APPT Releases Schedules For Macau Poker Cup And Asia Championship Of Poker

The poker action in Macau is all set to soar in the later part of this year as the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) announced the schedule of two major tournaments in its Season 9 calendar. As per the official press release of APPT, the Macau Poker Cup will be held from August 28 to September 13 and 2015 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) will be played from October 30 to November 15 at the ‘PokerStars LIVE Macau’ poker room.

Macau Poker Cup (MPC23)

The 23^rd edition of the Macau Poker Cup will kick off on 28th August for 17 days of non-stop poker action which brings 17 Official Asia Player of the Year (APOY) events. Once again, the HK$12,000 Red Dragon Main Event which comes with  HK$5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool will be highlighting the tournament action. The organizer will look ahead to reach the 1,000 mark of attendance in the main event as the highest turnout in the Red Dragon has been 995.

The roster includes a variety of tournaments of Texas Holdem and Omaha including the Baby Dragon, Megastack, $20,000 NLH and High Roller events.

Here are the main highlights of MPC23:

2015 Asia Championship of Poker

Starting October 30, Asia Championship of Poker will take the center stage at the ‘PokerStars LIVE Macau’ poker room. There are 15 ‘ACOP Title Events’ at hand – with 13 of them counting towards APOY – which have buy-ins ranging from HK$2,500 to HK$500,000.  As with previous years, each of those winners will receive one of the prestigious ‘Spadie’ trophies.

The HK$100,000 Main Event which comes with a HK$15 million prize pool guarantee will be played starting November 9. The main event champion will be awarded the coveted Gold Spadie trophy.

“The support and enthusiasm has been there since Day 1 in the Asia Pacific but the ACOP has really caught the eye of poker players globally after the huge success from last year.” said APPT President Danny McDonagh.  “The series has seen a massive growth during its three-year run so far.  The prize money in 2014 more than doubled the previous year’s totals.  We fully expect that positive trend to continue as the ACOP enters its fourth year.”

The ACOP has become a must-play event on the international poker circuit.  Last year, the biggest names in poker made the trip to Macau including Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Liv Boeree, Isaac Haxton, Eugene Katchalov, Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew; as well as Phil Ivey, Dan Colman, Dan Smith, and Steve O’Dwyer who won HK$14,470,400 (USD $1.8m) after capturing the Super High Roller title.

Here are the main highlights of 2015 ACOP: