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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 .
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 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 is the largest poker tournament in Asia.
Tournament results
All prizes are listed in US dollars.
Season 1
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
14-26 Aug 2007
Manila
255
Brett Parise
$179,775
28-30 Sep 2007
Seoul
185
Ziv Bachar
$139,872
23 Nov 2007
Taipa
352
Dinh Doat Le
$222,640
13-16 Dec 2007
Sydney
561
Grant Levy
$875,542
Season 2
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
1 Sep 2008
Taipa
538
Eddy Sabat
$453,427
26-28 Sep 2008
Seoul
166
Yoshihiro Tasaka
$128,199
9-12 Oct 2008
Auckland
306
Daniel Craker
$169,999
13-16 Nov 2008
Manila
285
Van Marcus
$164,380
2-7 Dec 2008
Sydney
477
Martin Rowe
$631,780
Season 3
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
25-30 Aug 2009
Macau
429
Dermot Blain
$541,100
17-20 Sep 2009
Seoul
N/A
Cancelled
N/A
14 Oct 2009
Auckland
263
Simon Watt
$154,110
11-15 Nov 2009
Cebu
319
Dong-Bin Han
$157,532
1-6 Dec 2009
Sydney
396
Aaron Benton
$543,260
Season 4
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
20-25 Mar 2010
Manila
430
Binh Nguyen
$260,700
18 May 2010
Macau
342
Victorino Torres
$418,026
15-19 Sep 2010
Auckland
218
Danny Leaoasavaii
$124,363
12 Nov 2010
Cebu
Unknown
Vivian Im
$134,142
7-12 Dec 2010
Sydney
289
Jonathan Karamalikis
$454,304
Season 5
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
29 Jul-1 Aug 2011
Melbourne
260
Leo Boxell
$352,474
23-28 Aug 2011
Queenstown
127
Marcel Schreiner
$77,053
23-27 Nov 2011
Macau
575
Randy Lew
$484,617
Season 6
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
8-11 Mar 2012
Seoul
268
Andrew Kim
$129,253
25 Apr 2012
Cebu
Unknown
Hoang Do
$139,007
7-11 Nov 2012
Macau
184
Xing Zhou
$457,712
Season 7
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
14-17 Mar 2013
Seoul
222
Aaron Lim
$111,088
1–5 May 2013
Cebu
158
Jae Kyung Sim
$95,487
12-16 Jun 2013
Macau
388
Alexandre Chieng
$278,926
30 Jul-4 Aug 2013
Queenstown
Unknown
Jonathan Bredin
$75,469
5-9 Sep 2013
Melbourne
309
Billy Argyros
$121,264
28 Oct-2 Nov 2013
Macau
203
Sunny Jung
$561,228
Season 8
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
2-9 Feb 2014
Melbourne
668
Amichai Barer
$121,264
3–6 April 2014
Seoul
256
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn
$141,719
21–25 May 2014
Macau
494
Jiajun Liu
$358,078
4-7 Jul 2014
Manila
260
Thanh Duong
$79,562
18-27 Jul 2014
Beijing
2,732
Qin Chen
$109,411
4 Nov 2014
Macau
291
Gabriel Le Jossec
$812,361
19-23 Nov 2014
Auckland
225
Minh Hau Nguyen
$88,608
26-30 Nov 2014
Wuhan
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
17-21 Dec 2014
Beijing
346
Yang Zhang
$101,683
Season 9
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
25 Jan-1 Feb 2015
Melbourne
648
Manny Stavropoulos
$1,094,737
7-13 Mar 2015
Macau
987
Yuguang Li
$238,230
19-23 Mar 2015
Sydney
445
Dimitrios Psaros
$139,784
9-12 Apr 2015
Seoul
241
Jason Mo
$151,333
27–31 May 2015
Macau
493
Yat Cheng
$325,699
6-9 Aug 2015
Manila
585
Aaron Lim
$131,780
9-14 Nov 2015
Macau
260
Jimmy Zhou
$759,190
Season 10
Date
City
Entires
Winner
Prize
14-18 Jan 2016
Macau
2343
Yifan Zheng
$117,390
24-31 Jan 2016
Melbourne
732
Alan Engel
$1,120,110
28 Feb-4 Mar 2016
Macau
1075
Ying Lin Chua
$244,842
3-8 May 2016
Manila
478
Tzu Chieh Lo
$50,524
18–29 May 2016
Macau
533
Jian Sun
$289,608*
23-27 Jun 2015
Seoul
158
Albert Paik
$103,019
28 Jul-8 Aug 2016
Manila
577
Linh Tran
$130,191
26 Aug-11 Sep 2016
Macau
1145
Tom Alner
$323,469
6-18 Oct 2016
Melbourne
523
Ashish Gupta
$124,191*
7-12 Nov 2016
Macau
302
Vladimir Geshkenbein
$727,483*
Winners by country
Place
Country
Times
1st
Australia
13
2nd
China
9
3rd
USA
8
4th
South Korea
4
5th
New Zealand
3
Canada
3
Vietnam
3
England
3
9th
Germany
1
Hong Kong
1
Ireland
1
Israel
1
Japan
1
Malaysia
1
Russia
1
Taiwan
1
Thailand
1
Up to Season 10 - APPT Macau
Seats at Final Tables by country
Place
Country
Times
1st
Australia
100
2nd
China
83
3rd
USA
49
4th
New Zealand
31
5th
Canada
23
6th
Japan
21
7th
England
20
8th
South Korea
19
9th
Philippines
16
10th
Hong Kong
15
11th
Taiwan
13
12th
Singapore
10
13th
Sweden
9
France
9
15th
Germany
8
16th
Malaysia
7
17th
Russia
6
18th
India
4
Norway
4
Thailand
4
21st
Denmark
3
Finland
3
Macau
3
Netherlands
3
Vietnam
3
26th
Hungary
2
Ireland
2
Israel
2
Poland
2
Spain
2
31st
Costa Rica
1
Croatia
1
Kazakhstan
1
Panama
1
Scotland
1
Slovenia
1
Switzerland
1
Up to Season 10 - APPT Macau
Top 10 Prizes
Rank
Event
Place
Name
Prize
1st
APPT8 Melbourne
1st
Amichai Barer
$1.399.739
2nd
APPT10 Melbourne
1st
Alan Engel
$1.120.110
3rd
APPT9 Melbourne
1st
Aristomenis Stavropoulos
$1.094.737*
4th
APPT9 Melbourne
2nd
Lennart Uphoff
$959.623*
5th
APPT1 Sydney
1st
Grant Levy
$875.542
6th
APPT8 Melbourne
2nd
Sorel Mizzi
$874.837
7th
APPT8 Macau
1st
Gabriel Le Jossec
$812.361
8th
APPT9 Macau
1st
Jimmy Zhou
$759.190
9th
APPT10 Macau
1st
Vladimir Geshkenbein
$727.483*
10th
APPT10 Melbourne
2nd
Tony Dunst
$700.069
Up to Season 10 - APPT Macau
See also
Notes
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