Asian Poker Tour
This week, we bring you poker news from Asia, the emerging hotbed of poker talent. The Asian poker tour or APT has been a major poker tour in the Asia pacific region. The main aim of the tour is to promote poker by arranging poker tournaments and events in places like Macau and the Philippines. The Asian Poker Tour boasts itself as the original and biggest poker tour in Asia.
The Asian Poker Tour – How it all began
The Asian Poker Tour (APT) was founded in 2008 and since then has had a string of successful tournaments in the Asian circuit; the APT seeks to continue positioning itself as the premier poker tournament. The Asian Poker Tour brand is owned by gaming company called AsianLogic, an online and land-based gambling company which has its main focus/interest in the Asian-Pacific market. Its popularity has been growing over the years as one of the most respected poker tours. The Asian poker tour brings together one of the best and the most respected players for this competition to Asia. This poker players championship has a great reputation of drawing poker professionals from all over the world, including Singapore, Macau and Las Vegas.
The Asian poker Tour (APT) has the largest guaranteed prize pool throughout Asia. The series attracts poker players from all walks of life not only limiting it to the biggies. The players who participate in this tour contain all sorts of players, from novice to professionals, from those who relish about the fact that they will face some of the poker world’s biggest players, to those who have earned their right to be at the APT.
The Asian Poker Tour started back in 2008 with two major events at the Philippines and the other one at Macau. The former was won by an Australian player named David Saab and the latter was won by Yevgeniy Timoshenko from united States.
In 2009 the APT came back to Philippines and Macau with Neil Arce of Philippines and Adrien Allain of France winning the main event.
With the participation of Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan the 2010 APT event at Macau there was a high sense of anticipation at the event. The people had all their eyes upon the tournament as it had one of the top players participating in it. However to their dismay the APT at Macau was won by a Satellite player named Zhang dan Peng who was just 19 years old at that time and became the first Chinese player to win the APT title. He went home with US$215,000 in his pocket after defeating the poker pros. On the other hand Michael Cuba was named the second player from the Philippines to win an APT title in the other event at the Philippines.
In 2011 the APT was won by Enrique Del Prado, Jr. from the Philippines and Andreas Lindblom from Sweden.
Participate in the Asian Poker Tour (APT)
If you feel that it is there in you and you have that in you to win the APT title then all you need to do is to pay an entry fee of $2700 apart from being over 21 to play in the next event of the Asian poker Tour (APT).
