Welcome to Warwick Poker Society!
Founded in 2002, Warwick Poker Society (WPS), AKA Poker Soc, is the UK’s largest university Poker Society and one of the most active societies on campus with over 100 players every week and an active alumni community with over 3000 members.
When do we play?
Our regular schedule consists of cash games every Monday from 5pm, and a tournament followed by cash games every Wednesday from 5pm during term time.
The fun doesn’t end when term is over! During the holidays we play online cash games as well as online tournaments. Although, there isn’t an official schedule as these games depend on demand, but they usually run every day!
What games do we play?
The format we most commonly play is Texas hold'em. We play both cash games and tournaments. Cash games vary in stakes ranging from 1p/2p and upwards. We try and run any game there is interest for, although there is no guarantee that every stake will run. The most common stakes are 5p/10p and 10p/20p and these will run every session.
We also run live tournaments with varying formats. In the past these have included the: Freshers Tournament, NLH, Tag-Team, Bounty, Mystery Bounty, PKO, PLO4, PLO5, PLO6, Omaha Hi/Lo, Short Deck, Win the Button, Heads-Up, Freezeout, Shootout, Razz, Stud, Short Deck, 5 Card Draw, Dealers Choice, Sit & Go’s, and our flagship event taking place at the end of Term 2, The Warwick Series of Poker (WaSOP) finishing with "The Big One".
Is the society welcome to beginners?
If you did not understand the above, just come along to any of our sessions, we welcome all beginners and those wanting to learn the game, there will always be an exec member who is happy to teach the game whilst you play! We are open to everyone regardless of skill level and place a great emphasis on teaching and improving our skills together as a society.
Our Social Side
There is a great social aspect to our society, we host regular trips to the local casinos. We have a football team competing in the inter-society Sunday leauge. We also run one or two circles every term!
What about advanced players?
We welcome people of all skills level and for advanced players there is also the opportunity to represent Team WPS!
We compete in inter-uni events online and around the country, most recently the UK University Poker Open, with Team WPS sending a team of five to the live final in London after a series of online qualifiers. Also the UPT, where a team of WPS’s six best players are selected to compete in knockout style tournaments.
Additionally, we are recent winners of the UK Student Poker Championship; winning the main event, the high roller and the team event.
Warwick Poker Society continues to produce many talented poker players with our notable alumni list including: Ben Heath, Charlie Carell, Rupert Elder, Nicolas Cardyn, Ashley Mason, Kanu7, Owen Messere and Andrew Hulme amongst others.
2024/2025 Exec team
The exec team will always be happy to help with any additional questions you might have. The current exec team are:
- President: Alexander Chen
- Vice President: Ethan Puah
- Vice President: Hugo Hui
- Treasurer: Leo Li
- Welfare: Andre Lam
- Sponsors: Brien Foo
- Sponsors: Sava Vujnovic
- Socials: Luke Smith
- Socials: Calum Plumtree
- Media: Teh Kai Yang
- Equipment: Luc Doddridge
Old Mission Capital - Our Sponsor
We are excited to announce that Old Mission Capital will be sponsoring us for another year!
Old Mission is a global market-making firm that specialises in valuing securities and derivatives across modern markets. They trade across asset classes using proprietary models and technology, and are trusted partners to exchanges, brokers, and institutional investors around the world.
We are also proud to highlight that Clark Hailston, former President of Warwick Poker Society (2017/18), now works at Old Mission Capital as a Senior Trader and Head of UK Trader Education!
We are incredibly grateful for Old Mission’s continued support and are excited to bring even more opportunities and events to our members this year.
GTO Wizard - Our Sponsor
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Find out more and keep in contact
We are mainly active on Discord and Instagram. Keep up to date with all of our live and online sessions by checking the events tab on our Discord. We are most active on Discord so this is the best place to stay up to date with the society. We post all updates, announcements and live tournament updates on Instagram. We also have a Facebook group with our alumni community, although this is less active.
Discord - https://discord.gg/AjF8pQgrRV (All event times/locations are posted here only).
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/warwickpokersociety/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/126708497438530/
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/warwickpokersociety
If you have any questions DM us on Instagram or ask in the general tab on Discord. You can also email us at warwickpokersoc@gmail.com
All Links including tournament leaderboard - https://linktr.ee/warwickpokersociety
Membership
You do not need official SU membership to join our sessions, although membership is free and we encourage you to sign up below.
Our History
Poker Soc was set up in 2002, and over twenty years later we are still going strong, find out about our full history here!
Responsible Play & Welfare
Warwick Poker Society is committed to promoting responsible play and safeguarding our members. Poker should always be fun and social! If you ever feel it isn’t, please reach out.
If you are worried about your gambling or want free, confidential advice, support is available:
- GambleAware - Free information and advice to help keep play safe and in control.
- GamCare - 24/7 National Gambling Helpline (0808 8020 133) and live chat support
- GAMSTOP - Free self-exclusion service for online gambling in the UK.
Our Welfare Officer and Exec team is also available if you’d like to talk in confidence, and we will always support members in accessing the right resources.