PokerStars Opening Live Poker Room in Macau

PokerStars has announced today that they are going to open a live poker room in Macau tomorrow. The poker room has been named PokerStars Macau and it will have a 250 person capacity.

PokerStars Macau will be located inside of the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino in Cotai. The first official card shuffle in the poker room will be at the No-limit Texas Hold'em Charity Poker Tournament.

The charity tournament is going to raise money for earthquake relief that is desperately needed in Western China after their recent tremor.

There isn't a set buy in for the tournament but it is being recommended that players donate $2,000 HKD to enter in the tournament. Players will be competing for there share of the $150,000 in prizes, including a $25,000 buy in to the Asia Pacific Tour Event in Macau.

This tournament is going to be the first charity event in the Macau Cup and it will feature a $1,000 HKD buy in Deep Stack event and a $10,000 HKD buy in Red Dragon event that will start this weekend.