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ANZPT – Season 2: A Growing Success in 2010

Posted on 31 May 2010

Australia New Zealand Poker Tour

ANZPT Season 2 - 2010

Earlier this year the much anticipated Season  2 Schedule was announced and with it came two new venues – Perth and Canberra, taking the ANZPT destination count to an impressive 7 venues. But as if that wasn’t enough,  on 14.05.10 at the  ANZPT website’s news section, an 8th venue was announced – Darwin!

Season 1 attracted 1309 entrants, across just the 5 venues in 2009 and amassed a huge AUD$2,982,436 in prize money, Season 2 is sure to push well past the AUD$4M mark in prize money with threee additional venues!! Already the Adelaide leg has topped Season 1′s prize pool by $57,330, generating a total prize pool of $644, 280. The new Perth leg, held in March this year, was a huge success attracting a field of 222 & createed a record AUD$510,600 prizepool for ANZPT Perth. Then Sydney came along in March and smashed last years prizepool with a whopping $892,000!

Check out the results and coverage of the season so far

The remainder of the ANZPT season looks like this:

City Venue Dates Buy-in
Canberra Casino Canberra 11-14 Jun, 2010 Buy-in $2,200 AUD
Queenstown Sky City Queenstown 21-25 Jul, 2010 Buy-in $2,500 NZD
Gold Coast Conrad Jupiter 11-15 Aug, 2010 Buy-in $2,500 AUD
Melbourne Crown Casino 8-11 Oct, 2010 Buy-in $2,700 AUD
Darwin Sky City Darwin 25-30 Oct, 2010 Buy-in $2,200 AUD

Courtesy of the official ANZPT.com Poker Stars site.

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Here’s an interview, done by the crew at pokernetwork.com, with 2009′s ANZPT overall leaderboard champion Tony Hachem:

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So what are you waiting for? With so much up for grabs and satellites to the main events starting for as little as $5.50, you too could be on your way to ANZPT victory and taking on Tony Hachem as he defends his Season 1 Crown! You can download the free software here and start playing your way into the ANZPT Season 2 record books  :)

If anyone has any updates, pictures or wants to share their conquests at the ANZPT this year, please register above, leave a message for Admin in the chatrooms and we will publish you!

Good luck @ the felt!

dt

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2 Responses to “ANZPT – Season 2: A Growing Success in 2010”

  1. Mike King says:

    I’m heading over to Jupiters on the Gold Coast anyone else coming?

  2. Notoriousbhs says:

    When is it… Keen…


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