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Hoi Ting Lee is chip leader as Day 1d is done That brings an end to our coverage of Day 1d of the Macau Millions Main Event as our field of 210 has been reduced to the final fifteen. In the frantic final minutes of play, Hoi Ting Lee has...more

12:25am: Ten-minute break 12:10am: Lowe name, big stack Justin Lowe has recently joined Hoi Ting Lee in the six-figure club as the two biggest stacks in the room at the moment. Lowe grabbed a large portion of his chips when he flopped a set of nines on a queen-high flop...more

10:10pm: Ten-minute break 10:00pm: Mistimed value Justin Chan has taken a hit to his stack after a mistimed river shove. Chan called 2,000 on the flop, checked the turn and was then faced with another bet of 2,000 on the river on a board of 6♠K♠Q♥A♦3♣. Chan thought for several...more

Runaway Loo claims big chip lead as Day 1c concludes A huge day of action in the PokerStars Macau Poker Room as seen a capacity field of 182 players reduced to a dozen as Day 1c of the Macau Millions Main Event has come to a close. It was a...more

12:30am: Ten-minute break 12:20am: Loo dominant Malaysian Junzhong Loo has shot to the top of the chip count leaderboard as we approach the next break after the elimination of Russia's Artem Grechko. Grechko was down to his last 12,000 chips which he moved in preflop with K♣Q♥ but he ran...more

10:15pm: Ten-minute break 10:12pm: Bryan busto We've lost two of our Team PokerStars Pros in a matter of minutes as Singapore's Bryan Huang has also crashed out of the tournament. Huang opened with a raise to 1,200 from the hijack position with James Potter flat-calling in the cutoff to see...more

One thing you learn about PokerStars is that they don't do promotions by halves. Whether it's the $5 Million Sunday Million Anniversary, $45 million in guaranteed prizes at the upcoming Spring Championships of Online Poker, or the brand new $100,000 Game of Your Life promotion - PokerStars know how to...more

Day 1b is complete - Terry Fan is the man to catch We started out today with another 103 entrants and after seven hours of play we reduced that to our final seven players. With the 127 entrants from yesterday, it appears we are well on track to crack the...more

6:30pm: Ten-minute break 6:25pm: Another one down Terry Fan has dispatched of short-stacked Chin Hao Hsu who was all in for just 3,500 in chips. Fan held 6♣6♠ against Hsu's A♦J♣ and improved to a set on a flop of 6♦K♥T♣. Hsu picked up a straight draw but missed on...more

4:10pm: Ten-minute break 4:05pm: Celina Lin eliminated Celina Lin has also become a casualty of the Day 1b field as the players are falling away at a rapid pace, with the 300-600 level in particular putting a lot of pressure on the short stacks. Lin was down to around 8,000...more

Day 1a concludes - Haifeng Xue leads the way That's a wrap from the PokerStars Macau Poker Room as our field of 127 players have been reduced to the final nine. It was non-stop action today right from the opening bell, as the fast structure and gambling mindset of our...more

12:25am: Ten-minute break 12:10am: Last female standing We have one female left in our final three tables and she's still fighting hard after finding a recent double up. Jay Tan was all in preflop for her last 6,500 from under the gun with Andrew Marks making the call in the...more

10:10pm: Ten-minute break 10:05pm: Straight for Marks and a pair of Lins Just prior to the break, Andrew Marks found a big double up when he turned a straight to crack pocket aces. The board was T♠9♣7♣6♦ when the chips went in with Marks showing 8♦7♦. The river bricked the...more

PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa recorded its most successful Macau Poker Cup (MPC) to date awarding a record HKD $4,257,400 in prize money through six events (July 7-11). PokerStars qualifier Kenichi Takarabe from Japan outlasted 295 players in the featured Red Dragon main event and won HKD $617,700 in...more

It's just over three months since the final hand was dealt in the PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event, and much has changed since Irishman Dermot Blain took down the opening event on season three of Asia's largest and most prestigious poker tour. The heat and humidity of spring has...more