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» September 4, 2008.
Titan Poker Players Shine in Asian Poker Tour Macau With Spanish Poker Champion Takes 5th Place at APT Macau Representing Titan Poker.
Titan Poker room fielded 17 talented poker players from around the world at the Asian Poker Tour (APT) Macau, China. Three of them
finished in the money and the top player has taken 5th place on this prestigious tournament on this side of the globe with
US$1.5 Million prize pool. Playing on behalf of popular online poker room Titan Poker, Spanish poker champion Julio Diaz
finished in fifth place at the Asian Poker Tour tournament.
Spanish player Diaz went home with a cash prize of $514,600 Hong Kong Dollars after he outlasted professional poker players such as Doyle Brunson, Kenny Tran, Johnny Chan and Liz Lieu to reach the final table in Chinese no. 1 gambling destination.
Julio Diaz, who is well known throughout Spain and is a regular and frequent winner of poker tournaments on the Spanish circuit, was happy with his fifth place finish in Macau, and hopes to return to China for next year's APT tournament as well.
Diaz's Titan Poker teammates, Alexander Jung from Germany and Masaki Ichikawa from Japan, also finished in the money and won their share of the US$1,500,000 in guaranteed prizes at what was without a doubt the most lucrative poker tournament ever to be staged in Asia.
The presence of Titan Poker, the most popular online poker room on the iPoker Network and probably the biggest in Europe, at the $1.5M Guaranteed Prize Asian Poker Tour Macau was impossible to miss, and several poker players from Titan Poker had a strong showing from the first days of the tournament.
Outlasting poker notables such as Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Todd Brunson, Kenny Tran, Huck Seed, Liz Lieu, John Juanda and others on the first day of the tournament, Titan Poker's players pushed into Day 2 and were listed in the top players vying for the massive cash prizes.
Masaki Ichikawa from Japan and Julio Diaz from Spain, both strong Titan Poker players, were among the top 10 chip leaders as 69 players in total advanced to the second day of the APT Macau tournament.
Online poker room, Titan Poker fielded a team of 17 players from around the world, including players from Malaysia, Japan, Australia, France, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and Italy.
"This is an amazing experience," told one of the Titan Poker players from Germany. "I am so grateful to Titan Poker for the chance to play poker in such an exciting location."
As we have already mentioned, players from the popular online poker room push into tournament's top 10, outlasting legendary Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Liz Lieu and other poker notables and WSOP bracelet winners. You can see Titan Poker and the televised final table of the APT Macau on the screenshot above.
Titan Poker regularly rewards its players with massive cash prizes and seats to huge overseas poker events, such as the Aussie Millions, Monte Carlo Millions, and certainly the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, and it sent a delegation on its way to compete in the Asian Poker Tour in Macau. The poker room awards more than $16,000,000 in monthly prizes and will stage a $2,500,000 Guaranteed Prize Tournament on September 7th, its biggest ever guaranteed prize tournament.
About Titan Poker Titan Poker is the leading online poker room in Europe and part of the iPoker Network. Titan Poker's software was developed by Playtech, a leading online gaming software developer. Titan Poker guarantees more than $16 Million in monthly tournament prizes, has approx. 30,000 online players at peak hours, and awards players with entries to the major poker tournaments worldwide.
Note: New players at Titan Poker are eligible for an increased 100% match welcome bonus of up to $500 free (regular bonus 20% match up to $200) on their first deposit if they follow this link to Titan Poker website.
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