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APPT8 Macau Day 3: Looking to fulfil the perfect story
Three tables remain in the APPT8 Macau Main Event. Generally that would mean there was less chance of some Asia-Pacific history being made. That's not the case here though. There is still at least one...
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APPT8 Macau Day 3: Moving up the Asia Player of the Year ranks
It's getting to that point in the day when discussing the Asia Player of the Year becomes very relevant. Its big events like the APPT Macau Main Event, and the concurrently running High Roller side...
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APPT8 Macau Day 3: Great Scott! Mcgarrity leads the final nine
"Can we start later tomorrow, I'm tired," said Cyril Andre after Feng Wen Chen had been eliminated in 10th place to usher in the final table of the APPT8 Macau Main Event. It was probably a sentiment...
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APPT8 Macau: Final table player profiles
Seat 1: Carlos Chang, 27 (Chinese Taipei) - 935,000 in chips Carlos Chang is one of Taiwan's most successful tournament players with over seven years experience in the game. Chang has a number of...
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APPT8 Macau Day 4: Nine set to become one
Dinh Le. Eddie Sabat. Dermot Blain. Victorino Torres. Randy Lew. Alexandre Chieng. These are all the names that have been immortalised as victors of APPT Macau. Sometime late on Sunday evening one more...
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APPT8 Macau Day 4: Three gone in a flash
If the rate of attrition continues at this pace, the latest champion on Season 8 of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour will be crowned before dinner and have plenty of time to celebrate the night away. The...
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APPT8 Macau Day 4: Two Taiwanese players down
The rapid-fire pace of the first three eliminations of the APPT8 Macau final table was never likely to keep up. It was of course possible, but simply unlikely. That's what I was thinking anyway. But I...
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APPT8 Macau Day 4: Croc looking to snap up some history
Can Billy "The Croc" Argyros do what no man before him has ever managed to achieve? That was the big question before today began. You see, no player has ever won two APPT titles. To be honest, the...
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APPT8 Macau Day 4: Croc crushed as France and China fight for title
Asia Pacific Poker Tour history will not be made tonight. It wasn't from lack of effort though. It was only a short while ago that we discussed the possibility of Billy "The Croc" Argyros becoming he...
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APPT8 Macau: Jiajun Liu makes it back-to-back for China
The collective ears of the PokerStars LIVE Macau poker room are bleeding. Never in almost five years of covering tournaments around the world have I heard such a deafening roar of celebration. That's...
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2014 ACOP schedule unveiled
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour today unveiled the 21-event tournament schedule for the 2014 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) which takes place at 'PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams' from October 24...
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ACOP Platinum Series V: The Summer kickoff in Asia
It's summertime, and the Asian poker circuit is about to heat up with four tournament series taking place over a 7-week span. ACOP Platinum Series V kicks things off from June 26-29. The 4-day, 4-event...
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Peter Au wins ACOP Platinum Series V main event
The PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams poker room completed ACOP Platinum Series V over the weekend, with the four-day series drawing a total of 543 players and HK $1,441,038 in prize money. The HK...
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Slyde becomes official watch sponsor of PokerStars LIVE Macau
Luxury Swiss watch brand Slyde will be the Official Watch Sponsor of PokerStars LIVE Macau for the current APPT Season. Slyde will be supplying specially-designed watches to both the winner of August's...
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MPC21: Just around the corner
It's hard to imagine a time when the Macau Poker Cup (MPC) was just a 3-day series with 30-something players in the Red Dragon main event but that's exactly how it all started in 2008. Then, this past...
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MPC21: The Red Dragon's coming of age
In many parts of the world turning 21 means the things you have already likely been doing for the last three to five years suddenly becomes acceptable in the eyes of the law. That's probably what makes...
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MPC21: Day 1A live updates
2:55am: Yang Goes All the Wei on Day 1a The final five hands of the night have been dealt at each of the six remaining tables and it looks like approximately 50 players have bagged up some chips as Day...
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MPC21: Yang goes all the Wei on Day 1A
It's amazing how quickly a new home feels, well, like home. You see, around eight hours ago when we walked into the unfamiliar second floor of the City of Dreams for Day 1a of the MPC21 Red Dragon, we...
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MPC21: Day 1B live updates
Emning Zhang leads Day 1B by a nose There are 42 happy poker players leaving PokerStars LIVE Macau right now. They all managed to do what 106 others couldn't - make it through Day 1B of the MPC21 Red...
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MPC21: Zhang leads Day 1b by a nose
Finding the end-of-day chip leader during the last ten minutes of the day is an important business for a poker blog. Yes, we may be days away from the final table, or even the money bubble, but...
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