PokerStars.net has announced a great new poker tour especially for us Kiwi’s and Aussies. The ANZPT will host it’s first event in Adelaide and will be league based, meaning that players and teams will accumulate points right up until the end of the first season in July.

If you click the Forum link up the top there, you’ll be taken to our Forum section here at PokerNZ. We’re seeing a lot of people signing up every day now, so if you want to ensure you get your preferred handle or login, now is the time to register! How about introducing yourself there [...]

Using the new PokerPro automated poker tables, event 2 of the Aussie Millions was staged at Crown Casino on Monday with Brisbane player Mitchell Carle taking out the 2nd ring of the series. Carle is no stranger to the event, taking out 3rd place in the PokerPro event in 2008. PokerPro’s automated ‘dealerless’ poker tables [...]

110 players kicked off for Day 2 of the Aussie Millions event with previous night’s chip leader, Dean Blatt, in good form for the win. After a long fought battle and a number of casualties (sadly including NZ’s own ‘Kiwi G’ Graeme Putt) Christian Heich of Germany emerged as the day’s winner and took home [...]

If you thought event 1a was big with 342 players, event 1b was even bigger with 389 players all ponying up the $1100 buy-in to compete for the big prize. This created a combined pool of over $700,000, well in excess of the guaranteed $500,000 advertised. After another grueling day on the felt, the cards [...]

Day one of the Aussie Millions event kicked off in Melbourne’s Crown Casino on Friday with 342 players drawn to the felt on the opening round. Familiar famous faces were found in the field including Australia’s Tony Hachem, Michael Chrisanthopoulos, Jamie Pickering and New Zealand’s own Graeme ‘Kiwi G’ Putt…