Key Info PokerStars LIVE APPT Manila Championship 2024 Location: Okada Manila Dates: October 18 to 27, 2024 Main Event Buy-In: PHP 165,000 Schedule: TBA
APPT Manila
PokerStars LIVE APPT Manila 2024
Key Info PokerStars LIVE APPT Manila 2024 Location: Cove Manila at Okada Manila Dates: July 24 to August 5, 2024 Main Event Buy-In: PHP 80,000 Schedule: TBA
APPT Manila: over US$ 2.6 Million paid out; Xin Hua Lai wins the Main Event; James Mendoza walks away as the biggest earner; full festival highlights inside
Last July 29 to August 7, PokerStars LIVE produced the biggest event in the Philippines since the pandemic, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), at their hub in Okada Manila. Over the ten days, players flocked into the bustling capital city. Among the largest contingents were from South Korea, Singapore, Japan, India, and the […]
Pinoy Briefs: Mark Amparo wins the Metro WALK TO A MILLION; Manila Super Series and APPT Manila in July
We’ve entered the last half of the year and with that comes plenty of exciting poker all over the Asian region. Focusing our attention on the Philippines, this July will see plenty of cards flying and chips shuffling at Okada Manila. Two events will bookend the month, the Manila Super Series 11 and APPT Manila. […]
APPT9 Manila: Aaron Lim becomes first two-time APPT Main Event champion
A By: KomishAirms CITY OF DREAMS Manila, Philippines The history books have been rewritten again here at the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Manila as Australian pro Aaron Lim becomes the first player since its inception to win two Main Event titles in an epic and swingy heads-up against Sweden’s Douglas Olsson. The 29-year-old from […]
APPT9 Manila: From 175 down to 23, Finkenrath is lone “millionaire”
CITY OF DREAMS Manila, Philippines After more than twelve straight hours of gruelling action on the felt, 23 of the 175 that started Day 2 made it through to the finale in the Main Event of the ninth staging of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Manila here. With Bryan Huang, Vivian Im and Celina […]
APPT9 Manila Main Event in Figures
585 entrees: A massive 325 Day 1B entries combined with Day 1A’s participants of 260 to bring the grand total of runners to a collosal 585. This is the biggest field in Philippine history for major events with a buy-in of US$1,000 and above. PhP 6,016,250: The eventual champion will be pocketing about PhP6M (approx.US$133,000) which […]
APPT9 Manila: New Philippine record set as 585 join Main Event
By: KomishAirms CITY OF DREAMS Manila, Philippines Records were meant to be broken. The ninth staging of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Main Event easily set a new mark which could be difficult to topple as Day 1B saw an avalanche of players. A massive 325 Day 1B entries combined with Day 1A’s participants […]
APPT9 Manila: 260 participants in Day1A of the Main Event
By KomishAirms CITY OF DREAMS Manila, Philippines A whopping 260 total participants packed Day 1A of the PhP50,000 (approx. US$1,100) Main Event of the ninth staging of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Manila here making this among the biggest starting fields in this country’s poker history. “This is an impressive showing,” said Fred Leung, […]
APPT9 Manila: Chen Ching Wei cops 6-Max title, Mega Satellite field hits 133
City of Dreams – Manila By KomishAirms Chinese Taipei scored their second crown of the competition as Chen Ching Wei snared the first major title of his poker career in his conquest of the PhP25,000 6-Max NLHE event even as the Mega Satellite to the Main Event drew a whopping 133 runners at Day 7 […]