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

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA, August 1, 2025 – Welcome to the APT Incheon 2025, with the Asian Poker Tour returning to the bustling transport hub for the sixth time in tour history after a two-year hiatus.

Hosted in partnership with Paradise Group and running August 1 to 10 at the palatial Paradise City art-tainment casino resort, the festival features 97 events (including satellites) packed into a 10-day schedule with the series boasting over KRW 3.4 billion (~USD 2.4 million) in prize pool guarantees.

As always, the highlight of the festival will be the flagship KRW 2.5M (~USD 1,800) Main Event which comes with a sizable KRW 1.5 billion (~USD 1 million) guarantee and kicks off on Sunday, August 3 until Saturday, August 9.

The tour’s two other signature tournaments — the KRW 15M (~USD 10,770) APT Super High Roller and the KRW 5M (~USD 3,590) APT High Roller — both boast nine figure (six in USD) prize pool guarantees.

In addition to the mouth-watering guarantees, the series also offers players a chance to claim a seat to the APT’s largest-ever guaranteed tournament series running November 14-30, 2025 – the Asian Poker Tour Championship (APTC).

There are seven seats in total up for grabs, with the top three places in the Main Event, as well as the champions of the APT Super High Roller, the APT High Roller, the Superstar Challenge, and the Zodiac Classic – Sponsored by Natural8 all receiving a ticket to the USD 5 million guaranteed APT Championship Main Event valued at USD 10,000.

As well as offering players the biggest tournament guarantees on the Asian continent, Asia’s premier poker tour have teamed up with Brazilian playing card manufacturer COPAG to provide players with the ultimate topflight tournament experience.

Renowned for their high-quality playing cards and with 117 years of history and global recognition for quality, COPAG is now the official playing card supplier for the 2025 season of the Asian Poker Tour.

Live blog coverage for the festival will begin on Saturday, August 1 covering the high stakes action in Day 1 of the APT Super High Roller and the thrilling conclusion of the Final Day of the Korea National Cup – you can read about the highlights of the three opening flights of this event further below.

The festival live stream can be viewed on the official APT YouTube channel, with the action getting underway with exclusive coverage of the Final Day of the APT Super High Roller at 11:15am on Sunday August 3.

In addition to the guaranteed marquee events, the series boasts daily High Roller tournaments and Woman’s Events, plus an eclectic selection of mixed games and assorted poker variants. Highlights include:

KEY EVENTS *

• Korea National Cup (KRW 100M/~USD 71K GTD): Aug 1-2 – KRW 700K (~USD 500) buy-in
• Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8 (KRW 200M/~USD 143K GTD): Aug 2-3 – KRW 900K (~USD 650) buy-in
• APT Super High Roller (KRW 500M/~USD 358K GTD): Aug 2-3 – KRW 15M (~USD 10,770) buy-in
• Sunday Super Stack: Aug 3 – KRW 500K (~USD 360) buy-in
• Superstar Challenge: Aug 4-5 – KRW 35M (~USD 25K) buy-in
• Main Event (KRW 1.5B/~USD 1M GTD): Aug 3-9 – KRW 2.5M (~USD 1,780) buy-in
• Zodiac Classic – Sponsored by Natural8 (KRW 250M/~USD 179K GTD): Aug 7-8 – KRW 3M (~USD 2,150) buy-in
• Mini Main Event (KRW 200M/~USD 143K) GTD: Aug 8-9 – KRW 900K (~USD 650) buy-in
• Baby Superstar Challenge: Aug 8 – KRW 10M (~USD 7,180) buy-in
• **APT High Roller **(KRW 500M/~USD 287K GTD): Aug 9-10 – KRW 5M (~USD 3,590) buy-in
• Double Stack (KRW 150M/~USD 107K GTD): Aug 9-10 – KRW 700K (~USD 500) buy-in
• Micro Main Event: Aug 10 – KRW 400K (~USD 290) buy-in

*All buy-ins in KRW, USD is for reference only

Korea National Cup Sets New Tour Country Record

Austria’s Min Sung Lee leads the APT’s largest-ever Korean-based opening event

The opening event of the APT’s sixth Incheon-based festival has gotten the tournament action off to the best of starts with the KRW 700,000 (~USD 500) Korea National Cup setting a new tour country record for both entries and prize pool over the three opening flights.

The KRW 100 million (~USD 71,000) guarantee was easily surpassed on the opening Flight A, which got underway at 11am local time (KST) and attracted 260 entries.

Flight B drew a further 277 entries, with the Turbo Flight C pulling in an additional 170 entries to bring the total number of entries up to 707 (461 unique), surpassing the tour record for the APT’s largest Korean-based opening event set during the APT Jeju 2024.

This generated a hefty KRW 408,304,378 (~USD 293,112) prize pool, making it the richest ever Korean-based opening event in tour history, and the fourth-richest opening event the APT has ever run, with the eventual champion walking away with a sizable KRW 78,084,378 (~USD 56,055) top prize.

With only the top 14 percent of each flight making the Final Day, competition for a place in the paying positions was fiercely contested.

A total of 100 players fought their way through, guaranteeing themselves a payday of at least KRW 1,110,000 (~USD 800).

For APT National Cup Prize Pool & Payouts please CLICK HERE

Flight A got the festival action underway at 11am local time with the action playing out over eighteen 25-minute levels.

It was Austria’s Min Sung Lee topping the chip counts of the opening flight, bagging up a stack of 605,000; Lee was the only player from all three flights to finish with a stack of over 600,000.

Japan’s Youji Lee concluded the action second in the Flight A pecking order with a stack of 515,000, with New Zealand’s Tae Hoon Han rounding out the top three with a stack of 448,000, with a total of 37 players fighting their way through to the Final Day and a place in the paying positions.

All tournament information can be found on the Korea National Cup - Flight A tournament page.

Japan’s Taisei Ueda bagged the biggest Flight B stack in the Korea National Cup

A further 39 players made it through from Flight B, with Japan’s Taisei Ueda leading the second of the three starting flights, concluding the twenty-one 20-minute levels played with a stack of 522,000, which puts him second in the overall counts coming into the Final Day.

Compatriot Kobayashi Shuhei bagged the second largest Flight B stack of 511,000, with Russia’s Gleb Ershov rounding out the top three Flight B stacks with 484,000 in chips.

All tournament information can be found on the Korea National Cup - Flight B tournament page.

China’s Hao Chen topped the Turbo Flight C chip counts

Just 24 of the 170 Turbo Flight C entries were able to circumnavigate the tournament minefield and find a chip bag at the end of the evening’s play.

It was Hao Chen closing out the twenty-one 15-minute levels played with a stack of 510,000 and the Chinese player will be returning for the Final Day third in the overall chip counts.

Hao was the only Flight C player to crack the half a million chip barrier, with fellow countryman Xiaohui Wang finishing the action some way behind on a stack of 425,000, with Japan’s Kyota Henzan (336,000) rounding out the top three stacks of the final flight.

KOREA NATIONAL CUP FINAL DAY TOP TEN STACKS

For Korea National Cup Flight A Player List please CLICK HERE

For Korea National Cup Flight A Survivors please CLICK HERE

For Korea National Cup Flight B Player List please CLICK HERE

For Korea National Cup Flight B Survivors please CLICK HERE

For Korea National Cup Flight C Player List please CLICK HERE

For Korea National Cup Flight C Survivors please CLICK HERE

For Korea National Cup Final Day Draw please CLICK HERE

The Final Day gets underway at 11:15am local time on Saturday, August 2 with the 100 survivors returning to play down to a champion. Live coverage will be available on the APT Blog.