The Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) 2013 happened on the end of October and everybody I knew left the PokerStars Live Macau poker site on the City of Dreams Macau filled with praise for the schedule, structure and how the events were ran. The ACOP provided an entire schedule catered to players with different bankrolls and that i definitely enjoyed it very much, although I only mustered up a 12th place in Event 1 and several other deep runs and a bubble within the "title events". The Team Pro flag was, however, well represented by my teammates Randy "Nanonoko" Lew who final tabled the primary Event and Celina Lin who made history by becoming the primary female to win a "Spadie" within the final ACOP title event. This cements her place as among the best player in Asia along with her double red dragon wins.

Go Team Pro!

Poker events aside, the ACOP welcome party was really well received by all who attended. The pool area of the Hard Rock was transformed right into a party where players came together to speak over hands, put face to online screen names and... compete! There has been the inaugural beer pong competition where I, amongst many others, might need lost an additional dollar or two wagering at the hand eye coordination of the beer pong finalists! It was definitely a fun night and with the entire positive feedback given by those attended I foresee that the games organized may not be the last. Free flowing alcohol + quality food + games (for a celebration stuffed with competitive people) = successful party!

Team Beerpong Pro Bryan Huang

Another highlight of the ACOP was the introduction of the Poker Pro tables to Pokerstars Live Macau. The tables was an ideal hit and is a welcome boost to quell an extended overdue demand in Macau: low stakes cash games. For a very long time the exponential growth here in Macau has ended in the poker rooms spreading only high stakes ($50/$100HKD and above) tables and the introduction of the Poker Pro tables has reinvigorated the poker economy with the addition of $10/$20 (and up) NLHE & PLO games. This will only be an excellent thing for poker here and that i look ahead to playing on them on my next visit to Macau.

See Bryan Huang on the tables

The next tournament at PokerStars Live Macau is in January where the 20 th Macau Poker Cup can be celebrated with an enormous guarantee - $8 million HKD to be exact! - and you may be part of it by buying in for $11,000 HKD or qualifying online on Pokerstars without spending a dime! I AM HOPING to peer you there within the events and at the poker pro tables!

Bryan Huang is a member of Team PokerStars Pro.

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