Things got underway at around half past twelve today as the first group of players took to the tables in the SKYCITY Festival of Poker Main Event. Certainly no shortage of caps, hoodies, headphones and sunnies as the field got down to business.
Massage was the preference for many to ease away early tournament nerves.

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CELEBRITY – noun, a famous or well known person.
CELEBRITY POKER TOURNAMENT – noun, a chance to see who out of selected NZ celebrities has an ounce of game at the Poker table.
The SKYCITY Celebrity Invitational gets underway on Tuesday night at 6.15. A stellar field of around 150 entrants from all walks of life will [...]

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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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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Not your average tournament, the website tells us and with a $5000 entry fee, they’re not wrong! This certainly isn’t a tournament for the faint hearted but how exciting is it going to be! …