Poker pros like Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Chau Giang and John Juanda are having a great time after the APT Macau playing against Chinese businessmen at some really high stakes cash game tables. Phil Ivey won a $2 million pot there according to some rumors.
APT (Asian Poker Tour) came to its end yesterday when the 18-year-old Chinese amateur player Zhang Dan Peng won the Main event for $251,000 worth in HK$. The young player has only been playing poker for 6 months, this was his first live tournament ever. He is the first Chinese player to win the APT Macau.
Cool, it is interesting news in itself, but locals are much more interested in the cash game tables, and not without any reason. As tournament director of APT Macau, Matt Savage posted on Two Plus Two:
"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$5,000-10,000 with some Chinese businessmen. The game plays much bigger and there was about 40 million on the table last night when I saw the game. (…) Juanda is the biggest winner in the game so far. Durrrr, Ivey, and Chau are stuck a combined few million HK$. When I asked Dwan when he was moving here he said ‘very soon’. "
A day later Savage writes:
"The latest hearsay is the Durr is now 1.7 million USD winner and that Ivey has gotten back to even. I think if they continue to win they WILL NOT be invited back IMO."
It turns out, there is a Chinese businessman (of course there are many others, who they are playing with) who plays with almost all the pros, however the guy can determine how many pros are allowed at the table. It’s worth it nevertheless, as Durrrr says, he told Two Plus Two users those Asian guys and are impossible to bluff and like to play tough, however, they eventually lose lots of cash. Just how much? Well, as you could see, millions.
According to latest news, Phil Ivey won the biggest pot so far in Macau, more than $2 million. Maybe he and durrrr can live happily ever after in a charming little villa in Macau…
