The Latin American Poker Tour is an exciting circuit already. There is passion on nearly every flop. There are very few places in the world where one can witness such poker insanity on such a professional level. After nearly four full seasons of running around the region, it seemed impossible the LAPT could find a [...]
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APPT adds Seoul to Season 5 schedule
Oh, it looked like the APPT’s fifth season had come to an end. The year 2011 drew to a close, Shaq Lin won the Asia Player of the Year Award, and the APPT schedule had no more dates listed for its fifth season. Oh, yes, it looked like it had all come to an end. [...]
Read MoreAPPT Macau Day 4: Levels 28-30 (blinds 50,000-100,000, ante 10,000)
10:10pm: Level up That’s the end of that level, and we’ll be starting the new level on a new page. 9:50pm: Rossiter recovers Jimmy Pan and Jeff Rossiter have tangled with the Aussie gaining the ascendency and regaining some lost momentum. Pan raised the button to 200,000 before Rossiter three-bet an additional 280,000 from the [...]
Read MoreBreakthrough win for Randy "nanonoko" Lew at APPT Macau
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event has come to a close and we’ve crowned a new champion with PokerStars Team Online member Randy “nanonoko” Lew proving that he can adapt his game from the virtual world onto the live felt with a stunning breakthough victory this evening. Wind the clock back fourteen hours [...]
Read MoreAPPT Macau: Day 3 live updates, levels 16-19
–BW 4:15pm: Unlucky treys for Tomita “Unlucky hand,” said Tetsuro Tomita with a smile after being eliminated from the tournament in rather devastating fashion. The unlucky hand in question was pocket threes as Tomita will be having nightmares tonight about the treys. First he flopped a full house on a flop of [qc][3s][qh]. That sounds [...]
Read MoreAPPT Macau Day 3 table draw
Ninety-six players remain in the APPT Macau Season 5 main event. Play resumes at 12:10pm local time in what is expected to be a long day of play. The table and seat draw for Day 3 is listed below. Table Seat Player Chips 1 1 Michael Finstein 151300 1 2 Frederik de Linde Farrington 125200 [...]
Read MoreAPPT Macau Day 4: Level 28 (blinds 30,000-60,000, ante 5,000)
6:00pm: Here comes Randy! Daniel Nordstrom and Randy Lew have gone to war, with the PokerStars Team Online member getting the better as he starts to look very threatening on this final table. Nordstrom opened with a raise to 125,000 before Lew three-bet to 300,000 on the button. The blinds folded and Nordstrom called to [...]
Read MoreAPPT Macau Day 4: Levels 25-27 (blinds 25,000-50,000, ante 5,000)
5:25pm: Ten-minute break The level has come to an end and the players are taking a break. We’ll be back in ten minutes with coverage to continue on a new page. 5:20pm: Nordstrom finds a lucky lady Daniel Nordstrom has doubled up through Fabian Spiedelmann after spiking a set on the river to the roars [...]
Read MoreNanonoko in contention as Mohan leads final fifteen in Macau
When we started out this afternoon we knew we were in for a long day. The equation was always a difficult one to compute. Take 96 hopefuls, squeeze them into 70 cash winners then divide them into a final table of nine by the end of the day. Unfortunately algebra wasn’t our best subject as [...]
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