The Asia Pacific Poker Tour is becoming more and more popular. There are more players and prize pool is increasing as the event grows. People enter the event by joining freeroll tournaments in PokerStar, and the people who qualify will join the Asia Pacific Poker Tour event. It is easy to join the tournament. You just have to download PokerStar, and then read the directions to start playing in the freeroll tournamenet. There are no fees to join as it is completely free.

During the Macau Main Event in second year, it had 88 great poker players. In 2010, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour was held in PokerStars Macau poker room that is located in the Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino. The poker event ended on Sunday, May 23. The buy-in for the 88 poker players were just $5,128 USD each.

There were many former poker stars that were at the poker event, such as, Celina Lin, Bryan Huang, and Raymond Wu. Many of them were in Team PokerStars. Last year, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macao had 429 players, and that was a record for the richest Asian poker tournament with a prize pool of $2,067,930 USD. Last year, the grand prize winner was Dermot Blain, and he won $540,000. The prize pool in Hong Kong currency is $16,130,400.

The 88 players in the event ended with just 43 remaining after the first day. Out of the 43 players, Team PokerStar Celina Lin and Raymond Wu were still in the poker tournament.