
| Asia Pacific Poker Tour Season 1 |
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When the Asia Pacific Poker Tour first started its first season, it wasn’t there many people who joined. The event was hosted in four different locations: Manila, Seoul, Macau, Sydney. In Manila, there was 255 people who bought in, 186 for Seoul, 352 for Macau, and 561 for Sydney. The buy-ins for each location was a bit different, but it was close to an average of $2,500.The poker prize pool was different for each location because of the number of poker players who were playing. Here are the results for Asia Pacific Poker Tour season 1: In Manila, the names are listed in order from 1st place to 9th: Brett Parise ($179,775), Ira Blumenthal, Nicholas Bamman, Van Marcus, Maor Feldinger, Roger Spets, Bas van Liere, Kazuhiro Sato, and Derick Hernandez. The winning hand for this poker tournament was 10 of spades and 10 of diamonds, and the number of payouts were 24. In Seoul: Ziv Bachar ($139,000), Jozef Berec, Shinhan Sid Kim, Michel St-Pierre, James Honeybone, Seval Hegeland, Roger Spets, Dan Schreiber, Paul Adams. Winning hand for this poke tournament was King of diamonds and 10 of clubs with a 16 payouts. In Macau: Dinh Le ($222,640), Ivan Tan, Sangkyoun Kim, Guillaume Patry, Bertrand Grospellier, William Tam, Liz Lieu, Joe Hachem, Simon Randall. Winning hand was 8 of diamonds and 8 of spades with a payout of 40. In Sydney: Grant Levy ($875,542), Jeremiah Vinsant, Lei He, Sol Bergren, Jai Kemp, Barry Kohlhoff, John Matwey, Vijayan Nagarajan, and Larry Wright. Winning hand for this poker tournament was Queen of spades and 6 of spades with payout of 56. |

