Asian Poker Tour – Wikipedia

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) was based in 2008. Up to now, the APT has staged greater than 80 main occasions and quite a few smaller tournaments primarily within the Asia-Pacific Area. The tour has stopped at Philippines, Macau, South Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Australia, London, New Caledonia and Cambodia. APT occasions mixed have generated over USD 30 Million in prize cash all awarded to gamers.

Historical past and Tournaments[edit]

2008[edit]

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) was acquired by AsianLogic ^[1] (AIM:ALOG) in early 2008. APT held its first event in Might 2008 in Manila, Philippines.

2009[edit]

2010[edit]

In yr 2010, the APT started its partnership with Resorts World Manila (RWM) which lasts till in the present day. APT held a few of its greatest occasions in RWM together with the Guinness World Information Longest Steady Poker Event,^[4] the APT-RWM Iron Man Poker Problem,^[5] held in 2013.

2011[edit]

The APT started the yr with its new occasion format dubbed the APT Asian Collection. This occasion options the identical sort of tournaments the APT is understood for however at a a lot decrease purchase in.

2012[edit]

The APT launched the APT Participant of the Yr (APT POY) loyalty program in yr 2012 whereby gamers’ efficiency is measured all through a yr. The APT POY receives $8,000 value of APT and APT Asian Collection Primary Occasion buy-ins at an occasion of his/her selection amongst different perks, whereas 2nd and Third-place winners obtain 1 APT Primary Occasion seat (worth as much as $2,700) and 1 APT Asian Collection Primary Occasion seat (worth as much as $1,100) respectively. English poker professional Sam Razavi gained the primary APT POY title and bagged the award for the following three consecutive years.

2013[edit]

In yr 2013, the APT in partnership with Resorts World Manila made an try to interrupt the Guinness World Information Longest Steady Poker Event ^[4] which turned out to be successful. Shattering the earlier file of 36 hours, 34 minutes and 41 seconds set in Delaware, USA. in August 2012, the APT-RWM Iron Man Poker Problem set a brand new world file of 48 hours, 55 minutes and 58.5 seconds in December 2013.

2014[edit]

2014 was a season when the tour went “high quality over amount”. APT Event Director Lloyd Fontillas known as 2014 a constructing yr for staging fewer occasions, with far more high quality in getting nice participant numbers.^[8]

2015[edit]

In 2015, the APT elevated the APT POY prize from $8,000 to $10,000 value of APT and APT Asian Collection Primary Occasion buy-ins. Sam Razavi earned the APT POY title for the fourth consecutive yr bestowing him the title APT Quadruple Participant of the Yr.^[9]

The APT additionally opened its personal poker site in Manila in February 2015 the place two of the tour’s occasions had been held on that yr, together with the year-ender occasion.

2016[edit]

2016 is APT’s busiest yr so far with 14 APT occasions and 1 APT-accredited occasion staged in a yr. At first of the yr, APT began providing the APT Primary Occasion Bubble Safety which insured the gamers availing it by giving again the Primary Occasion buy-in within the type of APT event credit when the insured participant busts out on the bubble. To avail of the bubble safety, gamers should pre-register for the Primary Occasion, draw for a seat earlier than beginning time, and have his/her chips put into play on the primary deal of stage .

Adjustments within the winnings distribution of the APT Participant of the Yr (APT POY) has additionally been made. The second and third place awards have been eradicated and $2,000 value of APT prizes had been awarded to every APT POY chief from the Philippines, Japan, Korea, China, and one for the highest nationality exterior of these nations talked about. The general APT POY 2016 nonetheless acquired $10,000 value of APT prizes. A complete of $20,000 value of APT prizes has been awarded for the APT POY 2016 race.

This was additionally the yr when Sam Razavi was dethroned by Japan’s Iori Yogo after 4 years of APT POY reign.

2017[edit]

The APT Participant of the Collection (APT POS) has been launched by the APT in its tournaments in 2017. It’s a cumulative measure of participant’s efficiency all through a full sequence. The APT POS awarded the first, 2nd and Third-place winners.

The final APT POY, Japan’s Tetsuya Tsuchikawa, has been awarded because the season got here to an finish. The APT POY has been eradicated the next yr to offer strategy to extra prizes for the APT Participant of the Collection.

2018[edit]

Beginning yr 2018, the APT POY has been eradicated, and money prizes have been added to the APT POS. On high of the prizes acquired by the APT POS, the winner can also be awarded with $800 in money, whereas the 2nd and Third-place winners acquired $100 in money every as further prizes.^[10]

APT Participant of the Collection^[10][edit]

The APT Participant of the Collection (APT POS) is the participant loyalty program of APT to offer award and recognition to its gamers who confirmed exemplary efficiency as measured all through a full sequence. The APT POS has been launched within the yr 2017, and money prizes have been added in 2018.

The prizes acquired by the APT POS are:

1st place – Unique Luxurious Watch, Custom-made Ring, Trophy, and $800 in money

2nd and Third locations – Trophy and $100 in money

Components for APT POS & APT POY = # of Factors for Cashing primarily based on Occasion Class + (Addend x 10)

Pattern Computation:

Lloyd enters the Primary Occasion that has a buy-in of US$1,000 (price not included) and finishes fifth place incomes him US$14,200.

Lloyd’s factors towards APT POY and APT POS is 242

Components: 100 factors for cashing in a Class A occasion + 14.2 Addend (US$14,200 prize cash / US$1,000 buy-in) x 10 = 242 Factors

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