The R3,000,000 All Africa Poker Tournament, which took place this past weekend, 29-31 July 2010, at Piggs Peak Hotel and Casino has a new champion - MJ Pieters. Pieters became the chip leader early on in the game and carried his consistent play through to the final table. After hours on the felt, it was Pieters’ A K of which paired the board and knocked out previous AAPT champion Ryan Eber securing him the July 2010 AAPT title and the winning pot of R1,000,000.

The upcoming R3,000,000 All Africa Poker Tournament is expected to provide a feast of entertainment for poker fans. With a lineup including of some of SA’s top players like Ray Rahme, Ryan Eber, Gareth Kalil, Ryan Brauer and Jay Sookoo, it is anyone’s guess who will take the title.

So the man in your life has taken up the dreaded game of poker. To many women this spells widowhood – lonesome evenings and weekends without your guy, while he bluffs, check-raises and goes all-in on the felt or online. To make it even worse, you are subjected to a detailed hand-by-hand dissection of his game when he returns. Any free time is spent honing his skills, reading poker magazines and watching poker on TV.

The 18^th All Africa Poker Tournament concluded on Sunday 23 August and will go down in the Southern African poker archives as a competition of records. Wessel Jacobs (44) from Durban took the R1 million winning pot, in what will be remembered as the longest final table in the history of the All Africa Poker Tournament.  For almost 10 hours Jacobs kept his cool, playing the Ace of Spades and 7 of Hearts as the final hand, which won him the tournament and knocking Joe Rahme out in second place..

With just two days left until the August R3,500,000 All Africa Poker Tournament kicks off, excitement is mounting as to who will take the Million Rand 1st place pot.  After the exceptional performance of the Southern African team at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas last month, both the local and international poker community will be watching with interest to see how players fair at this tournament.

BLUFF Magazine South Africa has announced the launch of its national Babes of BLUFF model search. BLUFF is looking for 12 ‘babes’ to be the magazine’s official ambassadors in 2010.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has released its 2009 World Standings and the Southern African team has been ranked 14th.  This is an exceptional achievement for the All Africa Poker Team, which saw 23 of Southern Africa’s top players participating at 57 WSOP bracelet events over the six weeks of June and July, the most heralded, longest running and richest poker tournament in the world.