What makes Poker for Venues so popular?

There are several reasons poker players enjoy tournaments, and there are many available choices for players from all over the world. Australian tournaments revolve around certain leagues such as the Australian Online Poker League, or operate as satellites for qualification into land based tournaments such as the Aussie Millions Poker Championship. Welcome to the Brand New Australian Poker League Website. We are just optimising the page for your browser, please allow 10-15 seconds to load this first time. Antoine Bechara's poker tournament results and rankings.

About australian poker league Welcome to the National Facebook page of the APL! The APL is the world's largest free-to-play poker league, home to nearly 750,000 members throughout.
NPL is Australia's premier poker events company, currently managing over 500 poker events a week around Australia. All players are invited to join this fun and challenging social poker league.

Draw patrons to your venue through the fun and excitement of playing in Australia’s premier poker league.

Time Out Entertainment is a total entertainment solutions provider and our aim is to help you pack your venue, boost your profits and provide your patrons with new experiences week in and week out.

This is why we have created an alliance partnership with the National Poker League so that we can offer you a Poker alternative to your current provider or add one of their poker nights as a new entertainment line up to your venue.

Why should you consider booking your Poker night through Time Out Entertainment?

To put it simply, to reduce your weekly entertainment costs and improve your ROI by bunding all your entertainment together. When you bundle a poker night with another one of Time Out Entertainments services such as a QuizXpress Trivia Game Show night or Travingo a creative spin on Bingo not only do you have your other nights of the week covered but you’ll reduce your bottom line as well with a bundled price offer.

But the bundling opportunities don’t stop there, we also have other options you can consider in the areas of In-House Music, Music Videos and In-House advertising. We have an alliance partner in Visual Sounds who have a state of the art system that will exceed what your current system offers but at a cheaper price point. So you get more features at a lower price point. What more could you ask for!

Each of the entertainment offering amongst the alliance partners not only provide a premier service to your customers but overall by working together we can offer you a bundled solution at a cheaper price point which is fantastic news for your bottom line.

If Poker is of interest to you, then our alliance partner has many satisfied pubs and clubs who have been using their service for over 10 years and they can consistently provide a high ROI to your venue. The players they attract to your venue are amongst the highest spend per head of any poker league.

If you would like to know more, click the Request Quote button and we’ll contact you to discuss the various options that are available.

Frequently Asked Questions

You've got questions? We've got answers! Everything you thought to ask, and some things you didn't. This is a collection of the most common queries we get on this event from our customers. We recommend you have a read to ensure you're not caught out on the day. If there's anything you're still unsure of, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Answer

Don’t worry, come on down to a game and our friendly Tournament Directors will teach you the basics, we are a social league and encourage beginners to come and play.

Q: How do I join the league and do I have to pay a fee to join?

Answer

We are delighted you are interested in becoming a member of Australia’s premier poker league. To start your poker journey, simply register your details at any NPL nightly event. It’s free to join and we pay out over $5,000,000 a year in cash & prizes.

Answer

Visit the What's On page or check below for a list of venues near you.

Q: Other players on the poker table keep calling me a ‘Donkey’, What does this mean?

Answer

If a poker player is called a donkey, he's a bad player who makes blatantly bad poker plays. This term is used for a weak or inexperienced player, especially one who plays his hand against the odds and doesn't fold poor hands.

Fri, Sep 27, 8:11am by Staff Writer

A decision by the South Australian government to allow hotels, clubs and the Adelaide Casino to install pokie machines that accept notes rather than only coins has prompted fierce criticism from crossbenchers and welfare groups, who claim it is a sop to the hotel industry that will only harm problem gamblers.

The government says the measure will bring South Australia into line with other jurisdictions, but social welfare advocates argue it will only increase the harms wrought by problem gambling, Independent Daily reports.

Attorney-General Vickie Chapman said the introduction of note acceptors would bring South Australia “into line with other Australian and New Zealand jurisdictions, and would be strictly regulated.”

“The denomination of banknotes and the amount of money allowed to be inserted by a player would be strictly controlled to mitigate any potential risk to problem gamblers,” she said.

Stronger measures to ban problem gamblers

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The government also announced it would allow single or multiple venues to prohibit problem gamblers’ entry indefinitely.

“Barring orders are an integral part of our measures to combat problem gambling and protecting the community from gambling-related harm,” Chapman said.

“Under these reforms, barring orders may be made for any period or an indefinite period and be initiated for multiple gaming venues.

“In addition, any money won by a barred patron – or unclaimed winnings on gaming machines – will be forfeited and paid into the Gamblers Rehabilitation Fund.”

Note acceptors fraught with danger – anti-gambling spokesperson

Alliance for Gambling Reform spokesperson Tim Costello told ABC Adelaide that allowing gamblers to feed notes rather than coins into the machines would cause “more marriage breaking up, far more bankruptcies (and more) hungry kids.”

Uniting Communities advocacy manager Mark Henley told FIVEAAA Radio: “other jurisdictions that started off with note acceptors have progressively pulled back to the denominations, they recognise how dangerous note acceptors are.”

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“And it would be a very irresponsible move in South Australia to allow note acceptors in particular to be introduced as part of the gambling scene here.”

But Chapman said there was no evidence of increased harms in states that already allow note acceptors on pokie machines.

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“Interstate there isn’t evidence that that’s changed up or down,” she told radio this morning.

“We’re putting poker machines in South Australia on the same playing field as interstate and we still accept it’s a significant entertainment and gambling form for South Australians largely in the older age group.”

Pokie machines in South Australia will be allowed to accept notes instead of just coins, under a new Marshall Government proposal. @RoryMcClaren9#saparli#9Newspic.twitter.com/oLWsHumoZA

— Nine News Adelaide (@9NewsAdel) September 26, 2019

The government is also proposing to allow gaming venues, including the Adelaide Casino, to operate on Christmas Day and Good Friday, and to impose a fixed limit on the number of gaming machines in South Australia.

The Australian Hotels Association welcomed the changes, describing them as striking a “balance between preserving some opportunities for the industry – hotels, clubs and the Casino – to grow their business, but also recognizing that there’s already in place in South Australia a significantly well-developed harm minimisation environment.”

“We’re just simply asking to bring South Australian gaming into line with every other mainland state and New Zealand who all use note acceptors.

“In fact, the statistics don’t suggest that they’ve somehow got a greater or lesser problem than us.”

Greens want to end Trackside TAB product

The Australian Greens’s spokesperson for Gambling and Mental Health, the Hon Alison Xamon has put forward amendments to the TAB Bill 2019 that, if adopted, will remove the electronic gambling platform Trackside from the sale of the TAB.