If you weren't looking (and I'm willing to bet that some of you weren't), it's been a lot of fun and games the last few days at the 2012 PokerStars.net APPT Cebu Main Event. But late yesterday the elimination of Mikko Turtiainen popped the money bubble at the Casino Filipino Mactan. We threw one more party last night with the dual purpose of celebrating a successful APPT5 Cebu Main Event and celebrating the birthday of Dragon baby and APPT President Danny McDonagh. Things got a little out of hand when the ladyboy fire dancers showed up, but nobody wound up
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APPT Cebu: Bursting bubbles and printing pesos
It was another day in paradise, but for 128 players it was business as usual as Day 2 of the APPT Cebu Main Event got underway at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino. The goal was to survive eight levels or reach the money. The prop bets in media row set...more
APPT Cebu: The crosses we bear
We may have a medical crisis brewing in Cebu. It started with tournament floor Chris Sandaman. He turned up yesterday not wearing his customary suit, dressed instead in shorts and a t-shirt. "I cracked a tooth and it got infected," he told us. "I'm not working right now. I'm hopped...more
APPT Cebu: Heart and soul
Come to any APPT event and it will be impossible for you to miss a tall, fit fellow in a suit and tie scurrying around the tournament floor. His accent gives him away as an Aussie, though from his last name - McDonagh - you might never guess that until...more
APPT Cebu: Red Spade still flying
Team PokerStars Pro Asia is made up of four incredibly friendly faces and talented poker players: Bryan Huang, Vivian Im, Celina Lin and Raymond Wu. All four came to Cebu for this year's Main Event. Bryan didn't manage to make it out of Day 1 after losing with queens to...more
APPT Cebu: A Steicke wicket
The first APPT event I ever covered was back in Season 2 at Macau. At the time I was working for PokerNews. That event was remarkable for any number of reasons, and you'd certainly have to include a bubble hand played by David Steicke among them. On the bubble, in...more
APPT Cebu: The science of the casino
It's widely known and accepted that the casino industry is a well-refined, exact science. Everything from the layout, the furniture, the games, the lights and the music are all choreographed in a manner that ensures you have fun while the casinos make money. Every little detail is part of a...more
APPT Cebu: Once more unto the breach
You made it to Day 2. Congratulations. If nothing else, it's a moral victory. You might have been worried that you were going to do something silly with ace-jack in Level 1 of Day 1, but you've proven that you can hang with the big dogs in the big...more
APPT Cebu: Blue skies falling
It's another glorious day here in Cebu. A picture postcard 31 degrees Celsius with stunning sunshine and blue skies. It's a wonderful day for the beach or pool, which I'm sure is what many of our eliminated players will be doing today. Suddenly the pain of being eliminated from...more
APPT Cebu: Blue skies falling
It's another glorious day here in Cebu. A picture postcard 31 degrees Celsius with stunning sunshine and blue skies. It's a wonderful day for the beach or pool, which I'm sure is what many of our eliminated players will be doing today. Suddenly the pain of being eliminated from...more
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