NPT News

Winners Freeroll Schedule Change - Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:52:19 -0600

The transition from Bodog to Bovada has caused some scheduling and formatting changes for private tournaments.  The December Winners Freeroll originally scheduled for this Sunday (January 29th) will be rescheduled for later in February so as not to interfere with Super Bowl Sunday next weekend. We are working to get everything set to return to our previous schedule and should have dates and tournament info posted before the end of next week.  Thanks for your patience!

Sunday Night Buy-Ins Resume - Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:31:51 -0600

Sunday night buy-ins will restart later this month. We will send out an email when those are back up and running. Come play with other NPT fans on Bovada each Sunday night beginning at 7:05 Eastern. 

Bodog is now Bovada - Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:31:01 -0600

Bodog has transitioned to Bovada and hasn’t missed a beat. Your account number and funds have transferred seamlessly as well. If you need to set up an account, just click here to sign up and download the poker client . Bovada does not require a screen name. This “anonymous” play feature is relatively new to the industry but is receiving positive reviews for its affect of decreasing abuse and bullying.

Please make sure you have your Bodog/Bovada account number listed in your player info on the playnpt.com website so you can be added to the Winners Tournament each month you win a live game. 
You can update your NPT profile here.  

Welcoming In The New Year - Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:14:00 -0600

Hope everybody had a great Holiday Season and is off to a great start in 2012! Thank you for your support and being a part of the NPT community. 

FREE is the word from NPT for 2012! We will continue to offer our services for free to venues and home games around the country. Our services allow any size group to afford a world-class website where they can schedule, enter scores and track points for their own poker games. It even has a built in nightly prize that awards the winner of each tournament with an entry into our monthly $1,000 freeroll on Bovada.

Do you know of a bar or home game that could use our services or whose players would appreciate the monthly freeroll? Please let them know about our free program.

Here’s to a great 2012!!

June Freeroll Winner - Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:07:28 -0500

We held our June Winner’s Freeroll on Bodog yesterday afternoon.  Players qualified for the freeroll by either earning 50 poker points on Bodog, or by winning a live game at any of our host venues during the month of June.  

Congratulation to GunsmokeCharlie who won the $1000 freeroll.  Rounding out the top five were  Ideal Guy, ArizonaSlip1946, zirtz, and LonghornSpurs.  

Every tournament held at an NPT venue comes with a built in prize for the winner - A chance to play in our $1,000 monthly freeroll. 

Please, take a couple of moments to make sure your Bodog account information (Account Number and Screen Name) have been entered into your NPT profile. Don’t have a Bodog account?  Click here.  Registration just takes a moment and you do not have to deposit anything.  Just sign up, download the software, and register a screen name.  Then make sure you edit your NPT Profile and add your Bodog information.

Maintenance Complete! - Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:07 -0500

We’re back up! We apologize for the inconvenience. 

Website Maintenance! - Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:27:00 -0500

Attention Players and Venues!  We will be performing system maintenance on our website this coming weekend, July 22nd - July 24th.  Starting Friday PlayNPT.com will be unavailable.  Updates to the system should be complete d Friday night, though it might take 24-48 hours to be back online.  

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

NPT Support

Sunday Tournaments Back on the Schedule! - Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:03:39 -0500

For some strange reason our Sunday Night Buy-In on Bodog July 10th didn’t show up.  They have fixed the scheduling glitch and everything is back in order.  Sorry for any inconvenience and we’ll see you there this Sunday night!  If you want to play but need to set up an account please click here.

May Winner's Freeroll - Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:51:29 -0500

We held our May Winners Freeroll on Bodog yesterday afternoon.  Players qualified for the freeroll by either earning 50 poker points on Bodog, or by winning a live game at any of our host venues during the month of May.  

Congratulation to 2puttbirdie who won the $1000 freeroll.  

Every tournament held at an NPT venue comes with a built in prize for the winner - A chance to play in our $1,000 monthly freeroll. 

Please, take a couple of moments to make sure your Bodog account information (Account Number and Screen Name) have been entered into your NPT profile. Don’t have a Bodog account?  Click here.  Registration just takes a moment and you do not have to deposit anything.  Just sign up, download the software, and register a screen name.  Then make sure you edit your NPT Profile and add your Bodog information.

2010 Year End Champ! - Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:34:18 -0500

Congratulations goes out to Kellie Carlson, aka mrsquilt, who won our Year End Championship on Bodog last Sunday.  Kellie qualified for the tournament by winning a seat from Paradise Cove in Surprise, AZ.  For being the last player standing she won a $10,000 seat in the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas later this summer.  Congratulations to Kellie and the other 81 qualifiers who participated in this event.

Year-End Championship set for June 12th at 3PM EST - Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:44:28 -0500

Due to recent online poker maneuverings we have had to move the tournament to June 12th at 3pm EST.  This gives those who still haven’t sent us their information another few days to do so.  If you have qualified for the tournament we need your name, the venue that awarded you your seat, your email address and your Bodog account number.  If we don’t have ALL of this info by 8AM CST on Monday 6/6/11 we will not be able to enter you in the tournament. If you still haven’t sent all of this info please send it in as soon as possible using the “Contact Us” form on our website.

1st Place - Seat to the 2011 WSOP Main Event
2nd Place - Ticket to Bodog $100k tournament

Good luck!

Year End Tournament Update - Thu, 12 May 2011 13:57:25 -0500

NPT Players and Venues-

If you won a seat to the year-end championship we need to get your info! We want to make sure everybody who won a seat has a chance to play for the WSOP Main Event entry and we are still missing too many players’ information.  

We are giving seat winners additional time by moving the date of our championship on Bodog to June 5th.  

If you won a seat (or think you may have) please send us the following information as soon as possible using the “Contact Us” form on our website -

Your name:

The Venue that awarded you the seat:

Your Bodog account number:

Your email address:

Venues, please send in your seat winner(s)!  We still have not received names from all of our venues. If you have sent them in before please resend just to be safe.

March Winners Freeroll - Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:43:28 -0500

Due to the Easter holiday, we will be moving the March Winner’s Freeroll from tomorrow at 3:05 PM Eastern to next Sunday, May 1st, at 3:05 PM. We will be sending an email out to qualified players later this afternoon.

Update From The Nationwide Poker Tour - Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:46:51 -0500

In 2009, we restructured the Nationwide Poker Tour to be the most affordable free poker league in the US, while still offering incredible prizes to our players.

Unfortunately, a number of setbacks followed, most notably the worst recession in 70 years.  We’ve spent the past several month exploring every opportunity to keep the NPT going in it’s current form, but these efforts have proven fruitless, and the hard economic realities have set in.

We are going to be making a number of changes to the NPT while we consider alternate strategies that might one day allow us to pursue our passion for poker as a full time occupation.  We want to thank the many loyal venues who’ve stayed with us over the years, and hope you can continue to use our service in the future.  And to our thousands of players, we couldn’t have done it at all without you.  Thank you for the many years of companionship we’ve enjoyed with so many of you since 2004.

2010 Year End Championships

Financial difficulties will make a live tournament impossible.  Given the choice of canceling the tournament, or offering an alternative format and prize pool, we’ve chosen the latter.  We will be hosting the 2010 Year End Championship online at Bodog on May 22nd.

The prize pool for the winner will be a $10,000 seat in the WSOP Main Event to be held in Las Vegas on July 7th. 

Going forward in 2011

Venues will be able to use the services on PlayNPT.com for FREE until further notice.

Winners at each venue’s nightly games will still be eligible to play in a monthly $1000 freeroll on Bodog.

We will continue to host a Sunday night buy-in game on Bodog.com.

We will continue to supply venues with player cards and DVD tournament manager DVDs.  Please use the Contact Us form on the website if you need additional supplies.

NPT Top 10 for 2010 - Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:38:56 -0600

As we mentioned last week, each player can only win one seat for the 2010 Year End Championship.  There were a number of players who finished in the top 10 that also had been named a Player of the Month at some point in 2010, we are digging deeper into the top player list for 2010 so that 10 players can can be awarded seats. 

Also, there was some questions regarding the $1,500 award for the Player Of The Year.  While most of the players understood that the POY prize money would not be paid for 2010, we mistakenly had it listed as part of the reward program on our website for most of the year. Therefore, we will be honoring the $1,500 award. 

Congratulations to all the seat winners!

2010 Year
End Place Player
Number Name Points “Top 10”
Seat Notes 1 4163-6850 William Sotomayor 213050 - Won June POTM 2 0282-8961 lynda foy 169150 - Won October POTM 3 7944-1709 james compston 141340 1 4 4468-5763 Tom Short 139930 2 5 3412-4420 Beverly Heitz 137550 3 6 3715-9507 Judith Rosiak 133160 - Won August POTM 7 3635-3098 L. Eddie Mares 127835 - Won April POTM 8 4235-2575 Rebecca Franz 126900 - Won January POTM 9 1361-7041 Jeff Fisher 123135 4 10 0643-8875 Kevin Tullock 122245 - Won May POTM 11 3827-4003 Tony Delgado 114750 5 12 7599-5665 Harold Simonian 112645 - Won July POTM 13 1427-7087 Joe Cancilliere 107525 - Won March POTM 14 3249-9953 GARY LASCH 106305 6 15 8438-0942 Rocky Brewer 105635 7 16 0426-7435 DAVID APPLEGATE 99420 - Won November POTM 17 0506-8168 wilL ‘d Thr!lL’ ARANA 98625 - Won December POTM 18 7837-7987 Jason Cummings 96375 8 19 4297-0894 Michael Bradley 93340 9 20 2241-5493 Shannon Leshin 90615 10

Year End Championship Update - Win 2 And You're In! - Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:16:27 -0600

The following players have won a seat in our year end championships by participating in our Win 2 And You’re In promotion.  Each player one a live game at a participating PlayNPT venue, and then went on to win our monthly winner’s freeroll on Bodog.

All players who win a live game at a venue is eligible to participate in the monthly $1000 freerolls on Bodog.  All you have to do is have a valid Bodog screen name and account number saved in your PlayNPT.com profile by the 5th day of the month following your tournament win.  We submit qualifying player’s information to Bodog automatically.  

This promotion started in June, 2010:

  • June - Rita Trent
  • July - Randy Nelson
  • August - Alex Madan
  • September - Glenn Foster
  • October - Marlon Childers
  • November - Sandra Ryan
  • December - Jill Brown

Year End Championship Update - Players of the Month - Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:10:30 -0600

Here is list of the Players of the Month for 2010. Each player receives an automatic seat in our year championship.  Remember, each player can only win one seat this year.  

  • January - Rebecca Franz
  • February - Don Regan
  • March - Joe Caciliere
  • April - L. Eddie Mares
  • May - Kevin Tullock
  • June - William Sotomayor
  • July - Harod Simonian
  • August - Judith Rosiak
  • September - Bobby Watson
  • October - Lynda Foy
  • November - Dave Applegate
  • December - Will Arana

Congratulations to each of you!

Year End Championship Update - POTY and Top 10 - Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:05:48 -0600

We’re getting the invite lists ready for the year end tournament, and here’s the top 10 players of 2010.  Starting with:

  1. Player of the Year: William Sotomayor (4165-6850)
  2. Linda Foy
  3. James Compston
  4. Tom Short
  5. Beverly Heitz
  6. Judith Rosiek
  7. L. Eddie Mares
  8. Rebecca Franz
  9. Jeff Fisher
  10. Kevin Tullock

As player of the year, Mr. Sotomayor receives $1,500 in addition to an automatic seat in the year end.  Players 2-10 also get an automatic seat in the tournament.  Congrats everyone!  More championship details to follow.

2010 Year End Championship Update - Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:00:52 -0600

Some time has passed since our last update, and we know everyone is getting exciting for the championship tournaments.  We are still working out some details for the tournament, and will post another update just as soon as we know more.  We were targeting late April or early May for the tourney, but will push the date back as needed to allow for travel and vacation arrangements if we get squeezed for time. 

January Freeroll Results - Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:06:29 -0600

We held our January Freeroll on Bodog Sunday afternoon.  Players qualified for the freeroll by either earning 50 poker points on Bodog, or by winning a live game at any of our host venues during the month of January.

Congratulation to HollywoodHounds who won our January freeroll.