WHAT does Olympic diver Alexandra Croak have in common with Australia’s World Series of Poker champion Joe Hachem? They both recorded their first tournament win holding a woeful 7-3!
Olympic gymnast and diver, Alexandra Croak, beat a pool of poker gurus including poker lover and former American basketballer Dennis Rodman to win the $10,000 prize pool for charity at Star City, last Thursday.
WHEN he’s not tearing opposition defensive lines to shreds with his remarkable step and stunning array of ball skills, Wests Tigers five-eighth Benji Marshall can often be found at the poker table trying to outwit his teammates.
When American basketballer Dennis Rodman arrives in Sydney, he will be heading straight to Star City’s poker tables to play in a $10,000 charity poker game this Thursday night with Sydney’s top sporting celebrities and $1 million dollar poker man, Grant Levy.
22 year-old Justin Gendle confirmed his place among the top echelon of Sydney’s poker players with his win in last night’s Big Game Wednesday tournament.
The winner of Star City’s Big Game Wednesday Poker Tournament will now also win the first tickets to the biggest game of the year, the 2008 Big Game Poker Championships Grand Final.
Demonstrating the stamina and continued aggression normally associated with poker’s new breed, seventy-seven year-old Graham Hounsell outlasted 205 competitors to win the February 13 Big Game Wednesday poker tournament and a first prize of $17,243.
Local poker player Chau Le has won February's first Big Wednesday, beating a quality field to take home $14,145.
The first ever Asia Pacific Poker Tour concluded with a bang as Sydney bore witness to one of the biggest poker tournaments ever held on Australian soil.
Joe Hachem won his first major tournament on home soil, beating a high class nine-man field to claim the APPT Tournament of Champions charity event in Sydney.
Local P.E. teacher Grant Levy outlasted a world class field to win the APPT Grand Final and take home the $1 million first prize.
The stars fell by the wayside as the 116 players that progressed to Day Two were gradually whittled down to the final nine.
The field of 116 players that assembled for Day Two of the APPT grand final was quickly whittled down as the bubble loomed.
Aussie champ Joe Hachem survived but it was the locals that again took the initiative heading into Day Two of the APPT grand final.
Australia's world champion Joe Hachem survived a slow start but found himself struggling to keep up with the chip leaders early on day 1 - flight 3 of the APPT Grand Final in Sydney.
Dane Henrik Gwinner made his mark at the APPT Grand Final in Sydney, building a massive chip stack that places well ahead of the pack.
Former WSOP champion Greg Raymer sees the APPT becoming one of the biggest poker tours on the planet in the coming years.
The big names again came out to play on Day 1 - Flight 2 of the APPT Grand Final but it was Australian Gary Diamond that took the early chip lead.
Manly local Davoud Khajeh surprised a field that included two former WSOP main event champions to lead the way after day one of the APPT Grand Final at Sydney's Star City Casino.
South African Raymond Rahme, who won more than $3 million for his third place finish at this year's WSOP main event, rocketed to the top of the leader board early on day one of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final in Sydney.
