APT Philippines updates!

[danishshaikh]

The Asian Poker Tour Philippines will be held from the 19th to the 25th of April 2012 at Resorts World Manila’s Genting Club, Pasay City, Philippines with a Main Event buy in of US$ 2,700

Asian Poker Tour Philippines 2012 Event Schedule

[Poker Guru]

The Asian Poker Tour has announced a new ‘Manila Millions’ super high roller poker tournament to be held during APT Philippines at Resorts World Manila on Friday April 20, 2012. Presented jointly by APT and Resorts World Manila, the Manila Millions will be the highest buy-in tournament ever in Asia ,featuring an HKD $1 million (USD $129,000) buy-in.
They have announced in an exclusive press release on Poker Portal Asia that big names like Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan have already confirmed their attendance with many more big names to be announced soon!

[danishshaikh]

According to PokerPortalAsia.com, Asia's biggest ever Super High Roller tournament will be held during APT Philippines at Resorts World Manila on Friday April 20, 2012.

The buy-in for the event will be HKD $1 million (USD $129,000), which will make it the largest buy-in tournament ever witnessed in Asia.

Early expectations are, that there will be around 25-30 players, and Phil Ivey and Tom “durrrr” Dwan have already confirmed that they will be playing the tournament.



APT Philippines runs from April 19-25, 2012 and will be headlined by the USD $2.700 buy-in Main Event.

There will be also another Super High Roller tournament in April, since The EPT Grand Final will kick off on April 23 with a historic €100.000 buy-in Super High Roller tournament.

[Rajat]

Earthquake rated 8.7 in Indonesia with a Tsunami alert issued to 28 nations. Any travel advisory issued for Philippines?

[techdemo]

The Manila Millions Event will be streamed online with a 15 min delay on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/manilamillions

[danishshaikh]

According to PokerPortalAsia.com, the Manila Millions HKD $1 million (USD $128,000) buy-in Super High Roller event, which kicks off today, will be shown with a 15-minute delay on Ustream (www.ustream.tv/channel/manilamillions).

The Manila Millions is being held during APT Philippines 2012 and the stream will be another way for fans to catch all the action without actually being at Resorts World Manila’s Genting Club where the tournament is being held.



The buy-in of HKD $1 million (USD $129,000), will make the tournament the largest buy-in tournament ever witnessed in Asia.

So far, a total of 26 players have confirmed their participation, including Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Joe Hachem, John Juanda, Johnny Chan, Elton Tsang, Devan Tang, Anson Tsang, Winfred Yu, Tom Hall and Chris Parker.

In related news, a total of 32 players have now registered for the first ever six-figure buy-in poker tournament on European soil. The €100.000 buy-in tournament is part of the EPT Grand Final tournament schedule, which will be played in Monaco this year (starts April 23.).

[jetmukesh]

can u give exact timings IST ?

[Rajat]

The event is over. Allan Le was the winner:

Payouts:
1st Allan Le – HKD $13,080,000
2nd Devan Tang – HKD $8,175,000
3rd Sun Sheng – HKD $4,905,000
4th Richard Yong – HKD $3,597,000
5th Keith Kipson – HKD $2,943,000

[BabyShark]

This event should have been a winner take all....that would have created news.

[RUPAM]

Padron wins APT Philippines 2012 heads up event;Xiuming Huang ships the charity event

Philip Padron become the first player to win two consecutive APT titles after claiming the USD $500 APT Philippines Asian Heads Up Championship at Resorts World Manila’s Genting club on 19th April,2012 and collected USD $11,620 in prize money -making achievement. Philip Padron now holds a record for winning back-to-Bback APT Philippines titles as he won the same event in 2011.

Philip Padron

The tournament saw a field of 60 players to frame a USD $29,100 prize pool. Top 8 places were paid. Nam Le, McLean Karr, Allan Le, Jojo Allado, Daniel Chua, Czardy Rivera, Winfred Yu, SJ Kim, Sparrow Cheung, Julian Hasse, Justin Chan, Kai Paulsen and Bodog’s Jay Tan were the notable players in the tournament.

Padron went on to eliminate Daniel Francis, 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event runner-up Ken Wong, Japan’s Sekiya Yosuke, Lester Edoc and Michael Marvanek before facing Ira Blumenthal in the final best of three match. Padron lost the first out of thethree but recovered by captivating the second.

Then in the third and final round firstly he gained chip advantage against his opponent and then finally in the last hand of the tournament both the players committed their entire stack into the middle preflop. Padron’s A♠ J♥ racing against Blumenthal’s T♦ T♠. The cards went in favour of Padron as they flipped 5♦ J♣ 7♠ 7♥ Q♣ giving him two pairs and his second APT heads- up title.

The addon charity event was taken down by Xiuming Huang.

Xiuming Huang

For more details on APT Philippines 2012 and the full event schedule, click here.