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PartyPoker – Final table at the As...

I’m sure there will some sore heads today in and around the tournament room as the players try and recover from lasts nights great party on the 39th floor. The action will take place on a special table up at the end of the tournament room with TV cameras in attendance. Tournament Director, Matt Savage had his best suit on and got proceedings underway a little later than planned due...

PartyPoker Asian Poker Tour – Day ...

PartyPoker have five players and a couple of adopted players playing under the PartyPoker name. Unfortunately we had Ian Frazer, Maksim Shuts and Philipp Gmunder all sitting on table 15 which was not the preferred start but never mind. Raymi was sitting over in the far corner on table 23 and Gylbert was on table 17. Some notable names still in the tournament included Johnny Chan, JC...

PartyPoker – APT MACAU Day 1B...

Today we had a total of 193 players making a total turnout of 326 players in this years event which is a huge jump from the 260 they had in last years event. This has created a huge prize pool of HK $10,919,040 which equates to US$1,408,699 – a very attractive sum indeed. PartyPoker had 4 players and one invited guest playing today all hoping to get their hands of their share of the...

PartyPoker – Day 1 A at the Asian ...

Day 1A Players are back and suitably refreshed. Soon after the dinner break we lost Ricky from Australia who started the day very well and won a couple of big pots to establish a nice stack but who got no luck later in the evening and hit the rail at about 8pm. Walking past one table I noticed all the players were making a lot of noise. It was easy to see why because we had an all in...

PartyPoker – Asian Poker Tour Main...

Day 1A started today at 12 noon local time. Partypoker have 11 players registered for play today all eager to do their best in the second Asian Poker Tour Macau main event. A total of 133 players sat down although some must have overslept and arrived in the tournament room up to 40 minutes late. Todays plan is to play 10 levels today with a 60 minute dinner break after the 6th level....

PartyPoker – Asian Poker Tour, Bat...

Wednesday saw the “Battle of the Nations” tournament start with 13 teams each representing a different country. The PartyPoker players in Macau have come from a variety of countries and the only country that had the three required players was Belarus. Brothers Mikhail and Maksim Shuts and their friend Ihar Pliashko took on the teams from destinations such as USA, Korea, Australia,...

PartyPoker Asian Poker Tour – Play...

Tuesday night was party night for the PartyPoker players and our special guests. The venue was beside the pool at the brand new Hard Rock Hotel in the City of Dreams resort complex over on the other island here in Macau. This place was an excellent venue for the party and the players had a great time. To start with we all had VIP passes for the new attraction called “The Bubble”...

PartyPoker – Asian Poker Tour Maca...

The APT is officially open PartyPoker – Asian Poker Tour Macau. It doesn’t seem like it has been 7 months since I was over in Manila for the Asian Poker Tour event there but the time has flown by and here we are at the fantastic Galaxy Starworld Hotel and Casino for the Asian Poker Tour event in Macau. The guys at the Asian Poker Tour really know how to put on a great...

Classy Arce’s the big winner in Manila...

The Asian Poker Tour Philippines has a new champion – and it’s local boy Neil Arce who’s the poker king of the islands. Arce, 25, conquered a field of 262 runners representing over 40 countries to scoop the first prize of $180,000. The runner-up was Steve ‘joonhee’ Yea from South Korea who also finished second at the 2008 Asian Poker Tour Macau in August 2008. ‘This is just...

Five go mad in Manila (APT Philippines M...

By Jeremy Coleman   Talking with the five remaining PartyPoker.com players this morning, all were relaxed, comfortable and looking forward to this key day in the main event. Today the tournament will play down from the current 69 players to the final table of just nine. However, with the top 27 players cashing there was much to play for.   For low stacked players like Fedor Matviv and...