Well the party is over, we have crowned our champion, Kiwi Daniel Craker, and now it is time to reflect on yet another great event from the Asian Pacific Poker Tour. The PokerStars.net APPT Auckland SkyCity Festival of Poker has certainly rocketed poker’s profile in the country. SkyCity Auckland has smashed all records here in New Zealand and can now lay claim to being the home of poker here. PokerStars.net APPT Auckland 2008 Main Event Champion, Daniel Craker of New Zealand. New Zealand is a wonderful country full of natural wonders and incredible culture. Adding to this is the warmth
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APPT Auckland: Final Table action for the Main Event live updates
By James Potter and Eliot James 8:28pm: Daniel Craker is the APPT Auckland 2008 Main Event Champion! Daniel Craker, $257,040 NZD ($153,399 USD), Matthew Konnecke eliminated in 2nd place, $162,792 ($97,153 USD) The Trans-Tasman battle between New Zealander Daniel Craker and Australian Matthew Konnecke has finished after only eight minutes...more
APPT Auckland: An introduction to our final nine
By James Potter and Eliot James The final table has been decided and we have taken a chance to chat with all of our playes. We will be bringing you updates of critical hands and knockouts throughout the final table as they happen. Here is an introduction to our final...more
APPT Auckland: Final nine now confirmed
By James Potter and Eliot James Within 30 minutes of play today we have lost both our 11th and 10th placed players, Edward Holdcroft and Eric Mutrie. Holdcroft, who started the day as one of our big stacks on 297k, was eliminated early after open-raising in middle position and facing...more
APPT Sydney: Final day locked and loaded
By James Potter and Eliot James Good morning all and Welcome to the final day of the PokerStars.net APPT Auckland SkyCity Festival of Poker. We have 11 combatants ready and later today one will be crowned the inaugural APPT Auckland champion and will walk away with over quarter of a...more
APPT Auckland: Day 2 Wrap
By James Potter and Eliot James We have come to the end of Day 2 of the PokerStars.net APPT Auckland SkyCity Festival of Poker Main Event. It has been a long day with 9 levels being played. The poker, however, has certainly been first rate. The SkyCity Poker Room has...more
APPT Auckland: 3 quick eliminations
By James Potter and Eliot James In a rush of activity we have just lost 3 players in record time and we are now down to our final two tables. Trevor Saunders from Sydney Australia has just been eliminated in 16th position and has walked away with over $7,000. Trevor...more
APPT Auckland: W K Yuen on the move as we get down to 19 players.
By James Potter and Eliot James W Yuan has just put Mat Wall out of the tournament. Wall pushed all in with 9-9 and was quickly called by Yuan who turned over A-K. An ace on the river had Yuan jumping for joy and Wall was eliminated in 20th place....more
APPT Auckland: Into the money, and no sign of slowing down
By James Potter and Eliot James Eliminations are coming thick and fast here at the PokerStars.net APPT Auckland SkyCity Casino Festival of Poker. Having just broken the bubble before the dinner break players have now returned to the tables to battle down to at least our final two tables tonight....more
APPT Auckland: Some more interviews
By James Potter and Eliot James While the players enjoy their dinner break you might like to catch up with a few interviews. We have Teresa Nousiainen one of Finland's finest poker exports. Followed by Mark Oosterveld from Canada who qualified for the tournament on PokerStars for $6 and last...more
APPT Auckland: We have reached the money!
By James Potter and Eliot James In the space of two minutes we lost two players in what might have otherwise been a long and painful bubble battle. It was a sad time for the room as Kiwi G made his departure to the rails, lamenting what might have been....more
APPT Auckland: Endangered species
By James Potter and Eliot James We have just gone to only 40 players. The room is starting to be filled with "ooohhh"s and "ahhhh"s as we really get down to the business end. Eight is a lucky number in Chinese culture but we are about to find eight very...more
APPT Auckland: And then there were 50!
By James Potter and Eliot James The game of poker can certainly be a cruel one. In fact for 305 of the 306 players in this tournament there will be a bad beat story to tell. Today was always going to be a challenge for the short stacks to build...more
APPT Auckland: SkyCity gives the APPT the thumbs up
By James Potter and Eliot James Ejaaz Dean, Executive Manager of Table Games here at SkyCity Casino here in Auckland, has taken the PokerStars.net APPT Auckland SkyCity Festival of Poker under his wing and should be credited with a large percentage of its success. He took a little time out...more
APPT Auckland: Players begin to join the 100k club
By James Potter and Eliot James People would be forgiven for thinking that there were only two players at Table 9 here in the SkyCity Casino poker room. Player Nathanael Seet from Singapore, our Day 1A chipleader, has been butting heads with PokerStars Sponsored player Grant Levy through the course...more
APPT Auckland: No monkey business as things get serious
By James Potter and Eliot James Friend and confidant of the biggest names in poker, Australia’s very own international playboy Tony Hachem, has made it into the poker room on time. From all accounts he fell asleep during a morning massage but has had a shave and a shower and...more
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