The three day event attracted 218 entrants (not bad given day one started on Monday night – perhaps this will be addressed in Season 2 and can only be put down to Crown Casino “squeezing” it into their already packed Melbourne Champs schedule) who all paid the AUD$2,700 entry to create a AUD$545,000 prizepool.
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After an intense tournament at the superb Crown Casino, it was  Xiao Cui who took out event 7 of the $230 No Limit Hold Em 100k Guarantee.
PokerNZ’s own ‘downtrou’ was in the race and looking good early on when he busted out Paul Taylor with his QsQh against Taylors AsQd. The 3d5d7s flop didn’t help [...]

With a record field, for an event up to $3,000 buy in the 493 entrants meant AU$986,000 was up for grabs. 
Four intense days and 28 one-hour levels later, the first ANZPT Sydney Main Event title came down to a showdown between a 49-year-old mother-of-six and Gold Coast mortgage broker Lisa Walsh, and 25-year-old Sydney student [...]

With just one month to go and 2 weeks of action packed poker, the Melbourne Champs promises to draw the crowds once again to the home of Australasian Poker, Crown Casino.
One exciting new addition to the already packed 2009 schedule is the third leg of the ANZPT (as covered in the article above).
Last year’s Main [...]

That’s right, PokerStars.net announced earlier this month that the mighty Crown Casino is joing the ANZPT tour by hosting the third leg of the ANZPT on May 25 – 27th, 2009. Crown are adding the crowd drawing event to their already packed Melbourne Champs schedule (info coming soon), running for two weeks in May 2009.
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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…