APT Online Reaches $5.7 Million After Eight Trophy Events
Six completed events have set new benchmarks as the $40 million festival moves toward its Nov. 1 flagship tournaments.
- APTO’s first eight completed trophy events produced about $5.7 million in prize pools, up 6.5% from the comparable 2025 stage.
- Six of those eight events established new benchmarks, while turnout increased 2.5% year over year.
- Mystery Bounty Hunter awarded more than $2.1 million and paid winner Valen_tina over $350,000 including mystery bounties.
- The series has $40 million in guarantees across 20 trophy events and concludes Nov. 2.
Asian Poker Tour Online has completed eight trophy events with cumulative prize pools of about $5.7 million, up 6.5% from the equivalent point in 2025. Turnout is also 2.5% ahead year over year, and six of the eight finished events have set new benchmarks.
The Oct. 11-Nov. 2 festival carries $40 million in guarantees across 20 trophy events, a 60% increase on the prior edition. Buy-ins range from $56 to $5,000, while the Main Event has a $5 million guarantee.
The first four events had already brought in 8,682 entries and roughly $2.1 million in prize money, increases of 2.6% and 5.5%, respectively, over the opening stage of the 2025 series. Event #1 drew 4,226 entries and generated nearly $420,000, more than 17% above its 2025 figures, while Event #2’s 246-entry, $1.2 million result was nearly 10% higher in both entries and prize pool.
Georgia’s PostBloom won Event #1 after a heads-up deal with TheGrinder19, with both players receiving more than $20,000. Avdi_2000 took Event #2’s $205,727 first prize by defeating Viacheslav Buldygin heads-up.
The Thailand National Cup 6-Max, Event #3, drew 3,488 entries and generated a $191,212 prize pool, with both figures below the previous year’s edition. China’s Ocean Wave beat Slovakia’s LostDollarex for the $22,311 top prize. Event #4, the new Single Day High Roller-Bounty Freezeout, attracted 722 entries and produced a $361,000 prize pool; Flyby received more than $50,000 in prizes and bounties after a heads-up deal with BIROSKA.
Poker.org’s latest recap covered four further trophy winners. Event #5, the Taiwan National Cup-Bounty, introduced a bounty format to APTO for the first time. It drew 2,904 entries and generated $293,454, clearing its guarantee and surpassing the 2025 prize pool by 26.9%. China’s MoneyMaker_1999 defeated Taiwan’s xiaomoobao heads-up.
The Turbo-Ultra Stack followed with a tournament-record 3,475 entries, 28.3% more than in 2025, and a $319,700 prize pool above guarantee. Slovenia’s Renato Pozzetto beat Brazil’s Andre Figueiredo after seven hours of play.
Event #7, the $1,050 APT Online High Roller, attracted 842 entries, a 32.39% increase on the prior year’s field, and awarded an $842,000 prize pool. Austria’s milka29 won the Rose Gold APTO High Roller Mega Lion trophy by defeating Cambodia’s 3k-szy2sy heads-up.
Mystery Bounty Hunter, Event #8, brought the largest field of the latest four events with 9,321 entries. It was one of the few events not to establish a new turnout record, but its $2.1 million prize pool beat the $2 million guarantee and was 12.1% above 2025. The UAE’s Valen_tina earned $156,442 for first place plus $200,410 in mystery bounties, taking the total payout above $350,000.
Each trophy-event winner receives a seat in the APT Championship Main Event Freezeout in Taipei, Taiwan, scheduled for Nov. 23-27. The online festival’s $5 million guaranteed Main Event and $1 million guaranteed Super High Roller are set to run simultaneously on Nov. 1.
