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After an early flurry of all-ins at the beginning of the day, the average stack size has increased to the point where most players are comfortable playing small-ball poker. Only a couple of players are occasionally being forced to put everything on the line with an all-in. Andrew Scott, prefers poker to fishing One of those players is Andrew "I won … [Read more...]

Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem was weeks away from becoming 2005 WSOP main event champion when Quinn Do saluted the judge in the $2500 Limit Hold'em event. Quinn Do, a silent assassin at the poker table. Like many of his contemporaries, Do was born in Vietnam and arrived in the US as a youngster, with his family settling in the Seattle area. He … [Read more...]

There are 21 players still in the APPT High Roller field at the Grand Waldo Casino in Macau: an appropriate figure given that former professional black jack player Andrew Scott has just taken out Roger Spets. "Go you good thing!" Andrew Scott rides quads to a nice pot. After Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem made it 2200, Scott called, Spets pushed … [Read more...]

If you work regular hours, then 9.30am might be time for a coffee break; but the life of a Team PokerStars Pro player is a little different. This morning for example, at 9.30am Barry Greenstein was in the lobby of the Grand Waldo Hotel waiting for a van to take him to a PokerStars.net APPT Macau promotional shoot. Previous APPT shoots of this nature … [Read more...]

David Steicke and Eric Assadourian prepare for battle. The race for the HKD $3.7 million first prize in the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau High Roller event steps up a notch with the remaining 28 players eyeing a spot at tomorrow's final table. David Steicke, the Australian now based in Hong Kong, continues to show a clean pair of heels … [Read more...]

David "The Spider" Steicke If the PokerStars.net APPT had a "Rookie of the Year" award, it seems it would have to go to David Steicke. After only one year of tournament poker experience, the Australian-born trader continues to dominate the tournament floor here at the Grand Waldo Casino in Macau. Steicke was the 10th placed final table "bubble boy" … [Read more...]

</formJohnny Chan, surrounded by intense hoods Over at Johnny Chan's table, there are four players sitting around him wearing hoods and sunglasses. Chan must be thinking he's in some type of fairy tale... we can just imagine him thinking: "You kids all play Red Riding Hood, and I'll be the Big Bad Wolf." The table seems to need a bit of light-heartedness, … [Read more...]

The pace of eliminations has increased as players take their final break on day one of the PokerStars.net APPT High Roller event. And the main recipient has been David Steicke, who now leads the tournament with a stack of almost 80,000. The short-stacked Liz Lieu made her move with A-J and found herself in a coin-flip with Steicke, who showed pocket … [Read more...]

Xuan Nguyen, playing his table like a xylophone We have a new chip leader over at Andrew "I won a race!" Scott's table. Xuan Ngyuen, a highly-successful online player, has been bossing Scott, PokerStars sponsored player Emad Tahtouh, and the rest of the table relentlessly with raise after raise. Even when re-raised himself, he has fearlessly come back … [Read more...]