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Many talked about it, but it wasn't until the first hand was dealt on a sweltering Adelaide afternoon back in February that Australia and New Zealand finally had a poker tour to call their own. The first season of the PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour has been run...more

By Landon Blackhall The heads-up duel has been decided for the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event, with the great trans-Tasman rivalry set to be reignited by the battle between PokerStars Qualifiers Phillip Willcocks from New Zealand and Aussie Scott Kerr. This is the first time that the two nations...more

The PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event has been turned on its head with a new chip leader and two quick eliminations leaving just four players chasing the first prize of AUD $168,075. New Zealand's Phillip Willcocks has nosed ahead of Joel Dodds in the chip count, not that the...more

By Landon Blackhall After a relatively sedate day at Treasury Casino in Brisbane, all hell broke loose in the final minutes of day 1B of the PokerStars.net ANZT Queensland Main Event. After 68 players had taken the order to shuffle up and deal just over eight hours earlier, less...more

Seat draw, PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland day 2 (Jupiters, Gold Coast) Table 2 Seat 1: Julius Colman (Australia) 23,850 Seat 2: Yvonne Grant (Australia) 26,600 Seat 3: Rajesh Patel (Australia) PokerStars Qualifier 24,625 Seat 4: Celina Lin (Australia) PokerStars Team Australia 33,275 Seat 5: Craig Matthews (Australia) 12,175 Seat 6:...more

The future of casino-based tournament poker in Queensland has received a massive boost with a field of 249 players creating a prizepool of AUD $622,500 in the first PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event. The number of entrants makes this the second biggest event on the first season of the...more

Andrew Scott will finish the first season of the PokerStars.net ANZPT with 40 points - that's 10 points for participating in four of the five events. Sadly, the hopes of a first cash for the 2008 APPT Macau High Roller runner-up have come to an early finish after he...more

By Landon Blackhall The PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Day 1A Brisbane flight has also wrapped up - the chips have been cut down, counted and listed. From a tense start to a fast finish - those who survived the carnage on the felt today will return on Friday afternoon to...more

A new chapter in Australian poker history was written today when the first hand was dealt in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland tournament, the final event in the fledgling tour's first season. In addition to the 54 players who shared in the celebrations at Conrad Treasury Casino in Brisbane, a...more