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 became the first player sent to the rail on day 1B of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event here at Jupiters on the Gold Coast today. Sydney's Daniel Neilson, who finished 73rd in the 2009 WSOP Main Event for almost USD $70,000, claimed Scott's scalp when he pushed all-in with
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ANZPT Queensland: Hachem keeps the flame burning in Brisbane
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
ANZPT Queensland: Joukhadar gets the jump at Jupiters
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
ANZPT Queensland: Local players basking in the limelight
We're thrilled to announce that the first major poker tournament to be held in Queensland has surpassed all but one other ANZPT event in terms of entries and prizepool. With seats still available in Brisbane for tomorrow's day 1B flight, the field has already surpassed 230, making it the...more
ANZPT Queensland: Cooper barrelled on the river
The Gold Coast is recognised as Australia's holiday capital, for good reason. Beaches, theme parks, nightclubs, restaurants, tropical weather, major events like the IndyCar Carnival and the annual influx of school-leavers known as Schoolies Week ... everyone comes here to recharge the batteries and have a little fun. Kim...more
ANZPT Queensland: They're not mucking about
Queenslanders are among the most parochial people in Australia. The State of Origin rugby league series played between Queensland (the Maroons) and New South Wales (the Blues) is the most fiercely contested sporting rivalry in Australia. The Queenslanders also love to rib those who relocate north for the sun...more
ANZPT Queensland: Bucking the button trend
The innovation of using two venues is creating plenty of interest early on day 1A of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event. There are plenty of SMS messages, phone calls and MSN pings going back and forth between Conrad Jupiters on the Gold Coast and Conrad Treasury in Brisbane,...more
ANZPT Queensland: Two venues, twice the fun
Queensland's tourism motto is "beautiful one day, perfect the next". That's certainly the case today with brilliant sunshine greeting players making their way to the two venues being used today for the opening day of Queensland's first major casino-based poker tournament. The battle for the final PokerStars.net ANZPT title...more
ANZPT Queensland: Finale fires-up under the tropical sun
The face of poker in Australia will never be the same again after the first season of the PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) so it's only appropriate that the bar is again raised for the final tournament of 2009. After a week in New Zealand's Southern Alps...more
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