Stephen Groom Taking a shot at becoming a Poker Pro

NEpoker.co.uk – Born out of necessity, growing out of demand

Unusually I will put the cliffs at the top of this page rather than the bottom:

• NPF closed down today.  This was due to what I can only describe as a revolution whereby the posters questioned the administrators justification for the banning of certain users and their handling of criticism.  They then handled the situation in the same way as an infant child would have by posting:
  "As of 9th May 2011, Newcastle Poker Forum will be closed indefinitely to new registrations and new posts."
  I recall being told by the site administrator that my peers and I "weren't worthy of tying his bootlaces".
• As a result of the closure, I felt that an opportunity for a niché poker forum had arisen and spent 3 hours preparing my latest little love child.  The North East Poker forum

Reposted from http://www.nepoker.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=58

Hi guys, and welcome to the North East Poker forum.

I will keep this as brief as I can but thanks for visiting and I hope you find the time to register and post in the NEPF.

What is the North East Poker forum?

The North East Poker forum aims to be a community where poker players from across the north east of England can come together to discuss poker. It will be a open and friendly community; a place to vent about your beats/experiences and hopefully in time a place where we can come together to support games, organise home games & even some road trips to bigger games across the country/world.

What can I find on the North East Poker forum?

The North East Poker forum will contain up-to-date poker schedules for all casino cardrooms in the north east, tournament updates/sweats and results. In time the North East Poker forum will also provide it's own weekly and monthly schedule via Pokerstars home games.

Who Runs the North East Poker forum?

The North East Poker forum is owned by Stephen Groom and co-ran with the help of Gaz Walker.

 

Reposted from http://www.nepoker.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18

Well I guess it's time I explained myself.

Everybody knows the circumstances under which I created this website today. If you are not aware then I will explain very briefly. Since July 2009 I had made a local poker forum my haunt. Unexpectedly on May 9th 2011 the forum closed, and http://www.nepoker.co.uk was born. The old forum closed at around 5pm on the 9th of my and NEpoker was born 3 hours later. I am the founder, and site administrator.

My name is Stephen John Groom and I am a 3rd year student of BA Music Enteprise. I am a live sound engineer by training, a keen poker player in my spare time, a poker dealer by proffession and for the last 8 years I have been the webmaster and/or administrator of a number of websites with varying degrees of success.

Currently across the internet I have my fingers in many pies.
I created and am trying to launch Rent a Producer. A jobs market for freelance sound engineers like myself.
I write a blog fairly infrequently at http://www.groomi.net.
I am playing $3-$5 SNGs at PokerStars semi-professionally (I break even in my spare time).
I also procrastinate on facebook when I am supposed to be working.

If you don't know me already, I am most often seen at Circus or G casinos playing small-stake cash games. I also work at Aspers casino meaning that I definately spend over 50% of my life at live cash game tables.

I look forward to seeing how this community can flourish and develop.