Macau Poker Tournament Daily

The second season of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) began on Monday with an event in Macau, the first of five stops planned for the tour. At press time, the tournament generated over 400 entrants, each vying for their share of a HK $10 million prize pool. The buy-in to the Main Event is HK $25,000, which is about $3,200 U.S. Dollars.

This site is hosted by poker players who love travelling Asia and the region to play live tournament poker. Pokercalendar.asia is your one-stop website to know all upcoming major poker tournaments in Asia, Japan, China, Macau, Hong Kong, Korea, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Pokercalendar.asia lists all no-limit holdem poker (NLH) tournaments, pot limit omaha (PLO. Here are some details of our daily tournaments - to find them in the PokerStars software, search using the ‘Find a tournament’ text filter on the Tournaments tab. These daily freezeout tourneys run every day from 10:00-19:00 ET and feature 10,000 starting chips and 8-12 minute blind levels.

When it comes to tournament poker, the PokerStars LIVE Macau poker room inside City of Dreams is the place to go. They offer daily and regional tournaments, along with current major poker series. This second installment in my poker capital series will focus on up-‘n’-coming poker capital Macau, long-time holder of the title for gambling capital of Asia. MACAU LOW ROLLER GUIDE The city of dreams may be better known for being a high stakes paradise, which you can read all about in my Macau high roller guide. The Wynn Poker Room is the only poker room left in the north part of Macau. The room is not only known for having the widest and most consistent spread of games and limits, it is also the place to go for daily high stakes cash games, like NLH HKD500/1000.

The APPT is sponsored by PokerStars and has attracted many of the faces that make up the online poker site. The tournament is being held at the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino in Macau, which is just a short ferry ride from Hong Kong. The buy-in for the Main Event officially closes at 1:30pm local time on Wednesday afternoon. Tournament officials expect over 500 registrations by the time the smoke clears, making it one of the largest poker tournaments ever held in Asia.

Survivors of Day 1B, which was held on Tuesday, included Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, who dressed up like Batman’s nemesis The Joker to begin play. He ended the day with 15,100 chips. Grospellier won the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, cashing for $2 million. He finished 370th out of over 6,800 entrants in the World Series of Poker Main Event this year, taking home $28,950. He has six WSOP cashes in total for $128,000.

“Ultimate Poker Challenge” host Chad Brown also survived Day 1B, landing with 40,600 chips. Brown is an experienced poker pro who finished second in a $5,000 buy-in No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball (with rebuys) event during the 2008 WSOP for $324,777. He’s a PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker event winner and has also had success on NBC’s “National Heads-Up Championship.”

Ten-time WSOP bracelet winner Johnny Chan, whose online poker room recently shut its doors, also survived Day 1B. He commented in a press release distributed by PokerStars, “It’s great for Poker in Asia that there’s a major tournament like this here in Macau. It’s bringing in top players like myself and letting the world know that there is real poker here, real poker players here, and that anybody can win millions of dollars.”

Here are the top stacks in the room entering Day 2. There are over 110 players remaining:
André Wagner – 107,000
David Paul Steicke – 87,700
Kofi Farkye – 78,700
Dennis Waterman – 75,800
Daisy Cupino Wain – 70,100
Steven Djingga – 62,400
Steffan Van Khoa Da – 59,300

Others who competed in the APPT Macau tournament were 2005 WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Hachem, five-time WSOP bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen, 2006 Aussie Millions Champion Lee Nelson, 2004 WPT Ladies Event Champion Isabelle Mercier, three-time WSOP bracelet winner Barry Greenstein, 2003 WPT Legends of Poker Champion Mel Judah, and 2007 APPT High Roller Champion Eric Assadourian.

A HKD $150,000 High Roller tournament is also a part of the festivities in Macau. The champion of the Main Event will be crowned on September 9th. After the China stop, the APPT’s second season consists of:

APPT Seoul
Paradise Walker-Hill Casino – Seoul, South Korea
September 26-28, 2008

APPT Auckland
Skycity Casino – Auckland, New Zealand
October 9-12, 2008

APPT Manila
Hyatt Hotel and Casino – Manila, Philippines
November 13-16, 2008

APPT Sydney
Star City Casino – Sydney, Australia
December 2-7, 2008

Macau Poker Tournament Daily Schedule

The APPT Macau event immediately followed the Asian Poker Tour’s (APT) Macau event, which was won by Yevgeniy Timoshenko. Doyle Brunson, Todd Brunson, Johnny Chan, David “Chino” Rheem, J.C. Tran, and John Juanda all participated in that tournament, which was held at the StarWorld Hotel and Casino. Timoshenko defeated an eight-man televised final table on Sunday, just one day prior to the start of the PokerStars APPT tournament.

Macau Poker Tournament Daily

We’ll have full results from the APPT Macau tournament right here on PokerNewsDaily.com.