Exploring the City
If you're not lucky enough to be here yourself, then here's a quick tour around town to enjoy before the action commences here in the Grand Lisboa Hotel & Casino.
If you're not lucky enough to be here yourself, then here's a quick tour around town to enjoy before the action commences here in the Grand Lisboa Hotel & Casino.
Welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of the 2011 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event. Yesterday's Day 1a field saw 269 players come out to action. At the end of the day, 155 of them advanced to Day 2. It was Shih Chieh Su leading the way at the end of the day with 171,800 in chips.
Yesterday's big story was Phil Ivey making his return to the felt after a long, several-month hiatus from live tournament poker. He went on to finish with 51,200 in chips and looks to have that fire back in his eyes.
Although there will be no Ivey today, we've still got plenty of big-name pros signed up to play. Two-time World Series of Poker Main Event champion and ten-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Johnny Chan is here along Team PokerStars' Bryan Huang, Celina Lin, Randy Lew, Nacho Barbero and Vivian Im. The defending champion, Victorino Torres, is also slated to play along with 2008 champion Eddy Sabat.
Sabat won the largest-ever APPT Macau Main Event with 538 runners in the field. This year is set to eclipse that number to make for a record-setting field.
Play is slated to kick off noon local time here at PokerStars Macau. Be sure to stay tuned for all the live coverage straight from the floor, it's going to be another great day on the felt.
Main Event
Day 1b Started