Poker news tagged with 'macau'

Casino Industry in the Philippines predicted to Earn More than Macau and Nevada

The Republic of the Philippines is enjoying the spotlight this time when it comes to being the country with the most growth in terms of casino revenues in just a short period of time.

After analyzing Bloomberry Resorts’ first quarter results, an analyst for Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd named Praveen Choudhary said that the Philippines casino sector is significantly growing faster than “Las Vegas, Macau and Singapore.”Read more » Casino Industry in the Philippines predicted to Earn More than Macau and Nevada

Steve O'Dwyer added yet another high roller title to his poker resume thanks to winning the PokerStars Championship Macau HK$400,000 Super High Roller last weekend. The event saw 88 entries (64 players and 24 re-entries) and was played over three days.

Read more » Steve O'Dwyer Wins Macau Super High Roller

Tom Dwan, best known as "durrrr" at Full Tilt's high-stakes tables before Black Friday, made a rare appearance in a live poker tournament last weekend when he entered the HK$500,000 (approx. US $64,000) Super High Roller of the 2017 Macau Billionaire Poker (MBP) Spring Challenge.

Read more » Tom Dwan's First Live Tourney Cash Since 2014

The casinos in Macau, the only place in China where gambling is legal, are struggling. According to Cardplayer, the gambling mecca, which has 35 casinos owned by 6 operators, has seen an increased drop in revenue for 10 months in a row.

Read more » Macau Casino Revenues Keep On Dropping

Yuguang Li, a 36 year old businessman, had a fantastic run at the poker tables in Macau last Friday. Li started by winning the MPC22 Red Dragon Main Event which had gathered a field of 987 players. The first place gave him some $238,000 USD but instead of celbrating the win, Li jumped straight in to the poker action in the MPC22 HK$80,000 High Roller event which proved to be the right thing to do since he managed to win this one too and bag another $219,000 USD.
Read more » Yuguang Li's 24 hour winning-spree in Macau

There has been a lot of talk about the high-stakes cash games in Macau in the past few years, but, unfortunately, the information on these cash games have mostly been speculations and rumours as many of the players taking part usually aren't willing to share their stories.

Read more » An insight in Macau's Nosebleed Cash Games

The mysterious high-stakes player "patpatman" has been running extremely good on PokerStars nosebleed tables lately. In total, he has won $350k in the past two weeks (about 11,300 hands) and is already up over $1,1 million this year.

So who is this tallented player?
There are many suggestions circulating on the web on who "patpatman" is. However, it seems like most people think that it is Tom "durrrr" Dwan because the account is registered in Macau, China, where Tom Dwan goes regularly and participates in huge cash games. Besides that, "patpatman" likes to play deep at the highest tables and seems to master both NLHE and PLO. Also, he has been making some comments in the chat about current games in Macau.

source: highstakesdb

There are some insane cash games going on in Macau in China at the moment, with some of the best players in the world! According to a poker news site that follows the action in Macau on daily basis, Tom "durrrr" Dwan took home a pot of almost $4 million dollars during the ongoing Macau Big Game.

Read more » Tom Dwan Wins Huge Pot in Macau!

Macua's casinos are making 5 times as much as the casinos along the strip in Las Vegas and the town keeps on growing. Last week the latest casino opened up, Sands Cotai Central, and it costed 4.4 billion dollars to complete.

Sands Cotai Central's 2 casinos have 340 gaming tables and 40 VIP areas for high rollers. Later this year - another floor will be open for business, with another 200 tables.

Read more » Sands Cotai Central is open for business

According to Asian Poker Tour and Resorts World, the largest buy-in tournament ever held in Asia will be played at Resorts World Manila's Genting Club on April 20 - one day before the APT Philippines Main Event begins.

The buy-in for the Super High Roller will be HKD$1,000,000 (USD$129,000) and big names such as Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan have already confirmed their participation. The organizers are expecting a field of around 25-30 players to take part in the tournament.

In February PokerStars announced that the Macau Millions Series has been postponed indefinitely, so the Super High Roller tournament in the Philippines might be a good alternative for many Macau high-stakes regulars.

According to a Danish poker news site, Gus Hansen has once again returned to Macau and joined players such as Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Sam "tri1cky7" Trickett in games where millions of dollars can change owner in just a single hand.

The Danish news site has been in contact with Hansen ever since he arrived in Macau and they report that he has played in games as high as $1,3000/$2,600 with a $5,000 straddle. But things haven't gone so well for Mr. Hansen so far. A big chunk of Gus's losses is due to a hand against Tom Dwan in which he failed to bluff with a HK$1.7 million bet on the river. 

Read more » Gus Hansen returns to Macau

About 2 weeks ago we wrote about the 19-year-old Norwegian poker player Ole-Kristian Nergard and his trip to Macau. He was running well in Macau's big game then and it seems like he's still going strong.

In fact, according to Andrew Feldman - who's also taking part in the big games, the Norwegian young-gun took home a pot of amazing 3.6 million Hong King Dollar (about USD 465,000) the other day and mucked the winning hand on the river. According to Nergard's twitter, it was the biggest pot of his poker career.

Read more » High Stakes: Ole-Kristian Nergard takes home his biggest ever live pot

Gus Hansen and Sam Trickett are both back in Macau and apparently there are some massive games up running at the moment. According to Hansen's blog, he lost a massive 12 million Hong Kong dollar pot (about 1.55 USD) in one of these games.

"As expected my second session here in Macau was a bit more ‘swingy' than the first one. Unfortunately ‘The Swinger Party' was somewhat expensive as I rarely had the best hand at the river and tried one too many bluffs! I am currently playing my third session here in Macau and things were looking mighty fine until a 6 handed pre-flop pot turned into a 12 million (Hong Kong$) heads-up battle. As the smart reader has already figured out - I didn't win it "

Read more » High Stakes: Hansen and Trickett back in Macau

It has been a very long time since Tom "durrrr" Dwan gave an interview. But at Aussie Millions, which is being played at the Crown Casino right now, he talked about, for example, Black Friday, the cash games in Macau and his plans for 2012.

Read more » Tom Dwan on Black Friday, the cash games in Macau etc

Some time ago we wrote that Gus Hansen was on his way to Macau to check out the insane high stakes games. According to what Gus Hansen wrote in his blog then, he wasn't sure whether or not he would take part in the biggest games. 

Now we can confirm that Hansen joined the action in Macau last week and played against Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Andrew Robl, and several Asian businessmen at stakes of HKD$10,000/HKD$20,000 (USD1,287/2,574). According to an Asian poker site, Gus Hansen has crushed the games and he's up about $4 million already.

Read more » High Stakes: Gus Hansen scores 7-figure profit in Macau

After a few weeks of silence, the Danish poker pro Gus Hansen once again updated his blog with some pretty interesting news. Hansen writes, for example, that he has arrived in Hong Kong and that he and a Danish friend will go to Macau and check whether or not the rumored high stakes games are as crazy as some people claim they are.

In Macau, Hansen hopes to meet some of his old buddies from Full Tilt Poker - Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey etc. But he still isn't sure if he will take part in the games were some players bring millions of dollars.

Read more » Gus Hansen on his way to Macau

Five Chinese companies are currently making plans for a poker tournament with a $100,000,000 guaranteed prize pool - the greatest guarantee in poker history. The tournament is planned to be held in Macau, China, in 2013 and only 500 players can enter it. The name of the tournament will be Macau Pro Am Poker, and it would be the richest poker event ever held.

William Murray, an American businessman, is speaking on behalf of one of the five companies.

"The goal is now to get 500 participants, with one third coming from the Far East, third from the U.S. and one third from other countries, said William Murray, adding that the first prize at a prize pool of $100,000,000 will be $25,000,000."

A few days ago, the French-Chinese high stakes player Rui "PepperoniF" Cao wrote some interesting things in his blog about the extreme high stakes games in Macau. Cao writes, for example, about private games where the pots are as much as €500,000 and that it's normal that people win/lose more than double that amount in just a day. He also writes who takes part in these games.

Read more » Rui Cao speaks out about the sick cash games in Macau

There hasn't been much news from the huge games in Macau lately. However, according to what the Finnish player Joni "Jouhki" Jouhkimainen's blog, Tom Dwan recently took down a pot worth HKD 89 million ($11 million).

Jouhkimainen writes that Dwan and a few other players were playing with $20,000/$40,000 blinds. In the huge pot, Dwan and two other players went all-in proflop. Dwan had A[c]K[d], the other 2 players J[d]J[h] and 10[s]10[c]. Dwan hit an ace and took down the enormous pot.

The finnish poker star started the year by losing $ 3,000,000 at the online tables, but the curve has since turned into $ 1,500,000 in plus. Among other things thanks to a German Limit expert.

With the recent stories from Asia's gaming mecca Macau, it is just before the $ 2,000 / $ 4,000 Fixed Limit Hold'Em may sound a bit boring.

But still quite entertaining when there is a long heads-up match between Patrik Antonius and the German 'IHateJuice' - the player who Phil Ivey doesn't even feel like he has an edge on.Read more » Antonius wins 504.000$ HU

Madness-game in Macau seemingly never ends. Ivey left China while Tom 'durrrr' Dwan remains to be found in the big cash game, where he due to the recent reports seems to have have found his rhytm again, after losing his first HU session.Read more » Rumors from Macau : Durrrr wins 9 million$ in one session