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The Metro Card Club’s 4th Year Anniversary Tournament

October 19th, 2011

Deejay

Metro Card Club 4th Year Anniversary Tournament

All road once again lead to Metro Card Club Ortigas on October 20 – 25, 2011. The biggest poker room in the Philippines is celebrating it’s 4th year anniversary with a 10,000php buy-in tournament with a 5 MILLION PESOS guaranteed prize pool.

Not only that, Metro Card Club will also run a few side events. 2 of those are set with an affordable buy-in of 1,000php; The 40,000php Guaranteed Pot Limit Omaha Tournament on October 23 and the Mixed No Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha Tournament on October 25. There will also be a two-day event on Monday, October 24; The Big Pot NLHE with 30,000php buy-in.

Put your “poker face” on! I will be there taking pictures!

See you at the Metro!

Successful MPCC 2011

October 17th, 2011

Deejay

Finishing with a record breaking 308 entrants and $5,553,856 prize money, Pokerstars Macau at the Casino Grand Lisboa once again delivers a world-class poker event. And who would have thought that 3 years ago only 33 players sat down to participate when it first started, since then Pokerstars Macau never looked back. The numbers are always uphill, almost breaking records every event.

I remember the first time I set foot inside Pokerstars Macau; It was such an unexplainable feeling but more on a positive side. What would it be? Is it the luxurious surroundings? The friendly poker players who seem to know each other or the hospitality and friendliness of Pokerstars Macau team? I can pretty much say all of the above. I guess this kind of positive surroundings makes you want to go back every event they have and this I assume are the same thing for poker players. Personally I would say, Aside from the coveted title and well runned tournaments, the fun and friendly yet luxurious surroundings of Pokerstars Macau are the contributing factors for it’s success.

I am so happy to see the successful turn out of MPCC 2011 but it breaks me not being able to shoot and document the whole event. I’ve always wanted to be in the place where poker history unfolds. Shoot and shoot and let the photographs speak for itself. I just hope to be there when the next record breaking history for Pokerstars Macau unfolds.

Congrats to the whole Pokerstars Macau team for delivering another world class Poker Event also to all the players who participated in this record breaking event.

Here are the Main Event final table results:

1. Raiden Kan (Malaysia) — $1,250,000
2. Victor Chong (Malaysia) — $860,800
3. Robert Huang (Chinese Taipei) — $511,000
4. Chester Lee (Malaysia) — $402,700
5. Charles Lam (Hong Kong) — $319,300
6. Hung-sheng “Shaq” Lin (Chinese Taipei) — $263,800
7. Richard Hu (China) — $208,300
8. Sunny Jung (Korea) — $152,700
9. Seijiro Machi (Japan) — $125,056

Visit PokerStarsBlog.com for the official live reports.

For complete side event results visit this link – side event results

For more information about Pokerstars Macau visit this link – Pokerstars Macau

Record Breaking Macau Poker Cup Championship 2011

October 14th, 2011

Deejay

Pokerstars Macau at the Casino Grand Lisboa once again show us how to be the number one live poker room in Asia by breaking records left and right in the on going Macau Poker Cup Championship 2011. As the 2 opening flights for the main event comes to a close. The final number went to a record breaking 308 players creating a prize pool of HKD $5,553,856.

Day 1A brought a field of 121 players and ended up with 58 players advancing to Day 2. Korean Hyungsun “Sunny” Jung finished Day 1A as the chip leader bagging up a total of 159,125 worth of chips. Day 1B saw a field of 187 players and brought 92 players advancing to Day 2. China’s Yue Qing Zhou led the surviving players with 117,800 chips.

Notables advancing to Day 2 includes Team PokerStars Pro Raymond Wu (46,975) and Vivian Im (62,200); No. 1 Asia Player of the Year ranked Shaq Lin (30,550), No. 3 Haifeng Xue (76,925), No. 4 Raiden Kan (74,225) and No. 6 Ion Sang Song (39,425); PokerStars sponsored players Neil Arce (62.100) and Justin Chan (36,000); WSOP 2011 Main Event 18th place finisher Kenny Shih (19,225); and last year defending champion Julian Hasse from Germany.

Top 38 players will be in the money and with the first place finisher set to receive a grand prize of HKD $1,250,000 expect a much furious poker action for Day 2 set to start today at 12:10 PM (HKT).

To keep up with the action as it happens visit PokerStarsBlog.com and Poker Portal Asia.

Macau Poker Cup Championship Main Event 2011 Starts Today

October 12th, 2011

Deejay

The much awaited Macau Poker Cup Championship Main Event starts today October 12, 2011. It will feature a whopping HKD $4,500,000 guarantee prizepool. “This is by far the most anticipated MPCC we’ve ever had and I can confidently predict another record breaking tournament this week.” said Danny McDonagh, Director of Live Operations in Asia-Pacific.

Three side events are already in the books with successful numbers with it. First is the Event 1: HKD $8,800 buy in with HKD $1,000,000 guarantee which saw an impressive field of 186 players which then makes the prizepool to shoot up to HKD $1,458,250. Jian Yang from China took down Event 1 with HKD $357,240 in cash prize.

Event 2 which is the HKD $5,000 KO Bounty with HKD $500,000 also saw a big field of 124 players. Ioan Lazar from Australia became the last man standing and bagged the title with a cool HKD $109,740 cash prize.

Event 3 is the HKD $1,000 buy in Charity Event. Seijiro Machi from Japan conquer the event and took home HKD $68,600 in cash prize. The event saw a field of 97 players including the Lin brothers from Taiwan who both ended up in the final table. The Lin brothers Shaq and Aaron are currently dominating the Asia Player of The Year leaderboard. Shaq currently sits in the number one spot while his brother Aaron ranked number 2.

The Main Event Day 1A will take place at 2:10 PM (HKT) and expected to be filled with numerous notable players including last year defending champion Julian Hasse, Team Pokerstars Pro Raymond Wu and recent ANZPT winner Lee “Final Table” Nelson.

Visit this link to see the list of complete schedule ->Macau Poker Cup Championship Schedule

You can also visit PokerStarsBlog.com for the live reporting of the main event.

And for your blow by blow live reporting you can visit Poker Portal Asia

Asia Poker League on Pokerstars.net

October 3rd, 2011

Deejay

Asia Poker League

Pokerstars.net the biggest online poker casino will be having a poker league exclusively for all Asian players, The Asia Poker League. It will launch tonight October 3, 2011 at 9pm Hong Kong time.

Every end of the week there will be a $500 prize pool to be distributed on all players who will place in the week long leaderboard. You will get points everytime you participate in the APL tourney, the higher you finish the higher points you acquire.

The APL tourney every 9pm will have a buy in of $0.10, but you can qualify for free by playing the Sit ‘n Go freeroll qualifier starting at 7pm everyday.

For more information visit the official Asia Poker League website -> Asia Poker League