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 [...]

It doesn’t get any better than Queenstown for a poker tournament and perhaps that explains the 4 ‘no-shows’ from Day 1A of the ANZPT Queenstown at Sky City Casino. Of the 23 that turned up, 18 will progress through to Day 2 here at the inaugural ANZPT Queenstown poker tournament in the most beautiful city [...]

From the 20-25th of July, Quenstown’s Sky City will be hosting the first ever ANZPT Queenstown tournament with over 70 international poker players competing for a prize pool of over $450,000!
Players from Canada, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America will all be flying in to the adventure [...]

Sky City Queenstown is the next stop on the PokerStars ANZPT tour and it’s shaping up to be an amazing tournament.
With Queenstown experiencing amazing snow dump and some great NZ players winning satellites into the tournament, we’re predicting a huge week at Sky City Queenstown from July 19-25.
The main event of the ANZPT is $2500 [...]

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.
After some [...]