The Poker Pack Continue to Dominate With JC Tran's Headhunter Win in Macau
8/20/2009 4:19:00 PM –
JC Tran is the latest member of the ‘Poker Pack’ to impressively take down a side event at the 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival – The Poker Pack Headhunter side event. JC won the Headhunter tournament named in honour of the group of Asian Poker Ambassadors.
Sixteen players failed to take the bounty of the star player as he crushed all opposition in front of him to scoop HK$76,000 plus HK$10,500 in bounties. There were a total of 87 runners in the field, including The Poker Pack pros David ‘Chino’ Rheem, Nam Le, Steve Sung, and Quinn Do.
‘The Poker Pack’ is on an amazing run at the Starworld Hotel and Casino, winning events left and right. Team Korea, featuring Steve Sung, David Chino’Rheem and Brandon Wong, won the inaugural JBET Battle of the Nations event. Quinn Do took down ‘The Poker King Movie’ Celebrity Charity event, while David ‘Chino’ Rheem won the HKGC No Limit Hold ‘em R+A side event.
JC said: “There’s little doubt ‘The Poker Pack’ are running good at the moment – we are all playing Day 1B of the Main Event so let’s hope this continues!”
Day 1B sees filming commence for ‘The Poker King’ movie, which will feature some of Hong Kong’s top movie stars as well as poker pros from all over the world.
The Asian Poker Tour Macau hosts over 20 events with 15 official side events. Amongst the online networks sending players are The Ongame Network, the iPoker Network and PartyPoker.com. In addition, online rooms BWin, PKR, Dafa Poker, JBET Poker, Betfriends, 888.com, Titan Poker, RedKings, 32Red, ChiliPoker, Winamax, BetSafe, PafPoker and PokerLoco are in on the action guaranteeing a significant online qualifier contingent. Sponsors of the side events and collaterals include the Hong Kong Game Club, DafaPoker, Dafa888, The Poker King Movie, JBet, PartyPoker.com, BWin, Zipang Casino, 777babycasino and PKR.The buy-in for the Main Event is set at HK$34,400.
Full details can be found at http://www.asianpt.com/
Videos capturing the action and atmosphere at the festival can be found at: http://www.asianpt.com/videos
The event has already been successful for the Asian Poker Tour Ambassadors, ‘The Poker Pack’ with David Chino Rheem and Quinn Do both taking down side events.
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