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Asian Poker Tour has just gotten an extended permit and they will celebrate this by hosting a 12 day poker festival in Macau this August.

The hosts of the poker festival promise that there will be 24/7 access to poker with tournaments and juice cash games during the 12 day poker festival in Macau. The festival will start at the 12th of August and finish on the 23rd of August and it will be held at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau. The main event is also going to be bigger than originally planned with 3 starting days and a TV broadcasted final table. The buy in for this tournament is going to be $4300 and you will be able qualify through satellites at your favorite online poker room.

You can qualify for the main event in satellites that are held at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Titan Poker, PartyPoker and Everest Poker and many others. All of the poker rooms on the iPoker and Microgaming Network will also be running satellite tournaments for this main event.

PokerStars have just announced that they will be opening a land based poker room at the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau. The poker room is going to be the biggest one in Asia with 22 tables that will be open 24/7.

Macau is an island in the Southern parts of China. The economy of the island is based mostly on gambling and casino businesses and their aim is to become the Las Vegas of Asia.

Grand Lisboa is a recently built sky scraper with hotels, restaurants and casinos. On the second floor of this building is where PokerStars are now going to open their brand new poker room where the main game will be Texas Holdem.

According to a PokerStars representative there are going to be play money tables for those players who are new to the game and wants to learn before trying to play at the real money tables. The cash game table limits are starting from $10/$20 (Hong Kong Dollars) and later on they are going to add high stakes table with deep stack play for the more experienced players.

PokerStars have also promised that they will start arranging a lot of poker tournaments in their new poker room, they will offer anything from freerolls to high buy in tournaments. In this poker room they will also host a series of qualifiers to the Asia Pacific Poker Tour.

The fact that PokerStars are opening a poker room in Macau will have to mean that they are trying to reach the Asian market and get the Asian people to discover the game of poker. It is safe to assume that they are opening this land based poker room in order to attract Asian poker players to the online poker room which is PokerStars.com.