The Sanctum

06/15/2026

We hope everyone had a fun time with our poker league this past season. Congrats to the winners of A and B division.

We start the summer with a rotation of weekly tournaments every Monday night. This week we kick things off with the Afterparty finals lieb to all. 3 strike knockout. We start at 7:30. See everyone there.

06/08/2026

Week8 of poker league and 1 strike Afterparty tonight. League finals Saturday. Doors at 10:30. Start at 11. Open to public during finals.

We start a summer session of weekly tournaments on a rotation next Monday with the Afterparty grand finale. Open to everyone. 3 strike knockout with a few bonus strikes given out for too few players from this season of the Afterparties. After that every week starting at 7:30 through the summer. 3 strike knockouts, head to head max Matchplay and Pace Matchplay formats. If you missed out on league this season we hope to see you back next week.

05/31/2026

Our friends at the Western Mass Pinball Club will be hosting The Clash of the Titans June 25-28 - featuring a card-based main tournament (similar to the Silverball Rumble) with open and women's divisions, as well as side tournaments most days of the tournament. It's always a great time and they have a fantastic collection of games - and there's always a good showing of Sanctum regulars on the playing field to hang with!

Join us for all the fun June 25-28 at The Clash of the Titans 2026! Three days of side events to play in between entering cards for the main tournament.

05/30/2026

Its the time of year when everyone starts asking when signups will be for this years 24 Hour so now is the best time to let everyone know there won't be any signups. Its been a great decade plus of running this event. We started our first one back in 2014 laughing at the idea and thinking no way we could get just 32 people to sign up for something so ridiculous. We eventually did fill all those spots somehow and had a great time. In just a couple quick years the event snowballed and you all showed us amazing support selling this event out in a mere second every year. It was wild to see. Hundreds of people every year from all over the continent trying to get in. In the early days I remember back when it was called the PAPA circuit they asked us about the event and it being on the circuit. When we explained it to them they laughed and said no way will these circuit players want to do that. Few years later they went to a worldwide voting system and you all got us voted in! Just wild to be part of the PAPA circuit and then the Stern Pinball Pro Circuit.

We all want to say thank you so much for all of that support. The amazing thing is from day 1 we never changed the format for this event. The only thing we changed was the way we signed up, increasing the number of players and increasing the prizes and awards. The way the event was played never changed and it feels great knowing that we came up with a format that kept every skill level player fully engaged for the entire 24 hours regardless of how they were doing in the rankings and that you all had fun while doing it at the same time.

I truly love running this event every year. Its like a family for that weekend the whole time. The main reason we are retiring this event is we just felt it was the time to do so. It takes an exorbitant amount of work to pull this off every year and I can't thank the team of people who without hesitation help me every year without a single ask on their end. There's many people over the years to thank, Mark Carvey Matt Boschert Andy Stevens Kristen Bayusik Nancy Lennert George Magyar Holly Danowski Liz Boschert Jake Erskine Chris Point Tom Coltart Tee Nel James Calcia Jake Rudder Steve Gourley Bill Kaehrle Dana Carvey Joe Said and I'm sure im missing many more along the way who have helped pitch in throught the years. Its all been greatly appreciated.

Retiring this event will allow us to focus on some other events across the year. The Silverball Rumble at Pintastic New England has grown more than I had ever imagined as well and that event takes more time every year with the way it has grown. If anyone wants to see us do some other fun events throughout the year let us know. I'd love to get back to doing some more weekend events that allows more people to come in and share in the community we have here. With being involved with 3 major events (Pintastic, 24 hour and Pinburgh) I havent had time to do those sorts of things. Anyone remember our head to head NBA Fastbreak March Madness tournament where we gave out championship rings? So many of these unique things we've done in the past have been over a decade ago. Lets revisit some of the old fun stuff from our roots and create some new ones.

Again thank you so much for all the support with this event for the last 12 years and can't wait to see all of you at some new ones.

05/27/2026

Trophies for this season of our Poker League are done! See everyone tonight for week 6, 1 strike afterparty and freeplay. Doors at 7 like usual.

05/25/2026

Reminder that we are closed tonight and open on WEDNESDAY this week for another week of Pinball Poker League followed by the Afterparty single strike knockout series - and casual play as always.

05/20/2026

We are open Wednesday next week and not Monday due to Memorial Day. Normal hours with doors at 7pm. Week 6 of Poker League will happen then. Good opportunity to order some Little Rendezvous Pizza Next door this week. Be sure to call in advance if you want a dinner order.

05/19/2026

Spooky Pinball LLC

05/19/2026

The juice is loose!