Clik here to view.
Rui Chen Rules the Final Nine of the 2012 MPCC Main Event
A tournament reporter never makes plans for the evening of a tournament day. Regardless of what time the day starts, it generally won't finish before the sun is down. Right now, through the doors of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2012 MPCC Main Event Final Table Player Profiles
The 2012 Macau poker Cup Championship began on Wednesday and saw 270 players pony up HK$20,000 over two Day 1 flights, creating a prize pool HK$4,818,960. After four massive days of poker, the field...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2012 MPCC Final Table: Level 19-20 (blinds 6,000-12,000, ante 1,000)
2.40pm: Break Time On one of the final hands before the break, Jessica Ngu was able to four-bet shove preflop and get a fold from Sunny Jung who three -bet Rui Chen's opening raise. With that, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2012 MPCC Final Table: Level 21-22 (blinds 10,000-20,000, ante 2,000)
4.50pm: Break Number Two With more than half the final table being eliminated, the remaining four players have been sent on a 10-minute break. 4.45pm: Big Pot for Sekiya Yosuke Sekiya is just a couple...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2012 MPCC Final Table: Level 23-24 (blinds 15,000-30,000, ante 3,000)
7.00pm: Three Head to Break Following the elimination of Sunny Jung, the three remaining players have been sent on a 10-minute break. 6.55pm: Sunny Jung Eliminated in 4th Place (HK$361,500) After more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2012 MPCC Final Table: Level 25-26 (blinds 25,000-50,000, ante 5,000)
9.20pm: Three Break for Ten The three remaining players have been sent on a break at the 2012 MPCC Main Event final table. Ten minutes and they will be back in their seats to try and crown a champion!...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2012 MPCC Final Table: Level 27-28 (blinds 40,000-80,000, ante 10,000)
10.35pm: Take a Time Out The last level of poker has been some of the most intense we have ever witnessed. The two players are heading on a much-deserved 10-minute break! 11.25pm: You Couldn't Write a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2012 MPCC Final Table: Level 29 (blinds 50,000-100,000, ante 10,000)
Rui Chen Wins the 2012 Macau Poker Cup Main Event Championship! It was one of the most exciting final tables we have ever witnessed. It was one of the most dramatic heads-up battles in the history of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
China's Chen Crowned the Champion of the 2012 MPCC
Sometimes final tables are over in a flash. That was not this final table. Other times they take a standard seven to eight hours. That was not this final table. No, this final table was different, with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vivian Im leads the ladies in Macau
Ladies events can be a controversial topic in the poker community. Some established female players avoid playing them altogether, while others see great value in competing in a field where they believe...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ElkY and nanonoko among new ACOP confirmations
PokerStars Macau has confirmed that Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier and Randy 'nanonoko' Lew will be coming to the 2012 Asia Championship of Poker(ACOP) which runs from October 26 to November 11 at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ACOP Ready to Launch
Nearly a year has passed since the PokerStars Macau announcement of the 2012 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) and the official Macau leg for APPT Season 6 is now only 2 weeks away from its October 26...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Make it to Macau, ACOP for $700 or less
You want to go to Macau. You may not know it, but rest assured, you do. You want to fly into the Hong Kong airport (a full city of luxury under one roof). You want to take the ferry across to Macau....
View ArticleClik here to view.
APPT Macau: Commerce and cards in Macau
They're edging toward the end of the first 90-minute level of the $100,000 (HKD) Asia Championship of Poker Main Event. More than 160 players have already taken their seats, and with four hours of late...
View ArticleClik here to view.
APPT Macau: Going mobile
"Would you like to play?" So comes the invitation, offered repeatedly through the days and nights here in the Grand Waldo Conference and Exhibition Centre, site of the 2012 Asia Championship of Poker....
View ArticleClik here to view.
APPT Macau: Team PokerStars came to play
Registration has now closed as we move through Level 3 of the $100,000 (HKD) Asia Championship of Poker Main Event. All told 184 players entered the tournament, creating a huge prize pool of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
APPT Macau: The ACOP, a new tradition for poker in Asia
This inaugural Asia Championship of Poker series features a full schedule of events, 18 of which count toward the 2012 Asia Player of the Year race currently led by Japan's Yosuke Sekiya. Sekiya is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
APPT Macau: Main Event Day 1 concludes, Yue Hin Lam leads
A relatively short Day 1 has come to a close at the Asia Championship of Poker Main Event, with play halting a half-hour into Level 5 so as to allow players and staff to attend the ACOP Welcome Party...
View ArticleClik here to view.
APPT Macau: ACOP Main Event party continues into Day 2
"It's a 'party start.'" So explained APPT President Danny McDonagh when asked about the later-than-usual 5 p.m. starting time for today's second day of play in the $100,000 (HKD) buy-in Asia...
View ArticleClik here to view.
APPT Macau: Poker Gangnam style
This marks our sixth straight day here at the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex, the first four spent with the Asia Championship of Poker Warm-Up event won by Jeff Rossiter of Australia, and yesterday...
View Article