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APPT7 Macau: Steady progress for the silent assassins Gregg and Troyanovskiy
There's been a lot of conversation lately about the importance of politeness at the poker tables, much of it prompted by Brad Willis's excellent blog on the subject. Over here in Asia, there is almost...
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APPT7 Macau: Swift day at City of Dreams sends Lum, Carter and Nan out front
Poker has a tremendous habit of ignoring reputations. You can come to Macau as the reigning world champion, for example, buy in to a $3,000 tournament and be knocked out in round about an hour. Such...
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APPT7 Macau: Day 1B to start, stronger and more committed than ever
Yesterday evening, a 184-strong field for Day 1A of APPT Macau was hacked back to 81 players. But like the hydra of mythology, day one fields at major poker tournaments only grow more powerful the more...
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APPT7 Macau: Hitting the ground running
Action is under way on Day 1B in Macau. It's past 3.01pm so of course it is. (They run a tight ship here.) But in truth, action has been under way for quite some time as a last-chance turbo satellite...
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APPT7 Macau: Alex Niu and his menagerie of good-luck trinkets
Back at the APPT season opener in Seoul, my colleague Alex Villegas* introduced us all to Alex Niu, a television presenter, actor, sportswear ambassador and all-round superstar in Chinese Taipei....
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APPT7 Macau: The race for the riches of the Player of the Year
As much as we sometimes like to dance around the fact, poker is all about the money. You'll often hear players talk about the "glory" of winning a title or the importance of the "respect of the poker...
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APPT7 Macau: This post has a photo of Lacey Jones in it
The registration window has now slammed shut on APPT Macau, with 204 players this side of it and everyone else excluded. It means that our combined total from the opening two flights is 388 players,...
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APPT7 Macau: They come from far and wide
Let's not beat around the bush, Macau is far away. It takes about 11 hours to get to here from Europe, nine from Australia and even four hours from Tokyo or Beijing. Actually that's how long it takes...
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APPT7 Macau: Celina Lin and Raymond Wu: the perfect team?
PokerStars Blog has an inauspicious history in team poker events. During one such tournament in London about eight years ago, two of this manor's writers took to the felt as a partnership and lasted a...
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APPT7 Macau: More than a quarter million bucks up top!
The money has been counted and the abacuses have been put away. We have our full prize structure for APPT Macau. Here are all the details, and prizewinners will be filled in as and when they are known...
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APPT7 Macau: Tomaz Yip skips to the lead at end of Day 1B
APPT Macau is a five day event and we are still three of those away from naming a winner. But a couple of crucial questions about the tournament were resolved this evening, during the closing stages of...
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APPT7 Macau: Poker meets Happy Families
For those of us of a childish disposition -- or, more specifically, a childish western disposition -- some of the names you find in this part of the world are endlessly amusing. Several years ago in...
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APPT7 Macau: Wu departs, Im clings on, but Carter picks up speed
As anyone who has played or witnessed a major poker tournament will know, there is nothing so chaotic as the opening levels of day two. In the late stages of the opening flights, players cling on to...
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APPT7 Macau: Matt Carter dodges Yip and evades reporter's death knock
Reporting on a poker tournament is not exactly front-line journalism. We're not in parliament or a war-zone; no one will lose their job or their life. But all things are relative, of course, and...
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APPT7 Macau: Day two ends on the stone bubble, with Yan Cui out front
Danny McDonagh of PokerStars Macau has an uncanny ability to predict the course a tournament will take. Getting things started this afternoon, McDonagh said that we would play seven levels and get...
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APPT7 Macau: Lost coupons, bubble creepers and a harsh exit for Blaschke (aka...
It has been very well established over the past few days, months, years that they do things very quickly in the card rooms over here. But ever the contrarians, the poker players of APPT7 Macau just...
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APPT7 Macau: Troyanovskiy v Wong, battle of two continents' high rollers
With only 17 players remaining in the main event, you'd have thought it would be time to blot out all distractions and re-double focus in a bid to make the final table. But for Vladimir Troyanovskiy,...
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APPT7 Macau: Yu, Chiew and Vlad playing deep-stack chicken
Following a poker tournament when you are far away from the room can sometimes actually be the best way to do it. Even though you're reliant only on third party updates, it is far easier to aggregate...
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APPT7 Macau: Kenneth Leong wins massive late pot, seizes chip lead for final
Forty players were eliminated on day three of APPT7 Macau, and each will go home with a detailed story of their tournament. Some will know they were fortunate to get as far as they did, others will...
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APPT7 Macau: Final table player profiles
Nine players remain at APPT7 Macau, each hunting the first prize of HKD $2,165,000 (US $279,355) and their first APPT title. A reminder of the full payouts for the final table is at the bottom. Final...
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