Ready for action at the Grand Waldo. The chase for the cash starts in earnest today with 208 players returning to the Grand Waldo Casino and Hotel for day 2 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau main event. No joke for ElkY today. The battle is on from the opening hand for some of the Team PokerStars Pros with Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (15,100), Isabelle “No Mercy Mercier (8200) and Joe Hachem (5500) all under the chip average of 25,208. In contrast, Chad Brown (40,600) and Lee “Final Table” Nelson (29,900) have enough chips to pick their mark.
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APPT Macau: Chase for the cash is on
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Table 1 Seat 1: Mansour Matloubi (England) 20,900 Seat 2: Michael Doodson (Australia) 25,100 Seat 3: Dmytro Usenko (Ukraine) 20,300 Seat 4: Keith Greaves (UK) 37,600 Seat 5: Stiven Strmecki (Australia) 10,500 Seat 6: Harry Demetriou (UK) 25,600 Seat 7: Charlie Gang (Australia) 7100 Seat 8: Kevin Chan (Canada) 14,400...more
APPT Macau: Irishman leads on historic day for poker in Asia
Watch APPT Macau 08: Day 1c Update on PokerStars.tv An historic day for the emergence of poker in Asia concluded at the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino with 88 of the 229 players in day 1C of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour set to return for tomorrow’s day 2...more
APPT Macau: Singaporean Slung
Ivan Tan is Singapore’s poker poster boy. After finishing 2nd in the inaugural PokerStars.net APPT Macau tournament in 2007, pocketing a cool $129,000, he told the media he didn’t think he was the best player in his native country. However, after also finishing 3rd in last July’s Macau Cup, PokerStars...more
APPT Macau: A sick beat at table nine
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APPT Macau: Rodney's rags to riches story
The term “living the poker dream” is a bit of a cliché, but it perfectly describes the story of Australian player Rodney Davidson. Rodney Davidson brings some handy big-event experience to the APPT. The big man with the pony-tail was about to have his car repossessed and had to withdraw...more
APPT Macau: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Poker is known as a game that anyone can play, and the PokerStars.net APPT Macau is demonstrating this in many ways. In Chinese, the name China means “Middle Kingdom” because for the ancient Chinese, their country was truly the centre of the earth. Right now, Macau is the centre of...more
APPT Macau: River drowns Khan on successive hands
Watch APPT Macau 008: Hevad Khan and Qualifier on PokerStars.tv With big names come big bust-outs, and the list of casualties is starting to mount up on day 1C of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau main event. Team PokerStars Pro Hevad Khan has just wandered by with details of his bust-out...more
APPT Macau: Team Philippines on the charge
It was appropriate that the poker wave that is now enveloping East Asia started in the Philippines. Thanks to a strong western influence, a poker culture has existed in the nation since World War II. It may have been Americans who introduced poker to the nation of more than 7000...more
APPT Macau: 500-plus field confirms poker's arrival in Asia
APPT president Jeffrey Haas congratulates the team who behind the record-breaking APPT Macau main event. The confirmed figure for today’s 1C flight is 229, taking the official total of players in the PokerStars.net APPT Macau main event to a staggering 538. That’s 206 more than last year, and confirms...more
APPT Macau: Big names create minefield for qualifiers on day 1C
Watch APPT Macau 2008: Day 1c Starts on PokerStars.tv We’ve saved the best for last with some of the world’s biggest names in action on day 1C of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour at the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino in Macau. For the players – many of who...more
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