Im PokerStars LIVE Macau läuft das HKD 40.000 Main Event der Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT). 356 Entries sorgten dabei für einen Preispool von HKD 12.884.032 (rund € 1,33 Mio). 93 Spieler gehen angeführt von Felix Schulze in Tag 3.
Die Late Reg war noch an Tag 2 möglich und wurde von 24 Spielern genutzt. Das brachte die Gesamtteilnehmerzahl auf 356 und damit einen satten Millionenpreispool. Die Top 41 Plätze werden bezahlt, wobei der Min-Cash HKD 71.000 (rund € 7.300) beträgt und der Sieger sich über HKD 3.095.000 (fast € 320.000) freuen darf. Außerdem erhält der Sieger auch das $30.000 Platinum Ticket.
Nach Tag 2 waren noch 93 Spieler übrig und Felix Schulze hatte sich vor Davidi Kitai die Führung erspielt. Auch Maxi Lehmanski (Rang 14) und Marius Gierse (Rang 32) sind gut mit dabei, Jan-Eric Schwippert ist einer der Shortstacks (Rang 91).
Bei den Blinds 1.200/2.400, Ante 400 geht es in Tag 3, der um 12 Uhr Ortszeit (GMT +8) beginnt. Die Coverage kann man unter pokerstarsblog.com mitverfolgen.
| First name | Last Name | County | Chip Count | Table | Seat | |
| 1 | Felix | Schulze | Germany | 328.000 | 11 | 6 |
| 2 | Davidi Jacob | Kitai | Belgium | 307.300 | 9 | 2 |
| 3 | Lin | Wu | China | 296.000 | 8 | 5 |
| 4 | Carson Ka Shing | Wong | Hong Kong | 284.800 | 6 | 9 |
| 5 | Paul Martin | Van Walsem Vas Nunes | UK | 275.400 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | Yuan | Li | China | 271.300 | 6 | 2 |
| 7 | Joshua Morse | Zimmerman | Hong Kong | 250.500 | 9 | 1 |
| 8 | Rundulf Martin | Gonzales | Philippines | 233.100 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Zheng | Shen | China | 215.500 | 4 | 1 |
| 10 | Ashish | Gupta | Australia | 213.800 | 7 | 6 |
| 11 | Chunjie | Liu | China | 210.000 | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | Ian Andrew | Modder | Hong Kong | 200.700 | 11 | 2 |
| 13 | Xiaobo | Zhou | China | 185.900 | 7 | 4 |
| 14 | Maximilian | Lehmanski | Germany | 180.800 | 8 | 6 |
| 15 | Michael Kue Seong | Tchong | Australia | 176.400 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | Jiafei | Yu | China | 175.100 | 10 | 1 |
| 17 | Peng | Zhou | China | 169.000 | 9 | 5 |
| 18 | Diego | Palma | Chile | 168.600 | 2 | 7 |
| 19 | Liang | Song | China | 168.400 | 3 | 9 |
| 20 | Mian | Wei | China | 166.900 | 8 | 8 |
| 21 | Jinxi | He | China | 152.600 | 2 | 6 |
| 22 | Hon Cheong | Lee | Hong Kong | 147.300 | 6 | 7 |
| 23 | Victor Kiong Fook | Chong | Malaysia | 145.600 | 1 | 5 |
| 24 | Zheng | Yu | China | 145.200 | 7 | 3 |
| 25 | Vincent Chin Wei | Chua | Australia | 143.800 | 7 | 2 |
| 26 | Ye | Wang | China | 137.400 | 5 | 3 |
| 27 | James Anthony | Broom | Australia | 137.000 | 5 | 5 |
| 28 | Kosei | Ichinose | Japan | 135.600 | 7 | 1 |
| 29 | Xiwen | He | China | 134.600 | 1 | 7 |
| 30 | Seung Yong | Yi | Korea | 132.100 | 3 | 4 |
| 31 | Liming | Zhang | China | 129.900 | 11 | 4 |
| 32 | Marius | Gierse | Germany | 127.000 | 9 | 7 |
| 33 | Carl Daniel Robert | Carlsson | Sweden | 126.300 | 9 | 8 |
| 34 | Jie | Weng | China | 126.000 | 1 | 4 |
| 35 | Alex Christopher | Lindop | UK | 123.300 | 6 | 4 |
| 36 | Hirokazu | Kobayashi | Japan | 119.000 | 1 | 6 |
| 37 | Sumit | Sapra | India | 119.000 | 3 | 8 |
| 38 | Yunhong | Yang | China | 117.700 | 1 | 9 |
| 39 | Yin | Liu | China | 115.600 | 8 | 7 |
| 40 | Jen Chun | Chiu | Taiwan | 112.700 | 8 | 2 |
| 41 | Tao | Wang | China | 109.500 | 1 | 3 |
| 42 | Juncong | Cao | China | 108.500 | 2 | 5 |
| 43 | Zhenru | Xie | UK | 108.100 | 10 | 8 |
| 44 | Jiayu | Ruan | China | 103.000 | 3 | 5 |
| 45 | Zebin | Sun | China | 101.800 | 1 | 2 |
| 46 | Patrick Lik Tung | Lui | China | 100.800 | 5 | 7 |
| 47 | Alexandre Rongsheng | Chieng | France | 96.600 | 5 | 8 |
| 48 | Xiaosheng | Zheng | China | 96.200 | 8 | 1 |
| 49 | Wai Kiat | Lee | Malaysia | 94.000 | 5 | 1 |
| 50 | Pete Yen Han | Chen | Taiwan | 93.900 | 1 | 8 |
| 51 | Zhaojun | Ruan | China | 93.500 | 4 | 9 |
| 52 | Weiming | Lam | Singapore | 92.200 | 10 | 6 |
| 53 | Juicy Sixiao | Li | China | 91.100 | 5 | 9 |
| 54 | Sheng Chien | Chen | Taiwan | 90.200 | 1 | 1 |
| 55 | Pan | Gu | China | 88.100 | 6 | 3 |
| 56 | Aditya | Agarwal | India | 87.800 | 3 | 1 |
| 57 | Phanlert | Sukonthachartnant | Thailand | 87.500 | 4 | 3 |
| 58 | Yong | Cheng | China | 87.100 | 10 | 3 |
| 59 | Yi | Ye | China | 86.700 | 7 | 7 |
| 60 | Daniel James | Laidlaw | Australia | 85.200 | 11 | 8 |
| 61 | Pedro | Pellicer | Spain | 85.200 | 8 | 9 |
| 62 | Peter Murray | Robertson | Ireland | 82.000 | 3 | 3 |
| 63 | Benjamin Charles | Hamnett | USA | 75.700 | 9 | 9 |
| 64 | Tu | Lan | China | 72.600 | 7 | 9 |
| 65 | Xiaoyang | Luo | China | 71.800 | 2 | 9 |
| 66 | Chahn Hoon | Jung | USA | 69.700 | 6 | 1 |
| 67 | Masahiro | Yamada | Japan | 68.500 | 4 | 8 |
| 68 | Phachara | Wongwichit | Australia | 62.800 | 11 | 9 |
| 69 | Albert | Paik | USA | 61.200 | 7 | 8 |
| 70 | Luc | Greenwood | Canada | 58.500 | 4 | 2 |
| 71 | Qicheng | Du | China | 58.300 | 3 | 7 |
| 72 | Yan | Cai | China | 57.300 | 2 | 3 |
| 73 | Alvan Yifan | Zheng | China | 55.100 | 10 | 5 |
| 74 | David | Wells | USA | 54.300 | 11 | 7 |
| 75 | Sahil | Chuttani | India | 50.400 | 8 | 3 |
| 76 | Henry Hung Tu | Wang | Taiwan | 48.100 | 6 | 5 |
| 77 | Benjamin | Murry | India | 47.700 | 3 | 6 |
| 78 | Zhou | Tong | China | 47.600 | 11 | 3 |
| 79 | Dong Kyu | Kim | USA | 47.000 | 6 | 8 |
| 80 | Timothy John Robert | Vukson | Canada | 43.100 | 9 | 6 |
| 81 | Ying | Tang | China | 41.000 | 10 | 4 |
| 82 | Bart | Luyckx | Belgium | 40.400 | 2 | 8 |
| 83 | Dianlei | Zhang | China | 39.500 | 5 | 4 |
| 84 | Celina | Lin | Australia | 38.600 | 5 | 6 |
| 85 | Chunqing | Wang | China | 38.400 | 4 | 4 |
| 86 | Billy Vasilios | Argyros | Australia | 38.000 | 4 | 5 |
| 87 | Johnson | Juanda | USA | 37.100 | 10 | 7 |
| 88 | Yiwei | Zhao | China | 34.000 | 11 | 5 |
| 89 | Samuel Marshall | Ganzfried | USA | 29.700 | 3 | 2 |
| 90 | Dilijiang | A | China | 28.500 | 9 | 4 |
| 91 | Jan-Eric | Schwippert | Germany | 28.500 | 4 | 7 |
| 92 | Hao Qiang | Lin | China | 26.500 | 5 | 2 |
| 93 | Preston | Lee | USA | 14.200 | 10 | 9 |
Payouts:
| Place | Prize (HKD) |
| 1 | $3.095.000 |
| 2 | $1.900.000 |
| 3 | $1.192.000 |
| 4 | $933.000 |
| 5 | $675.500 |
| 6 | $546.532 |
| 7 | $431.500 |
| 8 | $367.000 |
| 9 | $303.000 |
| 10 | $245.000 |
| 11 | $206.000 |
| 12 | $206.000 |
| 13 | $167.500 |
| 14 | $167.500 |
| 15 | $167.500 |
| 16 | $135.000 |
| 17 | $135.000 |
| 18 | $135.000 |
| 19 | $109.500 |
| 20 | $109.500 |
| 21 | $109.500 |
| 22 | $97.000 |
| 23 | $97.000 |
| 24 | $97.000 |
| 25 | $90.500 |
| 26 | $90.500 |
| 27 | $90.500 |
| 28 | $84.000 |
| 29 | $84.000 |
| 30 | $84.000 |
| 31 | $84.000 |
| 32 | $84.000 |
| 33 | $77.500 |
| 34 | $77.500 |
| 35 | $77.500 |
| 36 | $77.500 |
| 37 | $71.000 |
| 38 | $71.000 |
| 39 | $71.000 |
| 40 | $71.000 |
| 41 | $71.000 |