Despite the light turnout at the Asian Poker Tour Macau the cash games are some of the biggest in history as Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Chau Giang, and John Juanda are playing HK$5,000-10,000 with some Chinese businessmen. The game plays much bigger and there was about 40 million on the table last night when I saw the game.

Tom Dwan made it through day one in the 5K main event but only came downstairs to play one hand 10-4 off suit in an attempt to bust and get back to the cash game but instead he doubled up and asked me to call him as soon as he was under 20 BB's. We are down to 35 players and paying 18.

Juanda is the biggest winner in the game so far. Durrrr, Ivey, and Chau are stuck a combined few million HK$. When I asked Dwan when he was moving here he said "very soon".

If anyone was curious..

$1 = 7.8HK

They are kicking it up to 10,000-20,000HK$ tonight I am told.

Blinds are $641/1282 and now $1282/2564 . Is it just mixed games?

It is straight No Limit, only the Starworld is allowed play PLO currently

They are playing here at the Hard Rock Poker Room on the 2nd floor with 5K, 100K, and 1,000,000 chips.

Durr busted the main in 25th and the cash game broke at the same time but will resume in 4 hours.

Definitely going to be the home of the worlds biggest games in the future, a whole new ocean of rich/egotistical/stubborn/clueless/degen fish

So I imagine the table would play like a team 4v4 or something? I don't see durrrr and Ivey tangling when they could be outplaying the locals in a much more +EV way

I used to live in hong kong and can attest to the comical quality of players there.

I sit in a 50/100 HKD cash game at the Wynn with $25,000, 3rd hand in i get 1010 raise over an utg limper (random chinese businessman) who calls, board runs out 10c 3c 7s As Kd , bet 2/3 pot on each street only for him to check raise all in on the river and he shouts out FLUSH!

Im like 'sorry sir think youve misread your hand its not possible'
Hes turns over 8c4c and is like FOUR CLOVER FOUR CLOVER! FLUSH! FLOP FLUSH!

Hmmm, think you need some practise sir, GG

This is correct, they moved the game to the Hard Rock during the Asian Poker Tour Series and generally the game is private but they opened it up this week. '

"Gweilos" are not always allowed to play in the game

It is much easier to watch here at the Hard Rock than at the Starworld where the game is in a private room. Will let you know when the game gets going again as I am told it will probably happen tonight.

There are a couple people that have sold off 5% of themselves

Thanks, I was misinformed but PLO is growing from what I hear and it is no secret they like to gamble here.

the chinese businessmen will let the pros play from time to time. however they limit the number of pros allowed on the tables. these guys are so freakin rich even tom commented that his bluffs dont really work because these guys have balls and more importantly have cash. after losing around 4 mill, tom then bought in for 10 mill.


i do have a couple of photos taken incognito, they're uploaded on my fb, nothin interesting really(no photoshop potential). this site has some shots of the players here in macau. http://www.theasianpokertour.com/



my friend ivan commented about one of the hands played,

Just witnessed a huge pot between Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan in a high stakes cash game here at the APT macau. Here are the details.

These were the few know players that were players, the rest i have never seen before.

Dwan, Ivey, Chau Giang, Jon Juanda.

Blinds were 5k/10k HKD

Anyways here was the hand.

Ivey straddles to 20k
Dwan double straddles to 40k.
MP calls 40k
Ivey completes the 40k
Dwan maskes a raise to 180k total
MP folds
Ivey re-raises to 1million alomost all-in
Dwan instant gos all-in
Ivey snap calls
Pot is approx 3M HKD
Hands Ivey ATos, Dwan 77
Board runs out, no Ace no Ten. Dwan ships the 3Million Pot.
When i left he was up about 3.5M HKD
And to mention he was happily drinking beer.

The game moved back to the Starworld and Ivey, Dwan, and Giang were in the game again. I have not heard any news on the swings today except that Chau was winner.