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August 11, 2010

Setting records in Macau
PokerStars is pretty good when it comes to setting records, whether it’s for the most players online or the biggest online tournament in the world. So why not try to set another? This time it’s in the live poker world, by hosting the Macau Million, the biggest live tournament in Asia, at the PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa. The event, which concluded over the weekend, smashed the Asian record for field size when 741 players turned up in Macau, beating the previous record of 679 players set at the Metro Card Club during the Filipino Poker Tour. Justin Chan from Hong Kong was the eventual winner, collecting a first prize of HKD$250,000, his share of a HKD$1,467,180 prize pool that shattered the HKD$1 million guarantee.
Habernig wins the lot in LAPT Florianopolis
While Asia was setting records in Macau, the newest destination on the Latin American Poker Tour found its first champion over the weekend when 19-year-old Matthias Habernig won the LAPT Florianopolis in Brazil, collecting a first prize of R$435,000. Ahead of a field of 364, Habernig, from Austria, who had an overwhelming chip lead going into the final table, defeated Brazilian Dayan Vardanega heads-up to win his first poker title, played out at the Costao do Santinho resort near Florianopolis. In fact it’s shaping up to be a season of firsts for the tour. After new stops in Lima, Peru, and now Brazil, the tour heads to Rosario in Argentina for the first time for its season finale next month. More details of that can be found on the LAPT website: http://www.lapt.com
Back to the Baltic
The long awaited start of the new season of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour starts tomorrow. Poker Players from around Europe and the world will head to Tallinn, Estonia to battle it out across the Baltic baize at the tour’s newest stop, which should make for a fitting start to the tour’s seventh season, being the host venue of the ever-popular Baltic festival. This year’s tour takes in new stops as well as old favourites, with a 13-stop schedule starting in the Estonian capital and ending in the spring after visits to such places as Vilamoura, London, Barcelona, Deauville, Berlin, and San Remo on the Italian Riviera. It promises to be another record setting year and all the details of what’s in store can be found on the EPT website: http://www.ept.com
Oh Vienna
If you’ve been thinking that it’s about time the European Poker Tour headed back to Vienna then that’s all about to come true. It’s been six years since the EPT last staged an event in the Austrian capital and in Season 7 the Tour will return in spectacular style with a five-day €5,300 event running 26-31 October. To mark the occasion PokerStars will be guaranteeing a €500,000 first prize. It will all take place in the stunning 19th century Renaissance-style Kursalon palace in Vienna’s beautiful City Park. Fear not, for they will allow sneakers.
Vienna is a cultural capital of Europe, home once to Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Johann Strauss, not to mention Hedy Lamarr and Maria von Trapp. Expect plenty of local poker talent to converge on the Austrian capital, including Team PokerStars Pros Sebastian Ruthenberg and Sandra Naujoks, along with Austrian-born team member Johannes Steindl and PokerStars SportStar Boris Becker.

For more details of the event go to the EPT website at http://www.ept.com.

Welcome back to the WCOOP
For online poker players around the world the day they’ve been waiting for is nearly here. In just a few weeks time any thought of going outside or switching the laptop off are set aside in favour of 23 days of pure poker heaven. It can only mean the start of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) which kicks off on 5 September on PokerStars.com.
The WCOOP is the richest online poker series in the world, consisting of 62 events over 23 days with tournaments in every poker discipline. This year PokerStars has guaranteed $50 million in prizes, the highest guarantee ever, making September one of the most important months on anyone’s poker calendar. It all comes to a finish on 27 September with the highlight $10,300 high roller mixed game event (8-game) and the traditional two-day $5,000 main event, which has a $10m guaranteed prize pool.
Last year 43,973 players from 140 countries took part in the WCOOP, double that of the year before. Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko went on to win the main event worth more than $1.7 million. For more details go to the WCOOP website: www.wcoop.com

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