Looking Back on the First Major Kiwi Tournament
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Level 4
: 150/300, 25 ante
Considering it is only Day 1a of a six-day tournament (three total Day 1 flights included), we thought we would take this opportunity to have a look back at the first time PokerStars.net played an event in Auckland.
It was back in 2008 and it was ANZPT’s sister tour the APPT that played out within the walls of SKYCITY Auckland. There were 306 entries in the US$2,400 buy-in event and New Zealand's Daniel Craker overcame Matthew Konnecke heads-up to win the US$153,399 first-place prize.
That tournament was the first world-class poker tournament held in New Zealand and now here we are five years later, waiting to find out who the latest champion will be!