Australia New Zealand Poker Tour
ANZPT6 Sydney: Final Table Player Profiles
After three days of play, the ANZPT Sydney Main Event has been reduced from a starting field of 458 to a final table of nine. Let's get to know our final table a little better:Seat 1: Peco Stojanovski (Sydney, New South Wales) - 1,167,000 chipsPeco Stojanovski is 39-year old local player who has nin...more
ANZPT6 Sydney: Jazz on top as final table set
A quick day at the ANZPT Sydney Main Event has come to a close with our starting field of 458 entrants now reduced to a final table of nine. As the players bag, tag and head out into the Sydney night, they will sleep a little uneasy this evening, knowing they are just eight eliminations away from $2...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 3: Dinner bell tolls
The bustouts keep coming thick and fast here at the ANZPT Sydney Main Event. The play was so rapid that The Star Poker Room Manager Stephen Ibrahim was keen on the idea to play through today until a champion is crowned. While we'd all enjoy a day off tomorrow, we're still another three eliminations ...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 3: Girls on the rail
Day 3 of play has started out fast and furious. It was largely to be expected and we anticipate things will settle down as we get closer to the elusive ANZPT final table.What wasn't expected was that we would lose all four of our female players within the first 90 minutes of play. It's true that Kat...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 3: By the numbers
Day 3 of the ANZPT Sydney is about to kick off at The Star in Sydney with a big day ahead expected. Rather than give you the usual intro spiel, instead here's some fast and fun numbers about our remaining players in the ANZPT Sydney Main Event.37 - That's the number of players remaining.9 - The numb...more
ANZPT6 Sydney: Alex Lee in control on Day 2
The day started out with 168 hopefuls and at the end of eight levels of play just 37 remain. The ANZPT Sydney Main Event is delicately poised as Day 2 comes to an end, with the final table and $225,300 top prize now within our players' sights.The pace of play was pretty quick in the early stages of ...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 2: Bursting the bubble
It's that time of the tournament. The period that we all love and players love to hate. Where hopes and dreams can be crushed like candy. Two days of toil inside the neon-lit walls of a casino can all be for nothing at the drop of a river card. The moment where the spotlight is turned on you for all...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 2: An endangered species
After you've been doing this gig for a few years you think you've seen it all. But you haven't. Poker never stops surprising.Into the third level of the day at the ANZPT Sydney Main Event and we've just seen a very rare situation. It's so rare, that its species would be classed as endangered. It's ...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 2: Baseball hits fever pitch
With Sydney being such an international city, it's no surprise that it attracts some of the world's great events. And tonight Sydney will once again be under the international spotlight at it hosts the official opening game of the Major League Baseball season.Sydney has gone a little baseball mad. I...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 2: A new day dawns
It's Super Saturday at the ANZPT Sydney Main Event with Day 2 about to kick off at The Star casino in the harbour city. Our 168 surviving players have hopefully enjoyed a relaxing morning, perhaps a walk through the city or brunch on the harbour, and now they are finding their seats in the poker roo...more
ANZPT6 Sydney: Pinzone pins the Day 1B lead
Another warm Sydney autumn day greeted players today for their second and final shot at the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Sydney Main Event.Once again a very strong field took to the felt of The Star with a total of 247 entrants for Day 1B. That took the total number to 458 players to fal...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 1B: TGIF
Friday nights are my favourite time of the week. Sure Saturdays are fun, and lazy Sundays are great, but nothing beats the feeling of the working week coming to an end. The stresses of a hard week in the office can be put to the side. You can remove the tie and relax with a cold beer or five.I've al...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 1B: ...and that's lunch!
We're now at the half way mark of the day here at the ANZPT Sydney Main Event. How do we know it's half way? Well, we've just taken an unprecedented 30-minute lunch break."Lunch break? What is this? Cricket?" exclaimed avid cricket fan Joshua Bell as he staggered towards the bar and demanded another...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 1B: Champions lurking
Not only are there plenty of international players in this year's ANZPT Sydney Main Event field, but there are many players who have previous major poker titles to their credit.There were several former ANZPT/APPT champions in yesterday's field and today is no exception. We have former ANZPT Gold Co...more
ANZPT6 Sydney Day 1B: Some international flavour
We hope you squeezed in a couple hours of shut eye, because we're back at The Star bright and early (at least in poker terms) for Day 1B of the ANZPT Sydney Main Event. Again we're looking at a close to a full house today as we push towards matching last year's number of 460 runners.Our line up toda...more
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