APPT Is Coming To Auckland!

Auckland Skycity Casino will be hosting the Auckland section of the Asian Pacific Poker Tour from Oct 9-12.

The buy-in for the Event will be $3000. Look for a few big overseas stars to be visiting

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Auckland Players Succeed In Christchurch

Many poker players who regularly play at Auckland Skycity's Pokerzone, journeyed down to Christchurch last week to contest the NZ Poker Championships and did extremely well.

Regular Auckland Skycity poker player, Robert Wang, continues his impressive cash winnings in tournaments this year, when he collected $30,000 for first place in the Sth Island No Limit Hold em Championship. A combination of poker skill, good luck and an annoying voice, able to put any opponent on tilt, he has managed to collect over A$180,000 in tournament winnings since the beginning of he year.
Robert has numerous Skycity wins, including winning last years WSOP satellite and gaining an all expenses paid trip to Vegas to play the main event at the WSOP.
Robert is currently leading the Australasian Poker Leaderboard.

The Peter Peko Memorial event was won by Sam He, another Skycity regular. Using his mix of good skills in Omaha and Holdem, he was able to outlast 58 other players and grab $10,000 for first place.

John Pye also placed 3rd in both the Main Event and the Omaha Tournament, cashing for $38K.


And Martin Cardno, professional poker player and WSOP veteran, collected $24,000 for fourth place in the Main Event.

An Aussie Takes Out NZ Title

It was an all Australian heads up final, between David Borg and Tony Hachem, to decide who will take this years NZ Main Event title and a first prize of $100,000.
In the last hand, with all the money in preflop, Hachem showed Ac Qh and Borg Js 4s. Hachem kept the lead with a flop of Qs 10d 9s, he stayed ahead on the turn (2d) but Borg managed to hit his flush on the river (3s) to claim the $100,000 first prize. Hachem grabbed $54,000 as runner-up

Main Event Place Getters
1 David Borg (Aust) $100,000
2 Tony Hachem (Aust) $54,000
3 John Pye (NZ) $34,000
4 Martin Cardno (NZ) $24,000
5 Robert Megino (NZ) $17,000
6 Warren Paaka (NZ) $14,000
7 Johnny Scott (NZ) $12,000
8 Michael Pedley (Aust) $10,000
9 Paul Nixon (NZ) $7900
10 Shane Ogier (NZ) $7500
11 Dan Sing (NZ) $7500
12 Hayden Hapes (NZ) $6500
13 Minh Tran (NZ) $6500
14 Oliver Robertson (NZ) $6500
15 Mike Geare (NZ) $5000
16 Fern Webber (NZ) $5000
17 Eric Assadourian (Aust) $5000
18 Steve Matson (Aust) $4000
19 Nick Wright (NZ) $4000
20 Greg Familton (NZ) $4000

Other Results held earlier in the week:

South Island Champs
1st Robert Wang NZ $30,000
2nd Oliver Robertson NZ $16,000
3rd Richard Grace NZ $9,000
4th Warren Pritchard NZ $7,000
5th Scott Hamilton-Hill NZ $6,000
6th Jovan Scekic Aus $5,000
7th Simon Bismark NZ $4,100
8th Bernard Lluat Malaysia $3,300
9th Tayne Derriman NZ $2,600
10th Simon Thwaites NZ $2,000

PotLimit Omaha
1st Eric Assadourian Australian $10,000
2nd Dean Yuan Australian $6,800
3rd John Pye NZ $4,000
4th Peter Field NZ $2,600
5th Vincent Larosa Australian $2,100
6th Michael Fleming NZ $1,800
7th Minh Tran NZ $1,500
8th John Dykhoff NZ $1,200

Peter Peko Memorial Pot Limit Holdem/Omaha
1st Sam He NZ $10,000
2nd Gary Boxell $6,780
3rd Peter Field $3,550
4th John Dykhoff $2,500
5th Demitris Merentitis $2,100
6th Joey Zhou $1,870
7th Glenn Matheson $1,500
8th Graham Freeman $1,200

Canterbury Championships
1st Richard Grace NZ $16,500
2nd Simon Bismark NZ $10,000
3rd Joey Zhou NZ $5,880
4th Kevin Clark NZ $4,050
5th Chris Chang NZ $3,550
6th Leo Boxell AUS $3,050
7th Michael King AUS $2,550
8th Kanniga Morgan NZ $2,040
9th Peter Van Der Looy NZ $1,530
10th Dan Lai NZ $1,250