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2020 Australian Poker Tour – Gold Coast Tournament will be held from 17 th till 21 st of June at the Southport Sharks. A detailed schedule of the tournament will be published soon. Keep informed of all upcoming poker events/tournaments near you by following our Poker Tournament Calendar updated daily. World Poker Tour WPTDeepStacks Gold Coast 2021 is a poker tournament in Queensland,Australia.The Star Gold Coast (formerly Jupiters Hotel and Casino) is a casino and hotel located in the suburb of Broadbeach on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. The casino, which was Queensland’s first, is situated next to the Nerang River and is. The 10-event schedule will feature buy-ins ranging from AU$330 to AU$5,000, headlined by the AU$2,500 Main Event starting from 4 October. “The World Poker Tour is proud to add WPT Australia to our roster of wonderful global events and The Star Gold Coast as a casino partner,” said Angelica Hael, VP of Global Tour Management for the WPT. Enjoy all of your favorite games in our 86,000-square-foot casino. The Gold Coast offers nearly 1,900 of your favorite slot and video poker machines, as well as 49 table games, including Craps, Blackjack, Pai Gow Poker, Super Fun 21, Roulette, and one of the best selections of midi and mini-baccarat you’ll find off the Strip.
In 2019, the World Poker Tour made its first trip to Australia. The festival ran for 11 days with 11 tournaments at The Star Gold Coast in Queensland, in its newly-remodeled poker room no less.
Star Poker Gold Coast is home to the only professionally dealt cash games on the Gold Coast. Cash games are back from midday Friday 11 December and then from 10am, 7 days a week from Saturday 12 December.
To say it was a hit would be an understatement. Many of the WPT staff – some Aussies by birth – attended the festival, as did celebrities like Shane Warne and poker pros like Joe Hachem. The series was a success.
It should be no surprise, then, that the WPT announced plans to return to The Star Gold Coast.
Next Month for WPTDS Gold Coast
What is a surprise, however, is how fast the WPT is actually going to return to Australia. It will be there from April 24 to May 4.
The WPTDeepStacks Gold Coast festival will kick off on Friday, April 24 and run through Monday, May 4, with the WPTDS Main Event set for April 30 to May 4.
And we already have the schedule, courtesy of the World Poker Tour. Here’s a quick rundown of the poker tournaments on tap:
- Event 1 / April 24-26: $750 NLHE Opening Event (two starting days, single reentry per day)
- Event 2 / April 26: $2K NLHE
- Event 3 / April 27: $330 NLHE Super Stack Freezeout
- Event 4 / April 28: $330 PLO (one reentry)
- Event 5 / April 29: $440 NLHE Big Bounty (one reentry, $200 bounties)
- Event 6 / April 30-May4: $1,500 NLHE Main Event (three starting days, single reentry per day)
- Event 7 / May 1: $440 NLHE Mega Stack Super Turbo Freezeout
- Event 8 / May 3: $550 PLO (one reentry)
- Event 9 / May 3-4: $5K NLHE 5K Challenge (reentries, Day 2 entry okay)
- Event 10 / May 4: $440 NLHE Deep Stack Freezeout
Bigger and Better in Season XIX
The World Poker Tour is kicking off its Season XIX in July. Always thinking ahead, the WPT is already planning its schedule and put WPT Australia on the calendar for late September and early October of this year.
In fact, the two biggest WPT brands are combining to offer the most poker tournament options possible. The WPT DeepStacks will be in its Season VII and offer its WPTDS Gold Coast Main Event September 24-28, while the WPT’s main tour will offer its WPT Australia Main Event October 1-5.
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The entire WPT Australia festival will start on September 24 and run through October 6. The overall schedule has not been posted yet – it is more than six months away. But there is little doubt that the combination of the two tours will bring a sizeable list of tournaments to The Star Gold Coast for that series.
What is known is that the WPTDS Main Event will require a $1,100 buy-in, and the WPT Main Event will offer a $5,400 buy-in affair.
♥️April 30- May 4, 2020/WPTDS Gold Coast (AUD $1,500)
♥️ Sep. 24-28, 2020/WPTDS Australia (AUD $1,100)
♥️ October 1-5, 2020/ WPT Australia ($5,400)
♥️ April 29-May 3, 2021/WPTDS Gold Coast (AUD $1,500)@WPT@WPTDeepStackshttps://t.co/XTl1VUK72Z
— Cathy Zhao 媛媛 (@CathyZhaoyuan) March 4, 2020
Finding and Solidifying a Partnership
The WPT has had many casino partners through the years. And when they find a casino venue for a World Poker Tour event – and everything goes well during the inaugural visit – that poker room becomes a part of the WPT family.
It seems this has happened with The Star Gold Coast.
Its COO, Jess Mellor, said that the casino and Australia as a whole warmly welcomes the WPT back in all capacities. “Last year’s event showed the poker world that The Star Gold Coast is a must-attend poker destination, and we look forward to showcasing our property to more players from around the globe.”
WPT VP of Global Tour Management Angelica Hael – born in Australia – noted that the relationship between the WPT and The Star continues to blossom, and the three upcoming series will offer more reasons for poker players to visit that poker room. “It brings me great joy to see poker continue to thrive in my native country and bring the WPT Champions Cup to Australia in Season XIX.”
WPT Player of the Year Races
For each season, the WPT runs its overall Player of the Year race for players who compete in their main tour events. The Season XIX WPT Australia will qualify its players to compete.
There is also the WPT DeepStacks Asia-Pacific Player of the Year competition for each season. All WPTDS tournaments in the region award points, tracked on a leaderboard throughout the season. In the end, the grand prize winner will receive a WPT Passport for events around the world worth $10K and a trophy. The second-place finisher receives a WPT Passport worth $3,500, and the third-place finisher wins $1,500 worth of buy-ins.
Incidentally, the player who won the WPT Australia last year, Hari Varma, is tied with two other players for first place on that leaderboard for the current season. The WPTDS events scheduled for next month could be the deciding factor for that POY race.
The @WPT is coming back to my home with a $1500 main on the 30th of April Woohoo! #GoldCoasthttps://t.co/hd0doCrENV
— Ricky Kroesen ?? (@rickykroesen) March 4, 2020
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Poker players in Australia, particularly those looking to play for high stakes, got some welcome news earlier this week.
Poker Central announced the creation of a new tournament series, Australian Poker Open, to be held at the end of January through the beginning of February at The Star Gold Coast in Queensland. The festival will comprise a seven-event schedule similar in structure to the popular Poker Masters, with escalating buy-ins culminating in a $100,000 event.
Furthermore, following the Australian Poker Open, Poker Central will also host its flagship Super High Roller Bowl event.
Both events will be streamed on PokerGO. They're also jointly presented along with the World Poker Tour, according to a Poker Central presser.
Scheduled directly following the immensely popular Aussie Millions series in Melbourne, the addition of these two events makes for a packed poker schedule Down Under at the beginning of 2020.
Australian Poker Open
The schedule for the first Australian Poker Open will look pretty familiar to poker fans who have closely followed Poker Central events like the Poker Masters and U.S. Poker Open. It will be carried by no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha events entirely, though, whereas those events featured some short deck and mixed games.
2020 Australian Poker Open Schedule
| Date | Event # | Tournament |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 25 | 1 | AU$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em |
| Jan. 26 | 2 | AU$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha |
| Jan. 27 | 3 | AU$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em |
| Jan. 28 | 4 | AU$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha |
| Jan. 29 | 5 | AU$25,000 No-Limit Hold'em |
| Jan. 30 | 6 | AU$50,000 No-Limit Hold'em |
| Jan. 31 | 7 | AU$100,000 No-Limit Hold'em |
Most likely, each tournament will be scheduled for two days, with the final tables streamed on PokerGO the day after the start date listed.
A points leaderboard will be tallied throughout the festival, as in other Poker Central series. The winner will be named Australian Poker Open champion and receive a trophy and AU$50,000 in bonus prize money.
Super High Roller Bowl Australia
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The Super High Roller Bowl has only been around since 2015, but it has quickly become one of poker's must-watch events. Fans around the world tuning in to PokerGO get to watch some of the world's best battle with cards-up coverage and a slow structure providing appointment viewing.
After starting out based in the PokerGO Studio outside ARIA, the SHRB has branched out in recent years. The Australia event will mark its fifth different country and fourth different continent as it embarks on its ninth overall iteration.
The tournament starts Feb. 2 and lasts three days.
“Creating the Australian Poker Open and Super High Roller Bowl Australia represents a key milestone for Poker Central and an important moment for our business as we further our international reach,” said Poker Central President Sampson Simmons in the press release. “As we bring our premier high roller event brands to new players and new destinations around the globe, PokerGO subscribers continue reaping the rewards of captivating poker content featuring the world’s best players.”
List of Super High Roller Bowl Champions
| Edition | Buy-In | Entries | Champion | Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | $500,000 | 43 | Brian Rast | $7,525,000 |
| II | $300,000 | 49 | Rainer Kempe | $5,000,000 |
| III | $300,000 | 56 | Christoph Vogelsang | $6,000,000 |
| Macau | HK$2.1M | 75 | Justin Bonomo | HK$37.83M (~$4.8M) |
| IV | $300,000 | 48 | Justin Bonomo | $5,000,000 |
| V | $300,000 | 36 | Isaac Haxton | $3,672,000 |
| London | £250,000 | 12 | Cary Katz | £2,100,000 (~$2.6M) |
| Bahamas | $250,000 | 51 | Daniel Dvoress | $4,080,000 |
The price point of AU$250,000 makes SHRB Australia slightly more affordable than past editions. The exchange rate means the buy-in is roughly equivalent to $170,000, whereas previous SHRB's have cost between $250,000 and $500,000 to enter.
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From 2011 through 2016, Aussie Millions hosted the AU$250K challenge — won three times in four years by Phil Ivey — but the event was canceled in 2017 and hasn't made a reappearance since as the appetite for ultra-high stakes Down Under has seemingly waned. SHRB organizers are betting there's still a market.
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The scheduling of Australian Poker Open and the subsequent SHRB, with the former kicking off Jan. 25, is unlikely to be coincidental.
That date puts it one day after the finale of Aussie Millions Main Event's final table. As Aussie Millions begins Jan. 4 and runs continuously through Jan. 24, the new Poker Central festivals make for a full month of uninterrupted poker action in Australia.
As Aussie Millions has plenty of high roller events on tap as well with the AU$25K Challenge, the AU$50K Challenge and the AU$100K Challenge, plus the AU$25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, bankrolls will undoubtedly be made and broken over the course of the all of the action.
Between Aussie Millions and the two Poker Central events, poker players of every buy-in level in Australia will have something to look forward to starting in early January. Stay tuned to PokerNews throughout the month for coverage of Aussie Millions and tournament recaps from the Australian Poker Open and Super High Roller Bowl.
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