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Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Perth and other poker trivia
Posted by: Jo Martin - Mon, 2010-03-29 18:36
With all the EPT and WPT events swirling around us, even the most avid poker fans sometimes miss out on the fact that there are similar caliber poker events taking place Down Under too. The Australia New Zealand Poker Tour’s Perth stop was one such
poker tournament, which awarded its winner an AUD 132,750 prize. Tony Hachem was the one to walk away with the goods, taking down his first ever major tournament title. Joe’s brother also set a record with this win: this has been his 6th ANZPT Main Event money finish, which means he’s become the player with most such finishes. That achievement puts him into prime position for taking down the ANZPT Player of the Year award yet again. Alex Lackovic finished the poker tournament in second place, taking home a AUD 84,250 reward. Vesko Zmukic finished 3rd, followed by Dale Marsland in 4th.
The ANZPT Sydney is the next stop on the Tour’s calendar. Direct access qualifiers are available at
PokerStars, so sign up for an account there and start playing for your seat.
In other poker related news: the last two suspects of the brazen
EPT Berlin robbery have apparently been apprehended. The authorities caught up with Mustafa Ucarkus – thought to be the most dangerous of the bunch – at Tegal airport, following a lead from his lawyer. The 4th and final suspect in the case, Jihad Chetwie has also been taken into custody at the same airport as he returned from Lebanon, where he’d fled in the wake of the robbery. This guy probably figured it’d be better for him to check into a German jail than to be apprehended and jailed in Lebanon.
The American Gaming Association, an entity which had campaigned against legal online poker and gambling, appears to have changed its stance on the matter. Though the organization is still neutral on Barney Frank’s solution to the problem, it now supports a state-based legal framework – according to its president, Frank Fahrenkopf. Despite the change of tune, the AGA still supports the UIGEA, which it maintains is needed if the regulation of online gambling and poker is to be done the “right’ way.
