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Pondo's Poker

Early in the Texas Hold'em craze in the UK, Pondo's Peace Street Poker was formed and hosted regular monthly Bounce Back Tournaments.  With Pondo's bachelor pad being the regular haunt, these nights were a great success of poker, food and banter. 

However, as life moves on and times change somethings have to come to an unfortunate end and new responsibilities form. With the passion for poker still in my blood and the memories of the tables still making me chuckle, in the immortal words of  Dr. Ian Malcom, 

"Life, Uh, Finds a way".

During the Covid-19 Pandemic and multiple UK lock downs an idea was formed.  With the severe lack of human interaction outside of our household and social/support bubbles, Pondo created a whatsapp group, a group of like minded folk who would bring back banter to the baize of the deprived world.  Irrespective of skill level with the cards, this was going to be epic.  

All we needed now was the go ahead from Boris.



After months of waiting, vaccinations, face masks, and an ever growing urge to play some poker, Pondo's Poker was launched on Friday 24th September 2021.

This blog will feature the poker reports and highlights from each night, player leagues, profiles, music, banter and anything else I can throw on here.

Please follow for updates, comments and if you want to join in the fun. 

Latest Report: Click Here

Player League: Click Here

Player Profiles

Spotify Playlist - Please feel free to add poker tunes to this list.

 Next Pondo's Poker night - Saturday 19th March 2022

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