The fastest growing poker tour on the planet is showing no signs of slowing down. All four stops on the Asian Poker Tour set new records in 2025, and next month's $5M APT Championship is throwing down the tour's largest-ever guarantee.
The tour's most recent stop at APT Jeju crowned Abraham Ceesvin as the champion of its flagship tournament, a $2.7 Main Event with 1,693 entries — a new record for the tour in Korea. Ceesvin's 464K prize for first was enough to bump him over $1 million in earnings on tour, the fifth player to do so.
Record-breaking growth will likely change the look of the tour's all-time money list in short order, and new APT millionaires will be printed every year. Meanwhile, let's take a look at where it all stands.
Cheong tops fast-changing top ten
Everyone in the top ten on the APT all-time money list has made at least $750K and its top spot is good for $2.2 million. That belongs to Joseph Cheong, who just won the Zodiac Classic at APT Jeju for $174K and a Lion trophy. Allan Le, Lester Edoc, Ceesvin, and Devan Tang round out the list of APT millionaires.
Asian Poker Tour all-time money list top 10
- Joseph Cheong – $2,295,386
- Allan Le – $1,650,737
- Lester Edoc – $1,319,591
- Abraham Ceesvin – $1,166,098
- Devan Tang – $1,120,780
- Punnat Punsri – $978,594
- Thanisorn Saelor – $969,417
- Richard Yong – $843,535
- Mike Takayama – $800,963
- Nevan Chang – $750,944
Le owns the second spot on the list, primarily due to his win in the Manila Millions at in 2012. It's a big score before the New Era, but it counts no less. Le beat a field of 31 players in the super-sized buy-in, winning $1.5 million after a heads-up battle with the aforementioned Devan Tang.
Edoc, on the other hand, has been an APT regular since 2009, and he's got a long resume of cashes throughout the tour's history. He most recently grabbed $159K with a second-place finish in the Zodiac Classic at APT Taipei in May, and he cashed twice at APT Manila in February. Edoc's career high score is a runner-up finish in the Superstar Challegenge at APT Taipei in March of 2024, which came a few days after a win in the Single Day High Roller for $88K. The era-spanning grinder also won two APT Main Events and a High Roller at APT stops in Manila in 2018.
Lester Edoc has been cashing on tour for years. Tang, the fifth and final millionaire on the APT all-time money list, has not been seen for a cash on tour in the New Era, but he won a lot of money in the tour's early days. His second-place finish to Le in the Manila Millions in 2012 was good for just shy of $1 million, and he won a Super High Roller at APT Macau in 2016. Another cash in Macau added to a total that is over $1.1 million and still the tour's fifth-best.
Punsri best of the rest
The tour's growth means that those who aren't stacking up cashes may not last long at the top of the list, because players like Punnat Punsri are catching up quickly. In 2025, Punsri cashed four times in Jeju, six times at Incheon, and three times at Taipei — all while grabbing several six and seven-figure scores at WSOP, EPT, and Triton stops. Punsri's $30M in lifetime earnings will continue to grow with bigger prize pools on the APT, and he may claim the top spot when all is said and done.
Punnat Punsri may rule over the top of this list one day. The rest of the top ten wraps up with Thansorn Saelor, Richard Yong, Mike Takayama, and Nevan Chang. Saelor is another deep run regular, most recently finishing fourth at this year's APT Incheon Main Event. Most of Yong's APT winnings come from a runner-up finish at Manila Millions in 2013, but he's still active in Asia. Takayama is another era-spanning regular with cashes that date back to 2010, and Chang has over 60 APT cashes.
Up next for the tour is the APT Championship, its most ambitious series yet. Over 200 events will be on offer in Taipei, culminating in the $5M Main Event.
Images courtesy of Asian Poker Tour.
Data courtesy of The Hendon Mob.
