• 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.

Now that I have a new tech subject to blog regarding (iPhone), I suspect that the post rate may increase somewhat and with that so will incoming visits.

I have chosen a new theme to make the blog easier on the eye with it's white background and simple styling.  It also removes some small issues that the old blog had re: plugin integration.

Please comment below whether you like/dislike the new theme.

PS.  I intend to customise it a little when I have some free time so please also leave any suggestions which I will work to implement.

See them here

Thanks
Stephen

I'm not going to be reposting these (SORRY!) so if there are any that you feel should be reblogged (I can think of a few, code exerts) please post here and I'll dig them out

Stephen

I must say, I like it!

First impressions (It's been installed about a minute)

• The interface is pretty self-explanitory, if not a little slow actually;
• Installation was a breeze (so simple, you honestly know nothing like it)
• It's cosy
• The Import tool features a brilliantly useful RSS imported which I used to import all of my posts from my old blog in, 30 seconds?!

All in all it's a much better environment to blog in than the crap old system that I coded (for fun mostly) and I think it will promote me to blog alot more freely and easily now.

In the coming days, look out for a new theme, some plugins, and some of the old blogs to be re-prettified with pictures which are now in a metaphorical dusty hole with my old blog software.

Stephen

If anyone wants any help to implement this, please leave a comment below and if there are enough interested people, I will release it as a downloadable widget!

Cheers
Stephen

Thanks
Stephen

They should be workin again now, maybe this was why noone was posting comments

Stephen :thumbs:
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I will be posting the source code for this tomorrow along with a guide on how to get it all working. I am also considering moving it to above the blogs as the menu is starting to become cluttered with crap. Please drop me a comment re: wether you think this is a good or bad idea.

Thanks
Stephen
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Over the past 3 hours, I have been battling to get my mail setup on my new dedi. Reason that I'm doing it so late is that it has been something I have nearly always struggled with, and the 3 hour battle I have just finished is proof of this. For that reason, I had my mail routed through my old VPS as it was setup correctly and I couldn't even begin to get it setup as well on the Dedi server.

I bravely routed my mail.groomi.net DNS over to the new IP today at about 5pm and for this reason, any emails sent to xxx@groomi.net or xxx@sjgmusic.net haven't been recieved. Please resend them if you fall into this time bracked

Thanks
Stephen