• Vietnam’s Nguyen Quang Minh Wins APT Super High Roller & APTC Main Event Seat

• South Korea’s Jung Sangjun Solves Record-Breaking Mystery Bounty Hunter for Career High Score

• Japan’s Taiga Tanida Wins Tour’s Richest Sunday Super Stack for TWD 1.9M (~USD 60K)

APT TAIPEI 2025 SCHEDULE | OFFICIAL RESULTS | PLAYER LISTS | IMAGES | WINNERS

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, April 27, 2025 – While Sunday is traditionally a day of rest, for poker enthusiasts its a day for action.

The third day of the APT Taipei 2025 festival, playing out at the tournament tables of the brand-new Red Space 多元商務空間 and run in partnership with the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Club (CTP), saw 16 tournaments running over the course of the day, which attracted a combined total of over 2,300 entries.

In addition to heralding the arrival of the TWD 55,000 Main Event and its juicy TWD 70 million (~USD 2.1M) prize pool guarantee, highlights of the day included the record-breaking Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8 and the tour’s richest-ever Sunday Super Stack playing down to exhilarating conclusions.

The first of the festival’s signature lion trophies has also been awarded, with Vietnam’s Nguyen Quang Minh claiming the Pewter Lion APT Super High Roller trophy and a career-best score.

Main Event

It was the TWD 55,000 (~USD 1,700) Main Event that proved to be the most popular draw of the day with the action in the opening Flight A getting underway at 11am local time (GMT+8) and drawing an initial 541 entries.

With 530 OnLive qualifiers having already successfully fought their way through on Natural8, that brings the total field up to 1,071 entries in total, with three live starting flights left to play out over the next two days.

By the time the tournament clock ticked into the red at the end of the ten 60-minute levels played, just 203 players were left to bag up their chips.

It was Taiwan’s Wu Chun Yu who summited the tournament leaderboard to finish atop the chip counts, concluding the action with a stack of 469,200.

Yu was the only player to crack the 400K milestone, with Hong Kong’s Nicholas Go bagging the second largest stack of 338,900.

Taiwan’s Sing Wen Chen (330,000) rounded out the top three Flight A stacks, with the top ten as follows:

FLIGHT A TOP TEN STACKS

Several former signature trophy champions successfully fought their way through:

Taipei Poker Classic Main Event champion Rene von Reden (245,900), Taipei Poker Classic Super High Roller champion Phanlert Sukonthachartnant (170,800), Manila Classic Main Event champion Daniel Lee (146,000), two-time Main event champion Lester Edoc (138,000), Taipei Poker Classic APT High Roller champion Martin Sedlak (103,800), Summer Series Da Nang APT Super High Roller champion Julian Warhurst (93,800), and Taipei 2023 APT Super High Roller champion Sam Lam (78,300) all found a chip bag at the end of the evening.

Other notables to make the cut included the USA’s Peter Kiem (225,500), APT Super High Roller finalist Jhon Hendri (176,500), the Netherland’s Tom Verbruggen (137,300), the USA’s Benjamin Jacobs (133,400), former Starcraft professional Yohwan “BoxeR” Lim (113,000), and Natural8 India Ambassador Kunal Patni (102,000),

For Main Event Flight A Player List please CLICK HERE.

For Main Event Flight A Survivors please CLICK HERE.

With three more starting flights left to play out, there are still opportunities for those unsuccessful in their endeavors to win their way through. Flight B gets underway at 11am on Monday, April 28, with players competing over six 45-minute levels and four 60-minute levels.

The final two starting Flights C & D—both boasting six 30-minute levels and four 45-minute levels each—get underway on Tuesday, April 29, at 11am and 6pm respectively local time, although late registration remains open until the start of Day 2, which kicks off at 11:15am on Wednesday, April 30.

You can follow all the action via the APT Blog.

All tournament information can be found on the Main Event Flight A tournament page.

Vietnam’s Nguyen Quang Minh Claims Career Best Score & APTC Main Event Seat With APT Super High Roller Victory

APT Super High Roller champion Nguyen Quang Minh

The second-richest APT Super High Roller tournament in tour history has crowned a champion.

It was Vietnam’s Nguyen Quang Minh who overcame a high-calibre field to tame the Pewter Lion APT Super High Roller trophy and claim a career-best TWD 9,230,920 (~USD 284,905) top prize, in addition to a TWD 350,000 APTC Main Event ticket.

Just 25 players out of an initial field of 122 entries returned for the Final Day of the APT Super High Roller, with APT All Time Money List #1 Joseph Cheong returning in the driving seat with the start-of-day chip lead.

With TWD 37,040,420 (~USD 1,143,223) in the prize pool and only 17 out of the returning field getting paid there was considerable competition for a place in the paying positions and it took over three 40-minute levels to burst the money bubble.

When it burst, it did so in dramatic fashion with Taiwan’s Chih Wei Fan and Malaysia’s Jeremy Chan both busting simultaneously on two separate tables to guarantee the remaining field a TWD 576,000 (~USD 17,780) pay day.

Thailand’s Thanisorn Saeler and the USA’s Stanley Weng were the only two remaining players in the field who had the opportunity to become the first to claim two APT signature lion trophies having both won the Rose Gold APT High Roller Lion trophy previously.

However, neither were able to go the distance and both came up short of making the final table; Saelor exiting in 16th place and Weng falling in 11th.

Computational wizard Dominik Nitsche exited in 10th place to set up the final nine midway through the seventh level played.

It was the USA’s Christopher Park bringing in the chip lead, holding almost double that of his next closest rival, the UK’s Matt Belcher, with Minh coming in as the second shortest stack holding just over nine big blinds.

However, Minh executed an epic comeback to go heads-up against Alexander Lynskey for the title and trophy; the decorated Australian poker professional finding himself heads-up for one of the tour’s signature lion trophies for the second time in less than six months having finished runner-up to compatriot Daniel Neilson in November’s Manila Classic APT High Roller tournament.

Minh came into the heads-up match with close to a 3-to-1 chip lead he would not relinquish, leaving Lynskey to settle for second best once again, although the Aussie will not be too disappointed with the TWD 6,237,500 (~USD 192,515) on offer for second place.

SUPER HIGH ROLLER FINAL TABLE RESULTS

*Plus an APTC Main Event ticket valued at TWD 350,000

For all APT Super High Roller Results please CLICK HERE.

You can read about all the action via the APT Blog or watch it as it played out via the APT Super High Roller Live Stream on the official APT YouTube channel.

All tournament information can be found on the APT Super High Roller Final Day tournament page.

South Korea’s Jung Sangjun Solves Record-Breaking Mystery Bounty Hunter for Career High Score

Mystery Bounty Hunter - Sponsored by Natural8 champion Jung Sangjun

The second of the festival's record-breaking tournaments to play down to a thrilling conclusion was the TWD 17,000 (~USD 525) Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8.

Just 242 players out of an initial field of 1,724 entries—the largest Mystery Bounty Hunter field in tour history—returned to action for the Final Day.

All survivors were already guaranteed a TWD 16,500 (~USD 510) share of the TWD 24,325,778 (~USD 750,795) prize pool—the richest this tournament has ever generated—but it was the TWD 2,742,778 (~USD 84,654) top prize that all were aiming for.

It was South Korea’s Jung Sangjun who solved the mystery of who would walk away with the largest first place prize this tournament has ever awarded, defeating Taiwan’s Tsai Yu Chun heads-up to claim his maiden APT title and a career best score.

Sangjun claimed ten scalps on his way to victory, earning a further TWD 111,000 (~USD 3,425) in bounty payouts.

Chun also earned a career best result, banking TWD 1,530,000 (~USD 47,222) for his runner-up finish, plus a further seven bounty payouts for an additional TWD 63,000 (~USD 1,945) in cash.

Taiwan’s Kaihung Hu rounded out the winner’s podium, taking TWD 1,070,000 (~USD 33,025) for third place, in addition to claiming a further nine bounties including the largest bounty on offer—a sizable TWD 2,000,000 (~USD 61,730)—to claim a further TWD 2,092,000.

While Japan’s Yuka Kakigi came up short of making a final table appearance, she did manage to draw the TWD 350,000 APTC Main Event ticket as one of her four bounties claimed.

Kakigi padded out her TWD 53,000(~USD 1,636) winnings for 32nd place with a further three bounty pulls for an additional TWD 85,000 in cash.

MYSTERY BOUNTY HUNTER FINAL TABLE RESULTS

For all Mystery Bounty Hunter Results please CLICK HERE.

All tournament information can be found on the Mystery Bounty Hunter - Final Day - Sponsored by Natural8 tournament page.

Japan’s Taiga Tanida Wins Tour’s Richest Sunday Super Stack for TWD 1.9M (~USD 60K)

The TWD 30,000 (~USD 925) Sunday Super Stack was the third of the festival’s key events to enter the APT record books.

The tournament set a new tour country record for entries and unique players after attracting a 386-strong field comprised of 326 unique entries.

This more than doubled the TWD 5 million guarantee, generating the richest Sunday Super Stack prize pool in tour history with a sizable TWD 10,005,120 (~USD 308,800) in the purse.

A record prize pool also meant a record top prize, with Japan’s Taiga Tanida claiming his maiden APT title and the largest first place prize this event has ever awarded – a hefty TWD 1,943,120 (~USD 59,973) winner’s purse.

Taiwan’s Chun Ting Chu took silver and a career-best payout of TWD 1,230,500 (~USD 37,978) for his runner-up finish, with compatriot Cheng Yi Lin also earning a career high TWD 889,500 (~USD 27,454) for third place, with the final table paying out as follows:

SUNDAY SUPER STACK FINAL TABLE RESULTS

For all Sunday Super Stack Results please CLICK HERE.

For Sunday Super Stack Player List please CLICK HERE.

All tournament information can be found on the Sunday Super Stack tournament page.