There is always a quiet period on the tournament schedule around the globe following the World Series of Poker’s conclusion in July, but this year we saw a second lull in the action, in mid-August, before three of the major poker tours around the globe –the WPT, the EPT and the APPT– got back in the swing of things this past week. Here isRead Full Article

Leo “The Mechanic” Boxell has been grinding poker tournaments in the Melbourne area for the better part of four decades, and he now has his first major tournament victory after winning the PokerStars.net APPT Melbourne Main Event. Boxell may look like your average grandfather, but he doesn’t play poker like your grandfather! Boxell’s resume already included an APPT Main Event final table in 2009,Read Full Article

The 260 players that began the 2011 PokerStars APPT Melbourne Main Event has been pared down to just 37 players at the end of the second day of play. Near the top of the leader-board is Australian poker pro James Obst, who is currently sitting in second place on the leader-board with 452,900 chips. However, the entire field is looking up at the massiveRead Full Article

Currently one of the biggest poker hotspots in the world, Australia played host to the Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) and the final table was utterly dominated by Aussies! Seven of the nine members of the final table call Australia home, and in the end it was Australian native Aaron Benton who laid claim to the title. Benton cut a deal with eventual secondRead Full Article

When the final table played down to just three competitors, a New Zealander had a 66% chance of winning the hometown event. And that is precisely what happened as Simon Watts, a 26 year-old software developer, took down the coveted title, along with the healthy first-place prize-money, totaling $209, 085 (of course that’s New Zealand $). Despite the relative newness of the tour –ThisRead Full Article

After the devastating tsunami that ravaged the nearby region of Samoa, many poker players will be taking to the tables in Pokerstars APPT Main Event in Auckland, New Zealand with heavy hearts. The tournament features a $3,250 buy-in, and the field is expected to include many top pros from the region; as well as many Team Pokerstars players from Australia. On Saturday, October 17thRead Full Article

The Pokerstars.net APPT Macau Summer Festival was comprised of 38 events this year with over $3.5 million in prize money to be won throughout them all. The event was a huge success and there were almost 3000 poker players from all parts of the world take part in at least one of the APPT Macau events. PokerStars helped ensure that there would be aRead Full Article