A Look Back at the Side Event Winners from the 2013 PokerStars.net APPT Macau ACOP
The second annual Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) has been playing out in Macau at PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams for the past couple weeks. The 17-day festival was comprised of 12 official ACOP events with the flagship event being the HK$100,000 buy-in ACOP Main Event – which you can follow by clicking here . This weekend you will also be able to follow live coverage from the HK$250,000 High Roller .
The 2013 ACOP is part of Season 7 of the PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour and has already produced some notable winners. For instance, Jian Yang won the HK$25,000 Warm-Up Event for a big payday of HK$1,700,000, while the HK$8,800 Ladies Asia Championship saw well-known female professional Jay Tan from Hong Kong capture her first live title and along with a HK$65,200 first-place prize.
While all the focus have been on the stop’s higher buy-in events, there have been numerous tournaments playing out at PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams. Here’s a look at the results from those events.
2013 ACOP Event #1 Rebuy Championship ($500,000 Guarantee)
Date Buy-in Entrants Rebuys Prize Pool October 18-19, 2013 $2,500 139 208 $757,328
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st Ioan Taizs Romania $189,300 $24,426 2nd Jason Vipulananthan Australia $128,700 $16,606 3rd Mansour Khorramshahi Iran $83,300 $10,748 4th Andrei Kaigorodtcev Russia $68,200 $8,800 5th Victor Teng Australia $53,000 $6,839 6th Sergei Sukhonos Russia $45,400 $5,858 7th Raiden Kan Hong Kong $37,900 $4,890 8th Hung Sheng "Shaq" Lin Chinese Taipei $30,300 $3,910
2013 ACOP Event #2 Deepstack Championship ($1,000,000 Guarantee)
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool (HKD) October 19-21, 2013 $11,000 177 $1,716,900
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st Thomas Zhang UK $420,600 $54,271 2nd Peter Wai Yan Chu Hong Kong $283,300 $36,555 3rd Makoto Yoshimichi Japan $180,300 $23,265 4th Julian Hasse Germany $145,900 $18,826 5th Kai Sheng Yang Chinese Taipei $115,900 $14,955 6th Claudia Un Jung Yum Korea $94,400 $12,181 7th Yibo Zhou China $77,300 $9,974 8th Ryan Nan Yu China $60,100 $7,755
2013 ACOP $2,000 Deepstack Side Event
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool October 20, 2013 $2,000 159 $277,614
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1* Andrew Jackling Australia $42,900 $5,535 2* Chi Jen Chen Chinese Taipei $50,000 $6,452 3* Xiaoyong Liao China $50,000 $6,452 4 Yosuke Isobe Japan $23,600 $3,045 5 Akitomo Kurushima Japan $18,700 $2,413 6 Liming Zhang China $15,300 $1,974 7 Ke Jing Li China $12,500 $1,613 8 Kuok Hong Ng Macau $9,700 $1,252 9 Beng Hong Ker Singapore $8,300 $1,071
*Denotes three-handed deal
2013 ACOP Event #3 6-Max Championship
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool October 21-22, 2013 $11,000 137 $1,328,900
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st* Apoorva Goel India $288,100 $37,174 2nd* Hung Sheng "Shaq" Lin Chinese Taipei $270,000 $34,839 3 Saehoon Lee Korea $146,200 $18,865 4 Thomas Grigg Australia $119,600 $15,432 5 Ioan Taizs Romania $93,000 $12,000 6 Kosei Ichinose Japan $79,700 $10,284 7 Victor Teng Australia $66,400 $8,568 8 Beng Hong Ker Singapore $53,200 $6,865 9 Alexandre Chieng China $39,900 $5,148
*Denotes heads-up deal
2013 ACOP $2,000 6-Max Side Event
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool October 22, 2013 $2,000 112 $195,552
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st Huang Hao China $50,800 $6,555 2nd Tadashi Yachida Japan $33,200 $4,284 3rd Ke Jing Li China $22,500 $2,903 4th Hu Zhao China $18,600 $2,400 5th Yuki Takeda Japan $14,700 $1,897 6th Kai Sheng Yang Chinese Taipei $12,700 $1,639 7th Ka Cheong Wong Hong Kong $10,800 $1,394 8th Martin Rottem Dahle Norway $8,800 $1,135
2013 ACOP Event #4 ACOP Warm-up ($5,000,000 Guarantee)
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool October 23-27, 2013 $25,000 338 $7,540,780
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st Jian Yang China $1,700,000 $219,355 2nd Wei Hsiang Yeu Malaysia $1,170,000 $150,968 3rd David Foran Ireland $695,000 $89,677 4th Billy "The Croc" Argyros Australia $547,000 $70,581 5th Roger Spets Sweden $434,000 $56,000 6th Steven Yibo Zhou China $358,000 $46,194 7th Tom Alner UK $283,000 $36,516 8th Saehoon Lee Korea $208,000 $26,839
2013 ACOP Event #6: Pot-Limit Omaha Championship
Edison Nguyen
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool October 25-26, 2013 $15,000 92 $1,213,664
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1 Edison Minh Phuc Nguyen Australia $273,100 $35,239 2 Pakinai Lisawad Thailand $273,100 $35,239 3 Carl Henric Olander Sweden $145,600 $18,787 4 Kevin Zhang USA $121,400 5 Markus Garberg Norway $97,100 $12,529 6 Alexandre Chieng China $85,000 7 Raiden Kan Hong Kong $72,800 $9,394 8 Yuki Ko Korea $60,700 $7,832 9 Tim Shun "Timpson" Luk Hong Kong $48,500 $6,258 10 Kilian Loeffler Austria $36,364 $4,692
2013 ACOP $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha Side Event
Brian Shen
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool October 26, 2013 $2,500 52 $113,490
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st Brian Shen Hong Kong $32,000 $4,129 2nd Kuok Weng Pun Macau $29,290 $3,779 3rd Matthew Weng Chih Chan Singapore $15,900 $2,052 4th Johnson Tan Philippines $12,500 $1,613 5th Alexander Firsov Russia $9,100 $1,174 6th Christine Hia Malaysia $7,900 $1,019 7th Patrick Lik Tung Lui Hong Kong $6,800 $877
2013 ACOP Event #7 KO Big Bounty
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool October 26-27, 2013 $11,000 213 $1,652,880 ($426,000 more in bounties)
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st* Ken Demlakian Australia $349,400 $46,587 2nd* Shivan Abdine Australia $320,000 $42,667 3rd Kwok Chun Yip Hong Kong $165,300 $22,040 4th Akira Ohyama Japan $124,000 $16,533 5th Chenxiang Miao China $99,200 $13,227 6th Jan Eric Schwippert UK $82,600 $11,013 7th Thomas Grigg Australia $66,100 $8,813 8th Dennis Huntly Australia $49,600 $6,613 9th Mingqin Liu China $41,300 $5,507 10th Predrag Lekovic Montenegro $33,180 $4,424
*Denotes heads-up deal.
2013 ACOP $2,500 KO Bounty Side Event
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool October 27, 2013 $2,500 113 $191,817
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st* Yen Han Chen Chinese Taipei $42,000 $5,419 2nd* Adam Michael Kragh USA $40,500 $5,226 3rd Raymond Kut Fu Chow Hong Kong $22,100 $2,852 4th Kenichi Takarabe Japan $18,200 $2,348 5th Michael Boon Kean Chan Malaysia $14,400 $1,858 6th Jonathan Curtis Australia $12,500 $1,613 7th Gustavo Cavaliere Argentina $10,500 $1,355 8th Yujung Choi Korea $8,717 $1,125 9th Danil Karpov Russia $6,700 $865 10th Jack Lee Australia $4,800 $619
*Denotes heads-up deal.
2013 ACOP $2,000 NLHE Teams Side Event
Ye han Chen & Hung Chang Lin
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool October 30, 2013 $2,000 36 $62,856
Place Players Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st Ye han Chen & Hung Chang Lin Chinese Taipei $25,100 $3,239 2nd Jason Vipulanathan & Alexey Smirnov Australia & Russia $15,100 $1,948 3rd Lijun Chen & Houyi Huang China $10,100 $1,303 4th Minh Truong Thang & Trung Tran Australia $7,500 $968 5th Rezaei Mani & Elham Gholipour India $5,056 $652
2013 ACOP Event #9 $11,000 Turbo Championship
Michael Mariakis
Date Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool (HKD) October 31, 2013 $11,000 90 $873,000
Place Player Country Prize (HKD) Prize (USD) 1st Michael Mariakis Australia $235,700 $30,413 2nd Jack Salter UK $157,100 $20,271 3rd Makoto Yoshimichi Japan $104,800 $13,523 4th Mani Rezaei Iran $87,300 $11,265 5th Saehoon Lee Korea $69,800 $9,006 6th Brian Mcallister Australia $61,100 $7,884 7th Edison Minh Phuc Nguyen Australia $52,400 $6,761 8th Hung Sheng "Shaq" Lin Chinese Taipei $43,700 $5,639 9th Evan Meadors USA $34,900 $4,503 10th Victor Chong Malaysia $26,200 $3,381
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