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World’s Biggest Poker Tournament Huge Success

Posted by Admin on Sun, 4th January, 2009

PokerStars has added another notch to their belt as the best online poker room as they provided their poker players with the world’s largest tournament, all at the low buy-in of $11+$1 and setting a Guinness World Record in the process. There were 35,000 competitiors with PokerStars adding the extra money into the prize pool to give out a whopping 500k in prizes. 1st place was able to take 30k while 2nd place took a handy 20k.

An unprecedented 8750 players made the money, allowing for many of the players to take something away from the event that lasted for around 9 and a half hours.

PokerStars certainly look to be turning up the heat on their competitors in the online poker market. On the same morning they also held a massive Sunday tournament that had a prize pool of $3.2 million for the $215 buy-in. Things only look to be getting bigger and better over there, as the team keep putting on these displays without a hitch. Perhaps the only disappointing thing about the tourney with 35k entries was that it was capped and was full the night before. Many players missed out which would have made it an even bigger event.

We have been in contact with the team over at PokerStars and they have assured us that in the very near future they will be holding a similar event that won’t be capped so everyone can have a chance at playing. They said that the reasoning behind capping it was because of the way it was structured and they couldn’t change it.

From all reports, it was a great tourney that was well run and enjoyable for all. Here all the final standings of the event:

1. stan34powa - $30,000
2. meiky777 - $20,000
3. rumred14 - $15,000
4. Goldman007 - $10,000
5. Nekochan48 - $7,500
6. gustave44 - $5,000
7. n0ideahh - $3,500
8. alepolice - $2,500
9. ONE_TIMEE - $2,000
10. FuFish - $1,500


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PokerStars APPT Sydney, Final Table: Local Star City Player Martin Rowe Claims Victory

Posted by Admin on Tue, 9th December, 2008

A thrilling poker tournament has come to a conclusion as local Star City regular Martin Rowe wins $1 million AUD and the prestiguous APPT Sydney 2008 title. In a day that started with Antonio Fazzalari as chip leader, it quickly turned into the Martin Rowe show as he took a commanding lead with four players left. He ended up being heads up with poker professional Jason Gray, and after more than two hours of going at each other he eventually provailed as the 2008 APPT Sydney winner.

The day began with Tom Rafferty heading to the rail when he was all in with a nut flush draw vs Antonio Fazzalari’s top two pair. He couldn’t improve and was sent to the rail in 9th place and recived $39,200 AUD. Next to head to the rail was local Australian poker player Hai Bo Chu who made a move on Martin Rowe at the wrong time tabling only a gutshot draw vs the overpair of Rowe. He finished in 8th place and won $53,200. 7th place belonged to Daniel Kowalski when he was out kicked with his A9 by Fazzolari who tabled AQ on the ace high board. 7th place was worth $72,800.

Former tournament leader Frank Saffioti was knocked out when his AQ suited gave him top pair and nut flush draw. The only problem was Jason Gray flopped a set, but Saffioti still had outs and had even more when a Queen can on the turn. He couldn’t catch up on the river however, and headed to the rail in sixth place to collect his $108,800 AUD pay cheque.

Playing in his first major poker tournament, Timothy English made the most of it as he won $140,000 AUD for fifth place. He bet strong with AK when he missed the flop, and Rowe called his all in chasing an open ended straight draw. He hit a pair of Jacks to knock out English and continue his dominating run towards victory.

Antonio Fazzalari, the chip leader at the beginning of the day was the next to head to the rail when he ran A2 into Martin Rowe’s AK. he couldn’t improve and took home $182,000 for fourth place. He was closely follwed by Tony Basile who unluckily ran his AK into Jason Gray’s KK. He finished in 3rd place for a cool $266,000 AUD.

With the field now down to the final two players, Martin Rowe was in a dominating postion over Jason Gray. With player contuning for over two hours they eventually got it all in pre-flop where Rowe had AQ vs 9 5. Rowe’s AQ held up and he won the 2008 APPT Sydney.

Victory is sweet for the Sydney man as he pockets $1 million dollars just in time for Christmas. Martin Rowe was ruthless as he went from strength to strength during the final table and clearly dominated the final hours. He fully deserves this title and the team here at Pokershark wpuld like to pass on their congratulations to him and wish him all the best in his future endeavours. We look forward to following his progress carefully in the following poker tournaments.


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PokerStars APPT Sydney, Day 3: Antonio Fazzolari Heads the Pack

Posted by Admin on Tue, 9th December, 2008

After play had finished last Saturday they were down to the the final table after a flurry off knockouts at break neck speed. 48 players began day 3 that saw Antonio Fazzolari finish the day as chip leader going in the final table and the Star City Casino in Sydney.

Australian poker player Jason Gray also finished the day in a strong position with over 1.1 million in chips. Other Australian poker player Hai Bo Chu, whol also did well in the 2008 WSOP Main Event is also in with a chance. He is the short stack of the final table so he could find it difficult. But it was Antonio Fazzolari who stole the show on Day 3 after accumulating over 1.7 million chips.

The final table players and chips counts at the APPT Sydney 2008 are as follows:

Seat 1: Martin Rowe - 995,000
Seat 2: Jason Gray - 1,188,000
Seat 3: Tony Basile - 863,000
Seat 4: Timothy English - 945,000
Seat 5: Daniel Kowalski - 959,000
Seat 6: Frank Saffioti - 790,000
Seat 7: Tom Rafferty - 1,101,000
Seat 8: Antonio Fazzolari - 1,775,000
Seat 9: Hai Bo Chu - 781,000


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PokerStars APPT Sydney 2008, Day 2 - Where are all the poker Stars?

Posted by Admin on Sat, 6th December, 2008

The second day of the PokerStars APPT Sydney at the Star City Casino has now come to a close and earns the remaining players a well deserved sleep. There were 217 competitors that took part in the play on day 2 and by the end of the day their were only 48 remaining. These players have now safely made the money and can head into Day 3 full steam ahead after the bubble burst laste in the day. Frank Saffioti will be one that will be most satisfied with his performance on Day 2 as he took a commanding chip lead.

There were a lot of stars eliminated on day one of play with that trend contuning into day 2. With the likes of Chris Moneymaker, Gavin Griffin, John Juanda and Australian poker player Van Marcus all eliminated. Lee Nelson, author of popular poker tournament strategy book ‘Kill Everyone’ was amonst the casualties as was Brisbane’s Mark ‘pokerbok’ Vos.

In one of the biggest pots of the day Marlon Goonawardana had 99 and put Andrew Meldrum all in preflop who showed pocket aces. A nine spiked on the river to give Goonawardana the massive pot and move him into 4th place on the leader board. As players go into the 4th day they will start playing for some serious cash as they all compete for the $1 million AUD first prize. The action will certainly be heating up when players reach the tables at 12:30 AEST at the Star City Casino in Sydney.

The leaderboard going into the 3rd day of the PokerStars APPT Sydney 2008:

Frank Saffioti - 619,000
Brendan Edmonds - 508,000
Phil Willcocks - 390,000
Marlon Goonawardana - 370,000
Jamie Pickering - 360,000
Tony Basile - 355,000
Antonio Fazzolari - 342,000
Ray Lapitan - 330,000
Mamouni Smain - 320,000
Timothy English - 310,000


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