MPC26: Red Dragon final table player profiles
Player profiles for the final nine Red Dragon final tablists. Seat 1: Alan Lau, 30, Hong Kong -- 3,790,000 Alan Lau The 30-year old Hong Kong poker professional will be a familiar face to many at...
View ArticleMPC26: Alan Lau slays the Red Dragon
The Red Dragon once again established itself as the biggest ever freezeout tournament in Asia with a record 1,216 runners and after a week of exciting action it was 2015 Asia Player of the Year Alan...
View ArticleMPC26: High Roller coverage archive
Congratulations to MPC26 High Roller Champion Juicy Li! Juicy Li has hoisted the High Roller trophy and collected HK$2,436,000 after overcoming a record-breaking field of 130 players. 2:05am: Xuming Qi...
View ArticleSixiao Li wins record breaking MPC26 High Roller
MPC26 High Roller Champion Sixiao 'Juicy' Li After two fast-paced action-packed days China's Sixiao Li emerged triumphant over the record breaking 130-strong high-rolling field to take down the...
View Article2017 APOY: Big Three First Quarter Spotlight
It's hard to believe but we're already through the first quarter of the 2017 Asia Player of the Year (APOY) season (which runs from November 29, 2016 to October 29, 2017) and the leaderboard is full of...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: Team Pros & StarsFun
We're just two weeks away from the March 30 start date for the inaugural PokerStars Championship Macau. If you haven't already checked out the action-packed schedule then you should take a look here....
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: Tournaments Deciphered
I've been part of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour for nine of the tour's ten seasons but even after back-to-back records for APPT Macau, the PokerStars LIVE Macau poker room has never seen a tournament...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: Lucky mango (aka Steve O'Dwyer) leads $400K...
O'Dwyer leads...thanks to his lucky mango? Steve O'Dwyer. Fedor Holz. Dan Smith. Ike Haxton. We've come all the way to Macau, and yet we still end up with the usual suspects. That's because these guys...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: Zigao Yu leads after Day 1A
Let's face it. Nobody ever won anything on Day 1A of a Main Event. The plan is usually straightforward. Survive the day and go on from there. A big stack helps of course, but you have to be in it to...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: $400K Super High Roller live updates
• Steve O'Dwyer wins Super High Roller for HK$8,460,830 • Fedor Holz finishes second for HK$6,749,170 8:45pm: Steve O'Dwyer wins it all for HK$8,460,830 Level 24: Blinds 100,000/200,000 (ante 25,000)...
View ArticleO'Dwyer bests Holz in clash of the titans at PokerStars Championship Macau
It's the conundrum that has vexed physicists and philosophers since time began: What happens when irresistible force meets immovable object? Ontologically speaking, the jury is still out. But we got to...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: A bold start from Joachim Bold bags him the...
Usually by 6pm on a Day 1B of a PokerStars Championship Main Event, you're just a couple of hours away from the end of the day. But everything's different here in Macau. Today's play didn't kick off...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: Tan's the man with Peters in hot pursuit at...
Xuan Tan out in front It's been another eventful day here in Macau as Day 3 of the PokerStars Championship Main Event comes to a close. Of the 151 hopefuls that started the day, just 37 remain to...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: The high-rollers are out to play in Macau
Macau. With casinos as far as the eye can see down the Cotai strip and beyond, CNN reported that the gambling industry was seven times bigger than that of Vegas itself in 2014. And with over 34...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: Wang out in front, with Lovgren sitting pretty...
I made a post earlier saying that all the high-rollers are out to play today - and I mean it. Having just walked over to the far end of the PokerStars LIVE room to catch-up on the action, 147 had...
View ArticleHata comes back from the brink to lead Guo in PokerStars Championship Macau
Aymon Hata: Last-gasp chip leader Shot-clock or no shot-clock, things move quickly in Macau. Day 4 of the PokerStars Championship Main Event, at the PokerStars LIVE card-room at the City of Dreams,...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: Final table player profiles
Learn a bit more about the last eight at the PokerStars Championship Main Event. (All information provided by Jan Kores, PokerStars Media Coordinator.) Seat 1: Aymon Hata, 33, born in Germany, lives in...
View ArticleElliot Smith leads final six in Main Event of PokerStars Championship Macau
The top two players were separated by just one big blind this time yesterday, and a day later it's the exact same story in the PokerStars Championship Macau Main Event. Chip leader Elliot Smith leads...
View ArticlePokerStars Championship Macau: Main Event final table live updates
• CLICK TO REFRESH FOR LATEST UPDATES • PLAYERS: 6 • CHIP COUNTS | PRIZES | DOWNLOAD POKERSTARS • PLAYER PROFILES • ALL MACAU INFO | SCHEDULE | LIVE INFO • Follow @PokerStarsBlog on Twitter 11:30am:...
View ArticleIt all comes up roses for Elliot Smith at PokerStars Championship Macau
Elliot Smith pushes winnings past $2 million The sun has just set on the first PokerStars Championship Main Event to be played in Macau, but it is rising ever higher on the poker career of Elliot...
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