UK poker camp planned (raids optional)

Author: Simon Dexter

News that Britain’s first ‘bricks and mortar’ poker camp is scheduled to open next spring will have many of us reminiscing about Scout camps where we feasted upon cheap sausages almost half-cooked on an open fire, downed with surreptitiously concealed canned lager with an ABV of 2%. More adventurous sorts used such camps as a base from where raids on an adjoining Girl Guide site could be launched, the raison d’etre of which always seemed to nick one of their hats rather than anything more daring.

One wonders whether the proposed poker camp, which is actually not a collection of wooden huts isolated in an obscure forest in the north of Scotland but a university hall of residence based in the west country, will become a focal point for beer-induced fun or will it offer ‘delegates’ something a tad more serious?

“We have no objection to people enjoying themselves,” says a magnanimous Alistair Thompson, the man behind the poker camp idea, “but we plan tournaments most nights, so we think that serious players will want to remain on the ball before playing.”

Mr Thompson is a little coy when it comes to the cost of a poker camp weekend, but promises “professional instruction, advice on playing on- and offline and a smattering of poker celebrities” who presumably will pop in to answer your poker-related questions.

Such camps are a good idea if they can help your game, but hardened professionals would maintain you could learn just as much from reading some of the more critically-acclaimed books about the game. The only problem with that is: what happens when you want to launch a raid on the girls’ poker camp?

Tags: learn poker, Poker Camp, poker tuition

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