Strike another one up for Team PokerStars. After Chris Moneymaker’s victory in the $1000 No Limit Hold’em event two days ago, Vanessa Rousso has taken out the PokerStars.net APPT Tournament of Champions. ‘Lady Maverick’ was confirmed champion when APPT Grand Final winner Martin Rowe was forced make a move with 9-7 offsuit when he found himself short-stacked. Vanessa made an excellent read and called him down with K-5 pre-flop. The board blanked out and we had our new champion. Vanessa Rousso, the 2008 APPT Tournament of Champions winner Vanessa was playing for the ‘No Limit, No Profit Initiative’, which
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APPT Sydney: Can Vanessa halt Martin-mania?
We’re heads-up in the PokerStars.net APPT Tournament of Champions, with Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso a big chip leader (4:1) over new APPT Grand Final champion Martin Rowe. Players eliminated in the past hour have included Sydney young gun and 2007 APPT Macau High Roller champion in fifth. His...more
APPT Sydney: Will this be another Rowe rout?
Martin Rowe is quickly adjusting to life as a poker personality. He leads the PokerStars.net APPT Tournament of Champions with four players remaining, and is within reach of an amazing double after winning the APPT Grand Final last night. After KOing most of the players at the final table...more
APPT Sydney: More events, more winners
We’re into level two (50/100) of the PokerStars.net APPT Tournament of Champions, and already one of the champions has fallen. APPT Auckland champion Daniel Craker was unfortunately struggling with illness but ploughed on for his charity of choice to be here today. With 9000 in chips already in the...more
APPT Sydney: Champions, one and all
After a long night of celebrations for new PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final champion Martin Rowe (not sure if he made it to bed), Martin Rowe is back at Star City along with the biggest names in the game for the 2008 PokerStars.net APPT Tournament of Champions. Introduced last year,...more
APPT Sydney: Rowe crowned APPT Grand Final champion
We have a new PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final champion: Martin Rowe, from Sydney Australia. Rowe becomes poker’s newest millionaire. It was all one-way traffic for the new champion who systematically knocked out his challengers one by one at the final table. In the last hand of the tournament Jason...more
APPT Sydney: Final table (level 25)
Just when we thought the PokerStars.net APPT High Roller event might overtake the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final, runaway chip leader Martin Rowe has just eliminated another two players to set-up a heads-up battle with fellow Sydneysider Jason Gray. After the dinner break it didn’t take long for Antonio Fazzolari...more
APPT Sydney: Packed program in the Poker Pit
There’s an awesome buzz around Star City Casino tonight – big money up for grabs, top pros battling it out at final tables, high-stakes cash games heaving and the players’ party about to kick-off. Having just celebrated out final visit to the Garden Buffet and gorged down the last...more
APPT Sydney: Final table (level 24)
Martin Rowe, the local insurance man, has been the big mover in the past hour to take a big chip lead into the dinner break with just four players remaining in the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final. More and more fans are crowding around the final table as Rowe climbs...more
APPT Sydney: Final table (level 23)
For a guy without any real major tournament experience, Antonio Fazzolari is looking surprisingly composed and continues to control the final table at the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final. He continues to lead the field but behind him, the chips continue to be shuffled around the table. The remaining six...more
APPT Sydney: Final table (level 22)
Australia has a strong Italian influence thanks to the massive influx of migrants after World War II. That influence has flowed over into today’s final table, as three of the participants recently discovered. Three of the player’s heritages lie in the Calabria region in the south of Italy. Antonio...more
APPT Sydney: Final table (level 21)
Welcome to our final table coverage of the 2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final. Cards are in the air on a massive day here, with a new poker millionaire to be anointed later today. This is the most intimate setting of any APPT final table played so far. The feature...more
APPT Sydney: Final table profiles
The final table line-up for the 2008 PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final has been decided, and the odds remain firmly in place that another local will be crowned champion. Seven of the nine players are Aussies, with Daniel Kowalski (a UK based Pole) and Canada’s Tony Basile representing the internationals....more
APPT Sydney High Roller: Graham going gangbusters
With the elimination of Emanuel ‘Curly’ Seal and Richard Holmes, the remaining eight players have been condensed into a single table for the run to the money in the PokerStars.net APPT Sydney High Roller event. Holmes (Q-J) fell to the pocket queens of Jarred flopnutsonyou Graham after the board...more
APPT Sydney High Roller: Looking for the KO punch
John Juanda has been a great supporter of the APPT, with appearances in both Macau events, Manila and now Sydney. The man who won the WSOP Europe main event will be free to check out the sights of the town after being eliminated from the APPT Sydney High Roller...more
APPT Sydney High Roller: Workin' for the weekend
2.45am on a Sunday morning at Star City Casino in Sydney – the railbirds and punters are well refreshed, there’s enough skin on show for an X-rating and the security guards are busier than a termite in a sawmill. After two very quiet levels (read: no eliminations), three players...more
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