APT Online Ends With Record $5.45 Million Main Event
Austria’s “Elgringo123” won $729,241 as 15 of the 20 Trophy Events set new APTO benchmarks.
- The 20 APTO Trophy Events drew 70,165 combined entries, and 15 set series records.
- The $800 Main Event attracted 7,173 entries and created APTO’s richest-ever prize pool at $5.45 million.
- Austria’s “Elgringo123” won $729,241, ahead of “PeterNeverLu” and “Y Simanchuk.”
- The $80 Mini Main Event led the festival in entries with a four-year APTO record of 19,229.
- The series offered $40 million in guarantees, up 60% from the prior year’s schedule.
Asian Poker Tour Online finished Nov. 2 with 70,165 entries across its 20 Trophy Events, while 15 of those tournaments set new APTO records. The more-than-three-week Natural8 festival ended with its $800 Main Event becoming the richest tournament in the online series’ history.
The Main Event drew 7,173 entries across 40 Day 1 flights, up 26.2% from a year earlier. Its $5.45 million prize pool cleared the $5 million guarantee, and Austria’s “Elgringo123” won $729,241, the largest first-place payout awarded in an APTO event.
Laos’ “PeterNeverLu” finished second for $562,166, while Belarus’ “Y Simanchuk” took third and $433,512. The 2025 Main Event had attracted 5,680 entries and created a $4.32 million prize pool.
As we covered in October, the Oct. 11-Nov. 2 festival had been built around $40 million in guarantees, a 60% increase from the prior year’s $25 million schedule. The Asian Poker Tour and Natural8 organized the series, which offered Trophy Event buy-ins from $56 to $5,000.
The Mini Main Event drew 19,229 entries across 38 Day 1 flights, the largest field in the tournament’s four-year history. The $80 event, whose buy-in had been reduced from $100, created a $1.42 million prize pool against a $1 million guarantee and surpassed its 2025 field of 15,150 entries by 26.92%.
Belarusian Dmitry Chertkov won the Mini Main Event for $169,487 after beating Taiwan’s “Paul8151” heads-up.
Other late-series records included the Korea National Cup, which moved to a bounty format and drew 2,063 entries, 31.82% more than the previous year. The Sunday Super Stack attracted 2,471 entries and generated a record $568,330 prize pool, with turnout up 14.88% year over year.
After 14 Trophy Events, 11 had already set new benchmarks, including each of Events No. 11 through No. 14. Three of the final four events also established APTO milestones, taking the final record total to 15. Each Trophy Event winner received a $10,000 seat in the APT Championship Main Event in Taipei.
