Super High Roller Championship Generates Richest APT Non-Main Prize Pool of All Time; Roman Hrabec Leads Final Six
Wei Kai Lin Claims Maiden APT Title and Career-Best Score in Inaugural Mixed Game Championship
APT Women’s Championship – Sponsored by LIPS Makes Poker History as Asia’s Largest USD 1K Women’s Event; Rosalie Petit Wins
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN, November 22, 2025 – Day 9 of the APT Championship 2025 witnessed the taming of the seventh APT Championship Event Lion Trophy, and more record-breaking action as the 17-day festival comes to the boil.
Run in partnership with the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Club (CTP), and playing out at the tournament tables of the cavernous Red Space 多元商務空間, Saturday saw four of the festival’s 20 scheduled Championship Events in action, one of which crowned a champion, the other three of which were record-breakers.
Day 2 of the Super High Roller Championship saw registration close and the tournament officially break the APT record for a USD 25,000 buy-in event, in addition to generating the tour’s richest ever non-Main Event prize pool.
There was also the Final Day of the tour’s richest-ever mixed game, with the Mixed Game Championship crowning the tour’s inaugural Mixed Game Championship titleist.
Then there was the APT Women’s Championship – Sponsored by LIPS; in addition to setting a new tour prize pool record for a women’s event, the 119-entry tournament is the largest USD 1K women's event in Asian poker history and, outside of Las Vegas, cracks the top 5 all-time list globally.
New Zealand’s Jon Rounce-Sue Claims Maiden APT Title & Career-Best Score in Natural8 Cup Championship
Jon Rounce-Sue shows his winning Natural8 Cup Championship hand
After four gruelling days of tournament poker action, the inaugural 490-entry TWD 93,000 (~USD 3,000) [Event 6] Natural8 Cup Championship Freezeout saw the final nine players return to battle it out for the title, the exclusive Pewter Lion APT Championship Trophy, and the lion’s share of the TWD 39,372,480 (~USD 1,270,080) prize pool.
The eighth largest field of the festival so far, the inaugural edition of the tournament generated the seventh largest prize pool and awarded the fifth richest first place prize – in addition to a TWD 311,000 (USD 10,000) APT Championship Main Event seat.
It was New Zealand’s Jon Rounce-Sue who tamed the seventh APT Championship Event Lion Trophy of the series, defeating start-of-day chip leader Rob Hollink of the Netherlands to take the TWD 7,538,480 (~USD 243,180) top prize and Main Event seat, claiming a career-best score and his maiden APT title in the process.
It was Hollink who brought the chip lead into heads-up, coming into the match with a slight three big blind advantage, but Rounce-Sue dialed up the aggression to win the first three hands and edge in front.
Hollink and Rounce-Sue prepare to duke it out for the Pewter Lion APT Championship Trophy
While Hollink won the fourth hand, it was all over on the fifth with both players getting dealt pocket pairs and getting all the chips in pre-flop.
Unfortunately for Hollink, Rounce-Sue held the bigger pair, improving to a full house on the turn to claim his maiden APT title and a career-best score.
“I thought there was going to be a lot of gameplay because my opponent is very aggressive and a very tough player. I was just very lucky to get a call with tens versus sevens at fifty big blinds, it was standard poker that went my way,” a self-deprecating Rounce-Sue stated following his victory.
This was Rounce-Sue’s second Championship Event final table of the series, and the New Zealander went two places better than his third place finish in the PLO Championship just two days prior.
Rounce-Sue will definitely be playing in third Championship Event, having claimed his seat to the Main Event with his win, and is looking forward to it.
“Yeah, I’ve played a few 10Ks here and there, it should be a good field. I came to play the Main Event, and this was just a side event that I’m lucky I won.”
He added, “I’m really looking forward to the Main Event. It should be a good mix of players, a big field, and a lot of fun.”
Hollink, who has already bagged a title and made a further two final table appearances and a tenth place cash this festival, added a further TWD 4,749,900 (~USD 153,220) to his over USD 4.2 million in career cashes.
In addition to Rounce-Sue, third place finisher Bawoo Yun of the USA was another who cashed for a career-best score, as did Japan’s Hajime Watanabe (4th), and South Korea’s Chang Seog Chae (5th).
Former Main Event champion Christopher Mateo (7th) could not manage an eighth APT title, and a second career APT title proved elusive for Natural8 Ambassador Kitty Kuo (8th). Former APT Super High Roller champion Julian Warhurst (9th) was another of the finalists unable to repeat chance.
BACK (L-R): Christopher Mateo, Jon Rounce-Sue, Bawoo Yun, Hajime Watanabe, Chang Seog Chae.
FRONT (L-R): Adrian State, Kitty Kuo, Julian Warhurst, Rob Hollink
NATURAL8 CUP CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL TABLE RESULTS
For Natural8 Cup Championship Results please CLICK HERE
For Natural8 Cup Championship Final Table Draw please CLICK HERE
All tournament information can be found on the Natural8 Cup Championship Final Day tournament page and you can follow all the action via the Natural8 Cup Championship Final Day APT Blog.
You can also watch all the action as it happened via the Natural8 Cup Championship final table live stream on the official APT YouTube channel.
Super High Roller Championship Generates Richest APT Non-Main Prize Pool of All Time; Roman Hrabec Leads Final Six
For the second day running Roman Hrabec leads APT Super High Roller Championship
Day 2 of the three-day TWD 777,000 (~USD 24,900) [Event 7] Super High Roller Championship saw the surviving 21 Day 1 players joined by a further 27 late entries to bring the total field up to 81 (56 unique).
In addition to further extending the record for the tour’s largest-ever USD 25K buy-in event which it broke on Day 1, the tournament also generated the richest non-Main Event prize pool in tour history, with a massive TWD 59,519,521 (~USD 1,907,680) in the purse.
Only 15 players out of the 48 who remained in contention would make the paying positions and earn a min-cash of at least 1,136,800 (~USD 36,435).
For Super High Roller Championship Prize Pool & Payouts please CLICK HERE
Some of the fresh faces included high stakes tournament specialist Steve O’Dwyer, computational wizard Dominik Nitsche, and US professional Jason Mo, none of whom would make the money – with the latter exiting on the money bubble at the hands of Roman Hrabec on the fifth 60-minute level played.
Mo was just one of the many players to fall by the wayside, with poker hall of famer Erik Seidel, APT all time Money winner Joseph Cheong, Australia’s Michael Addamo, and Natural8 Ambassador Chih Wei Fan some of the other casualties.
The nine-handed final table was reached midway through level 18, with players opting to battle through the scheduled ten 60-minute levels to thin the field still further.
BACK (L-R): Roman Hrabec, Alex Wice, Hannes Jeschka, Axel Hallay, Biao Ding
FRONT (L-R): Manuel Fritz, Hikaru Hishinuma, Poseidon Ho, Danny Tang
While it was last woman standing Hikaru Hishinuma of Japan who came into the final table with the chip lead, for the second time in as many days it was the Czech Republic’s Hrabec who sat at the apex of the leaderboard at the conclusion of play with a stack of 6,865,000 – valued at 86 big blinds when play resumes.
Just six players remain in the running for the first of the festival’s three exclusive Rose Gold Lion APT Championship Trophies and Main Event seat, with APT Taipei High Roller runner up Alexander Wice (5,330,000), and France’s Axel Hallay (2,690,000) rounding out the top three.
Bracelet winner and APT Superstar Challenge champion Danny Tang (2,545,000) is also still in the running, as are Hishinuma, and Austria’s Manuel Fritz, although the latter will be returning as the short stack.
SHR CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL TABLE STACKS
For Super High Roller Championship Day 2 Player List please CLICK HERE
For Super High Roller Championship Final Table Draw please CLICK HERE
For Super High Roller Championship Results please CLICK HERE
Notables to cash but come up short of the Final Day included China All-Time Money List #2 Bao Ding (7th for TWD 2,516,400), Australia’s Alexander Lynskey (11th for TWD 1,539,400), the USA’s Dylan Linde (12th for TWD 1,302,600), two-time APT Main Event champion Lester Edoc (13th for TWD 1,302,600), and five-time bracelet winner John Juanda (15th for TWD 1,136,800).
All tournament information can be found on the Super High Roller Championship Day 2 tournament page and you can follow all the action via the Super High Roller Championship Day 2 APT Blog.
The Final Day plays out on Sunday, November 23 with a slightly pushed back start time of 11:30am (TST), with a live stream available on the official APT YouTube channel on a 30-minute delay.
Wei Kai Lin Claims Maiden APT Title and Career-Best Score in Inaugural Mixed Game Championship
Wei Kai Lin made his maiden APT title victory one to remember on the tour’s biggest stage
Just 19 players out of a field of 65 entries returned for the Final Day of the TWD 70,000 (~USD 2,245) [Event 8] Mixed Game Championship - 9 Game all looking to earn a share of the APT’s richest mixed game prize pool of TWD 3,931,200 (~USD 126,810).
However, with only the top nine places paying out, over 50 percent of the field would be departing empty handed.
Start-of-day chip leader Jeffrey Lo was unable to convert his big stack into a cash finish, with the Hong Kong player departing two spots shy of the money.
Ten-time APT mixed game champion Mark Furniss came close, with the Australian’s tenth place exit guaranteeing the rest of the remaining players a TWD 117,900 (~USD 3,780) pay day.
It was Taiwan’s Wei Kai Lin who brought a chip lead he would not relinquish into the final table, showing off his mixed game nous over all nine poker variants on offer to close out the win and claim a career-best TWD 1,146,000 (~USD 36,730) top prize, as well as his maiden APT title and the Pewter Lion APT Championship Trophy.
While Lin was in command for the majority of the final table, eventual runner-up Alex Tchong of Australia did not make it easy for him, battling back from elimination on five separate occasions before finally settling for the TWD 825,600 (~USD 26,460) on offer for second.
Compatriot Matthew Ginn rounded out the last of the podium places, earning TWD 536,600 (~USD 17,200) for third place, with the tournament paying out as follows:
BACK (L-R): Liam Jehu, Wei Kai Lin, Alex Tchong, Yuichi Kanai.
FRONT (L-R): Matthew Ginn, Hal Rotholz, Chung Ching Cheung.
MIXED GAME CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL TABLE RESULTS
For Mixed Game Championship Final Day Draw please CLICK HERE
For Mixed Game Championship Results please CLICK HERE
All tournament information can be found on the Mixed Game Championship Final Day tournament page and you can follow all the action via the Mixed Game Championship Final Day APT Blog.
APT Women’s Championship – Sponsored by LIPS Makes Poker History as Asia’s Largest USD 1K Women’s Event; Rosalie Petit Wins
France's Rosalie Petit claimed her maiden APT title in the tour’s richest women’s event
The last of the record-breaking events of the evening to play out saw 48 players return to fight it out at the felt for the Final Day of the TWD 35,000 (~USD 1,120) [Event 9] APT Women’s Championship – Sponsored by LIPS.
At 119 entries, the APT Women's Championship is the largest USD 1K women's event in Asian poker history and, outside of Las Vegas, cracks the top 5 all-time list globally.
Only 17 of the returning plates would make the paying positions, with the action restarting on level 14 with two-time titlist Ohta Ami coming back in pole position.
However, there was to be no third title for Ami, with the Japanese player departing shortly before the money bubble at the hands of finalist Shandy Wong.
Instead, it was French poker professional Rosalie Petit who claimed the accolades after an epic back-and-forth heads-up battle with Taiwan’s Yu Lun Huang that spanned close to two 40-minute levels.
Petit came into the match with a slight six big blind lead which she further extended, before Huang battled back to edge in front. The two players then agreed to an ICM chop, leaving TWD 29,360 (~USD 940) and the trophy to play for.
Huang and Petit share a fist bump before battling for the trophy
After the deal, the cards began to go Petit’s way, putting her back in front before she flopped top set and faded Huang’s backdoor diamond draw to close out the win and etch her name in tour history.
In addition to taming the exclusive Pewter Lion APT Championship Trophy, Petit claimed a career-best TWD 760,060 (~USD 24,360) top prize and her second APT women’s event title of the festival.
Huang also earned a career-best TWD 756,900 (~USD 24,260) for her runner-up finish, as did the last of the podium place finishers Yotaka Phutiya, with the Thai player earning TWD 397,600 (~USD 12,740) for third place.
“I'm feeling amazing,” gushed Petit immediately after her win. “It's a big achievement and my biggest, nicest trophy ever. It's a lion for a lioness. It's my second trophy — I had a small one before, so now it's a family.”
Petit took the time to compliment Huang on her game, admitting that despite coming in with the chip lead, her Taiwanese opponent was no pushover.
“I had the chip lead at the final table, so it was easier, but some of the players were pretty tough. The girl I got heads-up with was not easy to play against — a very aggressive player.”
With multiple World Series cashes, along with results from over 16 different countries on her poker resume, Petit is clearly comfortable in any poker environment.
However, she also believes women’s events are important for increased female participation in the game.
“I think ladies events are important because some women prefer to play only with other women; they feel more comfortable, so it’s a good thing overall. And I like it here because there are ladies events every day,” Petit stated.
“I like the APT festival because of the stricter rules, the amazing staff, and the very respectful players here in Taiwan. I would also like to say thanks to my future husband [Dinesh Alt]— he's amazing and always surprises me. Thank you!”
And with that, Petit and her husband headed off to celebrate her victory.
BACK (L-R): Chun Jou Chao, Yotaka Phutiya, Yi-Jhen Ke, Shandy Wong, Yu Lun Huang.
FRONT (L-R): Cheng Zi Li, Rosalie Petit, Hera Kim, Tayla Pickles.
WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL TABLE RESULTS
For Women’s Championship Results please CLICK HERE For Women’s Championship Final Day Player List please CLICK HERE
Outside of the final nine, other notables to cash included APT title winner Jiyoung Kim of South Korea (10th for TWD 73,800, APT Host Hsiao Chin “Elfin” Lin (13th for TWD 64,800), and Taiwanese three-time APT finalist Yu Han Su (14th for TWD 59,400), and two-time APT finalist Wing Yin Lee (16th for TWD 56,500).
All tournament information can be found on the Women’s Championship Final Day tournament page and you can follow all the action via the Women’s Championship Final Day APT Blog.