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Neil Arce Takes 3rd Place ($84,218) in APPT Macau High Roller Event
The APPT High Roller event in Macau lived up to it’s name with 64 of the best of the best in the poker world participating, including the legendary WSOP champion Johnny Chan, 2009 WPT and 2008 APT Champion Yevgeny Timoshenko, 2009 APT Macau runner up Ingwook Choi, 2008 APPT Manila Champion Van Marcus, 2009 Aussie Millions PLO Champion Lee “Final Table” Nelson, 2007 APPT Sydney Grand Final Main Event Champion Grant Levy, 2007 APPT Sydney 6-Handed Champion Terrence Chan, FTP Online sensation Jonathan “xMONSTERxDONGx” Karamalikis, 2006 WPT Ladies Champion JJ Lieu and our own FPT multi-Champion Kent Del Rosario, and more.
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Congratulations Metro Veteran Rinah Garcia 1st place APPT Macau Ladies Tournament
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Vic De Guzman Bags P2,000,000 Top Prize in The Metro Hi-5
Unheralded Vic de Guzman came out as the last man standing from a record field of 667 participants after grueling days of action, including an energy-exhausting final day marathon that lasted more than 15 hours, to rule the Metro Hi-5 Tournament and become the new Filipino Poker Tour (FPT) champion.
The victory earned De Guzman, an official representative of PokerManila.com, the whooping P2-million top prize at stake in the event presented by the Metro Card Club and Pokerstars.com held at the Metrowalk in Pasig City.
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The Metro Hi-5 Down to 16 players, Champion to Emerge Today
The record breaking Metro Hi-5 tournament has finally come to it’s grand finale today, with the field of 667 players whittled down to the final 16 hopefuls vying to become one of the TWO poker millionaires that this tournament will produce. The Metro Hi-5 is now the biggest poker tournament in Asian history with 667 players and a pot of 6.67 million pesos.
The Champion of this tournament will take home a whopping P2 Million as well as bragging rights to being the reigning FPT champion. Even sescond place will take home a cool P1.1 Million, making it a total of two millionaires that this tourny will produce. Among the runners left are WSOP champ Isaac Galazan and also FPT1 final table finisher Amor Nario. Make sure you come and watch the televised final table today and cheer for your friends at The Metro Card Club!
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The Metro Hi-5 Breaks all records in Philippine poker, Prize pool to exceed P6,000,000!
Day 1A wrapped up yesterday with The Metro Card Club filled to capacity, fielding 325 poker players in what will be the biggest tournament ever to date. Dozens of players were turned down and told to return for Day 1B to get a chance at what will now be a prize pool of over Six Million pesos. As of this writing, there are already 317 pre-registered players for Day 1B.
Several notable players feel victim to the huge field and failed to make the cut for Day 2. The mix of players from online qualifiers, home game players, and poker veterans turned out to be pretty tough to manage although there were also veteran poker players who did give a strong showing including FPT 1 final table finishers Luis Carballo and Jun Amito, Poker Pros Isaac Mizrachi and of course our World Series of Poker Bracelet winner Isaac Galazan.
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