SUCCESSFUL TURNOUT FOR ASIAN POKER TOUR
I’ve been following events throughout the tour which ends tomorrow. The number of participants this year seems to be more than was excepted by the organisers given the current financial situation. There also seems to have been a huge growth in the number of Asian players in the field.
Bryan Huang from Singapore was proudly a standout in the competition. He was one of last three players in the No Limit Hold’em Greed Event which was the third side event of the Asian Poker Tour. The final three players ended five hours of playing by agreeing to share the HKD $149,477 ($28,000 SGD) prize pool between themselves. Huang apparently took home the trophy and the slightly larger share of the prize pool. Huang also claimed first place in the Charity Event earlier in July this year which benefited local social service agency Charitas Macau. Here’s an interview with him too and how poker has changed his life (even allowing him to pay his family’s mortgage and car loans!).
Huang interview at Macau Poker Cup 2009.
He was probably already one of the most successful and highest earning Singaporean poker players even before this Macau event.
It should be mentioned that South Korea generally dominated the festival and was even victorious in the Battle of the Nations event (unsurprising since their team included David ‘Chino’ Rheem and Steve Sung). They picked up a tidy HKD $406,060 (or $75,475 SGD) in prize money.
very interesting to me:)