February 2009 Archives

Welcome to another week of weekly round two results, the biggest tournament of its type anywhere online that can help turn you into the player you want to be. How so? Well, the WR2 is a freeroll tournament (that's a free buy-in) but with a prize pool making for a...more

Veterans of the European Poker Tour know that final tables in Copenhagen can take some time. From the epic Mads Anderson/Edgar Skjervold battle of season two, to the four-hour Tim Vance/Soren Jensen heads up of a year ago, television directors know to bring extra tapes, journalists are well-stocked with...more

Eight hours ago their tournament hopes were alive. Now, the dream of EPT glory lies in ruins for 32 of 40 players who returned to Casino Copenhagen this afternoon for the business end of another great EPT event. That we bring this news on the cocktail side of midnight...more

The tournament officials at Casino Copenhagen tinkered with the schedule today. We were originally intended to play down to 32 players, which would probably have taken about eight levels, but they decided at the last minute to make it 40, perhaps fearing we would be here all night. Had...more

And there we have it; day 1b is in the books. In keeping with what we have seen countless times before, this was not a day for the faint hearted. Right from the off, when the seat draw pitted Bertrand Grospellier, Gus Hansen, Michael Tureniec, Jesper Hougaard and Annette...more

It's the best place to test your growing poker skills anywhere online. The weekly round two events on PokerStars.net are the biggest events of their kind and give you the opportunity of winning a cash prize for a zero buy in. Make the final table and you'll see your name...more

Less than 24 hours ago the mood in Copenhagen's poker circles was one of jubilee; an evening spent toasting the latest winners at the Scandinavian Poker Awards, names like Eastgate, Sahamies and In de Betou. Tonight though, after eight day 1a levels of play, the mood is more of...more

When it comes to winning the weekly round two... Kt didit. More specifically "ktdidit2" ahead of a field of thousands. Ktydidit2's share was a massive $276. Not bad for nothing. Want your chance at a similar deal? The process is simple. Simply qualify for one of two WR2 events each...more

Karl Krautschneider Inaugral winner ANZPT Adelaide Karl Krautschneider has taken the inaugural PokerStars.net ANZPT title at the SKYCITY Casino in Adelaide. Krautschnieder, from Melbourne, rarely let the lead slip during the final table, eliminating most of the other finalists himself. His reward for outlasting them and the 214 others...more

His hand made a flush, and now Aussie Karl Krautschneider is flush with cash after winning the first ANZPT event in Adelaide. The seven of clubs, a card he will remember for a long time, made his flush on the river to bust Tony Dunst. Dunst, an American who lives...more

Down to the final two Karl Krautschneider has been eliminating players from this final table all day and has command of the majority of chips. Tony Dunst managed to close that gap slightly by busting Daniel Noja, making the chip counts look like this... Karl Krautschneider, Aus, PokerStars qualifier, 2,454,000...more

3:30pm - Daniel builds then Three-way action with Daniel Noja out of the blocks racing. He made some great hands against Tony Dunst and then took chips from Karl Krautschneider. He passes Dunst to go second in chips. Then one of the classic match up hands... Noja had top pair...more

Sit down, shake hands with everyone, get introduced by David the poker room manager, highcard for the button. Play the first hand, let Bruno Potaro raise the blinds, check your cards, find A-K, raise, watch Potaro contemplate a call and then go all-in with pocket sevens. Call, watch the board...more

Final table play will begin shortly in the PokserStars ANZPT Adelaide main event. When the cards go in the air blinds will be pegged back one level to 6,000-12,000. Here are the triumphant nine... Seat 1: Bruno Potaro, Melbourne, Australia, 552,000 chips Potaro's is the great survival story of the...more

Play has finished for the night, with the blind level at 8,000-16,000. It stopped when Tian Shou moved his 150K stack into the middle with pocket eights. Bruno Potaro, who had just raised to 50,000, called Shou with Q-9. Potaro took the lead when a queen hit the flop and...more

Into level 17 and the 19th placed finisher is PokerStars sponsored Emad Tahtouh. Those remaining are guaranteed to get $5,870. To see the chip counts as they draw for new seats on last two tables, click here...more

Just 21 players remain, three players short of the money. Bruno Potaro, whom Sam wrote about earlier, has taken command of the lead with 430,000 in chips. James Broom found a second wind and is currently second with 395,000. Tian Shou, also mentioned below, has a fine tower of chips,...more

Just in front of where we sit in the Adelaide SKYCITY poker room is table one. It eady looks a little like the final table based on the chips in play there. Seat 1 Tian Shou - 383,000Seat 3 Nobbi Tanaka - 140,000Seat 5 Julius Colman - 210,000Seat 6 Derren...more

We're experiencing a heatwave in Adelaide today with the temperature soaring to 43 degrees celsius. Walking outside the casino means keeping to the shade and trying to stay out of the hot spots. It is the same inside the casino with the tension mounting as the short stacks try and...more

At the end of level 12 (level 3 for today) we are down to 43 runners with an average of around 100,000. There have been many moves up the list with James Obst taking the lead on table one with over 245,000. On the same table is Julius Colman, the...more

Early on day two at the ANZPT Adelaide and the numbers are slowly dwindling. A total of 77 started the day and there are 56 left as we get to the end of level 11 which takes the average chip stack to a little more than 76,000. Included among those...more

With the completion of day one flight two complete, the field will combine for day two. We have 77 survivors to return on Friday Click here to see the full list and their chip counts....more

The keyword for the second of the day one flights of the ANZPT Adelaide was "calm". Gone were the satellite winners from the casino - 60 had appeared from a field of 104 yesterday. Today our first player headed home 90 minutes into the day. Yesterday you will recall our...more

It has been announced that the 215 players have contributed to a record SKYCITY Adelaide prize pool totalling $586,950. The winner will collect $170,215 while the last man/woman of the 18 places to be paid will take home $5,870. A full payout table is available by clicking here....more

PokerStars qualifier and Australian online phenomenon Tony 'Bond21' Dunst has been playing at the top of his game today on a table that includes sponsored player Tony Hachem and well known Sydney player Joel Dodds. Hachem stopped by to share a few thoughts... "I sit in the corner of the...more

With 37 minutes to go in the sixth level we're down to 85 survivors from the day's 111 entrants. The average stack is currently 26,100 A fairly full chip count can be found here....more

Local face Paul "The Virus" Ravesi has finally arrived well into level three. He joins an already spirited table one that includes Sam Khouiss and Mike "Timex" McDonald. Ravesi sat down to examine what late fees he'd paid in blinds, but quickly noted that he seemed to be in a...more

Day one flight two of Adelaide's ANZPT main event has started quietly. It is as if today's players are the contemplative sort as opposed to yesterday's field which was dominated by local casino satellite qualifiers, 60 in total out of a field of 104. Scanning the room I can see...more

The first day of the PokerStars-sponsored ANZPT Main Event began at the SKYCITY casino in Adelaide today, with 104 players sitting down for the 12:15pm "shuffle up and deal" performed by Team PokerStars Pro and WSOP 2005 Champion Joe Hachem. All 12 tables of the Adelaide casino poker room were...more

In the last few levels here in Adelaide, James Broom has begun to put his mark on the leader board, thinning the field in his process.Springing from relative obscurity Broom produced some good results in 2006 and 2007 at CROWN casino.  It was at the  Melbourne championships in May last...more

Before most poker tournaments you'll usually find players milling about outside the tournament area, discussing the game, the occasional bad beat, passing time before taking their seats and dropping any hint of camraderie. It's no different on the first floor of the SKYCITY Adelaide casino today. Old stagers mix with...more

The inaugural PokerStars ANZPT - Australia New Zealand Poker Tour - will soon be kicking off in  the delightful capital of the state of South Australia, Adelaide. The fifth largest city in Australia, the citiy's population is now officially over 1.2 million divided by the Torrens river which split this...more

You've got to grips with the game, absorbed what you've read and heard from the best players such as Team PokerStars Pros and World Champions and you're ready to take your game to another level. Where to begin? Well, the weekly round two event son PokerStars are the perfect place...more

When you start a final table as the short stack, you have two real choices: show no fear and go for the win, no matter how unlikely, or exert minimal risk and hope to climb a few cash positions. Oleg Suntsov was in just this sticky spot yesterday, starting...more