Welcome to the 2015 APPT9 Macau 50K Freezeout
Macau is a place where dreams can come true, be it hotels and attractions showing up left an right or high-stakes cash games running and with Millions to be won. The new "Las Vegas of Asia" already boasts unique places such as the Venetian, but the "City of Dreams" hotel complex and casino on the Cotai Strip surely showcases the ambitions of the small peninsula in mainland China. The "PokerStars Live Macau" poker room is in here and that's also the host of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Season 9.
All thirteen events count towards the Official Asia Player of the Year ranking and the festival has kicked off a few days ago on May 20th with everything leading up to the final on May 31st 2015. The buy-ins range between HK$ 1,500 and HK$ 100,000 and the two-day HK$ 50,000 Freezeout is the second-most expensive event on the schedule. In fact, the tournament has just been introduced and takes place for the first time ever.
The action gets underway in about one hour from now at 18:00 local time (six hours ahead of CET) and the first nine 40-minute levels will then see an increase of the duration per level to 60 minutes each. Late registration on Day 1 remains open for six hours with a maximum of eight to nine hours being played and the tournament will resume tomorrow as of 15:00 local time. May 27th also features the first starting day of the HK$ 25,000 Main Event and the PokerNews live reporting team will be there to deliver updates from both events simultaneously. Same also applies for the HK$ 100,000 High Roller event on May 30th and 31st as well.
Among the familiar names expected heading to Macau are Randy "nanonoko" Lew of Team PokerStars Online, Kitty Kuo, 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event champion Scott Davies and the Team PokerStars Pros Bryan Huang, Celina Lin, Kosei Ichinose, and Aditya Agarwal