Final Table Of $15,000 Buy-In APPT Macau High Roller Event Underway

Poker pro John Juanda is one of the competitors at the final table of the $15,000 buy-in High Rollers event at the APPT Macau. (Bodog Beat Image)

Just a few hours after the last cards hit the felt in the APPT Macau championship event, a laundry list of poker pros came back to the poker room to play in the $15,000 buy-in High Rollers event.

The list of 64 participants in the tournament included names like John Juanda, Isabelle Mercier, Scotty Nguyen, Kirk Morrison, Barry Greenstein and two players who had been at the final table of the aforementioned championship event the day before, Liz Lieu and Joe Hachem.

Unfortunately for all but two of those players, the High Roller experience would not last longer than the first day of play as the field was whittled down to the final eight (no idea why eight, so don't ask). The two name pros who did make the final table were Juanda and Lieu, who is on her second final table in as many days. Now, with the final table already well underway - it started at 3 p.m. local time, but don't ask us when that actually was - there are now only four players remaining at the dinner break.

The chip leader going into the day, Emad Tahtouh, Lieu, Juanda and American Scott Numoto have all hit the rail since the beginning of play, leaving the four players who will return to play once dinner break is over.

Here are those four players and their chip counts:

Eric Assadourian - 550,000
Bo Sehlstedt - 169,000
David Paul Steicke - 150,000
Tony Ng - 95,000

These have probably all changed since we typed them, but head over to PokerNews.com for the live updates and come back here later for a poker tournament wrap.