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The eyes of the world will be on Vancouver, British Columbia today for the opening ceremony of the XXI Winter Olympic Games. The opening ceremonies will be hosted at BC Place in downtown Vancouver.

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Han outlasted 317 players and then beat American qualifier David Hilton heads-up to become the first Korean winner on the PokerStars APPT and take home APPT Cebu's first place prize of $158,000.

Fellow Korean Sim Somyung took third place for $60,000.

Korean players also had a strong presence at last year's APPT event in the Philippines, where three made the final table finishing second, third and fourth.

Mark Pagsuyuin was the only Filipino player who made the final table of APPT Cebu this year and he busted out in sixth place.

Vietnamese-American Nam Le was the most well-known player to go deep in APPT Cebu, but he finished in 12th place narrowly missing out on the final table. Le won the APPT Macau High Rollers event for $473,915 in 2008.

This marks the third year that PokerStars has hosted an APPT event in the Philippines, but this time around organizers switched the venue from downtown Manila to the more scenic Shangri-La resort in the province of Cebu.

The next stop on the APPT schedule is the grand final in Sydney, which takes place Dec. 1-6, 2009. Satellites for the event are currently running on PokerStars.

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A total of 319 players bought in to PokerStars' third foray into the Philippines. The field created a prize pool of $622,000, of which $158,000 will be awarded to the winner.

This year PokerStars shifted the event from downtown Manila to the five-star Shangri La Resort in the province of Cebu.

Players from 36 countries took part including players from as far as Mongolia, Sweden, Russia, Guam and the Ukraine.

APPT Cebu also drew a number of professional players including Team PokerStars Asia Pros Celina Lin, Tae Jun-Noh, Bryan Huang and Jonathan Lin as well as Team PokerStars Australian Pros Tony Hachem and Eric Assadourian.

Last year at APPT Manila, Australian Van Marcus beat Jun-Noh heads-up to take down a first-place prize of $162,856.

The 2009 edition of APPT Cebu will culminate with a final table this Sunday. The tour's next stop will be the Grand Final in Sydney, which takes place Dec. 1-6, 2009. Qualifiers for the event are currently running on PokerStars.com.

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In North America, the first event of the 2009-2010 World Series of Poker Circuit season smashed attendance records.

A total of 1,412 players entered the $345 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, just 20 minutes from downtown Chicago.

"Chicagoland has become one of the WSOP Circuit's most popular destinations for poker players," said WSOP media director Nolan Dalla. "Attendance eclipsed last year's near-record for the same event, which was 1,187 entries."

23-year-old poker pro Josh Shmerl, from Wauconda, Illinois just outside of Chicago, took the title and $79,107 first-place prize in Hammond.

The previous all-time record for attendance at a WSOP Circuit event was 1,345 players at the Tunica Grand Resort and Casino in Mississippi in January 2006.

Meanwhile, across the pond in Ireland, the 2009 Boylepoker International Poker Open set the record for the largest tournament field ever assembled outside of the United States.

The $250 buy-in No-limit Hold'em event drew 1,440 players from more than 18 countries creating prize pool of $350,000, including $27,000 added by the sponsor.

The previous non-U.S. attendance record was set at the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas at 1,347.

Several big names from the ((UK poker scene)) were in attendance at the Regency Airport Hotel in Dublin, including Neil Channing, Padraig Parkinson, Andy Black, Marty Smyth, Surinder Sunar, Fintan Gavin, Simon Trumper and the voice of European poker, Jesse May.

German Markus Sippe took the title and $62,250 first-place prize.

"This year's International Poker Open was another great success, breaking last year's record by a further 140 players," said Boylepoker's Paul Spillane. "The event is proving more and more popular every year, among all levels of players.

"The IPO has become an unmissable event on any poker lover's calendar, and we are already excited about the next one."

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The Ultimate Starlight Poker Challenge, presented by UltimateBet and the Starlight Children's Foundation in conjunction with C3 Events, is set for Nov. 14-18 at the historic Gare Windsor in downtown Montreal.

The tournament will feature a World Series of Poker style structure with 60-minute levels playing down to a final table of ten over four days in Montreal.

The ten players in the final will then be flown out to Las Vegas to play out the final table with a guaranteed $100,000 first-place prize on the line.

The $500 buy-in will get players 10,000 in chips to start, but organizers are also offering a VIP entry for $750, allowing players to start with 20,000 in chips and attend a poker training boot-camp hosted by Hellmuth and Duke in advance of the event.

"UB is thrilled to be involved in a tournament raising money for the Starlight Foundation," said Duke.

"We're happy to be part of this exciting charity poker event, and to help other community-minded poker players in Montreal better their game all for a great cause."

The tournament is being run to benefit the Starlight Children's Foundation Canada, part of an international non-profit organization dedicated to helping seriously ill children and their families.

The event will be filmed for international broadcast on Rogers Sportsnet, the Players Network, Comcast and RDS.

Tickets can be purchased on the event's website or by calling 514-282-9292, extension 233.

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