November 2011 Archives

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event has come to a close and we've crowned a new champion with PokerStars Team Online member Randy "nanonoko" Lew proving that he can adapt his game from the virtual world onto the live felt with a stunning breakthough victory this evening. Wind...more

Randy "nanonoko" Lew Wins APPT Macau Main Event! Congratulations to Randy "nanonoko" Lew who displayed the maturity and composure of a veteran to navigate his way through a record APPT field and a super-stacked final table to capture the APPT Macau Main Event crown. Despite having an online record that...more

10:10pm: Level up That's the end of that level, and we'll be starting the new level on a new page. 9:50pm: Rossiter recovers Jimmy Pan and Jeff Rossiter have tangled with the Aussie gaining the ascendency and regaining some lost momentum. Pan raised the button to 200,000 before Rossiter three-bet...more

5:25pm: Ten-minute break The level has come to an end and the players are taking a break. We'll be back in ten minutes with coverage to continue on a new page. 5:20pm: Nordstrom finds a lucky lady Daniel Nordstrom has doubled up through Fabian Spielmann after spiking a set on...more

When we started out this afternoon we knew we were in for a long day. The equation was always a difficult one to compute. Take 96 hopefuls, squeeze them into 70 cash winners then divide them into a final table of nine by the end of the day. Unfortunately algebra...more

1:10am: Bang, bang! Our day is done! Simultaneous eliminations on two tables has seen both Shane Dye and Victor Wei eliminated as it has been announced that our extended day has now been brought to a close with 15 players remaining. First it was Dye who fell when he...more

--BW 4:15pm: Unlucky treys for Tomita "Unlucky hand," said Tetsuro Tomita with a smile after being eliminated from the tournament in rather devastating fashion. The unlucky hand in question was pocket threes as Tomita will be having nightmares tonight about the treys. First he flopped a full house on...more

Ninety-six players remain in the APPT Macau Season 5 main event. Play resumes at 12:10pm local time in what is expected to be a long day of play. The table and seat draw for Day 3 is listed below. Table Seat Player Chips 1 1 Michael Finstein 151300 1 2...more

Those who saw it stood with mouths agape. Those who heard about it said, "What?" It seemed more than simply unlikely. It seemed downright silly. Nonetheless, it's true. As the remaining APPT Macau main event players go to bed tonight in advance of tomorrow's Day 3, they're all behind a...more

8:00pm: Seet leads headed to Day 3 As players finish bagging and tagging, it looks pretty clear Nathaniel Seet holds the chip lead with 774,500. Also included among the finishers are Team PokerStars Pro Jose "Nacho" Barbero (257,400) and Team Online's Randy Lew (145,000). Approximately 100 players remain in...more

5:37pm: Break time Players are now on break. 5:10pm: The big stacks start to emerge With Nathaniel Seet and David Steicke currently running away with the tournament chip lead, a couple of other big stacks are starting to emerge. Champion jockey Shane Dye is currently up to 250,000 in...more

It's safe to say that Macau can lay claim to be the hottest poker destination in the world right now. It's a big call, but the numbers don't lie as once again PokerStars Macau have defied the worldwide poker trends to post another record-setting field. The cash games have always...more

The APPT staff has asked us to inform Day 2 players of the APPT Macau main event that there will be a staggered start at the beginning of Day 2. APPT President Danny McDonagh requests that all players seated at tables 1-25 arrive for a 12:10pm start. All players tables...more

9:00pm: Play ends Day 1b has just finished up. Sha Jun of China finished the day with 169,400, good for the Day 1b chip lead and second place overall headed into Day 2. Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang is not far behind with 154,100. We'll be back with a full...more

4:24pm: Break time Players are on a ten-minute break. We'll be closing out this post and moving on to a new one right here. 4:00pm: Solid start for Lykov Russian Team PokerStars Pro Max Lykov has made a solid start in his first APPT appearance, although we did just see...more

Outside the Grand Lisboa casino, the roads merge and verge like scribbles on a page of black paper. It's a fantastic feat of traffic engineering the that ant-streams of cars, trucks, and buses manage to move at all, let alone so quickly that one wonders if it's not all some...more

8:45pm: Day ends, Su leads As we noted just a few minutes ago, Shih Chieh Su looks to have finished the day with the lead We have him on 171,800 as the chips go the in the bags. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 160 players are finishing up the night....more

4:15pm: Steicke chips up David Steicke doesn't mind the big stage, and he loves nothing more than playing in Macau, so it's no surprise to see him starting to command a healthy stack here at the APPT Macau Main Event. According to his table, Steicke called down a player...more

Stepping off the plane this afternoon, I wasn't sure if jetlag had kicked in or I'd just set my watch in the wrong direction as a dark and sleepy haze set across the skies as I arrived into Macau. Sure this place is sometimes a victim of classic big-city smog,...more

PokerStars Macau, the largest poker room in continental Asia, is pleased to announce its full special events calendar for 2012. The Asia poker season launches with the Macau Poker Cup: Red Dragon from February 18-26 and features the HKD $11,000 Red Dragon main event which comes with a HKD...more

Today, PokerStars officially announced that the Season 2 Russian Poker Series (RPS) Grand Final originally planned for December 9-18, 2011 in Kiev has been re-scheduled and will take place in 2012. The event has been postponed following the closure of a number of poker clubs in Ukraine. PokerStars apologies for...more

The Asia Player of the Year (APOY) is the most coveted title in Asia and the ranking system is widely accepted as the measuring stick to determine the best poker players on the Asian poker circuit. The race for the overall title between No. 1 Shaq Lin and No. 2...more

PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa hosts the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) from November 17-27 and the majority of the visitors to the enclave will have their hopes pinned on the HKD $30,000 Main Event which boasts a HKD $6,000,000 guarantee. However, for Taiwanese poker pro Hung Sheng...more

PokerStars официально объявляет о переносе на 2012 год Гранд Финала второго сезона Российской Покерной Серии (RPS), который должен был состояться в Киеве с 9 по 18 декабря 2011 года. Данные меры приняты в связи с ситуацией, возникшей вокруг закрытия ряда покерных клубов в Украине. PokerStars приносит свои извинения и...more