Live updates from day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by...more
Live updates from day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by...more
Live updates from day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by...more
Live updates from day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by...more
Live updates from day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by...more
Live updates from the final table of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found...more
Live updates from the final table of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found...more
Seat 1: Dermot Blain, Dublin, Ireland (507,000 in chips): Having switched to playing poker full time from his original job as a sales manager, the 25-year-old resident of Dublin said that he has only won a few small tournaments live and online. He took up poker a few years...more
A massive day of action at PokerStars Macau in the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino has ended with the final table decided for the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Main Event. Despite a star-studded field that included four WSOP Main Event champions and numerous Team PokerStars Pros, it will be a...more
Live updates from day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by...more
Live updates from day 3 of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking...more
Live updates from day 3 of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by...more
Live updates from day 3 of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking...more
Live updates from day 3 of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking...more
Live updates from day 3 of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking...more
Live updates from day 3 of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking...more
As we head towards the big money in the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event, it's only appropriate to take a quick look at how Macau became the world's gaming capital - yes, it turns over more money than Las Vegas. It's hard to imagine two more diverse cities than...more
By Landon Blackhall The final 42 players have been decided for day three of the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event after a gripping day at PokerStars Macau in the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. After eight one-hour levels, the field was slashed by more than 75 per cent...more
Live updates from day 2 of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking...more
Live updates from day 2 of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking...more
Live updates from day 2 of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking...more
Live updates from day 2, level 12 (blinds 1200-2400, ante 300) of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip...more
Live updates from day 2, level 11 (blinds 800-1600, ante 200) of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip...more
Live updates from day 2, level 10 (blinds 800-1600, ante 200) of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip...more
Live updates from day 2, level 9 (blinds 600-1200, ante 100) of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip...more
Live updates from day 2, level 8 (blinds 500-1000, ante 100) of PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event brought to you by Sean Callander and Landon Blackhall from PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip...more
Macau is home to one of the most iconic events on the world's sporting calendar each year, not that many outside a core of enthusiasts know of its existence. Each November, the streets of the city roar to life to the sound of racing cars representing the four corners...more
PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event day 2 seat draw Table 1 Seat 1: Dennis Huntly (Australia) 4400 Seat 2: Yik Hei Lo (Hong Kong) 34,700 Seat 3: Jaime Ballester (Spain) PokerStars Qualifier 29,400 Seat 4: Shen Yu (China) PokerStars Macau Satellite Winner 6100 Seat 5: Wing Leung (Andrew) Chung...more
We've reached the end of the beginning in the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event, with the last of the three day one flights consigned to history and the day two field decided. A total of 196 players will return to PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and...more
Players in the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino are taking their final break for the day, meaning there's just one-hour left before the day two line-up is finalised. Day 1C started with 185, with almost half (86) sent to the rail in...more
By Landon Blackhall It's still been tough going in the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event with some of the PokerStars contingent finding it hard to gain traction. Team Asia's Celina Lin and PokerStars Pro Lee "Final Table" Nelson have been struggling to find hands, down to 12,500 and 6000...more
By Landon Blackhall and Sean Callander When the Grand Lisboa opened in 2007, the mould for everything that came before in Macau had been shattered. The excitement of the Grand Lisboa opening had barely subsided when new broke that the property would also become home to the new "PokerStars...more
The numbers have just been confirmed for the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino, with a field of 429 players. That's down from last year's figure of 538 but with a buy-in HKD $15,000 higher than 2008, the prizepool of more than...more
Two years ago, UK-based Vietnamese player Dinh Le wrote himself into the Asian poker history books when he won the first APPT Macau Main Event, worth USD $222,640. Le, who earned the nickname "All-in" thanks to his fearless aggression, claimed the scalp of 2005 WSOP champion Joe Hachem on...more
We've just witnessed another historic moment in Asian poker history at an official ceremony to open day 1C of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. Dignitaries including Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM) Director and Chief Operating Officer Mr Louis Ng and...more
It's amazing what can be achieved with some full cream milk, whipped cream, castor sugar, egg yolks and some puff pastry. Let me introduce you to one of Macau's hidden treasures - the Portuguese egg tart. One of the many manifestations of European culture in this former Portuguese colony,...more
The girls from Tokyo Nights, one of the shows here at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino, have just made their nightly parade past PokerStars Macau, meaning we must be into the final hands of the night on day 1B of the 2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event. The...more
By Landon Blackhall Any sceptics who question the potential for poker in Asia should take a walk through PokerStars Macau at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino this evening. There's a nice crowd playing on the baccarat tables, but the poker room is the heart of the action; abuzz...more
Team PokerStars Pro Raymond Rahme has been eliminated from the APPT Macau Main Event, ending his all-too-brief stay at PokerStars Macau and the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. The story of Rahme's demise started with a raise from middle position to 800, Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker re-raised to...more
By Landon Blackhall and Sean Callander The second of the three day-one flights here at PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event at PokerStars Macau in the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino is slowly taking shape, well, very slowly. Just 18 of the 125 players have been sent to the rail...more
By Landon Blackhall and Sean Callander Poker has found an Asian home in Macau, with players nearby markets such as the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Korea also picking up on the game that is sweeping the planet. But there's another Asian country that is being touted as...more
By Landon Blackhall and Sean Callander The big names are taking it easy during the early stages of day 1B of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event, here at PokerStars Macau in the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. TeamPokerStars Pros Chris Moneymaker and Raymond Rahme, who surprised everyone when...more
If there's an ideal time to take a leisurely walk around Macau, it's in the early morning, before the humidity kicks-in and the city comes to life. To be honest, this is a city that never really sleeps - more than a few insomniacs could be seen squinting their...more
By Landon Blackhall and Sean Callander We started with the traditional changing of the mask and finished with the traditional bagging of the chips - the 2009 PokerStars.net Asian Pacific Poker Tour is off and running after the first of three day one flights in the APPT Macau Main...more
APPT tournament director Danny McDonagh has just announced that there will be just one more level of play this evening, making a total of seven for the opening day of the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event. Good deal for the remaining 71 players, who'll be able to start making...more
By Landon Blackhall PokerStars.net Team Australia Pros Eric Assadourian and Emad Tahtouh are good friends, but when it comes to big events (particularly on the APPT) they've had more than their share of battles. In the first year of the APPT, they both made the final table of the...more
By Landon Blackhall and Sean Callander Amid the rapid growth of poker in Asia, Taiwan counts as a newcomer on the scene. However, it's widely recognised as one of the boom markets in Asian poker, as reflected by a sizeable delegation from the island, which lies off the south-east...more
Poker players who travel the world become accustomed to the quirks of playing in different countries, where the rules are mostly the same with the odd local variant. Here at the Grand Lisboa, players are warned to be extremely careful about betting out of turn, as any chips that...more
By Landon Blackhall Though the locals have come out in force this year for the PokerStars.net APPT day one flight, the internationals are getting involved in some heavy action in the early going. In particular, table seven is bound to offer some of the best play today, which sees...more
The ceremonial duties have been completed, the mask has been changed, handshakes have been exchanged and the cards are in the air for season three of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour. The buzz is electric in the PokerStars Macau room at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino where...more
Less than four years ago, it was almost unthinkable to envisage an international poker calendar that included stops such as Kyiv and Macau. But just days after the opening event of PokerStars EPT Season 6 wrapped up in the Ukrainian capital, the eyes of the poker world turn east...more
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Confidence in poker can go an awful long way, and the abundance of that commodity in Maxim Lykov has made him the first ever champion of EPT Kyiv. "I'm already thinking of my second title," said Lykov in the moment after his dominant display in the first EPT event of...more
Many talked about it, but it wasn't until the first hand was dealt on a sweltering Adelaide afternoon back in February that Australia and New Zealand finally had a poker tour to call their own. The first season of the PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour has been run...more
By Landon Blackhall The heads-up duel has been decided for the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event, with the great trans-Tasman rivalry set to be reignited by the battle between PokerStars Qualifiers Phillip Willcocks from New Zealand and Aussie Scott Kerr. This is the first time that the two nations...more
The PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event has been turned on its head with a new chip leader and two quick eliminations leaving just four players chasing the first prize of AUD $168,075. New Zealand's Phillip Willcocks has nosed ahead of Joel Dodds in the chip count, not that the...more
By Landon Blackhall Level 21: It took most of the level for the next elimination with the hopes of a local player winning the first PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland title ending. Danny Joukhadar kept his hopes of a top-three finish in the overall points title alive when he took out...more
By Landon Blackhall Level 20: It's strongplay all the way in the early going with Joel Dodds extending his lead at the head of the chip count in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland final table. More and more people are joining the rail as the afternoon ticks by, from where...more
By Landon Blackhall Though we are in the in the heart of the Conrad Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast, with the whizzing and clunking and trickling of gaming machines and table games operating around the poker area, the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland final table began in more subdued fashion....more
The final day has dawned on the first season of the PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour, with the final eight players starting to arrive for the final table in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event. There are one or two sore heads in the room after last night's...more
By Landon Blackhall After a relatively sedate day at Treasury Casino in Brisbane, all hell broke loose in the final minutes of day 1B of the PokerStars.net ANZT Queensland Main Event. After 68 players had taken the order to shuffle up and deal just over eight hours earlier, less...more
Seat draw, PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland day 2 (Jupiters, Gold Coast) Table 2 Seat 1: Julius Colman (Australia) 23,850 Seat 2: Yvonne Grant (Australia) 26,600 Seat 3: Rajesh Patel (Australia) PokerStars Qualifier 24,625 Seat 4: Celina Lin (Australia) PokerStars Team Australia 33,275 Seat 5: Craig Matthews (Australia) 12,175 Seat 6:...more
The future of casino-based tournament poker in Queensland has received a massive boost with a field of 249 players creating a prizepool of AUD $622,500 in the first PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event. The number of entrants makes this the second biggest event on the first season of the...more
As we click down to the end of day 1B in the battle for the first PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland title, excitement is starting to build as players - those who've already qualified from yesterday's day 1A flights and those with big stacks heading into the final level of today....more
Observations from the floor of Jupiters Casino ... in lieu of much action to report (we're still at 56 players midway through level five on day 1B of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event. In Las Vegas, you get accustomed to seeing senior citizens in casinos. That's certainly the...more
By Landon Blackhall The Queensland contingent have come out in force to represent their state and are proud as punch to have a major poker tournament like the PokerStars.net ANZPT in their casinos after many years of waiting. Not only are Queenslanders quickly adapting to the ins and outs...more
"Any idea of where you can party on a Wednesday night around here?" asked PokerStars qualifier Jon Weitzel while watching the latter stages of day 1A in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event at Jupiters. "Sorry Jon, bloggers are sworn off alcohol during events, they're the rules ... nah,...more
Andrew Scott will finish the first season of the PokerStars.net ANZPT with 40 points - that's 10 points for participating in four of the five events. Sadly, the hopes of a first cash for the 2008 APPT Macau High Roller runner-up have come to an early finish after he...more
The brekky bars in Broadbeach and Brisbane have been working overtime this morning as players fuel up for day 1B of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event, the final event in the first year of the tour. Yesterday, 60 players qualified for day two - 27 in Brisbane and...more
By Landon Blackhall The PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Day 1A Brisbane flight has also wrapped up - the chips have been cut down, counted and listed. From a tense start to a fast finish - those who survived the carnage on the felt today will return on Friday afternoon to...more
A new chapter in Australian poker history was written today when the first hand was dealt in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland tournament, the final event in the fledgling tour's first season. In addition to the 54 players who shared in the celebrations at Conrad Treasury Casino in Brisbane, a...more
By Landon Blackhall Sharing is very much the theme for the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland event. Conrad Treasury Casino in Brisbane and Conrad Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast are sharing the state's first major poker tournament. They are also sharing with the players, as there is no rake or...more
We're thrilled to announce that the first major poker tournament to be held in Queensland has surpassed all but one other ANZPT event in terms of entries and prizepool. With seats still available in Brisbane for tomorrow's day 1B flight, the field has already surpassed 230, making it the...more
The Gold Coast is recognised as Australia's holiday capital, for good reason. Beaches, theme parks, nightclubs, restaurants, tropical weather, major events like the IndyCar Carnival and the annual influx of school-leavers known as Schoolies Week ... everyone comes here to recharge the batteries and have a little fun. Kim...more
Queenslanders are among the most parochial people in Australia. The State of Origin rugby league series played between Queensland (the Maroons) and New South Wales (the Blues) is the most fiercely contested sporting rivalry in Australia. The Queenslanders also love to rib those who relocate north for the sun...more
The innovation of using two venues is creating plenty of interest early on day 1A of the PokerStars.net ANZPT Queensland Main Event. There are plenty of SMS messages, phone calls and MSN pings going back and forth between Conrad Jupiters on the Gold Coast and Conrad Treasury in Brisbane,...more
Queensland's tourism motto is "beautiful one day, perfect the next". That's certainly the case today with brilliant sunshine greeting players making their way to the two venues being used today for the opening day of Queensland's first major casino-based poker tournament. The battle for the final PokerStars.net ANZPT title...more
The face of poker in Australia will never be the same again after the first season of the PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) so it's only appropriate that the bar is again raised for the final tournament of 2009. After a week in New Zealand's Southern Alps...more
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