PokerStars Hosting Macau Poker Cup

Today in Macau there will be a charity tournament benefiting the Caritas de Macau at the Grand Waldo Casino. It is the first event of several being hosted by PokerStars and collectively the poker weekend is dubbed The Macau Poker Cup.

The charity tournament begins at 8 p.m. (Macau time) and has a $500 HKD buy-in with a mandatory $1,500 HKD charitable donation. 1st & 2nd place pay a $25,000 HKD buy-in to the Asian Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event in September. There are also cash & prizes for the rest of the top 20.

The next event will be the Macau Poker Cup Deep Stack tournament, to begin on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.. They buy-in to this event is $100 HKD. There will also be a Phase 1 mega-satellite to the APPT Macau starting at 4 p.m. with a buy-in of $600 HKD. The last event on Saturday will be the 8 p.m. Macau Cup Red Dragon event, costing $10,000 HKD to buy-in.

Sunday is the last day of the Macau Poker Cup with a $500 HKD Challenge starting at 12:30 p.m. as well as a Phase 2 mega-satellite to the APPT Macau.