Sure it is a bit early, but it gives people plenty of time to make travel arrangements. PokerStars announced the tentative schedule for the 2014 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) this week, slated to be held at the PokerStarsLIVE poker room at the City of Dreams in Macau. The ACOP is to run 17 days, from October 24th through November 9th.
As it is just a tentative schedule, no start times for any events have been determined, nor have the lengths of each event. Some of the tournaments aren’t even labeled with what game is being played. But nonetheless, there are currently 21 events on the schedule, not counting satellites, a significant increase from the 13 events that were held last year. The highlight is the HKD $100,000 (USD $13,000) Main Event, which will start on Tuesday, November 4th. Also of note is the dual starting flight $2 million Guaranteed “Spadie,” so named because of the nickname given to the event trophies, which feature the well-known PokerStars spade logo.
There are a few satellites listed on the schedule – these are live satellites at the PokerStarsLIVE poker room. As is always the case with live PokerStars events, expect the world’s largest online poker room to hold plenty of qualifiers on its site for at least some of the larger buy-in events.
Last year, 203 players bought into the 2013 ACOP Main Event, whose HKD $4,352,000 (USD $561,228) first prize was won by South Korean Sunny Jung.
2014 Asia Championship of Poker – Tentative Schedule (all figures in HKD)
Friday, 24 October 2014
$2,500 Rebuy Championship*
Saturday, 25 October 2014
$2,500 Deepstack Championship Satellite
$11,000 Deepstack Championship*
Sunday, 26 October 2014
$2,000 Deepstack
Monday, 27 October 2014
$11,000 6-Max Championship*
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
$2,000 6-Max
$15,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship*
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
$2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
$11,000 KO Big Bounty*
Thursday, 30 October 2014
$2,500 KO Bounty
$8,800 $2 Million Guaranteed Spadie* – Day 1a
Friday, 31 October 2014
$8,800 $2 Million Guaranteed Spadie* – Day 1b
Saturday 1 November 2014
$8,800 Ladies Asia Championship*
$500,000 Super High Roller*
$5,000 ACOP Warm-up Satellite
Sunday, 2 November 2014
$25,000 ACOP Warm-up*
Monday, 3 November 2014
$13,500 Main Event MEGA Satellite
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
$100,000 ACOP MAIN EVENT *
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
$4,000 Teams Event
Thursday, 6 November 2014
$1,000 Turbo
$11,000 Turbo Championship*
Friday, 7 November 2014
$8,800 No-Limit Hold’em*
Saturday, 8 November 2014
$13,500 High Roller Satellite
$15,000 No-Limit Hold’em *
$250,000 High Roller*
Sunday, 9 November 2014
$2,500 Turbo
*ACOP Title Event
