The first season of PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour was very popular and poker players have been anticipating season two. Players can now rejoice as PokerStars has released the schedule for season two of the ANZPT.

The poker tour will begin in Australia at the SKYCITY Adelaide Casino and the main event will take place on February 9th to the 14th. Players will be able to compete in Queensland again as well but this time the event will be held at the Conrad Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast only. Sydney and Melbourne will be back on the schedule as well and Western Australia will be hosting their first ANZPT event in March at the Burswood Entertainment Complex in Purth.

SKYCITY Adelaide Poker Manager David Galpin commented: “We are looking forward to the return of the ANZPT in Adelaide after the wonderful success of the first year and we are excited to see the event grow and flourish in Adelaide.”

Players will also be able to compete for the PokerStars ANZPT Player of the Year award again this year. The top three players on the Overall Points Leader board will earn sponsorship packages which will include seats to the Aussie Millions and the APPT.

ANZPT Commissioner Danny McDonagh commented: “The ANZPT provides Australian and New Zealand players with a professionally executed tour in their own backyard. It provides the opportunity for poker players to prove their skills consistently over time enjoy great experiences across Australia and New Zealand and gain a big prize—a valuable sponsorship with PokerStars.”

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Season 2 Schedule for the ANZPT:

Adelaide - Feb. 9-14, 2010 $3,000 AUD buy-in

Perth - March 17-21, 2010 $2,500 AUD buy-in

Sydney - April 21-25, 2010 $2,200 AUD buy-in

Queenstown - July 17-25, 2010 $2,500 NZD buy-in

Gold Coast - Aug. 11-15, 2010 $2,500 AUD buy-in

Melbourne - Oct. 8-11, 2010 buy-in To be decided

On Tuesday and Wednesday of last week PokerStars tournaments were quite busy with players spending their day participating in the regular weekly tournaments. On Tuesday a good number of players were participating in the Nightly $100K while on Wednesday players attention turned toward the 100r tournament.

On Tuesday the Nightly 100k tournament had 834 players competing. The tournament has a buy-in of $150 plus 12 so the players participating created a prize pool of $125,100. This created an increase of $25,100 added to the prize pool. Ninety nine players were paid out during this tournament.

BodogBanshee, padjes and MarsoVilnius were able to make it to three way play in the tournament. The first to earn a five figure pay day would be BodogBanshee when he went out in third place. Now the heads up battle would take place. Padjes and MarsoVilnius would begin a battle to the finish and it would be MarsoVilnius who would make all the right moves to earn the first place win.

Final Results:

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MarsoVilnius - $22,955
padjes - $16,388
BodogBanshee - $12,384
d.quang - $9,319
AngelinaWins - $6,505
donnysack - $5,254
mestre_urubu - $4,003
Moorman1 - $2,752
mneube - $1,626

On Wednesday 338 players participated in the 100r tournament which has a buy-in of $100 plus 9. This tournament had a prize pool of $133,900 and paid out to 45 players. The top prize would be the only one to offer up over twenty thousand dollars so every player was of course trying to be the last player standing.

The competition would be tough but online players Mumtum23 and rkruok would make it heads up play. Both had played well and would continue to stay at it until the final hand was dealt. Both players went all in, thinking they had the hand to beat, but there could only be one winner. Rkruok had the right cards to take the hand and the first place win from Mumtum23, who had to settle for second.

Final Results:

rkruok - $26,110
Mumtum23 - $19,750
SLOPPYKLOD - $14,729
smegmaridah - $11,247
Abbadabba - $7,699
armenioz - $6,025
LastChance11 - $4,686
DuckU - $3,347
makavelyces - $2,343

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Poker Stars is known as the number one poker room for several reasons: the awesome land tournaments all over the world, the online tournaments and of course their team of poker pros. The online poker room will soon be known for another reason: the new online poker team they are about to launch.

PokerStars Supernova VIP online players have been invited by the online poker room to fill out an application to be considered to be part of the newest online poker team at PokerStars. the invites were sent out back in September. PokerStars stated that only twenty five of the more than five thousand Supernova’s would be earning a spot on the new team.

Poker Stars was supposed to announced the new poker team last week but plans were changed. The online poker giant announced that there was going to be a delay and announced a new date for the new online poker team announcement. The new PokerStars team will be announced sometime on or after December 23rd.

The new online team has been chosen, according to a spokesperson from PokerStars, and they have all been contacted. Poker Stars is currently working on the player’s bios as well as taking photographs. These items will be up for viewing to the public once the team has been announced. This way, fans of the online poker site can enjoy getting to know the new players. The spokesperson also announced that contracts are being signed as we type so this is also a reason for the delay.

At any rate, the new online poker team created from Supernova’s at PokerStars is sure to be very exciting for both the players who made the team and PokerStars themselves. It will be very exciting to see which Supernovas made the team and how well they perform once the team begins to participate in events.

PokerStars new poker show the Million Dollar Challenge has become quite popular as millions of people tune in to see if the latest player is going to be able to outlast the pros and celebrity guests. Now viewers have a new reason to tune in. PokerStars recently announced that new celebrities and PokerStars pros are going to be premiered on the show.

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Starting on Sunday December 13th the poker show will feature brand new opponents for the contestants on the poker show. The new celebrities on the show are Joanna Krupa- the current Playboy cover model and contestant of Dancing with the Stars and Tito Ortiz- the UFC Champion. New Team PokerStars pros to appear on the show are: Joe Cada the WSOP Main Event Champion and Vanessa Rousso.

The new episode with the newest opponents will begin right after NFL on FOX coverage on December 13th. it will be interesting to see how well the contestants fare against the new celebrities and poker pros they must face to make it further in the competition.

Players must win three heads-up matches to make it to the end of the show to face Daniel Negreanu. The player who manages to beat Negreanu will earn a $1 million payday and of course bragging rights for the rest of the players life. But the process is not easy.

Contestants must make the right decision to move on if they manage to beat the poker pros they are put up against. The contestants will be coached by Negreanu for the first part of the process but this may play to their disadvantage as Negreanu will be able to see how they play the game and know exactly how to compete against them if the time comes.

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Online poker players can easily find themselves playing the game for hours on end at their favorite online poker site. It can be very easy to play several hands in just a few hours. But imagine playing 40,000 hands in just one day. That is exactly what one player did recently and broke a world record in the process.

Twenty two year old Russian poker player ‘innerpsy’ decided to play 40,000 in just a twenty four hour period. On the twenty first of November the online poker player just before 8:30 am ‘innerspy’ sat down at his computer and played for eighteen hours and thirty three minutes. During that time he played so much poker that he broke the world record for number of online poker hands played in a single day.

Innerspy has been playing professional poker for a few years now and commented: “Before this challenge, I had never actually played more than 20,000 hands in a day before, but the idea came up and I just figured I could do it. It was one of the toughest things I have ever accomplished, but I am proud I managed it.”

Innerspy did the poker challenge at the number one online poker room PokerStars and it was hosted by the Russian forum Card Game Masters. Almost 10,000 fans of the game logged online to watch the poker player attempt to play for the long period of time. Fans could watch the performance on two video streams as well as a live radio broadcast.

Innerspy also commented: “I gained a lot of experience doing this and will definitely try it again in order to improve upon my result. One of my main goals is also to reach Supernova Elite status.”