The USA’s Ethan “Rampage” Yau is leading the richest APT Super High Roller in tour history

Daeyoung Park Outlasts Record Field to Claim APT National Cup Title

Shinyoung Park Leads Richest-Ever Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8

APT TAIPEI 2026 SCHEDULE | OFFICIAL RESULTS | PLAYER LISTS | IMAGES | WINNERS

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, April 25, 2026 – Run in partnership with with the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Club (CTP) across two venues—the cavernous Red Space 多元商務空間 and the Asia Poker Arena—the APT Taipei 2026—action at the APT Taipei 2026 is ramping up, and the festival is only one third of the way through.

In addition to the thrilling conclusion of the record-breaking APT National Cup – Sponsored by DeepRun—the largest tournament in the tour’s 20-year history—the APT Super High Roller also drew a star-studded field, generating the tournament’s richest-ever prize pool.

Then there was the opening three flights of the Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8 with the tournament proving to be yet another record-breaker, generating its richest prize pool ever.

APT Super High Roller Rampages to New Heights

The award-winning Pewter Lion APT Super High Roller trophy

While the record-breaking APT National Cup was playing out over at Red Space, the high rollers were piling into the Asia Poker Arena for the first of the APT Taipei 2026 festival’s marquee Big Three events.

Day 1 of the TWD 330,000 (~USD 10,500) buy-in Event #45: APT Super High Roller attracted a field packed with big names, bracelet winners, and former APT champions.

Over the course of sixteen 40-minute levels a total of 90 unique top tier tournament players generated a total of 136 entries and amassed a staggering TWD 41,290,960 (~USD 1,323,430) prize pool – the richest ever generated in an APT Super High Roller.

A total of 20 players will make the paying positions, with the eventual champion claiming a TWD 9,760,160 (~USD 312,825) top prize—the richest this tournament has ever awarded—with the top two places also claiming a TWD 313,000 (~USD 10,000) seat to the USD 5M GTD Asian Poker Tour Championship Main Event.

For APT Super High Roller Prize Pool & Payouts please CLICK HERE

While the field was one entry short of tying for the largest Taiwanese-based APT Super High Roller ever played, the prize pool is over 10 percent larger than the record-breaking APT Taipei 2024 edition of the tournament won by the legendary Isaac Haxton.

While Haxton was not involved this time around, it is another recognisable name sitting atop the leaderboard after the Day 1 tournament clock ticked into the red with the USA’s Ethan “Rampage” Yau going on a tear up to bag the overnight chip lead.

Just 29 players successfully circumnavigated the Day 1 tournament minefield, with Yau packing his chip bag with a hefty 2,625,000 – valued at 88 big blinds when the Final Day action resumes.

The popular poker vlogger has already cashed a Super High Roller tournament this festival; Yau finished in fourth place in the TWD 500K (~USD 16K) buy-in Event #29 Single Day Super High Roller for TWD 2.57 million (~USD 81,755). Yau also previously made an APT Super High Roller final table appearance back during the APT Taipei Poker Classic 2024 where he finished in sixth place for a TWD 1.36 million (USD 43,260) payday.

Chinese poker superstar Tony Ren Lin is hunting his second APT Super High Roller title

Hot on Yau’s heels is back-to-back APT Jeju 2026 Super High Roller and Superstar Challenge champion Tony Ren Lin, who will be hoping to convert his 2,420,000 (81 big blind) stack into yet more silverware.

Lithuania’s Gytis Lazauninkas (1,905,000) rounds out the top three, with triple bracelet winner Yan Shing ‘Anson’ Tsang, and former APT Taipei 2023 Main Event champion Punnat Punsri also making an appearance in the top ten:

APT SUPER HIGH ROLLER TOP TEN STACKS

Other notables still in the running for the coveted Pewter Lion include Hong Kong All-Time Money List #1 Danny Tang (1,330,000), Australia’s Dylan Foster (1,190,000), former APT High Roller champion Martin Sedlak (945,000), Natural8 Ambassador Chih Wei Fan (825,000), and a pair of two-time APT Main Event champions in the Philippines' Lester Edoc (685,000), and Mike Takayama (600,000).

For APT Super High Roller Day 1 Player List please CLICK HERE

For APT Super High Roller Day 1 Survivors please CLICK HERE

For APT Super High Roller Final Day Draw please CLICK HERE

All tournament information can be found on the APT Super High Roller Day 1 tournament page.

You can read about how all the Day 1 high rolling action played out via the APT Blog.

The 29 survivors will return for the Final Day at 11:15am local time (TST), and you can watch all the action as it happens via the APT Super High Roller live stream on the official APT YouTube channel, which is on a 30-minute delay.

Daeyoung Park Outlasts Record Field to Claim APT National Cup Title

South Korea’s Daeyoung Park claimed a career-best score in the APT’s largest-ever tournament

The largest tournament in the Asian Poker Tour’s 20-year history has crowned a champion, with South Korea’s Daeyoung Park outlasting a record field of 2,940 entries to win the TWD 12,000 (~USD 380) buy-in Event #1: APT National Cup – Sponsored by DeepRun.

Just 148 players returned to action for the Final Day, all guaranteed a payout of at least TWD 41,200 (~USD 1,320) from the TWD 28,929,600 (~USD 927,230) prize pool—the richest opening event purse the tour has ever generated—although with 278 players already paid out over the six starting flights, the Final Day prize pool stood at TWD 22,785,100 (~USD 730,290).

All returning players were hoping for that all important bit of luck to propel them to the final table and a shot at claiming the top prize, trophy, and the APTC Main Event seat on offer for the eventual champion.

It took a gruelling twenty-one 30-minute levels to whittle the field down to the last man, and it proved to be the field of dreams for South Korea’s Daeyoung Park who earned his maiden live tournament title and the largest score of his poker career by a mammoth margin.

Park cut an ICM deal with eventual runner-up Yoong Shen Ding of Malaysia after a lengthy heads-up battle, with the two flattening out the remaining payouts and playing it out for the remaining TWD 162,000 (~USD 5,190), APTC seat, title, and trophy.

Park, who held close to a five big blind lead at the time of the deal eventually claimed a TWD 3,548,400 (~USD 113,730) top prize – the largest cash of his poker career by a massive 21,120 percent margin.

"Actually this is my first trophy in my tournament career, I still can’t believe that I won in this kind of a big tournament in my life," stated a shell-shocked Park via the aid of a translator immediately following his victory.

"The Main Event and Bounty Hunter are still left [to play], but I'm more than celebrating for now. I will be preparing for those events however." he continued.

"I will be enjoying the win for today but I will try to prepare as much as I can right away [for the APTC in November]; I've got a ticket for such a huge tournament, but I am not sure if I am capable of playing in this kind of a tournament – but for sure I will do my best studying and preparing for the APTC."

While eventual runner-up Ding will be disappointed to have been unable to turn his initial heads-up lead into a maiden tournament title of his own, the TWD 3,089,400 (~USD 99,020) runner-up prize also represented a sixteenfold increase on his previous best result, which should take the sting out.

South Korea’s Yongwon Jo rounded out the last of the podium places, and was another to make a career-best score, banking TWD 1,733,700 (~USD 55,570) for his third place finish, with the final table paying out as follows:

Top L-R: Li Chiang Lu, Sunny Cheung, Yongwon Jo, Yoong Shen Ding, Chu Yang Chiang Bottom L-R: Hsi Yung Du, Quang Trinh Do, Daeyoung Park, Wing Yin Szeto

NATIONAL CUP FINAL TABLE RESULTS

For all APT National Cup Results please CLICK HERE

For APT National Cup Final Day Player List please CLICK HERE

The nine finalists also earned a 30-day free DeepRun subscription package from the APT’s official strategy and training sponsor. Visit www.deeprun.com for more details.

All tournament information can be found on the APT National Cup – Sponsored by DeepRun Final Day tournament page.

All respective National Cup flight results can be viewed on the Official Results page and via the respective APT National Cup tournament page.

You can read about how all the action played out via the APT Blog.

Shinyoung Park Leads Richest-Ever Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8

Flight A chip leader , South Korea’s Shunyoung Park

The third of the festival’s key events to offer the winner a seat to the USD 5M GTD APTC Main Event in November, the TWD 20,000 (~USD 640) buy-in Event #40: Mystery Bounty Hunter – Sponsored by Natural8 was easily the most popular event of the day.

The three starting flights saw a combined total of 1,540 (785 unique) budding Scooby Doo fans pile into the Mystery Machine and fire up the engine in an attempt to solve the riddle of who would become the APT Taipei 2026 Mystery Bounty champion.

While this was only the second-largest Mystery Bounty Hunter field in APT history, it is also the richest with a sizable TWD 25,872,000 (~USD 829,230) in the prize pool, split between the TWD 16,632,000 (~USD 533,080) tournament pool—which includes the APTC Main Event seat valued at TWD 312,000—and the TWD 9,240,000 (~USD 296,150) bounty pool.

The eventual champion will bank a TWD 2,905,800 (~USD 93,135) top prize—the largest this event has ever awarded—with the biggest bounty coming in at an enticing TWD 1,500,000 (~USD 48,075).

With the top 14 percent of each flight making the Final Day a total of 216 players made it through to the paying positions, all guaranteed a payout of at least TWD 19,600 (~USD 630).

For Mystery Bounty Hunter Prize Pool, Payouts & Bounties please CLICK HERE

Flight A

It was South Korea’s Shinyoung Park topping the 683-entry Flight A, concluding the nineteen 25-minute levels played with a tournament topping stack of 648,000, with 95 making it through to the Final Day and a place in the paying positions.

Park was joined at the top of the table by Japan’s Seigai Kou (611,000), with the duo the only players to bag over 600K in chips.

The USA’s Kai Yang (527,000) rounded out the top three, with other notables to make it through including India’s Rishi Mehra (496,000), and Abhinav Iyer (192,000), Australia’s Justin Tsui (144,000), and defending APT Taipei Main Event champion Akira Takasugi (74,000).

All tournament information can be found on the Mystery Bounty Hunter - Flight A tournament page.

Flight B

Flight B chip leader, Taiwan’s Hao Shen

The second of the three starting flights got underway at 4pm local time (TST), drawing a further 533 entries who duked it out over twenty 20-minute levels.

Just 75 players made it though, with Taiwan’s Hao Shen bagging the largest stack of 564,000, which puts him third in the overall pecking order coming into the Final Day,

Russia’s Sergei Zakharov (533,000), and Taiwan’s Sin Lan Chen (522,000) rounded out the top three stacks and the trio were the only three Flight B players to crack over half a million in chips.

Other notables to make it though included Taiwan’s Chen An Lin (441,000), South Korea’s Gab Yong Kim (357,000), and former Main Event champion John Tech of the Philippines (171,000).

All tournament information can be found on the Mystery Bounty Hunter - Flight B tournament page.

Flight C

Flight C chip leader, Belgium’s Kristof Segers

The third and final Flight C attracted 324 entries who competed over twenty fast-paced 15-minute levels, with 46 locking up their place in the paying positions.

It was Kristoff Segers who topped the counts, bagging up a stack of 543,000, which will see the Belgium player return fourth in the Final Day chip counts.

Taiwan’s Po Lun Chao (531,000), and Malaysia’s Kar Wee Chee (494,000) rounded out the top three, with other notable players to make it though including Ireland’s Gary Thompson (205,000), the USA’s Christian Harder (133,000), and Natural8 Ambassador Sparrow Cheung (71,000).

All tournament information can be found on the Mystery Bounty Hunter - Flight C tournament page.

MYSTERY BOUNTY HUNTER TOP TEN STACKS

For Mystery Bounty Hunter Flight A Player List please CLICK HERE

For Mystery Bounty Hunter Flight A Survivors please CLICK HERE

For Mystery Bounty Hunter Flight B Player List please CLICK HERE

For Mystery Bounty Hunter Flight B Survivors please CLICK HERE

For Mystery Bounty Hunter Flight C Player List please CLICK HERE

For Mystery Bounty Hunter Flight C Survivors please CLICK HERE

For Mystery Bounty Hunter Final Day Draw please CLICK HERE

The Final Day gets underway at 11:15am (KST) on Sunday, April 26 with the 216 survivors returning to play down to a champion. Live coverage will be available on the APT Blog.