The ANZPT Queenstown event will take place July 21-25 at Sky City casino. The Queenstown casino is quite a small one but is set in the most beautiful city in the world. Buy-in is $2500NZ but you can win your seat through the satellite qualifiers at PokerStars. If you haven’t already got an account at [...]

PokerStars.Net have announced the next two stops for the ANZPT. Sydney’s Star City will host the next leg of the ANZPT, a 4 day event as part of it’s larger 11 day poker championship starting on April 23. Then later in July (date yet to be announced) Sky City Queenstown will host it’s first major [...]

The NZ Poker Champs celebrates 11 years this March and promises to be their biggest one yet. With a prize pool of up to $720,000, it’s no surprise that many of the region’s top poker players make the journey down to Christchurch for the week-long poker carnival. Last year saw a number of poker’s big [...]

Just after 1am this morning (Tuesday), Aucklander Matt Cheer took the honors of winning the 1st ever Auckland Anniversary Poker Championship, pocketing a tasty $35,540 for his efforts. After a marathon 36 hours, Cheer played his way through 119 players to take out the very first AAPC trophy. Ejaaz Dean, SKYCITY Auckland’s Executive Manager Table [...]

I’m in Melbourne this weekend so have been unable to cover the AAPC properly, but I have had some information from Sky City… Saturday night’s $330 side event attracted 68 entracts and was taken out by Angie Fitzgerald who picked up just under $7000. Sunday’s main event kicked off with 119 contenders from all over [...]

Following on from an epic week of poker with the Aussie Millions and Auckland online players ‘sampleOG’ and ‘magicNZ’ winning satellite seats to the ANZPT in Adelaide, we didn’t think it could get much better. But on the eve of Australia Day, Melbourne based Kiwi ‘downtrou’ has just secured one of the last PokerStars satellite [...]