About

Newcastle Poker Forum is operated by a father and son team and provide this website to be the ultimate resource for finding out about poker in Newcastle and communicating with other poker players.

Scott ‘s2c’ Collins is the main admin for the site and deals with most of the tasks such as site development, organising events and negotiating with online sites for deals for the members.

Dave ‘teamdobb’ Collins is the community manager and is the main face of the forum often dealing with face to face requests, pushing content on the forum and dealing with any public speaking arrangements.

We believe our team is the best out there with the combination of Scott’s computer and organisation skills and Dave’s experience of poker and knowing the exisiting community in Newcastle. We believe in running the site as open as possible, allowing people the freedom of speech and have little moderation. We are always open to suggestions and feedback and continue to grow this site on the back of the member’s contributions and commitment.

We had our problems with finding information about what was happening in the Newcastle cardrooms and needed a place for players to voice their opinion and we have provided a new way for poker players to communicate with Newcastle casinos.

Poker can be quite a dull game and some of the games lacked a social feel with players often not knowing each other. This is something that needed to be improved and have now provided a solution where the online community has created new real life friendships and you can now go into a casino expecting to see someone you know from online.

History

Newcastle Poker Forum came about from an idea in early 2008 after contributing to other poker forums there was a serious need for Newcastle to have it’s own poker community online.

After a month or so research and development, the forum was launched on 1 April 2008 and is now very active with 1000+ members and over 150,000 posts in the forums in 2 years.

• 1 April 2008 – Newcastle Poker Forum launched
• May 2008 – Provide live updates for the Newcastle GUKPT
• July 2008 – First video, the Newcastle Poker Forum Anthem – Poker My Way
• July 2008 – Compete in the APAT Team Championships
• August 2008 – 2nd video Bohemejean Rhapsody
• October 2008 – First NPF Event, the NPF Championships attracting 55 entrants
• February 2009 – First NPF UK Team Challenge with 20 teams from around the UK selling out in 1 month.
• May 2009 – 1st NPF Birthday Party and annual awards
• July 2009 – 100,000 posts on the forum.
• October 2009 – 2nd NPF Championships attracting a sell out 100 entrants.

The NPF Mission

• To provide a place for poker players to interact with others.
• To help make Newcastle one of the top places to play poker in the UK.
• To work with the casinos to improve the poker in the area.
• To organise exclusive tournaments to provide an overall better experience playing live poker.
• To help grow poker as a form of entertainment, attracting new players to start the game.

The Future

There is still lots of plans that have not yet been achieved and would like to make sure that you become a part of this great community.