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| Sport | Texas Hold 'em |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| CEO | Danny McDonagh |
| Country | Australia China Macau New Zealand Philippines South Korea |
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.
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). With 538 entrants APPT Macau 2008 is the largest poker tournament in Asia.
All prizes are listed in US dollars.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | TBC | TBC | TBC |