With the brand new yr simply starting, Macau is already gearing up for much more poker tournaments and occasions to construct on a profitable 2009.
Final yr, Asia’s gaming capital was the positioning of record-setting poker occasions from the largest poker excursions within the area. It additionally noticed the opening of a number of new poker rooms, signifying that native gamers have been steadily turning into extra within the recreation.
In mid-August, the Asian Poker Tour (APT) held its 2009 Macau occasion on the StarWorld Resort and On line casino and skilled a big surge in participant participation. Its twelve-day competition of poker featured fifteen facet occasions along with the principle occasion, which set a brand new APT file with a discipline of 326 runners. The winner was France’s Adrien Allain, who gained HK $3,035,000 for his first-place end.
Over at PokerStars Macau on the Grand Lisboa Resort, the third season of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau occasion noticed Irish participant Dermont Blain win HK $4,194,000 in its foremost occasion. Blain was simply one of many APPT Macau file 429 gamers who performed in the principle occasion, contributing to the prize pool of HK $16,130,400.
The PokerStars Macau poker site additionally held its personal sequence of tournaments all year long, culminating in a grand finale in December. The poker site’s Macau Poker Cup held 4 Pink Dragon foremost occasions in 2009, with every one getting extra gamers than the final.
The primary Pink Dragon foremost occasion, which was held in March, noticed its HK $500,000 assured prize pool damaged as 112 gamers entered for a complete prize pool of HK $1,052,800. As a result of massive turnout, the following Pink Dragon occasions supplied a assure of HK $1,000,000. It didn’t matter, as participant numbers saved rising, together with a discipline of 247 runners in October.
PokerStars Macau then held its grand finale in December with the Macau Poker Cup Championship (MPCC). Held from December 12-20, the MPCC featured a HK $20,000 foremost occasion with HK $2,000,000 assured. The winner was Devin Tang, who defeated Taipei’s Michael Chang to win the HK $727,600 first prize.
2009 additionally noticed two new poker rooms open in Macau. Solar Metropolis’s Poker King Membership, named after the film launched earlier within the yr, opened on October 31 on the StarWorld On line casino. Over on the opposite facet of city, The Venetian opened its personal poker site in late November, including to the resort’s multitude of gaming and purchasing points of interest.
With extra poker rooms and greater tournaments, 2009 undoubtedly confirmed simply how a lot poker is able to rising in Macau and the area as an entire. Already established because the go-to place for poker in Asia, it gained’t be lengthy earlier than it turns into one of many greatest poker hotspots on the planet.
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