It’s over!
For the third year in a row, the APPT Grand Final championship trophy is staying in Australia! Having worked his stack back to as much as 2.3 million in the final heads-up, Ernst Hermans called a pre-flop button raise from Aaron Benton of 325,000 to see a flop of 7d-9c-7s.
2009 PokerStars.net APPT new grand final champion Aaron Benton
Hermans checked, Benton fired out 375,000 and Hermans called. The dealer discovered the Qc on the turn and Benton checked; Hermans shoved and Benton just called, good with Kd-Kc against Hermans 9d-8d.
Benton’s …

The biggest field of the tournament is definitely going to play tomorrow at the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final Day 1c. And they will be trying to get into the pack of 68 players who survived day 1B (out of 109 starters). At the moment the total field is 190, and 119 have already advanced to day two.
When the lights were switched off at the tournament room. Veteran Leo Boxell, 2000 Australasian Poker champion, was at the top of the hill with 147.700 on chips. Tom Grigg is on the pursuit …

The live poker scene is burning. Not only we have the EPT Prague going on the Chzech capital, but in the other side of the globe, the PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final has just kicked off at the Star City Casino.
A total of 81 players played on day 1a, and we lost 30 of them during the day: only 51 of them will return on friday for day two. A lot of known faces have attended the tournament as the poker pro Eric Assadourian, the PokerStars player Lee “Final Table” …