Latest High Roller Day 2 Post

We have now ticked past three-and-a-half hours of this 10 seated “imitation” final table. The larger stacks are no doubt regretting their decision to agree to redraw to a 10-handed game, when if the five-handed structure had been maintained, “on the balance of probabilities,” everyone would be tucked-up in bed...more

There is one heck of a lot at stake at this “unofficial” final table of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau High Roller tournament. The remaining 10 players have been foxing with each other for close to two hours; unwilling to put everything on the line, when the potential for much greater...more

Steven Silverman has joined the railbirds on the other side of the ropes here at the Grand Waldo Casino. The American held the shortest stack for the majority of the time since Mike McDonald’s departure, and only had one move; all-in. However, he had recently felt a bit more comfortable...more

The well-oiled machine that is David Steicke continues to hum, having just eliminated another player in Mike timex McDonald. Steicke, who continues to build a very long line of chips, that PokerStars Sponsored player Eric Assadourian calls the Great Wall of China, looked up timex’s all-in on a turned board...more

The last Team PokerStars Pro in the APPT Macau High Roller event field, Joe Hachem, has been eliminated in 13th place. Short stacked after losing a big pot to Andrew Scott, Hachem successfully committed his chips twice to scoop up the blinds and antes and was trying to make it...more

In last year’s APPT High Roller event in Macau, it took five hours to eliminate the last six players before the final table line-up was decided. The writing is also on the wall that the remaining 14 players are in no hurry to commit their chips as we tick into...more

After an early flurry of all-ins at the beginning of the day, the average stack size has increased to the point where most players are comfortable playing small-ball poker. Only a couple of players are occasionally being forced to put everything on the line with an all-in. Andrew Scott, prefers...more

Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem was weeks away from becoming 2005 WSOP main event champion when Quinn Do saluted the judge in the $2500 Limit Hold’em event. Quinn Do, a silent assassin at the poker table. Like many of his contemporaries, Do was born in Vietnam and arrived in the...more

There are 21 players still in the APPT High Roller field at the Grand Waldo Casino in Macau: an appropriate figure given that former professional black jack player Andrew Scott has just taken out Roger Spets. "Go you good thing!" Andrew Scott rides quads to a nice pot. After Team...more

If you work regular hours, then 9.30am might be time for a coffee break; but the life of a Team PokerStars Pro player is a little different. This morning for example, at 9.30am Barry Greenstein was in the lobby of the Grand Waldo Hotel waiting for a van to take...more

David Steicke and Eric Assadourian prepare for battle. The race for the HKD $3.7 million first prize in the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau High Roller event steps up a notch with the remaining 28 players eyeing a spot at tomorrow’s final table. David Steicke, the Australian now...more