The Blue Club poker festival, Bergen, Norway 13th to 19th June.

[sig75]

The Blue Club Card Room will host a poker festival this summer in Bergen, Norway. Being the largest poker club in Norway, we hope to attract some British players as well to our event.

The Main Event will be a $1060 NL Hold'em freezeout, pre-paid via net dollars on Stars, Party or Ladbrokes.

The other events are as follows:

Monday 13th: 200NOK rebuy NL Hold'em
Tuesday 14th: 1600NOK fixed limit freezeout Hold'em
Wednesday 15th: 2200NOK PL Hold'em freezeout
Thursday 16th: 1600NOK PL Omaha High freezeout
Friday 17th: 500NOK rebuy NL Hold'em
Saturday 18th: $1060 NL Hold'em Main Event
Sunday 19th: Main Event Final + 400NOK PL rebuy Hold'em

Satelites are running on Pokerstars every tuesday and thursday at 8pm Norwegian time.

If you desire more information, please contact me on svagene@hotmail.com.

The Main Event has to be prepaid with internet $, last date to pay is monday 13th June.

Sigbjorn Vagene
Blue Club Card Room,
Bergen, Norway

[tikay]

Hi sig75,

Thanks for that.

Nearest airport? Local hotel costs? Likely number of runners?

Are these dates all June?

If fllights from the UK are reasonably priced, I would imagine you could attreact quite a few Brits.

Can you help us with more info please?

[sig75]

Hello!

Nearest airport: Bergen Flesland (15 minutes from the club/city centre)

Flight costs: 13th June from London Stanstead - 20th June from Bergen Flesland - 1936NOK (approx 168)  on www.norwegian.no (with departure 17th June and same return price is 1736NOK, approx 151) Bus from airport is 80NOK (7) and taxi is 222NOK (19).

Prize with SAS Braathens from Heathrow is 2646NOK (approx 230) on the same dates.

Norwegian is a low cost airline company like e.g. RyanAir, while SAS is an "ordinary" company.

Local hotel costs is around 600NOK (52) pr night, but there are alternatives more reasonable in bed and breakfasts or guesthouses. Please contact me for more information, then I will check this for you.

Maximum numbers of runners (for the Main Event) is 125, and we hope this will fill up. As of today, around 60 has entered. There will be some of the best players in Norway, and some of the Swedish ones as well will come.

All dates are June, yes. The first event is June 13th, and the last is June 19th.

Feel free to call me on +47 924 20 956 or email me at svagene@hotmail.com if you have any questions.

Sigbjorn

[sig75]

Additional info now out on www.blueclub.no - how to pay etc. In English...

[tikay]

Hi Sig,

Yes, it's now almost certain I shall come out for the Main Event, & maybe one or two other events. I will ring you tomorrow to sort it all out.

Have any Brits entered yet?

[sig75]

Hi Tikay.

Excellent news. No Brits have registered yet, but a Brit called me Saturday to let me know he would enter. (Can't remember his name) In addition, I hope to get some of the Blondepoker members to join as well...

Sig

[sig75]

I almost forgot - Ladbrokes poker will host a multi-table satelite ($50+5 rebuy) Sunday June 12th with 2 seats GUARANTEED to Main Event (plus $260 in spending money). I will be back here with additional information as soon as the satelite is out in their schedule.

[tikay]

Yes please Sig, keep us up to speed. I don't fancy taking on all those Scandies single handed!

And come on some of you blondeites, get yourself out to Norway next week!

[Ironside]

Yes please Sig, keep us up to speed. I don't fancy taking on all those Scandies single handed!

And come on some of you blondeites, get yourself out to Norway next week!

i aint got a passport or i would have been tempted by the PLO freezeout

[BlueWolf]

isnt poker outlawed in norway??

[Karabiner]

Will Tikay have to speak "Norwegian only" during the games ?

 

[tikay]

Have you ever listened to Norweigans speaking? I don't mean to be rude, but they sound like a cross between turkeys (not TurkISH, turkEYS) & Geordies. It really is a strange language.

But I went to Martin De Knijff's club in Stockholm last year (that's Sweden I think) & I gotta say, what a great bunch of guys these Scandies are - tremendous fun at the table. Pardon the spam, but here's a link to a piece I wrote about my Stockholm adventure........ http://www.blondepoker.com/TourReportStockholm.htm

[bobby1]

det har vaert foelelsesmessig.....Tikay....det har vaert foelelsesmessig!!

[tikay]

Well for those that don't have the deep fluency in Norwayish that I am lucky to possess, that means, literally translated,  "It's been emotional".......

[sig75]

Some additional information to you guys:

- any tabe with one or more foreign players will have an "English only" rule, including dealers, waiters etc.
- "Norwayish" or Norwegian as we call it is a very easy language, don't be alarmed. It's so easy that I spoke it fluently at the age of 4.
- poker is "outlawed" in concern of a casino ban, but friendly poker play in private clubs is allowed. A membership fee has to be paid in order to play in the club, and this fee is currently 50NOK (4).

- For those of you playing on PokerStars, there will be a satelite today at 8 p.m. (Norwegian time). That might be 7 p.m. British time, check this out Tikay please? This is a $20+2 turbo rebuy satelite with one seat guaranteed. (No travel expences...)
- Another satelite at Thursday, same time, this time a $100+9 freezeout. One seat guaranteed.
- For both satelites, there will be one seat for each $1060 in the pot.