The registration window has now slammed shut on APPT Macau, with 204 players this side of it and everyone else excluded. It means that our combined total from the opening two flights is 388 players, making this the biggest APPT event since the corresponding fixture here in November 2011, when Randy “nanonoko” Lew broke his live tournament duck.
The tournament administrators will now stop rolling in the piles of money they have behind the registrations desk and instead start adding it up to determine our prize structure. That usually takes an hour or two, but we will have full details of who will win what as soon as we know it.
In the meantime, let’s take a look at some more of our field today, and it would be remiss not to start with the table that is attracting most of the press attention. The American model turned poker pro Lacey Jones delighted all in Macau with her appearance here this week, and she is now sitting in the APPT main event alongside Vivian Im, of Team PokerStars Pro. Their presence in this room has attracted a handful of railbirds, and the cynical title of this post will make this the most read of the week at the APPT. I’m sure.
Both Jones and Im have added a indisputable dash of glamour to proceedings here, the former with a Prada handbag hanging from the back of her chair, an intricate plait of hair swept across the front of her head and silver-rimmed mirror shades to conceal her eyes. He also has a diamond as big as the Ritz on her finger, guys, do don’t get any ideas.
Im sits demurely to Jones’s left, her chips stacked on top of her PokerStars-issue card protector. Im has had a string of final table appearances in Macau, dating from February 2012, but has never made the money in the main event of an APPT. She has made a decent start as she goes looking for that maiden cash here, though, and has about 30,000 in front of her at time of writing.
Didier Guerin, to both of their left, probably knew he would be hard pushed to get some attention with those players alongside him, but has given it a fair crack. He’s wearing a woolly hat modelled after a teddy bear, which is one way to ensure a photo on a blog.
Andrew Scott has never had much trouble in getting his face recognised in casinos. It’s largely because he is one of the most successful blackjack players in the world, the kind casinos tend to discourage from visiting their tables.
Scott these days focuses on a publishing business and is editor of World Gaming Magazine, which he runs from here in Macau. Poker is something of a pastime for Scott, but after a HKD $2m score in an APPT Macau High Roller event in 2008, it’s yet another luxury that just happens to make a bunch of money.
Jordan Westmorland is also a familiar face in these parts, even if home was originally the west coast of the United States. Westmorland relocated to Phuket, Thailand, in the wake of Black Friday, from where he has continued to tear up the online tables as JWPRODIGY — he has more than $1m recorded tournament winnings online. He now tends to drop in to these events every now and then.
He has made two final tables here in Macau well as one at the ANZPT Snowfest event in Queenstown, New Zealand. He recorded his biggest live score in April this year when he came tenth in the main event at the inaugural WSOP Asia-Pacific meeting.
Thanks very much, as ever, to the camera skills of Kenneth Lim and his assistant Long Guan for the photographs.
A reminder on how to follow our coverage from Macau. There is hand-by-hand coverage at the top of the main APPT Macau page, which includes chip counts. Feature coverage will filter in beneath the panel. All the information about the Asia Pacific Poker Tour is on the APPT site, and PokerStars Macau also has its own home.
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