The Asian Poker Tour's Taipei series, completed on May 3, has immediately entered the record books as the largest regular-season festival the tour has held in its 20-year history, barring the APT Championship series launched last year.
Across the 12-day series a total of 3,890 unique entries — including the largest single tournament field in APT history — helped to create a number of new high watermarks for the APT to pursue.
New non-Championship tour records set include:
- A new all-time series record for unique tournament entries (3,890).
- The richest mystery bounty event ($829K in the Mystery Bounter Hunter — Sponsored by Natural8)
- The largest Ultra Stack High Roller field (399), also setting Taiwanese records for prizepool ($817K) and first prize ($156K).
- A world record for entries to a combined mind sports/poker event (31 in the go/poker tournament).
- The richest Super High Roller ever held on the tour ($1.3 million)
- The largest tournament field in APT history (2,940), the largest single starting flight (956) and the richest opening event ($927K), in the APT National Cup – Sponsored by DeepRun.
The second largest, and second richest, Main Event field in APT history had 2,354 entries and a prizepool of $3.5 million.
The series packed out two different venues: Red Space and the Asian Poker Arena.Altogether the 161 event series drew a total of 26,009 total tournament entries and combined prizepools of approximately $19 million.
This places APT Taipei 2026 behind only last year’s APT Taipei series and the APT Championship in terms of prize money, and cements the Taiwanese capital’s status as the home of the biggest events, fields and prizes on the tour.
Attendance continues to grow
Compared to APT Taipei 2025, this year’s edition was up 13.5% in total tournament entries — +9.6% in uniques — featuring players from 51 different countries around the world.
51 different countries were represented at the tables.Altogether the series featured five events with prizepools of a million dollars or more:
- APT Main Event ($3.5M)
- APT Super High Roller ($1.3M)
- Mini Main Event ($1.2M)
- Zodiac Classic — Sponsored by Natural8 ($1.1M)
- APT High Roller ($1M)
The stop also featured a surprise addition with the Labor Day Monster Stack, a new tournament added mid-series to bring the festival to a close on May 3. 2,135 entries across six starting flights awarded a total of $189K.
$27K went to the winner, Taiwan’s Huang Chi Hsuan, representing a huge return on his $110 investment as well as his first ever recorded tournament cash.
Hsuan also picked up a winner’s trophy, but the three biggest ‘mega Lion’ trophies of the series went to India’s Ritwik Khanna (winner of the APT High Roller and the Rose Gold Lion), Mike Takayama (winner of the APT Super High Roller and the Pewter Lion) and Main Event champion Lau Chun Shing, who took home the Gold Lion.
Lau Chun Shing is a recreational player from Hong Kong.The next APT stop in the 2026 calendar is Incheon, South Korea, from August 7-16. You can find the full tournament schedule at the APT website.
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Note that the dollar amounts mentioned in this article have been converted from Taiwanese New Dollars, are approximate and correct at time of writing.
Images courtesy of the APT.
