As play finished in Sky City Queenstown, 28 of the 36 players have gone through and qualified for Day 2 (being played Friday) of the Queenstown ANZPT.
Notable players who made it through were Grant Levy and Emad Tahtouh (Melbourne).
Tomorrow over 30 players will be joined by Eric Assadourian and Celina Lin and our own ‘downtrou’, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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With the ANZPT kicking off in Sydney soon and further out, Queenstown, we know there are a lot of Kiwi’s trying their luck to win a place at both events.
Ultimate dream packages are being offered by PokerStars for the Queenstown Event including 7 nights accommodation, $750US spending money and some amazing tourist packages thrown in [...]

Sorry folks, it’s been one of those weeks.
I came back from Adelaide, unfortunately without any Kiwis in the money. Both PokerNZ sponsored players Grant Kearney and ‘downtrou’ were knocked out on their opening days and a few other Kiwis who had ventured over were also out of the money.
I did have some great photos of [...]