After a fantastic Festival of Poker, Simon Watt from Auckland’s North Shore took out the main event and won for himself over $200,00!
It was another brilliant festival this year with many of the big names in the Australasian poker scene making the effort to compete in what has been the most successful festival yet.
The final [...]

It’s final table time at the Auckland Festival of Poker and with that top prize of over $200,000 sitting out there, it’s only a matter of hours and we’ll see who takes it down.
Pictured here are the final table players and some info about them below.
Seat 1: Jason Brown from Auckland, New Zealand (709,000 in [...]

We are VERY lucky to have the following video provided to us by NotoriousBHS as he interviews some of the celebrities at the Auckland Festival of Poker. It’s a fantastic clip, please comment if you want to see more!

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.

Auckland DJ [...]

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 [...]

Poker players across NZ will relate to this…
Ever feel like poker just doesn’t get the recognition it deserves in NZ? Sick of seeing all kinds of other sports being featured on TV but never seeing anything about NZ poker, unless it’s one of those celebrity shows?
Well you’re not alone, ‘poker’ himself has had a crack [...]