Asia Pacific Poker Tour releases schedules for Macau Poker Cup and Asia Championship of Poker

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) has unveiled the schedules for the two remaining stops at the ‘PokerStars LIVE Macau’ poker room for Season 9.

MACAU POKER CUP

The 23rd edition of the Macau Poker Cup (MPC23) will be held from August 28 to September 13, and features the legendary HK$12,000 Red Dragon Main Event which comes with a HK$5 million prize pool guarantee. The popular Red Dragon event holds the record in Macau for most unique players at 995.

There will be a total of 17 Official Asia Player of the Year (APOY) events on the schedule, which includes the HK$6,000 Baby Dragon event, HK$5,000 Megastack, HK$20,000 NLH, and HK$80,000 High Roller.

Two-time Red Dragon champion Celina Lin has been confirmed for MPC23 as are fellow Team PokerStars Pros Bryan Huang, Vivian Im, Aditya Agarwal, and Kosei Ichinose.

SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS

Date, Time, Tournament (all figures in HKD)
Aug 28, 8 p.m., $2,000 Deepstack NLH (200k GTD)
Aug 29, 6 p.m., $6,000 Baby Dragon (1m GTD)
Sep 4, 7 p.m., $5,000 Megastack (500k GTD)
Sep 5, 6 p.m., $12,000 Red Dragon Main Event (5m GTD) – Day 1a
Sep 6, 2 p.m., $12,000 Red Dragon Main Event (5m GTD) – Day 1b
Sep 7, 2 p.m., $12,000 Red Dragon Main Event (5m GTD) – Day 1c
Sep 8, 7 p.m., $12,000 Red Dragon Main Event (5m GTD) – Day 1d
Sep 10, 7 p.m., $20,000 NLH (1m GTD)
Sep 11. 7:30 p.m., $80,000 High Roller (1 re-entry)