APT Taipei 2025 Main Event Headed For An Earth-Shaker; Wu Chun Yu Bags Day 1A Lead

Players continued to flood into the Asian Poker Tour - APT Taipei 2025 festival, with the Main Event and its NT$ 70,000,000 (~US$ 2.1 Million) guarantee now the centerpiece of all the action. Kicking off on April 27 at the brand new Red Space venue, Day 1A brought in 542 entries (404 uniques), setting a strong early pace for what is expected to be another record-breaker.

According to APT, another 466 qualified via Natural8 OnLive, further boosting the numbers to 1,008 entries. With three more flights still to come, just how high the final turnout will climb remains to be seen.

APT Taipei 2025 - APT Main Event

Through the years, the APT Main Event has been widely regarded as having the best structure in the region. For players that took their chances at Day 1A, the starting stack was 400x the opening blinds with increases at the slowest pace of 60 minutes. This gave players plenty of time to gauge the competition and build up.

By the end of the scheduled ten rounds, 203 players managed to avoid the rail led by Taiwan's Wu Chun Yu with a stack of 469,200 equivalent to a whopping 335 big blinds. Yu was far ahead of the pack with his closest challenger Hong Kong's Nicholas Gobagging 338,900 (242 bb). Other notables making the cut were China's biggest player Biao Ding, past APT Main Event champions Rene Alexander Von Reden, Gyeongbyeong Lee, Lester Edoc, and Zhan Shuo Guo. 

Indonesian player Jhon Hendri also found a bag, jumping in right after he finished 8th at the APT Super High Roller. To list a few more were Vietnam's #1 ranked player Dao Minh Phu, Korea's Hyun Sup Kim, and side event winners Alfie Poetra, Ryan Plant, Jun Hao Wu, and Zichuan Huang. 

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For those that fell by the wayside or have yet to join the action, the APT Main Event continues with three more entry flights running from April 28-29. And if you still need one more chance, players can sign up just before the start of Day 2. Buy-in is NT$ 55,000 (~US$ 1,700).

APT Taipei 2025 - Day 3 Winners

Despite the APT Main Event at the top of the menu, the side events still saw significant action with big winners crowned. Here are all of the day's champions.