Macau Poker Tournament To Award $4.5 Million First-Place PrizePokerStars GaungDong Limited Asia Millions Main Event Draws 71 Entrants and 54 Rebuys |
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The World Series of Poker isn’t the only tournament attracting poker players and fan’s attention this summer. Across the world in The City of Dreams Entertainment Resort in Macau, China, the PokerStars GaungDong Limited Asia Millions event has become one of the biggest poker tournaments in history.
The main event brought in 71 entrants each paying the HK $1 million buy-in ($130,000), 54 of whom exercised their option to rebuy, creating a massive HK $119 million prize pool ($15.4 million), the second largest in history outside of Las Vegas.
The top 8 players will make the money with the winner earning an estimated HK $34.6 million ($4.47 million). The top 6 players will all earn at least HK $8.3 million ($1 million).
Some notable players who made it to the end of day 1 include Bertrand Grospellier, Gus Hansen, John Juanda, Joseph Cheong, and Greg Merson, Jonathan Duhamel, Dan Smith, Mike McDonald, Isaac Haxton, Philipp Gruissen, Sorel Mizzi and Tony Gregg.
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