The 2016 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) launches soon and there is lot of highs and lows that include competing within the Far East's richest poker festival.

The good folks at PokerStars LIVE Macau are well conscious about all that stress you've built up and so they've included all kinds of fun and games to alleviate your tension.

Let's check out what's in store for the 2016 ACOP.

2016 ACOP TEAR & GO (OCT 28 - NOV 3)

How about we kick things off with a possibility at over HK$100,000 in prizes through the opening week of the 17-day schedule? All you need to do is enter any tournament or satellite and you will receive a Tear & Go promotion ticket. There are instant prizes but additionally how one can win bigger prizes equivalent to an entry to the HK$25,000 ACOP Warm-up event!

HALLOWEEN PARTY (OCT 31)

Sometimes the most obvious isn't so obvious.

Players have always come to the poker site in costumes on October 31 but we've never officially celebrated Halloween.

That is...until this year.

Monster Monday could have the standard food, drinks, music, and...

...FOOSBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

Do you remember foosball?

Most people played during our childhood and it simply so happens that the PokerStars staff in Macau are utterly hooked on the sport. But this is not the foosball you grew up with. Our competition will happen on a foosball field twice the scale of a normal table.

We just love competition and so the primary official 3 vs. 3 ACOP Foosball Championship is born!

FREE-TO-ENTER MAIN EVENT SATELLITE (NOV 4)

When the schedule came out most players assumed this was a typo.

I'm here to inform you. NOT.A.TYPO.

Completely free to go into with a HK$100,000 Main Event entry guaranteed. You'll improve your probabilities of victory by means of HK$200 rebuys but that's totally optional.

Warning: There is a 20-table max for this satty so come early to circumvent the chaos that's certain to resemble the image below.

PLAYERS PARTY (NOV 9)

Main Event players get to benefit from the lovely confines of the Hard Rock Café poolside for the ACOP Players Party. Come dressed to provoke while mingling with the largest names in poker, enjoying bottomless drinks, and all-you-can eat munchies.

And of course, there's the...

...BEER PONG CHAMPIONSHIP

The tradition continues as sixteen 2-player teams battle it out for the ACOP Beer Pong title and trophies! It's first come, first serve in the case of registration. If you wish to play then don't come late as this gets sold out ridiculously fast. I mean, just take a look at the intensity and sheer joy of last year's winners - Jordan Westmorland and Joel Micka.

Oh, that is where I remind you that PokerStars urges everyone to drink responsibly.

The 2016 Asia Championship of Poker happens on the PokerStars LIVE Macau poker site from October 28 - November 13, 2016.

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