APT MANILA CLASSIC 2025 SCHEDULE| OFFICIAL RESULTS | PLAYER LISTS | IMAGES | WINNERS

MANILA, PHILIPPINES, February 13, 2025 — The APT’s largest ever Philippines-based Main Event has reached the business end of the tournament, with the 1,202-strong field whittled down to the final 48 players.

Playing out in the Grand Ballroom of the prestigious Crowne Plaza Galleria and run in partnership with the Metro Card Club, the Day 3 action began with the 175 returning Main Event players already in the money, guaranteed at least a PHP 94,000 (~USD 1,615) slice of the PHP 62,311,680 (~USD 1,070,650) prize pool.

Play recommenced at level 18 with blinds of 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 big blind ante, with the action playing out over six one-hour levels, with the elimination of Japan’s **Senan Inoue** at the hands of Hong Kong’s **Jie Zhang** concluding the day’s play.

Inoue hit the rail in 49th place for PHP 190,000 (~USD 3,265)—which is also what the next nine bust outs will receive—while Zhang rocketed into the end of day lead, sitting atop the summit of the leaderboard with 3,930,000 in chips with which to make his play for his maiden APT tournament title, the PHP 11,069,680 (~USD 190,200) top prize and APT Championship (APTC) ticket to the tour’s TWD 165 million guaranteed end-of-year poker extravaganza ¬– valued at TWD 350,000 (~USD 10,700).

Zhang is the only player sitting on over 3 million in chips, with the next closest competitor being Russia’s Alexander Ugay (2,335,000), with Austrian high roller Samuel Mullur (2,065,000) rounding out the top three stacks.

The rest of the field all sit below the 2 million chip mark, with other notables to bag a top ten stack including start-of-day chip leader Po-Shuo Huang (1,755,000), and OnLive Day 3 qualifier Rishi Mehra (1,465,000), with the top ten stacks as follows:

MAIN EVENT DAY 3 TOP TEN STACKS

Flight B frontrunner Lars Kamphues (1,200,000) made it through to Day 4. However, both Flight C frontrunner Matthias Lipp (51st for PHP 190,000), and Flight A frontrunner Tomoki Terashima (109th for PHP 119,000) were unable to make the penultimate day.

Of the seven returning female players who started Day 3 it was Vietnamese poker vlogger Ngoc Huyen Quach, aka “Gemmy” who continued to make the most headway, and Quach is one of just two remaining female players left in the Main Event, bagging up 665,000, with South Korean Japan permanent resident Hayama Miei aka Miyoung Cho (285,000) the other.

Beat the Pros winner Ngoc Huyen “Gemmy” Quach is making a deep Main Event run

Natural8 Ambassador Hua-Wei Lin led the charge for much of the tournament before ultimately finishing 84th, earning a well-deserved cash. Japan’s Seina Asagiri (139th), Thailand’s Nattamon Kaweesorasak (146th), and Wipawadee Kanaraksapong (165th), and China’s Cai Xin Wong (156th) also displayed strong performances but fell short of making it deeper into the event.

Whatever happens over the next two days, one thing is guaranteed and that is the crowning of a brand new APT Main Event champion with the field’s three remaining former Main Event winners—Moses Saquing (78th for PHP 132,000), Mike Takayama (85th for PHP 132,000), and Yohn Paredes (107th for PHP 119,000)—all unable to survive the Day 3 action.

Other notables to cash but come up short of a place on Day 4 included: the Philippines #1 ranked tournament player Marc Rivera (52nd for PHP 190,000), and compatriot David “Spade” Eruiaga (55th for PHP 190,000), APT Taipei Poker Classic 2025 Main Event runner-up Abraham Ceesvin (58th for PHP 157,000), Australia’s Joshua McCully (61st for PHP 157,000), the Philippines Florencio Campomanes (66th for PHP 157,000), the Netherland’s Thijs Hilberts (68th for PHP 157,000), Germany’s Daniel Smiljkovic (71st for PHP 157,000), Malaysia’s Isaac Phua (76th for PHP 132,000), German high roller Martin Finger (82nd for PHP 132,000), and computational wizard Dominik Nitsche (143rd for PHP 106,000).

For Main Event Day 3 Player List please CLICK HERE

For Main Event Day 3 Survivors please CLICK HERE

For Main Event Day 4 Draw please CLICK HERE

The penultimate Day 4 gets underway at 11am local time (GMT+8) on Friday, February 14, where the 48 remaining players will show their love on Valentine’s Day by taking each other’s chips to secure a spot on the final table.

The action will be live streamed via the official APT YouTube channel.

You can follow all the Main Event Day 3 action as it happened via the APT Blog, or watch the action as it played out via the Main Event Day 3 live stream.

All tournament information can be found on the Main Event - Day 3 tournament page.

Philippines John Tech Hunting 13th APT Title in Record-Breaking Zodiac Classic

PHP 19.6M (~USD 338K) in the Prize Pool with PHP 4.1M (~USD 71.6K) Up Top

The PHP 100,000 (~USD 1,720) Zodiac Classic - Sponsored by Natural8 - PHP 15,000,000 GTD got underway at 3pm local time (GMT+8), drawing the second -largest field of the day, just behind the PHP 18,000 (~USD 310) Event #62: NL Hold’em Single Re-Entry which you will be able to read about in more detail in the side event press release.

A total of 228 players (165 unique) anted up the buy-in and battled at the baize over thirteen 40-minute levels, all looking to make the Final Day and earn a share of the PHP 19,699,200 (~USD 338,474) prize pool – making this both the largest and richest Zodiac Classic event ever to play out in the Philippines.

Only 72 players made the cut to compete for the PHP 4,168,200 (~USD 71,619) top prize and coveted Silver Lion silhouette trophy. The top 31 places will get paid, with a min-cash coming in at PHP 173,000 (~USD 2,970).

It is former APT Main Event and Superstar Challenge champion John Tech (338,100) who is leading the field and looking to join Joseph Cheong in the double Superstar Challenge winner’s club after the fourteen 40-min levels played out.

Thailand’s Nattawat Soontanont bagged the second largest stack of 289,000, with former APT Super High Roller champion ** Thanisorn Saelor** rounding out the top three stacks.

Two-time Main Event champion Lester Edoc is still in the mix with the fifth-largest stack of 277,000, and the UK’s Scott Margereson also featured in the top ten with 250,100 in chips.

** ZODIAC CLASSIC TOP TEN STACKS**

Other notables still in the running include Spain’s Javier Zarco (218,900), Germany’s Niko Koop (211,400), locals Marco Espela (163,900), and Kim Enriquez (162,700), Philippines National Cup champion Raju Jaruplavath (93,500), Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung (78,800), the Philippines Florencio Campomanes (78,000), German high roller Martin Finger (76,900), and several more besides.

For Zodiac Classic Prize Pool & Payouts please CLICK HERE

For Zodiac Classic Day 1 Player List please CLICK HERE

For Zodiac Classic Day 1 Survivors please CLICK HERE.

For Zodiac Classic Final Day Draw please CLICK HERE

The Final Day gets underway at 11:15am local time on Friday, February 14, with the tournament playing down to a champion.

All tournament information can be found on the Zodiac Classic - Day 1 tournament page.