The Macau Poker Cup has grown to an entire new level this season and you'll feel the thrill within the air because the 25th installment is ready to get underway (August 26 to 9-11) on the 'PokerStars LIVE Macau' poker room.

Last February, the MPC poker festival hit new highs with 4,650 players and greater than HK$37 million (USD $4.8m) in prize money across twenty Official Asia Player of the Year events. The legendary Red Dragon main event hit the 1k milestone with 1,075 players - making it the most important freezeout in Asia-Pacific history.

PokerStars LIVE Macau has made further improvements and in addition offering more tournaments than ever. Here's your preview of what is in store because the MPC hits the quarter-Century mark.

The full MPC25 schedule and tournament structures are available right found right here.

Technically speaking, the HK$5,000 Kickoff event is the second one tournament at the schedule however it will unquestionably be the hole weekend's largest event and is anticipated to simply crush the HK$500,000 prize pool guarantee.

The HK$5,000 Megastack is the natural start line for players who can't break out for all of the 17-day schedule. The tournament has averaged nearly 300 runners because it was introduced to the MPC schedule last season and that's the reason in no small part to the horny 30,000 start bank.

Perhaps probably the most significant change is the move of the HK$7,000 Baby Dragon event - going from opening weekend to 2 days before the principle Event.

The past two Baby Dragon events have averaged 350 players and HK$1.8 million. That's certainly solid. However the schedule adjustment is widely expected to extend the sector size in a large way.

The 25k NLH event made a great debut last February with 126 players and will rather well see a surge from the large field expected from the newborn Dragon the day before.

Red Dragon. Often imitated, never duplicated.

There's indisputably that this may be amongst the largest events for APPT Season 10 as players from all over the world pony up HK$12,000 for a possibility on the game's best looking trophy and a prize pool that are supposed to be toward HK$10 million than the HK$6 million that's guaranteed.

Malaysian slayer Ying Chua has confirmed that he'll return to defend his title.

During the former MPC, the HK$80,000 High Roller made a monster leap to 114 entrants with a prize pool weighing in at HK$8.5 million. That's a rise of greater than 50% and there is no telling how high it is going to go.

The appetite for prime stakes poker in Macau is most certainly alive and well folks.

More? In fact more!

MPC25 can be introducing a HK$100,000 Single Day High Roller and is ideal for individuals who wish to play big but do not have time for multi-day tournaments.

Book your flights and pack your bags. MPC25 is the must-play event of the summer.

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