The setting up of THUPS (see title) has finally been completed, and this week we were ratified by the Union Council!!!

I began to think about setting up a Poker Society when I arrived at Hull University, around last September, since then I got together a group of friends who were also interested in the idea and set up a committee for the society! That all went well and was done in about October, we then started to recruit members to fill the 15 member minimum we needed in order to officially start the society, since then things just kinda didn't get done...

That was until last week when we heard that another group of people were planning on setting up a Poker Society, this made us realise that we should have really done this by now and so decided to go and do it the next day! Well that was last week and since then the proposal for The Hull University Poker Society (THUPS) has been considered and accepted by the Hull University Union Council. This now means that, subject to conditions, we can now function as a proper society (organise events etc).

Its amazing how the thought of someone beating you to doing something can really motivate you! It turns out the other 'group' was just a couple of people who had mentioned it in another block and who mentioned it to someone in our block, who in turn told us.