Asia Pacific Poker Tour - Season Five

APPT Satellites - Qualify Now

Look out for satellites for the next APPT event, where you can win a package including buy-in to the Main Event, accommodation and money for expenses. To locate a satellite tournament, launch the PokerStars software, and select ‘Events’ & ‘APPT’.

The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) is back for Season 5, with more big-money events taking place across the region in 2011. You can qualify with PokerStars satellites now, and win a prize package that includes your Main Event buy-in plus everything else you need for the perfect poker trip.

This season the tour will visit Melbourne in Australia for the first time, stopping at the world-famous Crown Casino. From there it’s onto Queenstown on South Island, New Zealand, for a Snowfest event, before stops in Macau and the Philippines. There will be big prize pools on offer along the way, as hundreds qualifiers from PokerStars and members of Team Pro gather to battle for tournament titles, and you can be there too.

The APPT just keeps getting bigger and better, and Season 5 is your chance to experience everything it has to offer. Online satellite tournaments are available now in a range of buy-ins to suit everyone. The locations are incredible and the rewards are huge, so take your shot at APPT glory now!

APPT Season 5 Schedule

Please note that the following information is subject to change, and more stops will be added soon.

Event	Date	Venue	Buy-In
APPT Melbourne	July 29-August 1, 2011	Crown Casino, Melbourne, Australia	AUD $5,000
APPT Queenstown Snowfest	August 23-28, 2011	Queenstown, New Zealand	NZD $3,000
APPT Macau*	November 23-27, 2011	Casino Grand Lisboa, Macau, People’s Republic of China	HKD $30,000
APPT Seoul	March 8-11, 2012	Paradise Walkerhill Casino, Seoul, South Korea	KRW3,000,000
APPT Philippines	TBC	Philippines	PHP 100,000

*1% of the prize pool will go to tournament staff.

Go to the APPT website to find out more about each event on the schedule.

APPT Season 5 Highlights

Macau | 575 players | HKD$15,552,600 prize pool | 1st: Randy Lew (HKD$3,772,000)

The PokerStars Macau card room at the Grand Lisboa Casino hosted the third stop of APPT Season 5, and a big field of 575 players took part. Team PokerStars Online pro Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew took it down, producing an incredible performance against one of the APPT’s toughest-ever fields. Lew scooped $3,772,000 and the title when he flopped top two pair against heads-up opponent Jimmy Pan.

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Queenstown | 127 players | NZ$342,900 prize pool | 1st: Marcel Schreiner (NZ$94,300)

Queenstown on New Zealand’s South Island played host to the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s first-ever Snowfest event, and 127 players combined to create a total prize pool of NZ$342,900. Highly aggressive play at the final table meant that only 180 hands were played before Marcel Schreiner met Matty Yates in the heads-up, with Schreiner sealing the deal with A-Q vs A-9.

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Melbourne | 260 players | AU$1,220,000 prize pool | 1st: Leo Boxell (AU$330,000)

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour made its first-ever visit to Melbourne for the opening event of Season 5. The venue was the spectacular Crown Casino, and 260 players registered to play the Main Event. The winner was Leo Boxell, who scooped the title and AU$330,000 in first place prize money when he called down heads-up opponent Phil Willcocks’ pair of Jacks with two pair.

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