Poker Central announces further expansion of its premier poker events in Australia

Poker Central today announced further expansion of its premier poker events to Australia, with the creation of Super High Roller Bowl Australia and the Australian Poker Open, slated for January 2020. The Australian Poker Open will begin on 25 January and continue through 1 February, while Super High Roller Bowl Australia will take place on 2 February and run for three days.

Both events will stream exclusively on PokerGO, Poker Central’s OTT streaming service, and will take place at The Star - Gold Coast in Broadbeach, Queensland. The two high roller events will be held in partnership with the World Poker Tour, which held its first-ever Australian tour stop at The Star Gold Coast in October.

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Intertops and Juicy Stakes focus on Australian poker players

Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are running another special tournament for friends and players in the southern hemisphere this weekend. The Big Bickies $800 GTD is scheduled with players in Australia in mind. Satellites begin Thursday. The Final table will be Sunday, 11 March at 8:30 p.m. Australian Eastern Daylight Time.

The $3 satellites, taking place three times a day through 8-10 March, and two $1 Wild West shootouts on 11 March, will each award a ticket to the Final.

"Bickies, no, we're not talking about something you dip in your tea," said Intertops' poker manager. "We're talking about the money you can grab — which is as sweet as biscuits — as you win your share of the $800 we're guaranteeing!"

The Big Bickies Final will be a Hyper Turbo tournament with a starting stack of 25K. Players can buy in directly to the Final or win a ticket in a satellite tournament.

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Final table set for Crown's Aussie Millions Main Event in Australia

What began almost a week ago with 732 players has now culminated with the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event final table being decided, and seven poker players who outlasted the massive field at Crown Entertainment Complex in Melbourne, Australia.

Two prominent female players remain in the Main Event. In the modern era of the Aussie Millions when the event's buy-in was raised to $10,000, only three prior times did a woman reach the Final Table - Kirsty Gazes in 2007, Annette Obrestad in 2010, and Jay Tan in 2013. Each of them finished in seventh place, which means that with Samantha Abernathy and Kitty Kuo both making the final table, the event is guaranteed its best female finisher ever.

Preparations are underway to crown a king or queen tomorrow, Sunday 31 January as the Main Event final table commences at 12:30 p.m. local time. Chip leader is Ari Engel followed by Tony Dunst, Samantha Abernathy, Alexander Lynskey, Kitty Kuo, John Apostolidis, and Dylan Honeyman.

All will battle it out for the Southern Hemisphere's most prestigious poker prize title of 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Champion and the $1.6 million payday that comes with it.

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Asia Pacific Poker Tour expands presence in Australia

Global Poker Tours today announced that the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), the region’s biggest tour, will expand its presence in Australia. As part of this expansion, the APPT will encompass the Australia & New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT), which currently runs live poker events across the region. From 2016 onwards, all former-ANZPT events will join the APPT to create an international poker tour.

The ANZPT will host its last event in Melbourne from October 8-20, 2015. Last year’s ANZPT Melbourne Main Event broke the ANZPT record for largest tournament with a field of 516 players, creating a $A1,032,000 prize pool. There has been strong interest so far in this year’s tournament and every indication points to the last ANZPT being the largest held in the history of the tour.

The inaugural event for the new APPT Season 10 will be the APPT Aussie Millions which runs from January 13 to February 1, 2016 at the Crown Entertainment Complex, Melbourne, featuring the legendary $A10,600 Aussie Millions Main Event. APPT remains committed to live events in Australia and a second Australian APPT event is already in the planning for 2016.

APPT and ANZPT President Danny McDonagh said, “I have been very proud to be a part of the ANZPT. There have been many memorable stops including Darwin, Gold Coast Turf Club and Queenstown together with the big city venues such as Sydney and Melbourne. The tour has preserved the freeze out format in the $2,000 range, a decision vindicated by how popular the series has been with players. I hope ANZPT Melbourne at the fabulous Crown Melbourne complex can set a new prize pool record as ANZPT's final event, beating the million dollar prize pool achieved just last season.”

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