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PokerStars yesterday announced the line up for its upcoming Asia Pacific Poker Tour beginning September 1.
Joining the field of 20 world class champions in a tournament with 500 plus expected participants is poker legend Johnny پeThe Orient Expressپf Chan. There are few players on the planet who can rival his poker record, with 10 World Series of Poker bracelets to his name and more than US$6.7million tournament earnings during his career, the release said.
Johnny Chan first shot to fame in the late 1980s, winning the championship event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in two consecutive years (1987 and 1988) and was also featured as one of the greatest poker players ever in the 1998 movie “Rounders” with Matt Damon and Edward Norton.

With the World Series of Poker Main Event in a 100-day layoff until November, the poker world will turn to the World Poker Tour's Legends of Poker tournament, which starts on Saturday from the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Poker's top professionals will be in attendance along with a bundle of online poker players who are members of PocketFives.com. The tournament will be covered live on PocketFivesLive.com, the home of WPT coverage.

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) has announced that the Godfather of Poker, Doyle Brunson, will be attending the APT's Macau tournament.