Liu and Liu Win in Macau

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour, commonly known as APPT, was in Macau at the City of Dreams for a mid-May series, and two Lius emerged victorious in the largest tournaments.

The Main Event required a HK $25,000 buy-in and drew 494 players, setting a new record. The prize pool was a massive HK $11,021,140, out of which the top 60 players were paid. Players like JJ Liu and Christian Haggart cashed.

The May 24 final table found Billy “The Croc” Argyros looking for his second APPT title, but he ended up finishing in third place. Jiajun Liu was the ultimate winner, and the payouts for the final table players were as follows:

1^st place: Jiajun Liu (HK $2,776,000)

2^nd place: Cyril Andre (HK $1,693,000)

3^rd place: Billy Argyros (HK $940,000)

4^th place: Thomas McGarrity (HK $737,000)

5^th place: Yen Han Chen (HK $575,000)

6^th place: Carlos Kuo Chang (HK $464,000)

7^th place: Jean Marie Peyron (HK $355,000)

8^th place: Yat Wai Cheng (HK $273,000)

9^th place: Sailesh Verma (HK $198,140)

The other big tournament was the APPT Macau High Roller, which required a HK $100,000 buy-in. There were 59 players willing to ante up, which created a prize pool of HK $1,831,000.

The top seven players were paid, and one of the top-ranking female players in the world, JJ Liu, was at the final table and in the money. When it all played out, the top three players made a deal for the remainder of the cash in order to distribute it more evenly, but an extra HK $373,000 was left to add to the winner’s take. And that winner was JJ Liu.

1^st place: JJ Liu (HK $1,420,000)

2^nd place: Quan Zhou (HK $1,275,000)

3^rd place: Chen Wang (HK $1,078,000)

4^th place: Rui Cao (HK $610,000)

5^th place: Magnus Karlsson (HK $444,000)

6^th place: Huidong Gu (HK $388,000)

7^th place: Zongyao Zhang (HK $333,950)