With bleary-eyed poker travellers starting to slowly filter into The Philippines we were expecting a larger turnout for today's second flight of the APPT Cebu Main Event. And that's what we got. After a slow start we found ourselves with an official field of 76 runners today, comprising mostly of locals from the Asian region. The APPT has come a long way from the early seasons with nearly 80% of today's field based in Asia or with Asian heritage which is fantastic to see. The game of poker is starting to develop some strong roots in Asia, which will no
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APPT Cebu: The more things change
As I start this post, there are 54 players remaining in the Day 1b field from the starting 76. As I glanced out at their faces, a healthy mix of mainly Caucasians and Asians, I thought about how far the APPT has come since Seasons 1 and 2. In those...more
APPT Cebu: Girl talk
There are positives and there are negatives when the turnout for a Day 1 flight of a poker tournament is less than 100 people. Among the positives: it's very easy to determine exactly how many players in the field are female. I know we harp on this seemingly meaningless gender...more
APPT Cebu: Ode to the mango
If it seems that we at the PokerStarsBlog are fixated on food at times, well, it's because we are. Of course we enjoy the poker aspects of traveling the circuit with PokerStars. We love watching unheralded players make surprising runs, love studying the pros as they ply their trade in...more
APPT Cebu: POTY double up
It's a pretty loaded field here today with plenty of Asia's finest players in attendance with the big screen currently showing 76 entrants for Day 1b of the APPT Cebu Main Event. We have previous champions, online pros, sponsored players and even a couple of Team Poker Stars Pros here...more
APPT Cebu: And we're back
Due to some unresolved internet issues, the Day 1b intro post for the 2012 APPT Cebu Main Event is going to be more inelegant - and shorter - than I would prefer. But as a Filipino IT person puzzled over the machines and internet connections of both Heath Chick and...more
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