Asian Poker Tour Adds Another Event

January 14, 2009

Poker fans were excited to learn that the Asian Poker Tour has added another event to their line up. The poker tour will now include a pot-limit Omaha tournament to their already full lineup. The Asian Poker Tour will be running from January 27th through February 1st at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati, Philippines.

The poker event is already being touted as the first ever Omaha event for a major poker tour in Asia, and is expected to have a huge turnout. The Asian Poker Tour is returning to the island because they truly had a great turnout last year. The spring event had three preliminary poker tournaments plus a $2,500+$200 buy in for their main event.

The only difference between last year and this year is that last year all four of their poker events were no limit hold’em games. Last year an Australian, David Saab took home the main event prize. He lasted longer than anyone else, and he was battling 316 players for that top title. He took home $280,000 and defeated Korean Chris Roh to take the title.

Four of the other preliminaries this year are no-limit hold’em events, but some are going to vary from the normal full table, freeze out format. They are having a bounty event, a rebuy event, and a six handed event. They are also offering a 13 card poker event – which is good because it is probably one of the most popular events in Asia.