PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa is pleased to announce the launch of the third year of the Macau Poker Cup which begins on 13th March and runs to 17th Oct. It will feature six events as well as live satellites to the Red Dragon event with a guaranteed $1 million prize pool.
As well as the Red Dragon event, with a buy in of $10,000, the series will feature a bounty event, a $200,000 guaranteed hold’em event and a Deep Stack tournament as well as a charity event with $50,000 in added prize money aimed at benefitting local charity.
Last October’s Macau Poker Cup set a Red Dragon record of 247 players, creating a prize pool of HKD $2.3 million.
The $10,000 buy in is topped only by the December Macau Poker Cup Championship main event which features a buy in of HKD $20,000.
Not only will the winner take away a record breaking first prize but results in all Macau Poker Cup numbered events count towards The Asia Player of the Year (APOY) standings.
The player named Asia Player of the Year at the end of 2010 will win a one year sponsorship deal with PokerStars Macau.
The new APOY competition starts during the Macau Poker Cup warm ups this month, 19th to 20th February.
Players can take their seats for the Red Dragon and other MPC events the free way by winning a tournament package on PokerStars.net. Players can find tournaments under the “events” tab/ Macau in the tournament lobby.
As well as the Macau Poker Cup in March Asia’s poker players can also look forward to the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour which returns to Macau on 18th May 2010.
More detail relating to the Macau Poker Cup can be found at the website: http://www.pokerstarsmacau.com/macau_cup/
PokerStars.net is the world’s largest poker site with more than 31 million members around the world. It’s the first choice of the world’s top players with more daily tournaments than anywhere else with the best security online. More hands have been dealt on PokerStars.net than any other site, that’s over 37 billion hands dealt to date and more than 242 million tournaments played.
PokerStars.net operates worldwide under the license from the Isle of Man Government. A recent addition to the PokerStars family, PokerStars.IT, operates in Italy under the Italian Government license.
PokerStars is in the record books, boasting the Guinness World Record for ’Largest Online Poker Tournament’ and ‘Most Players on an Internet Poker Room’.
PokerStars regularly sets the bar high, staging some of the biggest online and live poker tournaments in the world:
· The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is the premier yearly online poker tournament series in the world.
· The European Poker Tour attracts the best players and currently generates the biggest prize pool of any poker tour
· The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure staged on the shores of Paradise Island in the Bahamas is where thousands of players compete for a share of millions in prize money
· The Latin American Poker Tour unites the best players in South America
· The Asia Pacific Poker Tour does the same across the Pacific
· The World Cup of Poker a unique fixture on the poker calendar that combines the online and live poker worlds for a team challenge that pitches nation against nation
· PokerStars is also the official sponsor of the; Russian Poker Tour, The Italian Poker Tour, The Czech-Slovak Poker Tour, Australia-New Zealand Poker Tour, The UK and Ireland Poker Tour
PokerStars is also home to an elite team of sponsored players known as Team PokerStars Pro – a group of established and up and coming players that travel the world competing in international tournaments.
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