• Michael Foo Wins Career-Best Score in Tours’ Largest Korean APT Super High Roller to Claim APT Championship Main Event Seat

• Hiromasa Syuto Unravels Tours’ Biggest Korean Mystery in Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8

• Hong Kong’s Ngai Kan Chau Claims Maiden Live Title for KRW 21M (~USD 15K) in Sunday Super Stack

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

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA, August 3, 2025 – Running in partnership with Paradise Group at the tournament tables of the palatial Paradise City resort the third day of the 10-day APT Incheon 2025 festival heralded the arrival of the opening Flight A of the KRW 2.5M (~USD 1,795) Main Event, which alongside its juicy KRW 1.5 billion (~USD 1 million) guarantee also awards the top three finishers a seat in the APT Championship Main Event valued at USD 10,000.

In addition to the main course, there was also plenty of side action with a further 11 tournaments running throughout the day, all of which crowned new APT champions.

The richest tournament in terms of prize money to play out was the APT Super High Roller, which saw the 23 players out of the 89 initial entries — the largest Korean-based field this tournament has ever drawn in the county — return to action to duke it out for the award-winning Pewter Lion APT Super High Roller trophy and all the accolades that come with it – more on this further down.

Then there was the exciting finale of the tours’ largest-ever Korean-based Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8, which saw 127 players from a field of 889 entries return to put their problem-solving skills to the test to determine who would claim the biggest bounty and the lion’s share of the richest prize pool this event has ever generated in the country.

And if that wasn’t enough to sate your appetite for topflight tournament action, there was also the KRW 500,000 (~USD 360) Sunday Super Stack which saw 245 entries battle at the baize for a share of the KRW 100 million (~USD 72K) prize pool.

Main Event

It was the opening Flight A of the KRW 2.5M (~USD 1,795) Main Event that garnered the most attention with the action getting underway at 11am local time (KST) drawing 250 initial entries.

With 206 OnLive qualifiers having already successfully fought their way through on Natural8, that brings the field up to 456 entries in total, with three live starting flights left to play out over the next two days.

By the time the last card came off the deck at the end of the ten 60-minute levels played, just 89 players were left to bag up their chips.

It was Taiwan’s Chi Hsiang Chiu who successfully summited the tournament leader board to bag up a chip leading stack of 540,000 with the Taiwanese player the only entrant to crack over half a million in chips, which will be worth an impressive 337 big blinds when the Day 2 action gets underway on Wednesday, August 6.

Sitting some way behind in the counts, but with over seven times the initial 40,000-chip starting stack, is Japan’s Takumi Nakayama, who concluded the action with a respectable 306,700 in chips, with compatriot Shibuya Ryohei (282,600) rounding out the top three, with the top ten stacks as follows:

MAIN EVENT FLIGHT A TOP TEN STACKS

Three-time Main Event finalist Abraham Ceesvin (157,700) made it through the Flight A action and the Singaporean player will be hoping to go one better than his runner-up finish in the APT Taipei Poker Classic 2024 and improve on his fifth-place finish here in Incheon two years ago.

Other notables to bag up chips include APT Phu Quoc High Roller champion Jason Lau (151,300), China’s Jie Zheng (149,600), Korea National Cup finalist Min Sung Lee (118,300), Vietnam’s Do Quang Trinh (102,300), APT Taipei 2025 Main Event finalist Wayne Lam (100,100), China’s Chen Hao (86,600), and Korea National Cup runner-up Ka Chuen Yip (82,200).

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 endeavours to win their way through.

Flight B gets underway at 11am on Monday, August 4, 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, August 5, at 11am and 6pm respectively local time, although late registration remains open until the start of Day 2, which kicks off at 11am on Wednesday, August 6.

You can follow all the Flight A action via the APT Blog.

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

Michael Foo Wins Career-Best Score in Tours’ Largest Korean APT Super High Roller to Claim APT Championship Main Event Seat

New Zealand’s Michael Foo is headed to Taiwan for the APT Championship Main Event after winning the Super High Roller

The largest and richest APT Super High Roller tournament ever to play out in Korea has crowned a champion, with start-of-day chip leader Michael Foo romping to victory on his Asian Poker Tour debut.

Just 23 players out of an initial field of 89 entries returned for the Final Day to compete for a share of the KRW 1,230,202,500 (~USD 883,132) prize pool — the richest this event has ever generated in the country — but with only 13 of the remaining players making the hallowed money spots, ten would be leaving with nothing but disappointment.

Three of the remaining field were looking to make APT history by becoming the first player to tame two of the tours award-winning signature lion trophies with former APT High Roller champions Stanley Weng, Thanisorn Saelor, and Quan Nguyen Trung all looking for a date with destiny.

However, there was no fairytale ending for the trio, although Saelor did squeak into the last of the paying positions after Weng departed on the money bubble at the hands of Ryuta Nakai after running pocket tens into the Japanese player’s pocket jacks after the two got all the chips in pre-flop.

Instead, it was New Zealander Micheal Foo’s time to shine with the Kiwi defeating Malaysia’s Jeremy Chan after a short nine-hand heads-up battle which Foo came into with over a 2-to-1 chip lead he would not relinquish.

Foo, who has previously won tournament titles in both Auckland and Sydney, can now add an Incheon win to his poker resume with the KRW 319,292,500 (~USD 229,210) top prize representing a career-best score, although it is the trophy more than the prize money that the Kiwi values the most.

"This means a lot," stated Foo immediately after his victory, "actually I've won tournaments already, but this is the best trophy I have ever seen, trust me, I've won tournaments in Sydney and in New Zealand as well so I'm so happy to win this. Money's not the big deal, well, it is also a deal, but the trophy is the best for me."

What makes Foo’s victory all the sweeter is the fact he did not even initially plan to play the festival, only finding out about it on a holiday trip to Incheon with friends a scant few days prior.

"I usually play high rollers but not too big, around the 100K USD kind of range. I usually travel to Korea for some holidays or entertainment sometimes so when I found out the other day that there was a tournament on in Korea I decided to come over and have a look. I thought, I can play some cards while I'm travelling. I think I will come more often in the future... especially after this!"

With an APT Championship Main Event seat valued at USD 10,000 included as part of his victory prize, Foo will definitely be returning to the APT stage to play again, and it’s something he is looking forward to.

“I actually I think a freeze out tournament is okay,” said Foo when asked about the format, “a USD five million guarantee is crazy, that’s never happened in Asia before.”

It was not just Foo who cashed for a career-best result, with the KRW 223,790,000 (~USD 160,650) runner-up prize also granting Jeremy Chan the largest cash of his playing career, although the Malaysian player was understandably disappointed to have come so close to claiming a first major title victory only to fall at the final hurdle.

Malaysia’s Ewe Eng Soon rounded out the last of the podium positions, taking KRW 147,780,000 (~USD 106,090) for his third-place finish, with the final table paying out as follows:

SUPER HIGH ROLLER FINAL TABLE RESULTS Final table front row (l-r): Nakai Ryuta, Jieming Xu, Nang Quang Nguyen, Hirokazu Kobayashi. Back row (l-r): Jeremy Chan, Ewe Eng Soon, Michael Foo, Shoichiro Hamada, Takashi Kawauchi

*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.

Hiromasa Syuto Unravels Tours’ Biggest Korean Mystery in Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8

Japan’s Hiromasa Syuto claimed a career-best score in the tour’s largest & richest Korean-based Mystery Bounty Hunter

All the record-breaking action was not exclusive to the APT Super High Roller, with the tours’ largest and richest Korean-based KRW 900,000 (~USD 650) Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8 also playing down to an exciting conclusion.

Just 127 players from a field of 889 entries came back to solve the riddle of who would claim the lion’s share of the KRW 405,384,000 (~USD 291,015) prize pool and take the largest number of scalps from the KRW 266,700,000 (~USD 191,457) bounty pool.

While start-of-day chip leader Haohui Ma maintained his dominance all the way to the nine-handed final table, it was Japan’s Hiromasa Syuto who put on his Sherlock Holmes deerstalker to solve the mystery of who would walk away with the trophy.

Following Ma’s third-place departure, Syuto and heads-up opponent Xixiang Li of China opted for an ICM chop to conclude the action, and with Syuto holding the majority of the chips this granted the Japanese player a top prize of KRW 61,024,000 (~USD 43,810) – the largest cash of his poker career to date — in addition to a further KRW 33,000,000 (~USD 23,690) in bounties after taking seven scalps on his way to the title.

Li locked up KRW 60,730,000 (~USD 43,600) for his runner-up finish — also a career-best — in addition to claiming six mystery envelopes for a further KRW 6,400,000 (~USD 4,600) in bounties.

While Ma will have been a little sore at being unable to convert his chip lead into a maiden APT title win, the KRW 32,430,000 (~USD 23,280) on offer for third place represents his eighth-largest live result so it’s not all doom and gloom, especially when you factor in the additional KRW 13,950,000 (~USD 10,000) he earned for his five mystery envelopes.

It was 78th place finisher Tak Chai Pang of Hong Kong who proved the fastest at problem solving however, pulling the largest KRW 40,000,000 (~USD 21,535) bounty on the second bounty draw of the day to bring his total earnings for the tournament up to a respectable KRW 41,010,000 (~USD 29,440) in total.

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.

Hong Kong’s Ngai Kan Chau Claims Maiden Live Title for KRW 21M (~USD 15K) in Sunday Super Stack

Sunday Super Stack champion Ngai Kan Chau

While the field was capped at 250 entries owing to the popularity of the Main Event, the KRW 500,000 (~USD 360) Sunday Super Stack was the biggest draw of the day outside of that, with the tournament attracting a field of 245 entries (233 unique) and generating a KRW 100,453,920 (~USD 72,113) prize pool.

The tournament played out over close to thirty-six action-packed 20-minute levels, with Ngai Kan Chau claiming the KRW 21,253,920 (~USD 15,260) top prize.

Chau came into the final table with the sixth largest stack but was able to showcase his skills to successfully circumnavigate his way to his maiden live tournament title victory and a career-best score.

Chau bested Kenichiro Dohi to earn his first APT live title, although the Japanese player will not be too disappointed with that result after coming into the final table as the second-largest stack, with the KRW 14,300,000 (~USD 10,265) runner-up prize also representing a career high for him.

It will be Ryohei Ishino who will be the most impressed with his performance however, spinning up the shortest final table stack into a bronze podium finish which was good for a KRW 10,090,000 (~USD 7,240) payday and the Japanese player was another to claim a career-best result. A total of 31 players made the money, 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.