It took almost exactly 13 hours for this week's Super Tuesday, PokerStars' weekly marquee $1,050 no-limit hold'em event. to play down from 430 entries to just one. Almost the last two hours of that was required for the final elimination to occur, as the last two players -- CrownUpGay and Elliott "elliottpet" Peterman, both of the U.K. -- carried their duel deep into the night.

At last it was CrownUpGay (not to be confused with 2014 WCOOP Main Event champ Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz) winning the last pot and taking first, earning a cool $73,500 following a three-way deal with Peterman and another British player, R_Scientist.

About the first six hours were needed to play down to 63 players and for the money bubble to burst, at which point the $430,000 prize pool -- well over the $300K guarantee -- began to be divided up. By then Killer_oooo had risen to the top spot in the counts, then by the time they were halfway through the tournament's eighth hour just 18 remained, with Killer_oooo in the mix and Oscar "MendaLerenda" Serradell having risen up into the top spot.

Ds}L1cH{ (18th) then Matt "OLD TIME GIN" Stone (17th) were eliminated, then after sliding in the counts Killer_oooo (16th) went out, with those three each picking up $3,440. Then engantil (15th) and Bjorn "kleath" Kleathersson (14th) were knocked out, and after slipping in the counts Oscar "MendaLerenda" Serradell (13th) went out, too, with those three each finishing with $4,300 cashes. Powergolf (12th), Peter "Se7enTr3y" Akery (11th), and thagrinda444 (10th) were then successively felted, taking away $5,160 apiece.

With JohnyK91 the new leader with almost 2.3 million, the final table was underway.

Seat 1: M_Acevedo (Costa Rica) -- 861,362  
Seat 2: Tamer "Tamthemanwho" Kamel (United Kingdom) -- 331,608  
Seat 3: Elliott "elliottpet" Peterman (United Kingdom) -- 1,257,243  
Seat 4: CrownUpGay (United Kingdom) -- 1,207,777  
Seat 5: R_Scientist (United Kingdom) -- 1,552,040  
Seat 6: kostinio83 (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) -- 480,026  
Seat 7: JohnyK91 (Netherlands) -- 2,299,067  
Seat 8: michallok (Poland) -- 1,945,707 
Seat 9: shorezydrew (Canada) -- 815,170

All nine made it to the tournament's nine-hour mark, then a couple of minutes later the blinds were 2,500/5,000 when Tamer "Tamthemanwho" Kamel open-raised all-in for 287,608 from the cutoff seat and Elliott "elliottpet" Peterman called from the button. Kamel had [6c][6s] but Peterman held [9h][9s], and after a [7c][2d][Ad][5c][3s] rounout Kamel was the first final table knockout.

They continued on another 15 minutes, then came a hand that saw shorezydrew nearly get felted in a hand versus R_Scientist. All-in with [Qd][Qh] versus R_Scientist's [As][Qc], and an ace on the board gave the latter the big 1.8 million pot (and the chip lead) while shorezydrew fell to less than 25,000.

All of that went in the very next hand for shorezydrew behind [Jd][7s] versus Elliott "elliottpet" Peterman's [Kc][Td], and five cards later -- [Ac][4d][9c][2c][Ah] -- shorezydrew was eliminated in seventh.

Just three hands after that michallok min-raised from UTG for 70,000 and only JohnyK91 called from the big blind. The flop came [Qd][Qh][Jd], JohnyK91 checked, and michallok continued for 78,540. JohnyK91 then pushed all-in for 315,516, and michallok called the shove.

JohnyK91 had [Kd][3d] for a diamond flush draw while michallok showed [Ks][Jh] for queens and jacks. The turn was the [6s] and river the [4s], and JohnyK91's Super Tuesday run ended in sixth.

Play continued, and with the blinds up to 25,000/50,000 it was CrownUpGay -- the new chip leader -- opening for 110,000 from the cutoff, then kostinio83 three-bet all-in for 370,596 from the small blind and CrownUpGay called. kostinio83 showed [Qd][Jh] and had the preflop edge versus CrownUpGay's [7h][6c], but after a [6h][2c][8d][9s][4c] runout CrownUpGay had a pair and kostinio83 was on the rail in fifth.

Just four hands later michallok open-shoved all in for 763,859 over the small blind and Elliott "elliottpet" Peterman called from the big. michallok had [Tc][8c] and needed improvement versus Peterman's [Kc][Jc], but the [Jh][7c][3d][Jd][Qs] made trips for the latter and michallok was sent out in fourth.

At that the tournament was paused for some deal talk, with CrownUpGay on top with about 5.64 million, Peterman sitting on almost 3.34 million, and R_Scientist with right at 1.77 million. Both "ICM"-based figures and "chip chop" numbers were presented -- leaving $5,000 for which to play -- and after a bit of negotiation to settle on something in between a deal was struck and play continued. 

Not long after they resumed, CrownUpGay made a just-over-2x raise from the button to 135,000, R_Scientist reraised to 421,555 from the small blind, and CrownUpGay called. The flop came [5h][3s][Jc], R_Scientist continued for 276,333, and CrownUpGay called again. The turn then brought the [6s] and an all-in push for 1,416,419 from R_Scientist, with CrownUpGay making the call.

R_Scientist showed [As][7d] for ace-high and a gutshot while CrownUpGay had top pair of jacks with [Jh][8h]. The river was the [Kd], and R_Scientist was out.

That pot gave CrownUpGay a better than 2-to-1 chip lead to start heads-up play with 7,432,058 to Elliott "elliottpet" Peterman's 3,317,942. Within 10 minutes, however, Peterman had seized the lead away, lost it, then grabbed it back again, eventually building up close to 9.4 million while CrownUpGay fell back to 1.35 million.

CrownUpGay managed to double-up once, winning a preflop all-in with queen-ten versus Peterman's king-nine. A little after that CrownUpGay grabbed two big pots to pull in front, and was up around 9.4 million at one point. Then Peterman evened things up again, cracking CrownUpGay's pocket kings by turning two pair and getting an all-in called on the river. Peterman widened the lead once more, but CrownUpGay picked up kings again and doubled through, moving back in front.

They continued on, their heads-up battle extending into a second hour, with Peterman again taking the advantage back and pushing well ahead, then CrownUpGay earning another double-up to survive.

CrownUpGay: it will never end haha
elliottpet: lol

On they grinded, the lead switching back and forth again until at last CrownUpGay took the advantage once more, and finally the last hand took place.

The blinds were up to 60,000/120,000, and after Peterman opened for 258,000 from the button, CrownUpGay three-bet to 780,000, Peterman made it 4.56 million to go, CrownUpGay shoved all-in, and Peterman called with the 335,938 he had left.

CrownUpGay: [Th][Td]
elliottpet: [6h][6s]

Peterman had the lesser of the two pocket pairs, then the [9c][7d][8h] flop gave both players straight draws. Neither the [4c] turn nor the [2s] river changed anything, however, and Peterman -- whom we just saw recently taking 25th in the LAPT9 Panama Main Event -- came one spot shy of winning this week's Super Tuesday and the extra $5K. 

Congratulations to CrownUpGay for the win and to both Peterman and R_Scientist for making it to that three-way final table deal. Rule Britannia!

5/31/16 Super Tuesday ($1,050 No-Limit Hold'em) results
Entrants: 430
Prize pool: $430,000
Places paid: 63

1. CrownUpGay (United Kingdom) $73,500*
2. Elliott "elliottpet" Peterman (United Kingdom) $59,675.00*
3. R_Scientist (United Kingdom) $52,800.00*
4. michallok (Poland) $33,540.00
5. kostinio83 (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) $23,650.00
6. JohnyK91 (Netherlands) $18,275.00
7. shorezydrew (Canada) $13,975.00
8. M_Acevedo (Costa Rica) $9,675.00
9. Tamthemanwho (United Kingdom) $7,138.00
*denotes three-way deal

Sitting on my flight to Vegas, I started to think about the fact that this will be my ninth year in a row attending the World Series of Poker and going to Vegas for the summer. It feels like just yesterday I was a 21-year-old kid coming off my first big win at EPT San Remo just 7 weeks before playing my first WSOP. I was excited, motivated, and thrilled to be going to Vegas to compete at the WSOP.  

Well, it's now nine years later, and I still have that same feeling. I'm excited for a chance to capture a fourth WSOP bracelet. I also have a few exciting prop bets that will give me extra motivation to play as many tournaments as possible this year. For the first time in my career, I have made bets on winning multiple bracelets. The most exciting bet is against a fellow Team Pro, Vanessa Selbst. She laid me 180 to 1 (my $10,000 vs. her $1.8 million USD) that I won't win 3 gold bracelets this WSOP (Vegas only). I'm really hoping to give her a sweat on this one.  
 
The schedule this year is similar to last year's, which means I'll be playing a very similar schedule to what I did in 2015. I'll be focusing on the biggest buy-in small field events and playing pretty much every tourney with a $5,000+ buy-in. These are my best chances to win events, so I'll be skipping most of the huge-field/small buy-in NLH events.  
 
This summer is also especially exciting because it kicked off with a $300,000 tournament hosted at the Aria.  This event started on Sunday and I'm going into Tuesday in fourth place out of the 16 remaining players!
 
I'm really happy with the way I'm playing right now after coming off of a very strenuous SCOOP grind. I played between 10-16 hours a day for 16 days straight. If you just looked at my results, you might think it was a very successful SCOOP for me. I finished second on the overall leader board, second on the high leader board, made six final tables and captured a win, my fifth SCOOP title to date. However, the truth is that I actually lost a small amount of money (around $10,000) just on the tournaments during the series.  
 
This had to do with the large amount of big buy-in events I played and my biggest cash being around 40k. I left a lot of money on the table at the first five final tables where I finished sixth three times and fifth twice, before finally capturing a title in the medium $215 PLO8 event for around $22,000. I'm still really pleased overall with how I played and the amount of deep runs I was making on a daily basis.  
 
I think playing SCOOP each year right before going to Vegas serves is a really nice warmup for playing the WSOP. I get to practice so many different variants in tournament form and prepare for the long grind of sitting in a chair mentally battling my opponents day in and day out.   
 
2016 has already been a really exciting year for me, and I can't wait to see what happens this summer. #CantStopWontStop 

A brief look at all the major stories from this past weekend on PokerStars. 
 

The weekend highlight

-- Viking8844 wins the Sunday Million earning $178,000
-- Jian Guo Sun wins the APPT Main Event in Macau

Big results from the weekend

A pretty big weekend for PokerStars as the Sunday Million returned after three weekends of SCOOP, and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour event in Macau came to a close, both featuring big prize pools. 

The former was won by Viking8844 at a final table which, as Martin Harris reported, contained some fearsome opposition. 

Meanwhile nearly a week of coverage from Macau tells the story of Juan Guo Sun's win in the APPT. Our reporting team of Howard Swains and Brad Kain told the full story each day, culminating in the final table report, which you can read here. 
Here are those two results in full.

Sunday Million ($215 No-Limit Hold'em) results
Entrants: 5,696
Prize pool: $1,139,200
Places paid: 810

1. Viking8844 (Israel) $178,173.58
2. tudobem88 (Mexico) $132,716.80
3. hellrokr (India) $93,813.12
4. VicFiorese (Brazil) $64,364.80
5. PIUlimeira (Brazil) $48,416.00
6. komarolo22 (Uruguay) $37,024.00
7. vidi.pkr (Romania) $25,632.00
8. tohazzz (Belarus) 14,240.00
9. lulaka68 (Russia) $9,113.60

APPT10 Macau Main Event
Buy-in: $25,000 ($23,000+$2,000) 
Entrants: 533 
Prize pool: $11,891,230

1. Jian Guo Sun (China) $2,149,660*
2. Bernard Vu (France) $2,065,000*
3. Alex Ward (United Kingdom) $1,002,000
4. Ying Fu (China) $755,000
5. Jiayi Jin (China) $519,000
6. Weijian Xie (China) $413,000
7. Zhiyi Feng (China) $336,000
8. Kan He (China) $283,000
9. Yuan Li (China) $236,000
* Denotes heads up deal.

The weekend's top tournament winners

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After taking a break of sorts during the recently completed Spring Championship of Online Poker, the Sunday Million was back again this week, online poker's most popular weekly tournament. The final table featured a number of tough challengers, including the Brazilian Gustavo "PIUlimeira" Ferreira and Uruguay's Alex "komarolo22" Komaromi. But in the end it was Viking8844 of Israel outlasting everyone to take the title and $178,173.58 first prize.

Viking8844 thus adds a Sunday Million title to a collection of wins that includes taking down a Super Tuesday back in 2013, coincidentally doing so just after that year's WCOOP had concluded. 

A big field of 5,696 turned out for this week's Milly, thereby building a $1,139,200 prize pool that exceeded the tournament's $1 million guarantee, to be divided among the top 810 finishers.

The tournament was well into its eighth hour when the field shrunk down under 100 players, at which point Viking8844 had assumed the chip lead as the only player with more than 2 million chips. 

Nearly three hours after that they were down to the final 18, with Viking8844 still in the mix with an average stack and Ronak "hellrokr" Agarwal and tudobem88 then battling for the chip lead, both hovering around the 6.3 million-chip mark.

El Pulgoso (18th), jonjoe97 (17th), and Aqual89 (16th) were next eliminated, each earning $3,360.64. They were followed by danger0us (15th), ThePrusha (14th), and myleftfoot33 (13th), with those three earning $5,069.44 apiece. OffpoZition (12th), BARBARVSSA2 (11th), and v587nt (10th) were next knocked out, picking up $6,778.24 each from the prize pool.

With Viking8844 having build up a stack again and tudobem88 the new leader with over 15.2 million, the final table was underway.

Seat 1: Gustavo "PIUlimeira" Ferreira (Brazil) -- 2,030,512  
Seat 2: Ronak "hellrokr" Agarwal (India) -- 8,893,054  
Seat 3: tohazzz (Belarus) -- 1,716,870  
Seat 4: vidi.pkr (Romania) -- 5,707,821  
Seat 5: Viking8844 (Israel) -- 12,555,142  
Seat 6: tudobem88 (Mexico) -- 15,256,880 
Seat 7: VicFiorese (Brazil) -- 2,146,929 
Seat 8: Alex "komarolo22" Komaromi (Uruguay) -- 3,786,982  
Seat 9: lulaka68 (Russia) -- 4,865,810

Not quite an orbit into the final table, the blinds were 100K/200K when lulaka68 raised to 400,000 from middle position, and it folded around to Viking8844 who three-bet to 976,876 from the small blind. lulaka68 called the reraise, then after the [7c][2c][Ad] flop Viking8844 bet 796,876. lulaka68 responded with an all-in push for 3,448,934, and Viking8844 called.

lulaka68 showed [As][Qs] for and Viking8844 [Ah][8s], meaning both had aces but the at-risk player had the better kicker. But the turn brought the [8d] to give Viking8844 two pair, and after the [9d] river lulaka68 was out in ninth.

They continued on and with the blinds up to 125K/250K it was tohazzz open-raising all-in for 681,870 from the cutoff seat and getting a caller in tudobem88 playing from the big blind. tohazzz had [Kd][Td] and the preflop edge over tudobem88's [Th][8h], and was still in front after the [9s][4h][Jc] flop and [As] turn. But the river was the [7s] to complete a straight for tudobem88, and tohazz was down in eighth. 

The tournament pushed forward into the latter half of its twelfth hour, and with the blinds up again to 150K/300K it was vidi.pkr open-pushing for 2,294,341 from the button and Viking8844 calling from the small blind. vidi.pkr had [Qd][Td] and needed to improve to beat Viking8844's [Ad][7h], but the [7c][4s][6d][3d][4h] runout provided no such improvement and vidi.pkr was sent railward in seventh.

Just a couple of minutes later LAPT4 Uruguay champion Alex "komarolo22" Komaromi open-raised all-in for 2,771,982 (about nine BBs) after posting the small blind, and Gustavo "PIUlimeira" Ferreira called from the big blind. Komaromi had [Ac][9h] and Ferreira [Ks][Qd], and while the [8h][8s][7s] flop was safe for the all-in player, the [Qc] was not as it gave Ferreira a leading pair. The river was the [8c], and Komaromi had fallen in sixth.

Just four hands later, tudobem88 opened for 669,000 from the button, Gustavo "PIUlimeira" Ferreira three-bet all-in for 4.54 million from the big blind, and tudobem88 called. This time Ferreira needed help with [Ah][5d] versus tudobem88's [Qc][Qs]. The board rolled out [4c][Th][Jd][Js][Qh], improving tudobem88 to a full house and ending Ferreira's run in fifth.

The final four continued onward, reaching the tournament's 12-hour mark with Viking8844 having built a big lead with more than 33.3 million, about twice tudobem88's almost 17.3 million while Ronak "hellrokr" Agarwal and VicFiorese were both short with just over 3 million.

Then came a hand that saw tudobem88 open-pushing from the small blind with [Kc][Th], and VicFiorese calling all-in for 2,631,272 total with [Ah][6s] after posting the big blind. The community cards came [Tc][6h][3s], then [4h], then [5s], which gave tudobem88 a winning pair and stopped VicFiorese in fourth.

"Numbers??" asked Ronak "hellrokr" Agarwal in the chat box as three-handed play commenced, but Viking8844 fired back "I can look but I want 185 k" (that is, a figure representing more than the $178,173.58 scheduled to go to the winner). "loool" answered Agarwal, with tudobem88 adding "lol... not gonna happn."

"You both can split the rest :)" added Viking8844, perhaps indicating the proposal was partly tongue-in-cheek. In any event no deal was done, and play continued.

Ten minutes later, it was Ronak "hellrokr" Agarwal pushing from the SB for 3,459,510 (about eight-and-a-half bigs) and Viking8844 calling from the BB. Agarwal had picked up [Kd][Qc] and had two live cards versus Viking8844's [4c][4s], but the [Tc][5d][2h][Ad][Ac] board missed Agarwal's hand and they were down to two.

Viking8844 started heads-up play with a better than 2-to-1 chip advantage with 39,034,629 versus tudobem88's 17,925,371. They'd end up battling for just over half an hour, pushing the tournament deep into its 14th hour overall, with Viking8844 keeping the lead throughout that stretch except for a brief, fleeing moment.

Back on top and with about 41.4 million, a hand finally arose that saw Viking8844 limp in from the button for 500,000, tudobem88 shove for 15,449,880 total, and Viking8844 call.

tudobem88: [Ks][9h]
Viking8844: [Qd][Qh]

Viking8844's big pair was best before the flop, and five cards later -- [4d][7c][2c][7h][8h] -- it was still best, giving Viking8844 the pot and the title.

Congratulations to Viking8844 for successfully navigating the difficult Sunday Million waters to victory and collecting the big $178K-plus first prize.

5/29/16 Sunday Million ($215 No-Limit Hold'em) results
Entrants: 5,696
Prize pool: $1,139,200
Places paid: 810

1. Viking8844 (Israel) $178,173.58
2. tudobem88 (Mexico) $132,716.80
3. hellrokr (India) $93,813.12
4. VicFiorese (Brazil) $64,364.80
5. PIUlimeira (Brazil) $48,416.00
6. komarolo22 (Uruguay) $37,024.00
7. vidi.pkr (Romania) $25,632.00
8. tohazzz (Belarus) 14,240.00
9. lulaka68 (Russia) $9,113.60

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Poker, by its very nature, throws up surprises at every turn. And we've just seen a pretty huge one here at the PokerStars LIVE card-room at the City of Dreams Casino, where the latest champion on the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) is a 52-year-old coffee shop worker from Beijing, who only took up the game two years ago.

That, at least, is what Jian Guo Sun told us yesterday when he made his way to the final table of the HK$25,000 main event, but the way he carved through the final table today to be crowned champion made it seem like he knew a lot more about this game than he was letting on.

Sun won HK$2,149,600, beating 533 players, after cutting a heads up deal with Bernard Vu at a little after 8pm. It was the end of a rapid-fire final table, bossed for the first half by the British player Alex Ward and then, after a pivotal hand between the two, finished off by Sun. He sat in stony-faced silence for the best part of four days, flying very much under the radar. But then he got his chips and became an all-action, big-pot-playing, excitable maniac. And then he was the champion.

Ward was the man expected to be hoisting aloft the trophy tonight. He had 45 percent of the chips in play when they headed to a seven-handed final table. But he was only one of the players to pay off Sun when he found a big hand, and Sun is now shining all the way back to Beijing.

When they resumed today, the imbalance in stacks was pretty stark. They sat down behind the following stacks and with expectation that it would start at a fair pace.

Seat 1) Jiayi Jin, China - 465,000
Seat 2) Weijian Xie, China - 1,215,000
Seat 3) Ying Fu, China - 1,105,000
Seat 4) Zhiyi Feng, China - 685,000
Seat 5) Jian Guo Sun, China - 1,055,000
Seat 6) Alex Ward, United Kingdom - 4,715,000
Seat 7) Bernard Vu, France - 1,420,000

That expectation soon became reality. The final table was only three hands old when the first player was all-in. That was the short-stacked Jiayi Jin, but he got his shove through. However, when the second-shortest player, Zhiyi Feng, tried to repeat the trick on the next hand, he wasn't so fortunate.

Ward, sitting in the big blind, found [qd][qh] and made a quick call for a fraction of his stack. Feng's [ad][2s] needed help, and although the flop brought two aces, there was also a queen nestled between them. The turn and river were both blanks, and Feng was toast before he had even finished his first can of energy drink.

That took Ward's stack beyond 5 million, and kept him firmly in control of the final. It seemed only a case of when, not it, he'd get it done--and, of course, in what order the others would perish. But that was complacency...

As it happened, it was Weijian Xie who went out next. He found pocket queens, which was an overpair to the flop of [jd][6d][9c]. But he got all of his chips in against Vu, who had plenty of equity with his [qd][td]. And the [8c] fell on the turn to bust Xie.

Xie was the eighth Chinese player in succession to be knocked out, and the next two were Chinese too: Jin, who had successfully laddered up with his short stack, and then Ying Fu, who tried a huge bluff against Ward, failed, and got picked off soon after.

To be specific, Jin's elimination came about at the hand of Fu. He couldn't get [ad][6d] to beat Fu's [ah][9c]. But very soon after, Fu had a dominated ace when he was all-in and he couldn't outdraw Ward's [ac][jc] with his [ah][jd]. They took HK$519,000 and HK$755,000 for fifth and fourth respectively.

It meant that by the time we took the first break of the day, only three players remained, and Ward's stack of 6.5 million was nearly double the size of the others' combined.

But, folks, this is poker. And there is nothing ever set in stone. Although Ward had enjoyed nothing but plain sailing for the best part of two days, he soon entered very choppy waters.

After about an hour of three-handed play, they took a brief bathroom break and Vu in particular came back with a different strategy. Sitting to Ward's left, he started to play back at the chip leader and halt Ward's dominance. Sun seemed content to leave them to it for the most part, but when his opportunity came, he seized it with both hands.

Arguably the tournament-defining pot occurred after Sun limped his small blind and then called Ward's raise. They saw a flop of [7d][kc][6h] and Sun check-called Ward's bet of 160,000. Sun again check-called Ward's 350,000 bet on the [7s] turn, but after the [4c] river, Sun shoved.

He also then started whooping and cheering, breaking a fairly icy facade behind which he had hidden for most of the tournament. Ward didn't know what to make of the sudden outburst, but ended up calling the 1.5 million shove, eventually being shown the [7h] in Sun's hand.

It put Sun into the lead, put Ward on the ropes and he wouldn't recover. After dwindling to his last 1.3 million chips, Ward got them in with an open-ended straight draw. It missed and Vu's high card prevailed. Ward will have to make do with $1,002,000 for third place. Put it this way: he would have taken that at the beginning of the week.

Vu had the slight chip lead when he went heads up with Sun. They immediately agreed an ICM deal and set about playing for an additional HK$140,000 and a HK$100,000 seat at the ACOP main event.

Sometimes heads-up deals in poker make almost no difference to the way players play. They can still often keep it tight. But with paydays assured, Vu and Sun played a high-octane heads up that lasted all of ten hands. Sun made a huge bet on the first hand; Vu jammed the second. Then Sun turned a full house and got paid on a huge value bet.

Vu said that he had been preparing for this moment for many months, playing every night on PokerStars and honing his game for this trip to Macau. But little could have prepared him for this crazy heads-up battle. It didn't take long until Sun found top pair on a jack-high board and Vu found middle pair. It all went in and that was that.

"I never thought I could win it," Sun said.

Vu picked up HK$2,065,000, but Sun is the champion, beaming his way back to Beijing. Look back on our live coverage to see how it all panned out.

APPT10 Macau Main Event

Date: May 25-29, 2016
Buy-in: $25,000 ($23,000+$2,000) 
Players: 533 
Total prize pool: $11,891,230

1 - Jian Guo Sun China $2,149,660*
2 - Bernard Vu France $2,065,000*
3 - Alex Ward United Kingdom $1,002,000
4 - Ying Fu China $755,000
5 - Jiayi Jin China $519,000
6 - Weijian Xie China $413,000
7 - Zhiyi Feng China $336,000
8 - Kan He China $283,000
9 - Yuan Li China $236,000

*Denotes heads up deal.

All payouts in HKD.

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1:30pm: Time to crown a winner

It's the final day of the APPT10 Macau main event and, from 533 players, we're going to be left with only one. Seven players are still involved at this stage, and you can learn a bit about them on the player profiles page. The dominant chip leader is Alex Ward, but this is far from a foregone conclusion.

Here's how they line up at this point: 

Seat 1) Jiayi Jin, China - 465,000
Seat 2) Weijian Xie, China - 1,215,000
Seat 3) Ying Fu, China - 1,105,000
Seat 4) Zhiyi Feng, China - 685,000
Seat 5) Jian Guo Sun, China - 1,055,000
Seat 6) Alex Ward, United Kingdom - 4,715,000
Seat 7) Bernard Vu, France - 1,420,000

And review yesterday's coverage to discover how they got here. Also take a look at the long list of names who are out already, but who made the money. They're on the prizewinners page.

Stick around here for full coverage as they play to a winner.

PokerStars Blog reporting team in Macau: Brad Kain and Howard Swains. Photos by Long Guan of Kenneth Lim Photography.