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

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

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

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