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The Ace of diamonds was enough to make poker player Julian Cohen a load of cash. Photo supplied With Australian players making up eight of the nine places at the final table of the weekend's big poker tournament in Queenstown, it was no surprise to see the winner's cheque crossing the...

Play gets serious with the final table insight on Day 3 of the NZPT Queenstown – SKYCITY Alpine Adventure Players from around the world were lining up outside the SKYCITY Queenstown Casino for Day 3 of the New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown – SKYCITY Alpine Adventure building their strategy for making their.

Day 2 of the New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown – SKYCITY Alpine Adventure saw the field of players drop from 56 to 35 with those remaining heading back to take their seat on Day...

With Day 1a and Day 1b complete at the New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown – SKYCITY Alpine Adventure, 56 players have gone through to Day 2 of the event which kicked off today (Friday 23 July) at...

More than 100 poker players are in Queenstown this week to compete in the New Zealand Poker Tour (NZPT) Queenstown Skycity Alpine Adventure...

With only a week to go until one of the biggest poker tournaments to hit New Zealand shores begins, poker players from around New Zealand and overseas are preparing themselves to take away the top...

Cadbury Chocolate Carnival, Dunedin What: Various chocolate-themed activities will be held around parts of Dunedin. Includes a chocolate cooking class, chocolate sculpting, the Cadbury Jaffa Race and the Cadbury Crunchie Gold Rush train and...

This September will see SKYCITY Auckland overrun with world class poker players counting their chips and playing their hands in the return of New Zealand's largest and most prestigious poker tournament, the SKYCITY Festival of...

Sky High Sweets These School Holidays SKY TOWER TRANSFORMS INTO NEW ZEALAND’S HIGHEST SWEET SHOP “Come and see our lolly shop, it’s up the Sky Tower near the...

Up to 200 national and international players who "know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em" will vie for an anticipated prize pool of $450,000, at the second annual New Zealand Poker Tour, at Skycity Queenstown Casino, next...

The country's premier poker tour makes its mid-winter stopover in Queenstown next month - but Aucklanders won't even have to leave town to qualify. The Queenstown - SkyCity Alpine Adventure will offer players an expected total prize pool of $450,000 in the Main Event, which has a $2,500.

MEDIA RELEASE June 2010 New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown Back for 2010 SKYCITY Entertainment Group is pleased to announce the second annual New Zealand Poker Tour (NZPT) Queenstown – SKYCITY Alpine Adventure at SKYCITY Queenstown Casino.

They've only played one game and already secured a place in the history books, now it's your chance to get behind the All Whites as they foot it against the world's best.

If you want to attract and retain the best chefs and waiters, you need to give them a framework that enables them to refine their skills. Veronica Johnston canvasses what’s on offer in training opportunities and finds not everyone agrees on how high the bar should be set.

When SKYCITY Auckland hosts this year's Nestle Toque d'Or awards ceremony, it will be familiar territory for three of the company's staff members who have competed in the event in the past.

Catch The Football World Cup Live At SKYCITY Football fever will be hitting Auckland from today until 11 July as the Football World Cup kicks off in South Africa.

From Monday and for a month, Auckland's iconic Sky Tower will light up the night sky in celebration of Matariki. The Maori New Year celebrations will begin across New Zealand on 14 June with a dawn karakia marking the arrival of the first moon after the rising of the star cluster Matariki.

SkyCity Hotel in Auckland will complete a NZ $12 million refurbishment in October. The project will encompass the addition of new galleries, artwork and corridors to compliment the 242 improved...

Why Mike Clarke of SkyCity willingly went into firefighting mode.

SkyCity is preparing to take a punt on what technology features customers will expect from five-star hotel rooms in three to five years' time. Chief information officer Mike Clarke says the casino operator has talked to customers and prospective suppliers to try to define a "room of the future".