Asia Pacific Poker Tour

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) is a major international series of poker tournaments established in 2007 and hosted in cities across the Asia Pacific. Along with other major tours such as the European Poker Tour and Latin American Poker Tour, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour is sponsored by PokerStars.

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Asia Pacific Poker Tour
SportTexas Hold 'em
Founded2007
CEODanny McDonagh
Country Australia
 China
 Macau
 New Zealand
 Philippines
 South Korea
 Taiwan
Official websiteappt.com
Old logo used prior to 2018

Format

The first season ran from August to December 2007 with five events held across four locations: Manila (Philippines); Seoul (South Korea); Macau (China); and Sydney (Australia). The second season runs from September to December 2008 with six events held across five locations: Macau (China); Seoul (South Korea); Auckland (New Zealand); Manila (Philippines); and Sydney (Australia). The third season was held with events held in the same locations as 2008, with the substitution of Cebu for Manila in the Philippines. In 2014 the eight season was played.

Since season three, PokerNews.com and PokerStars.tv have provided intensive online reporting, including video coverage by presenters Lynn Gilmartin, Kristy Arnett, Sarah Grant and Nicki Pickering.

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) is responsible for bringing the first major government-sanctioned real-money Texas hold 'em poker tournaments to Korea and China. The PokerStars.net APPT Macau: Asian Poker Open in November 2007 was the first-ever poker tournament in Macau. With 352 entrants, it was also the largest poker tournament in Asia (a November 2006 event in Singapore held the previous record with 313 entrants).[1] With 538 entrants APPT Macau 2008 was the largest poker tournament in Asia, however, that record is currently held by 2014 APPT Beijing Millions, which saw a record 2,732 players compete for ¥7,376,400 (US$1,195,647) in prize money. While the 'Millions' tournaments played out under the APPT brand, they are considered separate tournament series from the regular APPT events, as they do not run annually.[2]

The largest APPT Main Event field record was set at the 2018 APPT Manila, which saw Singapore's Wilson Lim defeat a 1,364-strong field to claim the ₱12,970,000 (US$244,815) top prize, with the total prize pool coming in at ₱65,492,460 (US$1,236,204).[3]

Tournament results

All prizes are listed in US dollars.

Season 1
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
14-26 Aug 2007 Manila255 Brett Parise$179,775
28-30 Sep 2007 Seoul185 Ziv Bachar$139,872
23 Nov 2007 Taipa352 Dinh Doat Le$222,640
13-16 Dec 2007 Sydney561 Grant Levy$875,542

Season 2
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
1 Sep 2008 Taipa538 Eddy Sabat$453,427
26-28 Sep 2008 Seoul166 Yoshihiro Tasaka$128,199
9-12 Oct 2008 Auckland306 Daniel Craker$169,999
13-16 Nov 2008 Manila285 Van Marcus$164,380
2-7 Dec 2008 Sydney477 Martin Rowe$631,780

Season 3
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
25-30 Aug 2009 Macau429 Dermot Blain$541,100
17-20 Sep 2009 SeoulN/ACancelledN/A
14 Oct 2009 Auckland263 Simon Watt$154,110
11-15 Nov 2009 Cebu319 Dong-Bin Han$157,532
1-6 Dec 2009 Sydney396 Aaron Benton$543,260

Season 4
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
20-25 Mar 2010 Manila430 Binh Nguyen$260,700
18 May 2010 Macau342 Victorino Torres$418,026
15-19 Sep 2010 Auckland218 Danny Leaoasavaii$124,363
12 Nov 2010 CebuUnknown Vivian Im$134,142
7-12 Dec 2010 Sydney289 Jonathan Karamalikis$454,304

Season 5
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
29 Jul-1 Aug 2011 Melbourne260 Leo Boxell$352,474
23-28 Aug 2011 Queenstown127 Marcel Schreiner$77,053
23-27 Nov 2011 Macau575 Randy Lew$484,617

Season 6
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
8-11 Mar 2012 Seoul268 Andrew Kim$129,253
25 Apr 2012 CebuUnknown Hoang Do$139,007
7-11 Nov 2012 Macau184 Xing Zhou$457,712

Season 7
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
14-17 Mar 2013 Seoul222 Aaron Lim$111,088
1–5 May 2013 Cebu158 Jae Kyung Sim$95,487
12-16 Jun 2013 Macau388 Alexandre Chieng$278,926
30 Jul-4 Aug 2013 QueenstownUnknown Jonathan Bredin$75,469
5-9 Sep 2013 Melbourne309 Billy Argyros$121,264
28 Oct-2 Nov 2013 Macau203 Sunny Jung$561,228

Season 8
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
2-9 Feb 2014 Melbourne668 Amichai Barer$121,264
3–6 April 2014 Seoul256 Chane Kampanatsanyakorn$141,719
21–25 May 2014 Macau494 Jiajun Liu$358,078
4-7 Jul 2014 Manila260 Thanh Duong$79,562
18-27 Jul 2014 Beijing2,732 Qin Chen$109,411
4 Nov 2014 Macau291 Gabriel Le Jossec$812,361
19-23 Nov 2014 Auckland225 Minh Hau Nguyen$88,608
26-30 Nov 2014 WuhanUnknownUnknownUnknown
17-21 Dec 2014 Beijing346 Yang Zhang$101,683

Season 9
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
25 Jan-1 Feb 2015 Melbourne648 Manny Stavropoulos$1,094,737
7-13 Mar 2015 Macau987 Yuguang Li$238,230
19-23 Mar 2015 Sydney445 Dimitrios Psaros$139,784
9-12 Apr 2015 Seoul241 Jason Mo$151,333
27–31 May 2015 Macau493 Yat Cheng$325,699
6-9 Aug 2015 Manila585 Aaron Lim$131,780
9-14 Nov 2015 Macau260 Jimmy Zhou$759,190

Season 10
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
14-18 Jan 2016 Macau2343 Yifan Zheng$117,390
24-31 Jan 2016 Melbourne732 Alan Engel$1,120,110
28 Feb-4 Mar 2016 Macau1075 Ying Lin Chua$244,842
3-8 May 2016 Manila478Tzu Chieh Lo$50,524
18–29 May 2016 Macau533 Jian Sun$289,608*
23-27 Jun 2015 Seoul158 Albert Paik$103,019
28 Jul-8 Aug 2016 Manila577 Linh Tran$130,191
26 Aug-11 Sep 2016 Macau1145 Tom Alner$323,469
6-18 Oct 2016 Melbourne523 Ashish Gupta$124,191*
7-12 Nov 2016 Macau302 Vladimir Geshkenbein$727,483*

Season 11
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
4-9 Feb 2018 Macau1122 Yifan Zheng$390,631
19-25 Mar 2018 Macau356 Lin Wu$394,549
12-15 Apr 2018 Incheon449 Michael Soyza$148,629
9-12 Aug 2018 Manila1364 Wilson Lim$244,815

Season 12
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
11-14 Apr 2019 Incheon581 Park Yu Cheung$174,041
24-27 Jun 2019 Jeju362 Huidong Gu$158,553
1 Aug 2019 Manila1135 Florencio Campomanes$214,700*

Season 13
DateCityEntriesWinnerPrize
3-7 Febr 2020 Taipei425 Zong Chi He$97,367
6-9 Aug 2020 Manila

Winners by country
Place Country Times
1st Australia13
2nd China11
3rd USA8
4th South Korea4
5th Canada3
England3
New Zealand3
Vietnam3
9th Hong Kong2
Malaysia2
Taiwan2
12th Germany1
Ireland1
Israel1
Japan1
Macau 1
Philippines 1
Russia1
Singapore 1
Thailand1

Up to Season 13 - APPT Taipei

Seats at Final Tables by country
Place Country Times
1st China106
2nd Australia100
3rd USA52
4th New Zealand32
5th Japan29
6th Canada24
7th South Korea23
8th England21
9th Philippines19
Taiwan19
11th Hong Kong17
12th Singapore15
13th France10
14th Sweden9
Germany9
16th Malaysia8
17th Russia7
18th India6
Thailand6
20th Macau5
Vietnam5
22nd Netherlands4
Norway4
24th Denmark3
Finland3
Israel3
27th Hungary2
Ireland2
Poland2
Spain2
31st Costa Rica1
Croatia1
Kazakhstan1
Panama1
Scotland1
Slovenia1
Switzerland1

Up to Season 13 - APPT Taipei

Top 10 Prizes
Rank Event Place Name Prize
1st APPT8 Melbourne1st Amichai Barer$1.399.739
2nd APPT10 Melbourne1st Alan Engel$1.120.110
3rd APPT9 Melbourne1st Aristomenis Stavropoulos$1.094.737*
4th APPT9 Melbourne2nd Lennart Uphoff$959.623*
5th APPT1 Sydney1st Grant Levy$875.542
6th APPT8 Melbourne2nd Sorel Mizzi$874.837
7th APPT8 Macau1st Gabriel Le Jossec$812.361
8th APPT9 Macau1st Jimmy Zhou$759.190
9th APPT10 Macau1st Vladimir Geshkenbein$727.483*
10th APPT10 Melbourne2nd Tony Dunst$700.069

Up to Season 13 - APPT Taipei

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See also

Notes
  1. Cardplayer.com Dinh Le Wins APPT Macau $2,500 Event
  2. APPT Beijing Millions
  3. City of Dreams, Manila
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