downtrou wins a Queenstown ANZPT qualifier

With the ANZPT kicking off in Sydney soon and further out, Queenstown, we know there are a lot of Kiwi’s trying their luck to win a place at both events.
Ultimate dream packages are being offered by PokerStars for the Queenstown Event including 7 nights accommodation, $750US spending money and some amazing tourist packages thrown in (click here http://www.anzpt.com/news/), so the competition has been fierce.

But luck was on point for PokerNZ’s own downtrou (check his profile on this site) in the first Queenstown Sattelite, held Monday night 10pm. With only 26 entrants there was just the one package up for grabs and after a determined 3h43m downtrou is on his way to Queenstown – best of luck and bring it home mate!

“Yeah, pretty stoked, yet another excuse for a holiday and what better place in the world to have an event – only problem is I’m gonna be torn between Poker and Snowboarding not to mention the partying, gonna be so cool seeing everyone and coming home!

As usual there were a heap of Aussies in the Sattellite so always good to win out over em but when it came to heads up it was “konspirator” from Los Angeles, with an even chip stack I knew I was in for a battle. The breaking hand was about 10mins in to the HU session where my A9 spades came good with the nut flush on the river and with 23K chips left I bet half into the pot to which he folded, this left him on 21K and me on 57K, from here it was a real cat n mouse race. As we all know, anyone can win in this position so I was extra cautious, some 30mins later I had him thinking he knew my game and then when I underplayed my pocket Queen’s he went all in, he had Js9s and when an entirely red board came, AJ3A10″ it was in the bag, gg!!

Hope to see SampleOG, Matt Wall and few other local crew in Queenstown as well as some of the Aussies I’ve been rubbing shoulders with in recent months at these events!”

PokerNZ will be attending the Queenstown ANZPT in full force again with a team of supporters and hopefully a few more familiar faces on the felt.
Check out www.anzpt.com for more information about the upcoming tournaments.