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As the seasons start to get colder down under in Australia, things are just heating up at Australia’s largest poker portal, PokerNetwork.com. PNW is extremely excited and proud to announce the launch of the brand new PokerNetwork Radio Show! Coming to you every week, exclusively on PokerNetwork.com, the show will be a fast-paced look at the week that was in the poker world.

The show will be hosted by none other than the lovable “JoeyDel”. We’ve received thousands of emails, fan letters, and a few death threats, demanding more of this frightfully-friendly Sydneysider. The people have spoken, and we have listened! With a background as a presenter and years of pain on the poker felt, Joey is the perfect face for radio as he sits behind the microphone like a duck to water, bringing to you all the latest news and views with plenty of laughs and fun along the way.

With a focus on the local Australian, New Zealand and Asian poker scenes, we’ll be taking a look at the results of PokerNetworkers both live and online, at home and abroad. There will be interviews with all of the big names in Australian poker (and a few of the lesser-known ones), fantastic promotions and competitions for listeners, and a whole lot more!

Podcasts in mp3 format are available to download every week so that you can get your poker fix while riding the train to work or while multi-tabling online! However we'll soon be moving to a live format for the ultimate radio rollercoaster ride! We encourage user participation, so jump onto the PokerNetwork Forums and make yourself heard or send your thoughts, results or naked pictures to Joey directly by email at joeydel@pokernetwork.com.

Jump onto PokerNetwork and every Wednesday you’ll be able to download a fresh episode of the PokerNetwork Radio Show at http://www.pokernetwork.com/radio. Don’t be caught drawing dead - download PNW Radio, learn a little poker and become part of Australasia’s largest poker community!

For those that missed this years Aussie Millions, you once again missed one of the greatest stops on the international tour.

While there may have been less players for this years main event, the actual series was just as good if not better than previous years. During this years series, there was a million dollar buy-in cash game scheduled. Now this type of game doesn't exactly come together every day of the week. The lineup was debated for a few weeks, but in the end it was two players that would take their seat at the table...Patrick Antonius and Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan.

After a nice little $500K session, the boys lowered the buy-in for the mere mortal players in the the rest of the world to $200,000, and this meant the game would pick up a handfull of new hopefulls.

During this ring game, agruably Greatest Poker Hand in History was dealt. Check out this article to see if you agree with this statement, it is surely one to remember.

GREATEST POKER HAND IN HISTORY

 

 

PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, have launched an incredible online satellite series for the upcoming PokerNews Cup.

Running for the next 5 weeks, PokerStars have satellites running every Thursday-Saturday ($32+$5)14:00 EST, with an online final each Sunday ($500+$30) 14:00 EST, that guarantees an incredible 2 packages for the event. Each satellite also carries a guarantee as well, so now you have tons of chances to qualify for this majestic event.

Each package is valued at €6,000 and includes the following:

* Entry to the €1,500 Main Event
* Entry to Event 4 €300 Pot Limit Omaha side event
* Accommodation at the 5 Star Alpine Palace
* Helicopter transfers from Saltzburg airport
* Cash for travel + Spending
* Daily ski passes
* Team PokerNews Party invite
* 2x1 hour Sauna voucher

With all these chances to qualify, there are no excuses for you not to be there taking part in this incredible event.

You can download PokerStars here, or head on over to PokerNetwork to read the full PokerStars review and see for yourself why they are the biggest online poker site in the world.

You can find the events listed on PokerStars underTOURNEY>>PRIVATE>>PokerNews Cup Alpine

 

 

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.

 

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.

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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.

The Party Poker Premier League has announced the latest additions to the line-up.

Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan and Peter Eastgate join 10 of the worlds elite players battling it out for over $1.25 Million.

See the whole line-up here.

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