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It's official! Get your tournament face on, and dig out those IPods, shades and hoods. Effective from September 2010, Pokerkaki will be running monthly poker tournaments onboard the M/V Leisure World! Looking forward to it? We know we are. Watch this space closely for details in the coming month!
The Lamborghini Gallardo is one of the best looking and most powerful road cars ever produced, and now you can join the ultra-exclusive owner’s club! With the PokerStars.net Lamborghini Freeroll you can play in daily free-to-enter tournaments and take your shot at winning this incredible machine. There’s also more than $1,000,000 in prize pools to be won, making this one of the biggest promotions PokerStars.net has ever staged!
Tired of playing at home games where the host has no clue? Wondering why no one wants to come to your games anymore? Not sure of what constitutes good and bad etiquette at the poker table? Kaki Necrohavoc has the answers for you. Pokerkaki is thrilled to present:
Necrohavoc’s Definitive Guide to Home Games
The latest ‘in’ thing in Singapore and Malaysia now is poker. Texas Hold’em has infiltrated as deep as the secondary school level and is a fast growing fad among all demographics of our society.
We want to experience it first hand, live in the flesh. So we either host a game ourselves or go to one. Through my years of playing poker, I’ve gone to my fair share of home games and I noticed a lack of knowledge from many players and hosts on the dynamics of playing/hosting at a home game with strangers or acquaintances.
This guide to home games hopes to educate both hosts and players what can be expected from a home game on a basic setup level to the ethics of game-play.
While 2009 was indubitably the year of ‘Major’ Ricky Foo, 2010 is shaping up quite nicely for Alex Loon, the unassuming Singapore Management University under-graduate who has been quietly making waves in the Asian poker scene. Fresh off his runner-up finish on the online reality-TV series The Asian Poker Showdown, Alex recorded a mightily impressive side-event run in the recently concluded Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Macau. Alex final-tabled a whopping six events, posting one win, three runner-up spots, one third, and a fourth. Pokerkaki.com caught up with Alex in the midst of the hottest streak of his young poker career, which he hopes to carry forward into the upcoming World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
CASINO GRAND LISBOA, MACAU, May 23, 2010 – PokerStars qualifier Victorino Torres just gave a whole new meaning to the phrase, “V for Victory.” The 33-year-old attorney from the Northern Mariana Islands won the 4th annual PokerStars.net APPT Macau Main Event**, turning a victory in a $22 rebuy satellite on PokerStars into more than $3.2 million HKD(approx. $416,000 USD).
Anticipation has been brewing within the Pokerkaki community with the opening of both Resorts World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. We've been falling over ourselves with excitement at the sighting of a fully designated area for Texas Hold'em within the RWS premises, and with rumours of MBS all set to launch a poker room themselves. The question is, especially given that both casinos possess the legal monopoly on Texas Hold'em, why hasn't any of this happened as yet?
Do you have a fear of heights?? I could never imagine doing this, least of all on a poker reality show!! The 8 contestants are treated to a holiday in Macau, and just when they think its all smooth sailing, they are thrown off the WORLD'S HIGHEST BUNGY JUMP - Macau Tower! Check out their ridiculous faces at http://www.AsianPokerShowdown.com now!
Season 4 APPT Macau set to be biggest poker festival ever held in the region
PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, today released a massive 20-day schedule for the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau Spring Festival of Poker, set to take place at the PokerStars Macau Poker Room at Casino Grand Lisboa from May 3-23, 2010.
APPT Macau, the event historic for bringing Texas Hold’em Poker to China in 2007, and which has been the richest poker tournament in Asia every year since, is set to dazzle the world’s gaming capital once again with 25 landmark events over three weeks of intense competition.
The $40,000 HKD ($5,160USD) Main Event, scheduled for May 18-23, is again expected to be an international affair, attracting players from across Asia and the rest of the world.
In 2009, 429 players from 46 countries entered the Main Event, competing for a prize pool of $16,130,400 HKD (more than $2 million USD). Irishman Dermot Blain topped the field, claiming the $4,194,000HKD ($541,072 USD) grand prize. The 25-year-old won his seat in a live satellite at PokerStars Macau, the largest poker room in continental Asia.
The action begins on Monday, May 3 with one of the many live ‘step’ satellites scheduled throughout the festival and culminates with the showpiece $40,000 HKD Main Event, which kicks off at 12:10 pm on Tuesday, May 18.
Marina Bay Sands (MBS) finally announced an opening date of April 27. The magnificent Sands SkyPark is beginning to look like a park with more than 20 trees now planted 200 meters in the air. The 150-meter swimming pool is taking shape too.
The hotel rooms have been fitted out up to Level 40. All the tower cranes have been removed from the roofs of the casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. Roof cladding on both buildings is nearly complete. Concrete work continues at the two crystal pavilions.
