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It has been an awesome week so far in Macau. The ACOP Warm-Up event featured some high-profile players and high-quality play, culminating in an exciting win for Jeff Rossiter of Australia. Thus far we've enjoyed a warm welcome and meeting others from across Asia and the world, learning a little...more

Sixty minutes into the 90-minute Level 10, play has been stopped for the night. Just 56 players remain from the starting field of 184, with Andrew Gaw of the Philippines ending the day atop the counts followed by end-of-Day-1 leader Yue Hin Lam (Macau) and Xing Zhou (China). Team Pros...more

They've crossed the midway point of Level 9 (500/1,000/100). Team PokerStars Pro Bryan Huang was just eliminated after getting his stack in on the flop with a double-gutshot versus top pair and failing to get there, following fellow Team Pro Eugene Katchalov to the rail. With Huang's elimination, they...more

Eight Team PokerStars Pros and two members of Team PokerStars Online entered the Asia Championship of Poker Main Event, and all 10 players survived the first day of play to return today. Thus far on Day 2 six of those 10 are still with chips, including all four Asia-based Team...more

We were mentioning earlier today the ACOP Welcome Party that happened last night. In other words, the reason why play began a couple of hours later than usual today, so as to give players, staff, and perhaps even a reporter or three a little extra time to rest and recover....more

Out of 140 players returning for today's second day of play in the $100,000 (HKD) Asia Championship of Poker Main Event, Japan's Hirotoshi Nakabo came back to the fewest chips of everyone, his stack of 2,600 placing him dead last in 140th to start today. They've played through the remaining...more

This marks our sixth straight day here at the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex, the first four spent with the Asia Championship of Poker Warm-Up event won by Jeff Rossiter of Australia, and yesterday and today with the start of the ACOP Main Event. To get an idea of the layout...more

"It's a 'party start.'" So explained APPT President Danny McDonagh when asked about the later-than-usual 5 p.m. starting time for today's second day of play in the $100,000 (HKD) buy-in Asia Championship of Poker Main Event. The ACOP welcome party at the D2 nightclub in downtown Macau happened late last...more

A relatively short Day 1 has come to a close at the Asia Championship of Poker Main Event, with play halting a half-hour into Level 5 so as to allow players and staff to attend the ACOP Welcome Party starting a little later tonight. And a later-than-normal start for Day...more

This inaugural Asia Championship of Poker series features a full schedule of events, 18 of which count toward the 2012 Asia Player of the Year race currently led by Japan's Yosuke Sekiya. Sekiya is here today playing in the Main Event, and currently sits with about 20,000 chips. Yosuke Sekiya...more

Registration has now closed as we move through Level 3 of the $100,000 (HKD) Asia Championship of Poker Main Event. All told 184 players entered the tournament, creating a huge prize pool of $17,305,200 (HKD) and thereby well exceeding the $10 million (HKD) guarantee. About 20 have fallen in...more

"Would you like to play?" So comes the invitation, offered repeatedly through the days and nights here in the Grand Waldo Conference and Exhibition Centre, site of the 2012 Asia Championship of Poker. Kris Galloway is the questioner, sending out his invite from behind a desk situated next to a...more

They're edging toward the end of the first 90-minute level of the $100,000 (HKD) Asia Championship of Poker Main Event. More than 160 players have already taken their seats, and with four hours of late registration the total number of entrants will continue to climb. A glance at the initial...more

Excitement surrounding the inaugural Asia Championship of Poker -- a.k.a. APPT Macau, an official event of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour -- has been building for nearly two weeks. Several preliminary events have already been decided, including the $25,000 (HKD) ACOP Warm-Up tournament won late last night by the...more

As noted at the start of the day, this so-called "Warm-Up" event in the Asia Championship of Poker didn't necessarily fit the mold as far as typical preliminary tournaments usually went. With a not-insignificant buy-in of $25,000 (HKD) nonetheless attracting a large field of 358 runners from more than 30...more