July 31 2011, Barry Carter

Download PokerStars to play in an exclusive PokerNetwork League with weekly added Sunday Cubed packages and an ANZPT Package to the eventual league winner. All tournaments start at friendly times for those in the Eastern Hemisphere, and they’re open to all PokerStars players.

To celebrate the launch of the new $50,000 Guaranteed Sunday Cubed Tournament on PokerStars, we bring you the exclusive PokerNetwork ANZPT League. You can fight it out for added cash, Sunday Cubed tokens, and even a package to play in ANZPT Darwin, which takes place Oct. 4 through 8.

The PokerNetwork League

Catering to players in the Eastern Hemisphere, the PokerNetwork League features both an engaging format and a ton of added value prizes. It begins with weekly league events for eight weeks in a variety of poker formats. The winners of each league event will win cash, league points, and the first-place finishers gets a free ticket to play in the $50,000 Guaranteed Sunday Cubed Tournament on PokerStars.

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Each tournament has an exclusive password, which will be made available on the day of the tournament on the PokerNetwork forum.

The top 27 players in the league will be manually registered for a PokerNetwork ANZPT League Final on Sept. 28, 2000, AEST. The prize pool is as follows:

1. ANZPT Darwin Package (Value to be confirmed)
2. $400
3. $300
4. $200
5. $100

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Score More Points

This league is quite unique in that there are some novel ways to score points. Anyone who makes the final table will score anywhere from 1 to 10 points, but will also score an additional point for every tournament played.

Also, every player can choose one of the final four tournaments (between Aug. 31 and Sept. 21) to be declared a Wild Card Tournament, which will score a player double league points. You need to declare your wild card tournament before it starts in the dedicated forum thread over at PokerNetwork.

About the Sunday Cubed

The winner of each league event will also win a ticket to play in the $50,000 Guaranteed Sunday Cubed, which takes place every Sunday at 0500 ET. A cubed tournament is one that has one rebuy and one add-on – three potential buy-ins in total. It is a very popular format, because it bridges the gap between a traditional freeze out and the all-action frenzy of a rebuy tournament.

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About ANZPT Darwin

The third season of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour is scheduled to make its third stop at SKYCITY Casino in Darwin, Australia, from Oct. 4 through 8. The buy-in and prize pool are yet to be announced but last time around Danny Leaoasavaii took down this event for AUD $57,000. You could be going for free if you take down the PokerNetwork League final on Sept. 28.

This promotion is open to all PokerStars players, no matter where they signed up. If you don’t have a PokerStars account, make sure you sign up through PokerNews using marketing code “POKERNEWS.COM” to get a 100% up to $600 first-deposit bonus, and to ensure eligibility for any future exclusive promotions.

You will also need to be a member of the PokerNetwork forum to get the exclusive password, which is released the day of the tournament, for each league event.

If you experience any problems with this or any of our promotions, please contact our Ticketed Promo Support System.

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July 31 2011, Josh Bell

There was a sense of déjà vu kicking around the Crown Poker Room in Melbourne, Australia, as Day 3 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne Main Event came to a close. Phillip Willcocks yet again bagged a staggering amount of chips and ended the night as the chip leader.

Willcocks began the day with almost double his nearest competitor and after nine hours of play, Willcocks again found himself with almost double his nearest competitor. Willcocks will begin the final table with 2,317,000 in chips, which happens to be over quarter of all the chips in play.

How Willcocks managed to accumulate such a massive chip stack became the story of the day. It can be attributed to a misstep from the young Koray Turker. After the bubble burst, both Willcocks and Turker had dominating chip leads, and there were no players close to the towering stacks of these two. All they had to do was stay away from each other and they would both be primed for a deep run and almost certainly a final table finish.

All was well until Turker tried to get tricky with a busted straight draw on a board showing . Turker had already fired bullets on the flop and turn, and continued this aggression on the river, when he jammed his remaining 650,000-chip stack into a pot of around 400,000 on the river. Willcocks made the call with for a flush, and Turker showed his , exiting the building in 28th place for a $8,600 score.

Some of the prominent names who managed to finish in the money, but fell short of the elusive final table include, PokerStars Team Online Pro Keiran Harris, Ricky Kroesen, Antonis Kambouroglou, Michael Guzzardi and James Obst.

When Aharon Shabtay was eliminated in 10th place after almost nine hours of play, there was applause and handshakes galore as the nine remaining players reveled in their impressive final table finish.

Willcocks with the dominating chip lead, is the man to beat. He will begin the final table with a staggering 30 percent of all the chips and in good position to win the title of APPT Melbourne Main Event Champion.

Not only will the nine returning be playing for the title and being able to make a name for themselves as one of the best players in the Australasian region, but they will also be vying for the $330,000 first-place prize that goes with all the bragging rights.

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