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Throughout the day the team from PokerStars.tv managed to steal a few precious minutes from previous APPT Champions Eddie Sabat and Grant Levy. The video blogs and the insights from these players are here: Watch APPT Auckland 08: Eddie Sabat Interview on PokerStars.tv Eddie Sabat, APPT Macau 2008 Winner. Watch...more

By James Potter and Eliot James Day 1A of the Pokerstars.net APPT SkyCity Auckland Festival of Poker has come to a close after playing a friendly seven levels. After a great day of poker we have 59 players left out of the 168 that started the day. After starting with...more

By James Potter and Eliot James The last level today is 300/600 with a 75 ante. This is always an exciting time as some of the good players try and build a stack as other players desperately try and make it through to Day 2. There have been many short...more

By James Potter and Eliot James One of the interesting things going on at the PokerStars APPT SkyCity Auckland Festival of Poker is the inaugural World Poker Seminar. This exciting concept was developed by Team PokerStars Pro's Joe Hachem and Lee Nelson. Joe and Lee host the events, with the...more

By Jenn “Yes I speak Japanese” Barr Last month Yasuki Shino busted out of the APPT Seoul main event and vowed to change the way he thought about poker. A modest businessman from Tokyo, Shino used to always want to make sure that the people around him were having a...more

By James Potter and Eliot James Players are back from their break and the blinds are starting to become of interest at 150/300 with a 25 ante. There are now only 108 runners left and some big and small stacks starting to appear. The action is still happening on the...more

Our PokerStars.tv Video Bloggers have been hard at work capturing the sites and sounds of not only your favourite poker players but also of the wonderful country of New Zealand and the harbor city of Auckland. Watch APPT Auckland 08: Promo on PokerStars.tv Watch APPT Auckland 08: Welcome Party on...more

By James Potter and Eliot James Andrew Meldrum from Sydney has stormed to an early chip lead and has just under 40k in chips. Meldrum, who has been a quite achiever in the Asian poker scene, is hot off a successful campaign in America after the WSOP. Andrew Meldrum looking...more

By James Potter and Eliot James There are certainly some great stories here at the PokerStars.net APPT SkyCity Auckland Festival of Poker. The first of these may be Canadian Mark Oosterveld. The Canadian won his way through to the tournament for only $6 in a $2 Rebuy, one of the...more

By James Potter and Eliot James Starting bank for the PokerStars.net APPT Auckland SkyCity Festival of Poker Main Event is 10k. The first early mover is Team PokerStars Pro Greg Raymer who has moved up to 18K. He just won a very nice pot with 9-7 suited. He made both...more

By James Potter and Eliot James Welcome all to the Pokerstars.net APPT SkyCity Auckland Festival of Poker Day 1A. It looks like we are well on our way to the NZD $1 million mark as we approach 180 players for Day 1A. As the players drifted into the poker room,...more