With the final events from the highly anticipated 2009 Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival finally under wraps, everyone in the world of online casinos is abuzz with the surprising finish for the event’s big winners. It seems that a young competitor from the nation of France was able to take home the top prize for the casino poker event. 23-year-old Adrien Allain got the best of his fellow 325 rival contenders to ultimately leave the scene with a cool$391,594. No one in their right mind would argue that his performance was anything other than sensational.

Everyone who is anyone within the business of online casinos has been quick to lavish praise and admiration for the fine execution of the Macau Festival. This highly successful event captured the attention of a great many people in the realm of online casino action and this event cements even further the fact that the Asian region is one of the prime locations for major casino and poker events to take place in.

This means that more and more casino operators and professional players will be drawn toward this particular area because they know that the competition will be fierce and the fellow players will be highly skilled and the prizes available will be more and more lucrative as time goes on. Allain, for all of his efforts, is very pleased with how everything turned out. He just recently made the decision to begin playing on the professional level and look at how well that decision has paid off so far! He was even able to score his seat in the tournament through an online casino satellite event over at PKR.com so he didn’t even have to splurge for the $4,438 buy-in.