A pub in Shetland has suddenly found itself propelled in to the world of celebrities after winning a poker competition with a team entered as "a joke".
The Kiln Bar in Scalloway will become the setting for a celebrity poker night after it topped the table of 500 British pubs, clubs and bars in an online poker competition for Ladbrokes.
Crowned the best poker-playing pub, Ladbrokes will honour the Kiln Bar by hosting a 50-player five-dealer celebrity poker tourney in the pub, with comedian Norman Pace as compere.
It all started when the locals, who play poker in the pub at weekends, saw a poker competition advertised in the Publican magazine and decided to enter for a laugh.
Kiln owner Vera Setrice told the Shetland News: "They thought we would maybe sign up and see how we got on, so they did and it just escalated. I think we had 40 registered players from the pub playing online.
"We are absolutely delighted that a peerie pub like this in Shetland has actually won a poker competition out of the whole of the country."
She added: "We have only been playing poker in here for about a year and a half. It just started off as a fun that the customers thought they would do. None of them were poker players.
"I am really fair chuffed with them. It is not my prize it is their prize and them that has done it. They have just used my venue and I have backed them every way I possibly can."
Ms Setrice's son and boyfriend also ranked among the national top 20 registered pub players.
A pub in Shetland has suddenly found itself propelled in to the world of celebrities after winning a poker competition with a team entered as "a joke".