Day 1b Around the Corner
It's hot and humid outside the Grand Lisboa, but cool and brisk inside with the air conditioning pumping for another day of poker. Today is Day 1b of the 2010 Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event and it's set to kick off at 12:15 p.m. local time.
Yesterday saw 88 runners hit the felt in action and just over half of them hit the rail before day's end. Alexandre Chieng emerged as the chip leader, bagging up 113,100 chips. That's a pretty solid build from the starting stack of 20,000. He was the only player to reach the century mark and we'll see if anyone in the field can catch him today.
The field size should be the same or a tad larger today, with the largest field size coming in on Day 1c. The tournament staff has hopes of breaking 100, which is easily doable. As always with a PokerStars.net event, there will be plenty of qualifiers in the field and a few pros. The High Roller event had it's first day of action yesterday and some of those notables should find their way to the felt today if they failed to make it through to the second day of that event. As of right now though, we really don't know who's going to show up and play. Just as you're left in the dark, so are we. That should make for a welcome surprise.
In about 15 minutes action kicks off. Be sure to keep your browser pointed to PokerNews for all the live updates from the tournament floor. Stay tuned!