2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau

APPT Macau Main Event
Day: 1a
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Event Info

2009 PokerStars.net APPT Macau

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
10♥k♦
Prize
$541,089
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,081,000
Entries
429
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000

2009 APPT Macau Main Event Begins Today

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Ni hao, poker fans, and welcome to to the third floor of the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino in steamy Macau for Day 1a of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event. This event is the showpiece tournament of a two-week-long series of poker tournaments that kicks off the third season of the highly successful APPT.

Year-on-year growth has been the story for the APPT. This year that growth included a move from the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino on the Cotai side of Macau to the more opulent, more spacious and more prominently located Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino on the peninsula side of Macau. Players will be playing high-stakes tournament poker beneath dazzling glass spider webs that dangle from the ceiling of the poker room.

Last year, Californian Eddy Sabat was the player who emerged victorious after a week of poker play, banking more than US$450,000 for his accomplishment. We expect that a new champion will be crowned this year, having heard second-hand that Sabat will not be returning to Macau to defend his title.

Play for the first of the three Day 1 flights is scheduled to begin at 12:15pm local time, in just a few minutes. We're set up on media row in the back corner of the room, waiting to bring you all of the action. Stick around!