player, the uncrowned player takes the crown.
• If a shorter stacked uncrowned player is all-in in a hand vs multiple other players, which sees a higher stacked crowned player get knocked out by another player (either crowned or uncrowned), even if the short stacked uncrowned player wins their all-in, if they didn't have the crowned player's chips covered, they cannot claim the crown.
• To be eligible for a Crown rebuy, when getting out you MUST immediately raise your hand with the Crown and call over a staff member. If you try to hold off for the next blind change, etc, you will be disqualified from the tournament.

Unless altered above, all WAPL Pro League Rules apply to this tournament.

We look forward to seeing you at the King of the Hill event, and anticipate another great night of poker!

2/06/2008 - Southerlys Night Change to Tuesdays! -

To our regular Southerlys members, we are moving from Monday to Tuesday nights for Free League Poker, as of this week! Please spread the word and get down to Southerlys for Poker every Tuesday from this week!

Thanks!

26/05/2008 - Paddington Poker Club Meeting - TONIGHT @ 6pm -

Don't forget the meeting tonight, Have Your Say!

A drink and some food provided by the Pub as well, so see you at 6pm.

25/05/2008 - Next Team Event - Pop Music Team Challenge! THIS FRIDAY! -

For those who have been looking forward to our next Themed Team Event, it's nearly upon us! Here's the info, if you've missed it at events over the past few weeks! -

A couple of notes... Due to the popularity of the last Team Challenge, please make an effort to pre-register your team before the event, as we had DOUBLE the expected teams for last event, and it made for a late start. To help us avoid this, please pre-register!

The THEME for this event is Pop Music, and those who want a chance at the great Free Tournament at the Poker Den should dress to impress, as their favourite band! The best themed team will win the best theme team tournament prize!

Date - Friday 30th May

Time - Registration + Cash Tables from 6pm to 6:45pm, Tournament Starts 7pm

Location - Claremont Football Club, Davies Road Claremont. Remember, the club is literally 2 minutes walk from Claremont Train Station, and has great club prices! If you're driving, there's lots of parking too!

Pre-Event Ticket Sales - At events, ask your Tournament Director once you have your team together!

Details - $10 per player, 4 Player Teams, 4 section split tournament, with team player's finishing points being added together to give a team total. The top team takes the prize pool. (80% entry total to Prize Pool, 20% to Club Fundraising).

Teams must have a Team Name and a Captain, and may be themed too! The best themed team also wins an awesome prize of a FREE Private tournament at the Poker Den for up to 24 of the team's friends!

The top 2 players from each section progress to the Individual Final Table, to play off for a $50 Poker Den Voucher.

The winning team will be determined by adding all team member's points together. Top scoring team wins! Points are based on reverse scale of number of players. eg. first out gets 1 point, second out 2 points, etc.

There will be Cash Tables and both small and big buy-in Sit n Go tournaments running until midnight, so this is definitely a tournament not to miss out on!

Don't have a team? No problem! Come down on the night between 6-6:30pm, and put your name down on the list for random allocation to a team!

This event is open to current WA Poker League members and/or members of Claremont Football Club. There is NO necessity to play in the event to take part in the Cash Tables and Sit n Goes.

25/05/2008 - No Free League @ The Boat, 2nd June -

For those regular Free League players at the Boat on Mondays, due to the coming public holiday on the 2nd June, the event won't be on for this date. Wednesday Pro will be on as usual!

Sorry for any inconvenience.

19/05/2008 - WAPL's 2nd Year Anniversary! -

That's right, WA Poker League is 2 years old! Monday night brings us up to our 2nd year of bringing the best pub poker to Perth! Help us celebrate at the Paddington Alehouse, where it all started! Pro or Free Leagues, 6pm with a 7pm start!

See you there!

Also, the rescheduled AGM for the Paddo is the week after on Monday 26th, so make sure you get down for 6pm to make the meeting!

19/05/2008 - Brighton Wednesday Pro/Free -

The Brighton in Mandurah is now running Free AND Pro on Wednesday now, not Mondays. Please make sure you don't head to Brighton on Monday expecting to play poker! Tuesday Pro/Free at Murphy's Irish Pub, and Wednesday Pro/Free at the Brighton!

Congratulations also to Damon and Lauren, Mandurah regulars, on their recent engagement!

6/05/2008 - South Freo Footy Club -

Unfortunately South Freo Football Club won't be running in Season 7. Rob (Who we're sure those SFFC regular players will all remember) has had to move interstate temporarily for work, and staffing issues have prevented them being able to continue running poker on Tuesday nights this season.

Apologies for any inconvenience, but please remember that Paddy Maguire's is your closest Free League on Tuesday night, in Subiaco.

Remember, Pro League starts next week on Tuesdays at Murphy's in Mandurah!

4/05/2008 - Mondays and Fridays -

With the addition of Free League poker at Paddo on Mondays, and Claremont Footy Club bringing Pro and Free poker to Friday nights, we won't be opening the Poker Den for the time being! The other 2 venues are close enough to the Den to be viable alternatives for our Free players, and we're sure you will enjoy them just as much, if not more!

A reminder to Paddo Players, the annual club AGM is being held Monday 12th May! Please make it down at 6pm to take part!

So no more Poker Den Mondays and Fridays, but Paddington Alehouse Monday has Free League as well as its regular Pro League, as does Claremont Footy Club on Fridays!

See you there!

2/05/2008 - Season 7 starts this Sunday! -

Welcome to Season 7!

We are happy to announce some changes and new events at venues!

The Paddington Alehouse will be adding a Free League event to the current Pro event run every Monday!

Claremont Football Club will be running Pro and Free on FRIDAY nights! So now we have an awesome Friday venue for you, too! Not only this, we will continue to run our Special Events at Claremont every month, and when these are on they will replace the regular event. We will be holding another Team event (there's signs at our events now, but we'll announce it here shortly!) as our next event there, then after that we will be running another King of the Hill event, which we know everyone's been looking forward to!

Murphy's Irish Pub in Mandurah is moving Pro and Free for Tuesday nights, starting from the 2nd week of Season 7, so get the word out for that one, too!

Woodbridge Hotel will NOT be holding a pre-season event tomorrow, Saturday 3rd May, as they are holding a special "Race Day" event with their Club members. If you're interested, entry is $35, including an awesome Club Shirt. Meet at the Woody at 10am for a BBQ, then they're taking a bus to the races for the day! We know a couple of our Woodbridge regulars are heading along already, and no doubt it'll be a fun day, so get involved, and we'll hear the stories next Saturday when Woodbridge has its first Season 7 event!

29/04/2008 - Season 6 Grand Finals! -

Season 6 Pro League Grand Final Champion Scott Gorfin!

The Pro League Grand Final for Season 6 was yet again a huge tournament, with a total prize pool of over $55,000 in cash and prizes, and a total of 168 runners! In what was probably our smoothest Finals day yet from the point of view of the flow of the tournament, we finally reached our last 8 players and hit Final Table!

With even 8th place taking nearly $1450 in prize money, the players were all smiles and nerves as they moved to their positions on the table. Short stacked and first out was Tina Dinardo, the only female to make Final Table! Len Histon, Derek Winkler and Robert Paradiso followed shortly after, as did Jay Poa, who survived a couple of hands before succumbing his chips to the final 3...

Our last 3 consisted of Elephant & Wheelbarrow representative Marc Kennedy, who had cashed in the last 2 Pro Grand Finals, and Brighton Hotel Mandurah regulars Chris Van Maanen and Scott Gorfin.

With the blinds high, the chip stacks huge, and a huge crowd overlooking, chips went back and forth till a crucial hand saw Marc lose many of his chips with a 9 10 of clubs vs Chris's Jack 6 offsuit. Marc busted out shortly after, picking up a cool $3643 for 3rd place. Well done Marc!

Down to the final 2 Mandurah Members, and we saw Chris with a big chip stack assume control of the tournament. Scott had a big job to do, but set about his task quickly, taking a couple of big pots down and creeping closer to the chip lead. With some tense moments such as a split pot A2 vs A4, a 7 high heart flush from Scott's all in, and a final hand of King Jack off (Chris) vs King Queen off (Scott), saw Scott take the crown of WAPL Season 6 Grand Final Champion after a great comeback! Well done Chris for your great effort ($5881 for 2nd place), and Scott took down the $20,013 cash prize plus the $5000 WAPL 18ct Gold, Diamond and Ruby Championship medallion for his awesome performance!

Results and LOTS of photos from the Pro Final can be found here!

Our Free League Final was again an awesome finish to a great season for our Free League members, seeing a starting number of 56 players! The tournament ran very smoothly, and final table consisted of Joseph Brennan (8th), Scott Hardie (7th), Trudie Jones (6th), Irwan Budiarto (5th), Ricky Andrews (4th), John Williams (3rd), Chris Haigh (2nd) and Patrick Beilby (1st). After a very tough tournament, Patrick ended it with a pair of sevens to beat Chris's Queen 3, to take the title of WAPL Season 6 Free League Final Champion! Congratulations Patrick!

Results and LOTS of photos from the Free Final can be found here!

We hope everyone had a great day, and look forward to catching you all for an even bigger season of Poker for Season 7! We'd like to also thank our staff for the huge effort they put in on the day, and for the great season we've had!

Regards,

Your WA Poker League Team

23/04/2008 - Grand Finals this Sunday! -

Location and Date

The location for Season 6 will be the great function room at South Fremantle Football Club! This massive room has proven itself to be the perfect size to host Western Australia's biggest Poker Tournament! With great Air Conditioning, and awesome facilities, it's sure to be a blast! The date will be SUNDAY 27th APRIL, 2008! So free yourselves up for this date if possible! (No excuses for late notice this time!)

Time

Registration opens 10am. Final registrations 12 Midday. You can preregister at events leading up to the final, which will allow you to skip the (often long) registration line. Please don't be late, as it's critical we start the tournament on time and we don't want to have to turn latecomers away.

Pro League Grand Final

• Top 240 qualifiers (240 seats, if they're not filled, they will be awarded to the reserve pro league players at the event, so come down even if you don't qualify but have played 10 Pro games this season for a chance to play!) You MUST be a Pro League Player to play, and qualifiers will always be given a seat in preference to a non-qualifying reserve Pro player. You cannot gain entry to the Grand Final if you have not qualified in the top 240, or become a reserve by playing 10+ Pro League Tournaments in the current Season.

• $100 buy-in (A small price to pay for what you might win!) with $90 going to the prize pool accumulated from the Pro League Season, and $10 to the club/charity we are operating the event with.

• Up to the top 24 places paid out! (Top 10% of the players!)

Free League Grand Final

• Top 80 qualifiers (80 seats, if they're not filled, they will be awarded to the next ranking reserve free league players at the event, so come down even if you don't qualify for a chance to play if you've played 10 Free League events this season!)

• No buy-in

• Free League Championship Trophy Prize, nothing of monetary value, but you're playing for the fun and the fame of becoming the Free League Champ!

There will also be tables running for players who get out of the Grand Finals, who wish to keep playing poker during the event! They will be supervised, and follow by our standard Sit 'N Go and Cash Table rules!

Important note on Reserves - Players who have played 10 or more games in one or the other Leagues this season, yet have not qualified for a seat, are on the Reserves List. They can take the place of non-attending Qualifiers, in order of Ranking.

Please remember, as a qualifier there is no need to have played 10 games, IF you are qualified. If you are outside the qualification, as a reserve you must have played 10 games. Reserve players are NOT guaranteed seats in the Finals, but will take the seats of qualifiers who don't show up on the day.

22/04/2008 - Sad news for Mandurah Members -

It's with sadness that we inform you that Len Carrier, grandfather of Carl Brownlow, passed away suddenly the other day. Len had a love of poker, and they had many very enjoyable Wednesday nights at Brighton Hotel.

Carl tells us that since flying home recently, Len had proudly displayed his 2 WAPL Trophies on top of his TV, and told Carl just last week how he couldn't wait to come back to Perth later in the year "to win some more trophies!"

Members may recall Len participating in the "King of the Hill" Special Event at Claremont Football Club recently. He played and then stayed till the end, even though his flight back to the UK was early the next morning! He simply loved his poker and thanked us and our members for making him feel so welcome before leaving Australia.

To Carl, Denise, Pauline and family, all our staff and members who were fortunate enough to meet Len pass on their sympathy, and we're glad to have been able to share so many fun times with you all.

RIP Len

10/04/2008 - Important News - Poker Den and WAPL Rules! -

Hi all,

We apologise to our regular Poker Den players but unfortunately we won't be able to run the Poker Den Free League's this Friday 11th and Monday 14th April due to other major committments. Please spread the word amongst those players who frequent the Den to avoid disappointment.

Sorry for the late notice, and we look forward to resuming our regular Poker Den tournaments for you!

In other news, we must remind everyone about how seriously we take people's adherence to our rules in our tournaments. Everyone who enters our tournaments are there because they want a fun, social and professionally run game of poker. To achieve this, we do all we can to teach players our rules, help them to understand why they are in place, and enforce them when necessary.

Unfortunately, this doesn't always happen, and in some cases a member who has received warnings numerous times yet doesn't make an effort to rectify their behaviour leaves us with little choice but to suspend their membership.

Although this action is a last resort, we understand that for the sake of ALL our members, it's important to us to ensure that our tournaments continue to run smoothly for everyone's enjoyment.

5/04/2008 - WA Poker League Employment -

We are currently looking for keen, reliable, friendly people to join our great team. If you enjoy interacting with people, love poker, and can work well independently and in a team environment, we want to hear from you!

We offer attractive casual rates and are looking for several key personnel to join the ranks in our fast growing company.

Preferred but not essential - Own vehicle with towbar and current driver's license, public speaking skills, prior gaming experience, and a good knowledge of Texas Hold 'em Poker.

If you're interested, please contact us at jobs@wapokerleague.com.au

1/04/2008 - No Poker Den Monday 7/4/08 -

Hi all. Due to our Dongara/Port Denison trip over next Sunday/Monday, the Poker Den Free League event which is usually held on the Monday night will not be on.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

31/03/2008 - Power Off @ Boat -

Unfortunately tonights WA Poker League Free Event at The Boat has had to be

cancelled due to power problems at the Mindarie Complex.

Players wanting to play tonight have the following options:

The Poker Den, West Perth - Free League or

The Paddington Alehouse, Mt Hawthorn - Pro League

If you are arriving at these venues late please phone Frank on 0411 869 888 so he can make arrangements for your late entry into these tournaments if practical.

29/03/2008 - King of the Hill Tournament Results! -

The King of the Hill Event is over, and was a great success, much to our relief! As we knew, this was the first time this particular Tournament Style has been attempted, and from all the great comments we got throughout the night, you can be sure that the WAPL's King of the Hill tournament structure/style will be revived for another special event night soon!

We had a good turnout of 74 for the event itself, with others opting to stick to the cash tables for the night! They missed out on the strategic and sometimes downright crazy play in the tournament, with players busting out and being reentered into the tournament left right and center throughout the night!

Finally, we reached our final table of 8, which comprised of Lee Mattfield, Carl Brownlow, Janelle Brown, Ryan Bochorsky, Trevor Patient, Len Histon, Mark Pine, and Tyrone Park. We ended up with an awesome prize payout for King of the Hill, with our final 8 playing for a first place of $1184! With blinds at 25,000/50,000 and a staggering amount of chips on the table, they set out to take down the 5 remaining crowns!

Len Histon was in great shape for much of final table, but we ended up with 2 crowned players Heads Up at the end! Mark Pine and Tyrone Parks battled it out at the final 150,000/300,000 blinds for the (roughly) 2.8 MILLION chips on the table, and of course the Crown and the Prize!

Tyrone finally clinched victory from Mark, and although he seemed in awe at winning the tournament outright, it must be said that he did a great job to make it back into the tournament and win. He was our shortest stacked Crownless player during much of Final Table, had a great quad-up and then went though to claim a crown off Len, then the tournament from Mark! Congratulations Tyrone Parks, regular player at Paddy Maguire's, on your big win, and thanks to all participating players for all your compliments throughout the night. Also a huge thanks as usual goes out to the WAPL Staff who worked tirelessly throughout the night to bring you the best standard of Poker that you've come to expect from our Tournaments.

Results from the tournament can be found HERE!

23/03/2008 - Southerlys Free League moved to Tuesday for this week only! -

Due to the Easter Long Weekend, the Free League tournament at Southerlys Port Denison will be held on Tuesday 25th instead of Monday 24th this week!

We apologise for any inconvenience.

21/03/2008 - Southerlys Special Pro Event - 6th April 08! -

We're delighted to announce to our members that we will be holding a special "Pro" event at Southerlys Port Denison on 6th April 08!
This is your chance to get "in the money" playing poker at Southerlys, with cash prizes paid out to the top 10% of places in the Tournament, Sit N Goes and a Cash Table will be running!

This will be a licensed and legal cash event run by the Western Australian Poker League on behalf of the Southerlys Bar Poker Club! If you're a regular player at Southerlys, make sure you speak to Callum and the crew about getting involved in the Club!

The event will start at 2pm sharp, with registration at 1pm. The tournament structure and buy-ins will emulate our standard Pro League events, with $30 of the $40 buy-in being paid out on the day. The $10 goes to the Club to help cover licensing and operational expenses for the day.

For those who are not quite ready to play for money, we will still hold a "Free" tournament in conjunction with this Special Event, and the regular Southerlys Monday Free League Tournament will still be held on Monday the 7th April.

So put the word out, get your friends together and head to Southerlys on the 6th April for a great day of poker! Even if they don't know how to play, Jason and the crew from WA Poker League will be more than happy to help beginners learn this great game!

17/03/2008 - New Mandurah Venue - Murphy's Irish Pub! -

We're delighted to announce the start of WA Poker League Tournaments at the brand new Murphy's Irish Pub in Mandurah! Right on the strip (just down from the Brighton), this lovely spacious new pub has a great atmosphere, and is Mandurah's newest pub!

Starting Free League Tuesday nights starting THIS Tuesday 18th March, we recommend you come down, check out this great new pub, and support WA Poker League's newest Mandurah venue! So now our Mandurah players can play Free and Pro League Mondays at the Brighton, Free League Tuesdays at Murphy's, and Free League Wednesdays at Brighton!

17/03/2008 - Upcoming Poker Public Holidays! -

Greetings!

We wish to advise that the following Venue's tournaments will not be run on these upcoming dates -

• The Boat, Monday 17th March
• The Poker Den, Friday 21st March
• The Poker Den, Monday 24th March
• The Boat, Monday 24th March
• The Poker Den, Friday 28th March (Due to the King of the Hill Event!)

We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and look forward to seeing you at an event soon!

12/03/2008 - WAPL Special Event - King of the Hill! -

WA Poker League King of the Hill!

Date - Friday 28th March

Time - Registration 5:30-6:30pm, Cash Tables from 6pm, Tournament Start 7pm

Location - Claremont Football Club, Davies Road Claremont. Remember, the club is literally 2 minutes walk from Claremont Train Station, and has great club prices! If you're driving, there's lots of parking too!

Pre-Event Ticket Sales - At events, ask your Tournament Director to get registered at your next event!

Please make a point of Pre-registering if you are coming to this event. After the masses of late registrations to our last special event we would appreciate as many pre-registrations as possible to help us ensure an easy and efficient setup and seating for the tournament this time!

Details - This is a tournament variation we have designed and called King of the Hill. We hope you enjoy it! Tournament cost is $20 per player. Each player starts the tournament with equal chips, and a "Crown". If you lose your chips, you lose your crown but have a "life" rebuy to continue in the tournament. If a player with a crown takes out another player with a crown, the losing player's crown is removed from the tournament. If a player without a crown takes out a player with a crown, they get the crown and therefore have another "life" should they get knocked out. The overall winner is the last player with a crown remaining in the tournament, and they will be crowned King of the Hill! The King of the Hill takes the entire prize pool. (80% entry total to Prize Pool, 20% to Club Fundraising).

The first player knocked out of the tournament completely will win a $20 Poker Den Voucher!

There will be Cash Tables and both small and big buy-in Sit n Go tournaments running until midnight, so this is definitely a tournament not to miss out on!

This event is open to current WA Poker League members and/or members of Claremont Football Club. There is NO necessity to play in the event to take part in the Cash Tables and Sit n Goes.

Other important tournament notes -

The "rebuy" for losing a crown is either 1500 in chips OR 2x the current big blind, whichever is greater.

If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with more than one uncrowned player splitting the pot, the uncrowned player with MORE chips takes the crown. If they had identical stacks, the crown goes to the player left of button (worst position relative to the dealer)

If a crowned player is taken out in a hand with one uncrowned player splitting the pot with another crowned player, the uncrowned player takes the crown.

If a shorter stacked uncrowned player is all-in in a hand vs multiple other players, which sees a higher stacked crowned player get knocked out by another player (either crowned or uncrowned), even if the short stacked uncrowned player wins their all-in, if they didn't have the crowned player's chips covered, they cannot claim the crown.

To be eligible for a Crown rebuy, when getting out you MUST immediately raise your hand with the Crown and call over a staff member. If you try to hold off for the next blind change, etc, you will be disqualified from the tournament.

We look forward to seeing you at the King of the Hill event, and anticipate another great night of poker!

2/03/2008 - WAPL Team Challenge Results! -

The individual placings for the Team Challenge are now up! You can find them through the Event Results section or go straight there via this link - http://wapokerleague.com.au/event_results.aspx?EventID=2369

Please note that the "Points" posted here are our standard Points allocation, whereas the points for this event were on a reversed scale. First out got 1 point, winner got 148.

Yes, that means we had 148 players! Congratulations and thanks to all who made it for this awesome night! We had lots of great reports and comments from those who showed up. We had 18 pre-registered teams, yet another 19 teams rocked up at registration, catching us by surprise and giving us a huge 37 team turnout!

All went well, with the 4 split sections hitting final tables at about the same time! The final 2 from each section combined to a final table (of which there were no two players from the same team), and continued to play for our winner. David O'Meara took out the event, winning the Individual winner's prize of a $50 Poker Den Voucher.

The big winners however were Team Dragon! HUGE congratulations to Charmaine, Peter, Richard and Mark for their great performance, just beating Spare Parts across the line for the win! With a team score of 453, vs Spare Parts 437, it was very close! For their win, Team Dragon took the $1184 prize, split 4 ways to $296 each! The Spare Parts got a carton of beer for 2nd place with which to drown their sorrows!

Of course, the other major prize for the night was for the Best Themed Team, and there was some fierce competition in this department! We had the Boat Crew, The Tigers, The Muppets, The Ladybirds, and the Swimmers from Holland in the race for best dressed! After a very long decision process, it was down to the Swimmers, the Tigers and The Ladybirds. The winners of the Best Themed Team went to The Ladybirds, comprising of Sarah, Eleanor, Michelle and Suz! They win an awesome Private Free Poker Tournament for 24 players of their choice at the Poker Den!

As always, it was a pleasure to host another awesome event for our members, and we must commend our staff for their great work on the night. It wasn't easy, especially with the huge influx of extra teams at the last minute (ps. please please please pre-register next time, it makes our lives so much easier), but our staff did an awesome job of keeping everything under control and giving everyone a great time!

Book in our next special event, Friday 28th March! This will be an individual event with a great new tournament structure which is sure to be lots of fun and something different! More details on this closer to the event...

Once again, congrats to all our winners, and we hope everyone had as good a night as we think and were told you did!

Your WA Poker League Team!

28/02/2008 - Public Holiday Monday 3rd March - The Boat! -

Hi all. As usual for a Public Holiday, the Boat won't be holding its regular Monday Free League this coming Monday 3rd March. Please spread the word that it's not on next Monday! See you Wednesday or the following Monday!

Your WA Poker League Team

28/02/2008 - Brighton Hotel Mondays and Wednesdays! -

Monday's Free and Pro AND Wednesday's Free League Tournaments will be back DOWNSTAIRS as of next week! We apologise for the confusion and few problems with the upstairs room, and the crew at the Brighton will be making some changes to make it more Poker-Friendly before we head up there again! Till then, please remember we're downstairs and get the word out to build both of the nights up!

28/02/2008 - WA Poker League Team Challenge! Including Teams! -

WA Poker League Team Challenge!

Date - Friday 29th February

Time - Registration + Cash Tables from 6pm, Tournament Starts 7pm

Location - Claremont Football Club, Davies Road Claremont. Remember, the club is literally 2 minutes walk from Claremont Train Station, and has great club prices! If you're driving, there's lots of parking too!

Pre-Event Ticket Sales - At events, ask your Tournament Director once you have your team together!

Details - $10 per player, 4 Player Teams, 4 section split tournament, with team player's finishing points being added together to give a team total. The top team takes the prize pool. (80% entry total to Prize Pool, 20% to Club Fundraising).

Teams must have a Team Name and a Captain, and may be themed too! The best themed team also wins an awesome prize of a FREE Private tournament at the Poker Den for up to 24 of the team's friends!

The top 2 players from each section progress to the Individual Final Table, to play off for a $50 Poker Den Voucher.

The winning team will be determined by adding all team member's points together. Top scoring team wins! Points are based on reverse scale of number of players. eg. first out gets 1 point, second out 2 points, etc.

There will be Cash Tables and both small and big buy-in Sit n Go tournaments running until midnight, so this is definitely a tournament not to miss out on!

Don't have a team? No problem! Come down on the night between 6-6:30pm, and put your name down on the list for random allocation to a team!

This event is open to current WA Poker League members and/or members of Claremont Football Club. There is NO necessity to play in the event to take part in the Cash Tables and Sit n Goes.

The current list of teams are -

Fab "4" - Thelma H, Anita M, Ron H, Diane M

The Four Flops - Michael S, Ross H, Shane S, Carl B

The Muppets - Liz R, Murray B, Ian C, Caitlin C

The Tigers - Mark P, Karen A, Penny W, Jill M

The Saintly Sinners - Ann P, Jeff L, Jason B(urgess), Craig H

Mixed Nuts - Mike B, David D, Scotty C, Dain P

Captain Stef & Her Minions - Steff V A, Kim V A, Greg A, Chris Q

Four-King-Queens - Tyson O, Anthony T, Aaron P, Mitch B

Two Jays - Trevor B, Julian J, Dave M, Kai-Paul K

Becker's Bluff - Renee B, Luke S, Lorraine B, Guenter B

Somos Poco loco por Poker - Bas S, William C, Padminee R, Daniel B

The Book Club - Chris M, Tony S, James H, Peter N

DILLIGAF - Paul R, Karen R, Lauren M, Damon C

4 Doorhandles & a Muppet - Janelle B, Troy A, Chris A, Bruce L S

4 Horsemen of the A-Poker-Lypse - Will E, Neil B, David O'M, Scott H

The Boat Crew - Colin W, David E, Warrick S, Jon C

Dr Chip's Casino Super Happy Fun Times - Tristan H, James D, Lee K, Rosdy N

The Dark Fours - Hamish B, Ben V, Robert R, Michael F

More will be added as they register!

Good luck on Friday! Hope to see you there!

4/02/2008 - SFFC Tuesday Night Food! -

Hi all!

To those players who play Pro or Free at South Freo Footy Club on Tuesday night, Rob has let us know that the meal for the night will be a Pesto Chicken Pasta. White wine, cream, mushroom pesto, roasted pine nuts, snow peas, and chicken breast on angel hair pasta with crusty bread! Price - $10

So get on down to South Freo this Tuesday for a great meal along with your great poker!

28/01/2008 - Public Holiday Monday 28th Jan -

FREE League at the Boat will not be held tonight.

Please spread the word that the event isn't on tonight, as per usual for Public Holidays at the Boat.

The Paddington Alehouse, Brighton Hotel and Poker Den are on as usual!

Have a great night!

23/01/2008 - Poker Den Fridays + Woodvale Thurs -

With the stable transition of our website last Friday, we're good to go at the Den again, starting this Friday night! Free League, registration 6pm, tournament starts 7pm. Please remember this is a BYO alcohol venue, though other refreshments are available.

Also, for those who are wondering, yes the cash table will be starting just on 6pm this Thursday if you were planning on coming down early for it!

23/01/2008 - Important news for Dongara WAPL Players -

The Southerly's Event for Monday the 28th January is being moved to Tuesday 29th January! We will be back to Monday nights the week after, so this change is only for 1 week! Thanks, and we look forward to continuing to bring you great poker next week!

19/01/2008 - Table Clearance Mon 21st Jan -

For anyone interested in purchasing 2nd hand damaged tables, make sure you come down to the Poker Den this coming Monday. We have some that we'll be selling off cheap. First in best dressed from 5:30pm!

18/01/2008 - New Look Website! -

With Season 6 has come a few additions and changes to our website! These changes were made live today, and we hope you like them!

Functionality wise, there's some great new additions, such as the ability to filter through results or upcoming events by typing in the white filter boxes, as well as an expanded Member page, where you can now see not only the player's events, but also statistics and some graphs relating to their current season results, complete with predictions as to a season points total! Player search is now much easier, and the entire site, although not slow before, should return results even faster!

If you should find any problems with the site which we may have missed, or have any further suggestions as to additions you'd like to see to the website, please E-Mail info@wapokerleague.com.au and let us know!

We look forward to seeing you at an event soon.

Your WA Poker League Team

4/01/2008 - A New Year, and a New Season! -

First of all we would like to wish all our members a safe and prosperous 2008!

Season 6 is almost upon us! The official start is 13th January, but many of our Venues are starting events this week so we can all get some practice in before the Season begins and we all start playing for points!

The first of these events starts this Saturday, 5th Jan, with Free and Pro Special Events at the Woodbridge Hotel! Make sure you check our Upcoming Events page so you don't miss out!

15/12/2007 - WAPL Dongara! -

Some exciting news! Southerly's in Dongara will be running some Special Free Events leading into Season 6! The first two of these will be held this Sunday and Monday 16th-17th December! The Sunday event will have registration at 4pm with a 5pm start, and Mondays will have a 6pm registration, 7pm start!

Please feel free to head up to these fun events and support the crew in Dongara, and we look forward to welcoming many Dongara poker lovers into the WA Poker League member base!

15/12/2007 - Grand Champions, Season 5! -

We'd like to congratulate our Grand Champions of Season 5 Pro and Free Leagues, who took out the huge Finals events last Sunday 9th Dec!

Ian Slater, regular player at the Boat and Woodvale Tavern, took out the Pro Final, beating 171 other players to the huge first prize of $20,048.00 and the WAPL Grand Champion Medallion! After a great final table comprising of a very skilled and diverse final 8, Ian managed to pip Nathan Crisafi at the post! Nathan took $6,220.00 for 2nd place, and the top 18 players of 172 made the money!

Results for the Pro Grand Final are here!

The Free League had 68 starters this Season, yet the competition was just as fierce for top spot as in the Pro league final! With some memorable performances throughout the day, we ended with a final 2 who proved that Poker isn't just a newage fad. Woodbridge regular June Eggleston just managed to get past Dell Royston-Ing from the Brighton Hotel for first place in Free League, and both of these Seniors fought bravely through a tournament of bluffing and new style play to prove that sometimes good, solid playing of your cards can still pay off in the end! Congratulations June for taking out the day, and Dell for your well deserved 2nd place!

Results for the Free Grand Final are here!

We'd like to thank all of you who've given us thanks at and since the finals. We are happy to be able to consistently bring you our very high standard of Poker, and to let so many people experience the huge day of poker that is the WA Poker League Grand Finals!

Please take care over the Christmas and New Year period! We look forward to seeing you at the Pre-Season 6 events, or in the new year and new season!

Your WA Poker League Team

10/12/2007 - Grand Final Results, and Pre-Season Events! -

After another massive Grand Final, we farewell Season 5! There will be quite a lot of pre-season events at some of our venues, so you will still be able to play some poker before Season 6 starts on Sunday 13th Jan, 2008!

Make sure you check the Coming Events to confirm what venues will be going in the off-season! For the Pro Special events, although they do not gain points towards Season 6 Ladder, the event prize payouts are significantly buffed (+50%!) by the fact that there is no Grand Final Prize Pool Contribution, either!

Please note, that Brighton Hotel IS running a Special Pro Event tonight, Monday 10th December!

The results from the huge final day will be up soon, keep an eye on this page, and we'll update it shortly!

6/12/2007 - Last Week of Season! -

Well here we are, the ever-important final week of Season 5!

The main things to remember leading up to our 5th Grand Final day this Sunday 9th Dec are...

Pro - Top 240 Ranked Pro Players have a seat at the Pro Grand Final. Top 10 Pro Players and each Pro Venue Winner has their seat buy-in of $100 paid for!

Free - Top 80 Ranked Free Players have a seat in the Free Grand Final. As always, there is no buy-in nor monetary value prizes as a result of this Free League Final.

Reserves - Players who have played 10 or more games in one or the other Leagues this season, yet have not qualified for a seat, are on the Reserves List. They can take the place of non-attending Qualifiers, in order of Ranking.

Registration - Rego starts at 10am, and last rego for qualifiers is at 12pm. Any reserves will then be called up. If as a qualifier you are late to claim your seat and it is taken by available reserves, that seat shall be forfeited.

Pre-registration - For qualifiers, pre-registration has been available this week at Pro venues. Make sure that you bring your Receipt to registration in order to skip the line through the pre-registration line.

If you are not within the qualification rankings after our last tournament on Saturday, and have not met the minimum 10 games required to be a reserve, you cannot play in the Finals. These are the strict rules, and there will be no exceptions.

Please remember, as a qualifier there is no need to have played 10 games, IF you are qualified. If you are outside the qualification, as a reserve you must have played 10 games. Reserve players are NOT guaranteed seats in the Finals.

There will still be lots of poker to be played throughout the day, even if you are not a qualifier or reserve. Sit N Goes and Cash Tables will be running from 11am. This event is open to current WAPL Members and South Fremantle Football Club Members, and we welcome you all down to take part in Western Australia's biggest day of Poker!

Please remember to bring your WAPL Membership Card AND Photo ID to the event, as the Venue is licensed and you may be required to show ID upon entry.

We would recommend you make it down as early as possible to registration time (10am) as parking can be a hassle, and the line for registration can be even worse if everyone arrives at the last minute. Please help us help you, arrive a little earlier!

We look forward to bringing you another awesome day of poker, and crowning our 5th Pro League Champion, in a Tournament with an estimated Prize Pool over $70,000!

30/11/2007 - Website issues -

Our apologies for the downtime we've experienced over the past couple of days. You should find all website functionality is working again now.

The event results from Wednesday will be uploaded shortly, as it was lost in the server failure.

Remember, next weekend Sunday 9th Dec is the Grand Final! Best of luck qualifying! Also, you will be able to pre-purchase your Grand Final Entry buy-in if you're in the top 240 rankings from this Saturday at Pro League Venues. Please keep your receipt and bring it to the Final for registration.

We look forward to seeing another great turnout for Free and Pro League at Leeming Spartan Cricket Club tonight!

2/11/2007 - Approaching end of season and Xmas! -

Well it's busy season again! With it comes a few changes. Firstly we're happy to announce that Leeming Spartan is going to be moving to a Friday Night, for Pro and Free League! 16th Nov will be the starting date of this, and it'll signify the end of the Poker Den Friday Nights. So please book in Fridays from the 16th for your Poker nights in Leeming. With great low pricing for food and drinks, it's sure to be a party atmosphere! As usual there will be Cash Tables and Sit N Goes available.

The Poker Den is still on Friday nights till 16th Nov, of course!

Elephant & Wheelbarrow is heading into its even busier period of the year, and as a result the Wednesday Night Free League tournaments will be dropped while they fit Xmas functions in to their busy schedule! Thursday Nights are still on, Pro and Free, for your enjoyment!

Don't forget South Fremantle on Tuesday nights, great turnout last week, and they are definitely holding Poker this Tuesday (Melbourne Cup Day) so it should make for some fun poker! See you there!

Thanks for supporting WAPL!

25/10/2007 - Poker Den Friday and Daylight Saving! -

The Poker Den will be holding a Free League event on Friday! Also, Daylight Saving comes in this Sunday. Please remember to change your watches and not be an hour late to Bar Orient or Rosemount on Sunday!

23/10/2007 - Tues 23rd Oct -

Live east of Perth? Love your Poker? Play Free or Pro League Poker tonight at Leeming Spartans Cricket Club! It's easy to find, the food and drinks are exceedingly well priced, and the Poker's fun!

Live south? Free and Pro League Poker is on at South Freo Footy Club, too! Tonight they've got another great pasta dish for $8! Come on down early for a feed and some awesome Tuesday Poker!

For those more central who are into their Free League, of course there's Paddy Maguire's in Subiaco. A themed and very atmospheric pub, with historically a lot of Poker spectators on the sidelines too, this is always a fun filled night.

We hope to see you at an event tonight!

Your WA Poker League Team

19/10/2007 - Friday 19th Oct -

There will be no poker at the Poker Den tonight 19th Oct due to a family funeral. We apologise for any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you over the weekend or next week.

10/10/2007 - Friday Night Poker Den! -

Free League Poker is at the Poker Den this Friday! A centrally located Friday Night Free and Pro Venue is being finalised, so we'll let you know as soon as it's arranged!

Remember, the Den is BYO. We look forward to seeing you there!

4/10/2007 - News Update -

We're happy to announce that the Bar Orient on Sundays will now start 1 hour earlier than previously, to allow players wanting to do the 'double' at Bar Orient and Rosemount a little more time. Bar Orient registration will start at 1pm for a 2pm Tournament Start, so please don't be late!

In other news, please remember that this Saturday Woodbridge Hotel will be holding both Pro AND Free League Tournaments! So if you're a Free League player who hasn't had a tournament to play with us on Saturday, now you can consider a nice drive out Woodbridge way for a beautiful meal and great poker! 12pm rego, 1pm tournament start!

27/09/2007 - Woodbridge Sat 29th Sept -

Due to the AFL Grand Final this Saturday, the Pro League Tournament at Woodbridge is not going to be held. We will be removing the Monday Free event and changing the Saturday after to Pro AND Free League, so make sure if you want to play Free League on Saturday that you head to the Woodbridge from 12pm to 1pm from Sat 6th! Remember, the Woody has some great meals and an awesome atmosphere for Saturday Afternoon Poker!

22/09/2007 - Important Notice to Kwinana Players -

It is with disgust and disappointment that we must inform you that APL have stooped to a new low, by approaching Kwinana Lodge and offering to run their poker events at no cost. Unfortunately underhand business tactics, such as sacrificing another of their venues in order to hurt one of ours, and then trying to lure them away from us by offering to run tournaments for free are out of our control, and we can only apologise to our members for the short term inconvenience while we finalise arrangements with a nearby and better venue, which will be announced shortly.

Please consider South Fremantle Football Club for your Free and Pro League Poker on Tuesday Nights if you used to play Kwinana!

We thank you for your understanding and support in this matter.

11/09/2007 - Tuesday 11th Sept -

Great start to the season!

Remember, tonight is the first Pro League Event at Leeming Spartan Cricket Club, so if you live in the area, it'll be a great event to attend. Support the Spartan's first Pro Night! They now have a great food menu up on their section of our site, too! (Here!)

Get down to Kwinana for Free and Pro and give this long term venue the support it deserves! Get the crew together for a great night of Poker down South!

South Fremantle continues its Free and Pro events tonight too! Always fun at this great club!

Of course for a more central Free League, Paddy Maguire's in Subiaco has lots of atmosphere, great food, and a big crowd of players and interested onlookers every Tuesday, too!

Have a great night!

7/09/2007 - Appealathon WA Poker Showdown Winner! -

Congratulations to Rodger Macdonald, for taking out the inaugural WA Poker Showdown!

Rodger dominated the Final Table, taking every player out! When it was down to heads up with Nick Del Borello, Rodger's massive chip lead led everyone to expect a crushing victory. In true fighting spirit, Nick made some great plays and almost got back to a level chipstack with Rodger! Finally after both hitting a pair on the flop (Rodger 9s, Nick 4s), a boarded pair of 8s and no more help for Nick saw Rodger take out the title and $5,000 cash! Congratulations Rodger for 1st, Nick for 2nd, and Michele Wells for coming 3rd!

Well done to all our qualifiers who made the final table!

Rodger and Nick, 1st and 2nd!

Rodger accepting his cheque for $5000!

1/09/2007 - Reminder! -

Rosemount on Sunday the 2nd Sept starts registration at 12pm, NOT 5pm, with the tournament starting 1pm! This will let you play at Rosemount before you head to Claremont for the WA Poker Showdown Finals! Don't forget that the Rosemount has some great food, too, so it's a perfect opportunity to have something to eat between tournaments, too!

The WA Poker Showdown Final is at Claremont Football Club, registration starting 5pm, for a 6pm start! Please don't be late, we'd hate for you to miss out. Congratulations to the 8 players who qualified for the Final Showdown Table, which will be running during this event! They are playing off for a $5000 first prize! Good luck...

Shane Laing - Paddington Alehouse

James White - Elephant & Wheelbarrow

Nick Del Borello - The Boat

Shane Capelli - Woodvale Tavern

Michele Wells - East Fremantle Football Club

Rodger Macdonald - Kwinana Lodge

Hamish Borthen -