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

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!

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!

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

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

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!

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

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...

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!