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Posts - December 2008

• ANZPT Launched

  December 30, 2008
  

   

  
  PokerStars have announced the launch of the latest in a series of Poker Tours, the ANZPT.

  This land based tour will visit some of Australia and New Zealand's biggest casino's and will feature a league based format where players play for a combination of prize pool and points.

  The first of the Australian New Zealand Poker Tour is scheduled for Adelaide on Feb. 4th. This tour promises to offer Australian and New Zealand poker players a prestigious Texas Holdem series that is hosted in their backyards.

  Many of the top PokerStars Pro players will be playing in these events, already confirmed for Adelaide are Grant Levy, Eric Assadourian, Celina Lin, Tony Hachem and Emad Tahtouh. Head on over to PokerNetwork where we will have all the latest news regarding this very exciting new series.

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• PokerStars World Record Week

  December 25, 2008
  

   

  PokerStars this week is getting ready to break yet another World Record. This Sunday December 28th PokerStars are trying to get 35,000 players registered into one Texas Holdem Tournament. In 2007 PokerStars broke the Guinness World Record for the ‘Largest Online Poker Tournament’ when 20,000 players played in a tournament online. 2007 was a big year, and PokerStars are trying to end 2008 with an incredible series of promotions.

  In addition to being a World Record attempt, PokerStars are throwing in a special bonus for the tournament with a massive $500,000 guarantee being attached to it as well.

  In addition to this ground breaking event, PokerStars are running a host of other great promotions all week, including an incredible $2.5 Million Guaranteed Sunday Million this week.

  You can catch the complete story over at PokerNetwork, your #1 resource for online poker news and the home of Australia's most active poker forum.

  FULL STORY

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• Texas Holdem Poker - Cheating in Tournaments

  December 19, 2008

  So an interesting post recently came up on our site regarding cheating in tournaments.

  A player started a thread claiming that while he was recently playing in a No Limit Texas Holdem Tournament at Star City in Sydney, he noticed players blatantly adding chips to their stacks during breaks.

  You can see the whole thread here. Cheating thread on PokerNetwork.

  While such a claim is easy to make in a public forum, what is not so easy to do is to bring it to the attention of the Tournament Director. Never should a player that sees such a thing occur in a tournament ignore such a thing, as they then become liable for the cheating themselves. It is the duty of every player in a tournament to protect all players and the integrity of the game at all times. This is clearly stated in the TDA Rules, in rule #12.

  TDA RULE 12: "Players are obligated to protect the other players in the tournament at all times."

  I hope that players out there playing Texas Hold'em realize the importance of maintaining the integrity of the game, and that it not just the dealers and the Tournament Director who should be responsible for policing this, but also it is their duty as well, perhaps even more so than anyone else.

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