After winning Event No. 6: $5,000 KO Bounty tournament earlier in the week he suddenly found himself heads up with a massive 5-to-1 chip lead (2.6 million to 500,000) in the Main Event against Michael Chun-Chieh Chang from Taipei. Devan would quickly and easily collect his 2nd trophy in as many attempts at MPCC.

The Main Event presentation turned out to be the conclusion to the inaugural Asia Poker Awards as the Tournament of Champions (TOC) and Asia Player of the Year winners were determined well beforehand.

The TOC is the “Battle of the Best” and included PokerStars Team Asia Pros Celina Lin and Tae Joon Noh. The single table challenge would also bring the likes of pros such as Daniel Neilson from Australia and Red Dragon champions Kitty Kuo, Zhenjian Lin and Victor Chen. However, it would be businessman Kin Joh Pua from Malaysia who would claim the bragging rights and the HKD $100,000 winners’ package.

“Kitty” Hui-Chen Kuo’s back-to-back runner up finishes in the MPCC preliminary events would be enough to hold off a valiant effort from Tae Joon to win 2009 Asia Player of the Year. Tae Joon made it to final table of the Main Event and had a chance to overtake Kitty on the leaderboard with a finish of 5th place or better. However, the poker gods were not with him as his 8th place finish would give Kitty a 4752 to 4444 points advantage to close out the final standings.

The MPCC would also host Asia’s first ever Heads Up tournament and crowned Terrence “Not Johnny” Chan champion after besting the likes of World Champion Amarillo Slim, PokerStars Team Asis Pro Raymond Wu, and Macau Poker Cup 2-time High Rollers Challenge winner Phil Lau.

PokerStars Macau will launch the Macau Poker Cup 2010 season from March 3-7 which features the HKD $10,000 buy-in Red Dragon $1 Million Guarantee event. Players can qualify for free to the Red Dragon event online at PokerStars.net. For more information please visit www.pokerstarsmacau.com