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: 50/100, 0 ante
After a few announcements from the tournament director and an introduction of last year's champion, Alexandre Chieng, Chieng gave the obligatory "shuffle up and deal" and the cards were in the air.
PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Macau
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
PokerStars.net APPT Season 8 Macau
Buy-in
25,000 HKD
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
10,000
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante:
Welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of the 2014 PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event. Yesterday's Day 1a field saw 212 players come out to play. At the end of the day, 87 of them advanced to Day 2. It was Bo “Box” Xie who would take the lead in the final few hands of the night, finishing with 166,000 in chips.
With an expected field of around 300 players today, it would mean that this event will have in excess of 500-runners, a great result for this event which has been growing in popularity ever since it's inclusion in 2007.
Some players to look forward to today include Team PokerStars Pros Celina Lin and Raymond Wu, as well as possible showings from 2014 APPT Seoul champion Chane Kampanatsanyakorn, 2013 APPT Cebu champion Jae Kyung Sim and reigning APPT Macau champion Alexandre Chieng.
Play is set to kick off at 3:00pm local time here at the City of Dreams 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