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Ronaldo on his way to Asia Championship of Poker
There are people you expect to see on the Asia Pacific Poker Tour. The regs, if you will. Then there are people who you're not surprised to see, like ElkY, Randy Lew, or Steve O'Dwyer. And then there...
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2015 ACOP: Move over for the Main Event
There's no denying that poker in Macau is flourishing. Once an emerging market, the poker landscape here has shown us steady and impressive growth. A driving force behind that popularity is the Asia...
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2015 ACOP Day 1A: A sense of stardom
The Asia Championship of Poker Main Event started with a sense of stardom this afternoon. Players pulled up seats for the 3pm start to Day 1A and proceedings began with a few words from none other than...
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2015 ACOP: Sukonthachartnant scoops High Roller
What a whirlwind we just witnessed! It was the final seven who showed up to do battle in the 2015 ACOP High Roller today and after less than three hours of play a champion has emerged. That honour goes...
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2015 ACOP Day 1A: Darts 'til dawn
What better way to celebrate ACOP Main Event Eve than with a different type of tournament? That seemed to be the sentiment last night as poker players packed the Music World Karaoke Bar for some...
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2015 ACOP Day 1A: Li leads late in the day
A field of familiar faces. That's probably the best way to describe Day 1A here at the ACOP Main Event. A walk across the tournament floor here at PokerStars LIVE Macau and any poker fan could see that...
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2015 ACOP Day 1A: Yao, Andrejevic and Seidel round out top three
Seven levels, several notables and 63 remaining. The ACOP Main Event Day 1A is a wrap. Players were fresh from a different sort of tournament last night before football legend Ronaldo Nazario kicked...
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2015 ACOP Day 1B: Back to the action
Notable names and bigger numbers. That's what we're expecting here today for Day 1B of the ACOP Main Event. Yesterday saw 110 runners pack the tournament floor here at PokerStars LIVE Macau and that...
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2015 ACOP Day 1B: Railing Ronaldo
It's a rare sight that a poker player has their own security on the tournament floor. Today, however, that's exactly what we're witnessing. Football superstar Ronaldo Nazario is among the field here...
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2015 ACOP Day 1B: Team Pros out in force
One of the added bonuses of buying in to a great tournament like the ACOP Main Event is the chance to play with the Team PokerStars Pros. For those among the field today it's highly likely that they'll...
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2015 ACOP Day 1B: Shalamov joins hunt, Wakeman among leaders
We're entering the home stretch of this Day 1 flight now. Before play kicked off we were expecting big things and that's exactly what we saw. It didn't take long for yesterday's field of 100 to be...
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2015 ACOP Day 1B: Ojiri owns the night
It was back to the action at PokerStars LIVE Macau this afternoon, and with seven levels in the books, Day 1B is a wrap. By the time play concluded we had seen 145 new players enter, eclipsing...
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2015 ACOP Day 2: Chasing glory
Day 2. Where the survivors from the first two opening flights will battle it out in a bid to edge closer to the next ACOP Main Event title. We don't quite yet know what they'll be playing for, with...
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2015 ACOP Day 2: Australians firing on all cylinders
The Australian dollar has been on the decline recently. We wouldn't blame you for thinking that'd mean an absence of Aussies at this ACOP series in Macau, but that's evidently not the case as the field...
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2015 ACOP Day 2: Notable knockouts as registration closes
Late registration is locked out! The field is capped at 260 entrants and with that we can reveal what everyone will be playing for. First place will be an impressive HK$5,885,000 (~US$760,000) from a...
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2015 ACOP Day 2: Li leads the charge into Day 3
157 made it to Day 2. 92 of them won't be able to say the same for Day 3. Today was host to five 90-minute levels at PokerStars LIVE Macau, finishing up just in time for the ACOP Players Party. Late...
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2015 ACOP Day 3: It's go time
Let's go! Day 3 has just kicked off here at PokerStars LIVE Macau for the ACOP Main Event. The 65 returning players will be chasing the HK$5,885,000 (~US$760,000) top prize along with the prestigious...
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2015 ACOP Day 3: Things are heating up
It's a comfortable 25 degrees Celsius here in Macau tonight but on the poker tables things are really heating up. Day 3 is underway and while it's still early we've already seen chips flying. One of...
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2015 ACOP Day 3: Chipping up for charity
Before Day 3 of the ACOP Main Event kicked off this afternoon it was a fun-filled tournament for charity that stole the show here at PokerStars LIVE Macau. Ronaldo was back to the felt, as were Team...
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2015 ACOP Day 3: A break for beer pong
The tournament clock has just ticked over to the final level of the night, and while the prospects of a Day 4 appearance lingers, a few of the players here will not only be fighting to make it through...
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