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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 continue their quest for the...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

Sharing is very much the theme for the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland event. Conrad Treasury Casino in Brisbane and Conrad Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast are sharing the state's first major poker tournament. They are also sharing with the players, as there is no rake or fee charged on the...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

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

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

Seat draw, PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland day 3 Table 9 Seat 1: Andrew Meldrum (Australia) PokerStars Qualifier 122,600 Seat 2: Zhicong Wu (Australia) PokerStars Qualifier 164,500 Seat 3: Lee Fraser (Australia) PokerStars Qualifier 144,500 Seat 4: Michael Soranson (Australia) PokerStars Player 52,000 Seat 5: Linda Tyler (Australia) 114,000 Seat 6:...more

By Landon Blackhall The players at Conrad Treasury were sent on a 10-minute break before the sixth level of the day, so that play at the two venues would restart in sync late on day two of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queenstown Main Event. The first elimination after the break...more

To steal a line or two from Dr Evil in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, this was the semi-bubble; the quasi-bubble; the margarine of bubbles; the Diet Coke of bubbles - just one calorie, not quite bubble enough. With 48 players remaining in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland...more

Seat 1: Paul Gibson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (352,000 in chips): Down to just 30,000 in chips with 11 players remaining, this 35-year-old from Brisbane clawed his way back into contention for the title in dramatic fashion. Currently out of work, he's been playing poker for two years and elected...more

The final table has been decided for the final event in the first season of the PokerStars.net ANZPT, with Joel strongplay Dodds in the box seat to take home the chocolates. Dodds takes a massive chip lead into tomorrow's final table with almost 30 per cent of the chips...more

Saturday night's alright for ... dragging out the shortest skirt in your wardrobe, slapping on three inches of make-up and tagging along with five other girls for some rainbow-coloured cocktails at Jupiters, judging from tonight's crowd. But the faux catwalk parade going on adjacent to the tournament area isn't...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 Level 21: It took most of the level for the next elimination with the hopes of a local player winning the first PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland title ending. Danny Joukhadar kept his hopes of a top-three finish in the overall points title alive when he took out...more