After reading the reviews I decided to see what all the fuss is about. It's a bit of a journey from where I live but it was well worth it. The atmosphere is great, the people make you feel welcome and the whole thing has very professional feel about it. The organizers truly care about it too as they go that extra mile to make you feel welcome and ease you into their games. Big thumbs up from me! A really great place to spend the night!

Over the past 2 half years myself and Tel have worked hard to make our club the best in the South London region. So far looking at all the players we have, I feel we have done that, however there is always ways we can improve to get more players in the doors. Our Thursday night games started off having around the 13 mark every week, now we get between 30-40 players and it wont be very long before we hit a fifth table and soon be filling that up so that we have 50 players every week. Our Friday nights are also moving in the right direction. We started Friday night games for Elite members and their guests only just over a year and a half ago. If we got 1 full table of 9 we were happy. Now we are looking at 20-30 players every Friday and we have dealers that also deal for the night so the players can relax and play their game without having to worry about dealing themselves. We like to welcome everyone that comes to our club and our aim is to hope they enjoy it enough to come back and become a regular and a member. The website has come a long way too. Tel has done a marvellous job in transforming it over the last 4 years. If you have not seen it, please visit www.pollardshillpokerclub.co.uk The stats will BLOW YOUR MIND! We now have our own custom chips made which we use in our cash games and we will be introducing our new custom tourney chips for The Summer of Poker which starts in May. If you live in or around the area of The Furzedown, please come in and see what everyone has been raving about.

Played here for the first time earlier this month and Ive been back several times. I heard about it through a friend I hadnt seen for a while who recommended it. What made me go was the website. Once you enter that site and start going through all the stats and news bulletins you really get a feel that the organisers and regulars really treat their club with a huge amount of love and devotion. The rules and organisation is strict which I love as you know exactly where you stand when it comes to the blinds, the payout system and the points system for their league. The standard of play is pretty good too and no-one is continually asking how much it is to them etc. Nice mix of people, young and old, and a few more woman than I'm used to seeing round a poker table which I guess is testamant to the friendly communal atmosphere of the game. The prizes for this particular league are adventure days out for the top three which is worth competing for. The tables and equipment really set it apart from any other poker game I've played outside of professional clubs and casinos. There is no rake and on a friday its dealer dealt though you need to become a member to play on a friday. Drinks are ordered from the table and brought to you. I havent tried the food yet but that looks excellent too. I'm still waiting to find the catch but there really doesnt seem to be one though I have only been playing there for the last 3 weeks. If you are vaguely interested in going along then I would definately recommend it and just have a look at the website, thats what enticed me to give it a go.

I like Jo and the others have played just about all the local pub games and this is by far the best run of the lot, the people are friendly and newcomers are allways made welcome no matter what your standard of playing is, I doubt any other club game keeps the stats that are kept on their website, which is worth checking out, so if you fancy a good game of friendly poker come down and join us

I'd heard about this game through word of mouth and also on here and thought I'd travel down and see what all the fuss was about. I'm just north of the river and so it took me nearly an hour to get there due to traffic so I hoped it would be worth it. In truth I wish I lived closer, its a nice little club and as soon as you walk in you get a feel for the place. Its got four lovely table all set up quite close together and it's quite cosy. The structure is v.good but, and this is where the but in title comes in, it just not open late enough. They start at eight and finish by midnight on a Thursday and 01:00 on a Friday, but the end feels rushed. I know it's because it's in a pub basement and is therefore subject to the pubs closing times, but I couldn't help but think this place would get five stars if it could open a couple of hours later. Though if you're not one for late nights, you like a friendly game of low stakes poker, and you don't live more than two or three miles from Tooting/Streatham, than this should be the only place you play your tournaments. Personally its a little to far for me to travel and I'm a bit of a night owl so I tend to play elsewhere, but if I lived a little closer this would be where I would start my Friday evenings. Note: I had a friend who went there when the pub had a party on and the club had to play upstairs and it sounds as if it would lose another star if its upstairs. Apparently it loses a lot of the intimacy that makes it special. So if you listening Pollards Hill Poker group - STAY DOWNSTAIRS. So in short; Brilliant Atmosphere (when downstairs). Well run the TD (Sam) takes no nonsense. There are some surprisingly good players, and girls make up a big slice of the good players which threw a few of the older guys. Table service all night with very nice food indeed (tried the noodles). They run a loyalty point scheme for paid up members which looks to be quite generous. They only play hold'em. There seems to be an informal 5p/10p cash game that springs up after the tourney and although it was busy I didn't have to wait for a seat.

Tel is biased but is right to be proud of his set up. ive played in most of the pubs in the area and this is head and shoulders above the rest. The equipment on the night is fantastic but its backed up by an amazing website. the Thursday league always has interesting prizes for the eventual winners, chip sets, trophies,buyins to local casino tournaments something for everyone. for those of us who like the stakes a little higher members can play for £20 on Tuesday and Fridays and the pot can be quite substantial. despite all this i think if you asked the regulars why they turn up every week (many of us three times a week!) its the social aspect of the club whilst its very professionally run it maintains a really friendly and fun atmosphere, many of us have become firm friends away from the poker (but remain earnest rivals at the tables!) couldn't recommend it more highly.

Call me biased but I love this game, well I do run it. I work hard to make sure that this game is a cut above the other pub poker offerings in the area. How do I do it? Well we use top quality J Alexander poker tables, which wouldn't look out of place in a casino. We provide all tournament information on a screen clearly visible to all the players, and have sounds to notify of blind changes etc. We've arranged for the pub to provide table service, which they do very well, and we play an eclectic selection of music so that there's something for everybody. But lots of pubs do this, what makes me this game the best? Well check out www.phpclub.co.uk and you'll see. We track absolutely every possible statistic, short of looking at your hands to see what you fold, there really is nothing we don't record. Want to see who beats you the most, check. Want to see who wins the most money, check, Want to see when you last won a tourney, check. We also provide bonuses for regular players and the player of the day. On top of that its a brilliant night out. Come down and see what all the fuss is about.

This has to be the best pub game in London, a professional set up, top class tables in a private room with drinks served at the table, the regulars are a great bunch of people who go out of thier way to make new comers welcome,with a thurs game at £8.00 buy in for 2000 chips and an extra 1000 chips if you buy 2 drinks during the game, open to all and tues and fri at £20.00 for 10000 chips for members only,check out the fantastic website at www.phpclub.co.uk. I cannot recommend this club enough, worth travelling to get too.

I agree with Tom, I'm pretty new to the game. I only started playing as it's in my local pub and one evening they were playing in the upstairs bar not the basement. I've since been to quite a few places in south London and beyond, nothing compares to it unless you want to play for significantly higher stakes and even then you get none to the individual tracking information like kills per game, total profit, who's killed you most often etc, that PHPC they have on their website. Add in the table service for pints at three quid, a smoking area and great bunch of people and you can't go wrong. The only down side is that it's not near the tube or rail station. The higher stakes games, £20 FO on Fridays and Tuesdays are equally good nights but these require membership.

The game at the Furzedown is unbelievable. The PHPC, a local social club, hire the room downstairs to play private games in a once or twice a month, and in return for the pub providing a home for their fine tables between games, they host a public game there on Thursday's. At least that's how I understand it works. How ever they do it, it works. The equipment is second to none, the game is professionally run with a nice structure and information up on the big screen for all to see. To top it all they track every players performance and display it up on their website in one of the most interesting formats I've come across. You simply won't believe you are playing in this game for such small stakes and for free.