Welcome to the Cambridge University Poker Society website. Poker is fast becoming the most popular and recognised card game in the world, and has a large following at Cambridge. Tournaments are held on Tuesday evenings, and there are also weekly cash games. Both venue and day are subject to change but we'll do our best to keep all informed. See our events sections for more information. We welcome players of all abilities and hope to see you there. All our events are only for STUDENTS AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. We will be checking University cards at all future events. The Committee May 2009

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Dusk till Dawn and The Oxford Cup

With exams out of the way, five of us made it up to Nottingham on Friday 5th for the £75 freezeout and some juicy cash games. Sean ran pretty good at cash, as usual, crushing the table with his hyper-aggressive style so much that people left the table to get away from him! His successful night scooped him the middle seat on the way back for most profit. James and Phil made it fairly deep in the tourney, however neither ever really had a decent stack throughout, and Phil busted a few places before the bubble while James survived a bit longer, netting a decent £270 for 6th. Phil, who seems to cover his poker losses with well-judged online betting nowadays, also ran bad at cash and had the dubious honour of the front seat on the way back. Thanks to George who got us there and back alive.

Two days later saw Cambridge send a 13 strong team to Oxford for the 8th Oxford Cup. After a strong performance last year, expectations were high, but one by one we busted from the £20 rebuy tournament with nothing but a bad beat story. We had no representatives on the final table, but well done to Camilla and Dan for finishing 12th and 16th for £100 and £50 respectively. As the tournament emptied, the cash tables filled up; Ben, Chen and George each donated a bit at the £1/£1 PLO table, it was a mixed bag for the rest at the 10p/20p and 25p/50p tables but there was no shortage of action around with some massive pots.

First event of the term took place Tuesday. Ken Cheng took down the £20 freezeout for a tidy £120, though I think even he'd admit that the cards were kind to him...

CUPokS Main Event 2009

This year culminated in a special 'CUPokS Main Event 2009' with a £50 buy-in. With added money from Dialadealer, there was certainly plenty to play for. After hours of intense play it was down to a heads-up battle between old Committee member Camilla Grundy and new Committee member James Folliard. Camilla and James agreed to a deal, each taking down a tidy £370 before playing it out for the remaining £100. Eventually Camilla showed her experience by taking down another impressive win.

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Committee members get to heads up? Steady...
27th Jan 2009

Welcome back to the first tournament of Lent!

The £5 rebuy tournament saw tentative play in the first hour with only a few rebuys per table, but with quite a few add ons at the break, leading to a healthy £320 prize pool. Getting down to the final table, with the blinds were still relatively low, it looked more like the regular cash game than the final 8, with CUPokS president Heerpal Sahota and fellow committee member Phil Ah-kin still going strong. Also joining were regulars George Hickemt, Beinan Liu, Marco Orsini and Liam Mencel...

Write up continues here.

Menage a trois
11th November, 2008

This week welcomed the second freezeout tournament of term, with a lofty £12 entry. Pretty standard play was seen throughout the early stages of the tournament (or in other words, no one can remember anything really), and people were crawling the walls for a cigarette break before the final table began 8 handed...

Write up continues here.

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