<p>Having made its mark on Asia and players around the world with two highly successful <a href=”http://www.everestpoker.com/sv/”>poker</a> events in 2008, the Asian Poker Tour (APT) has announced the first event for its 2009 tournament schedule.

APT Philippines 2009, the Manila leg of next year’s Tour, will be held at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati, Philippines, from January 27 to February 1, 2009. Buy-in is set at US $2,500. Interested parties may contact their local or <a href=”http://www.everestpoker.fr”>online poker</a> room for information on scheduled satellites. </p>

<p>This year’s APT Philippines event, held at the same venue last May, attracted 316 poker players from around the world - a number that the APT is looking to surpass at next year’s event. It featured a US $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and had various attractions such as Asia’s first 13-card poker tournament.

The main event was won by Australian <a href=”http://www.everestpoker.se”>poker</a> pro David Saab, who walked away with the USD $280,000 top prize.

APT Philippines was followed by the APT Macau tournament, which was held in late August. The event featured an even bigger guaranteed prize pool of USD $1,500,000 and was won by U.S.-based Yevgeniy Timoshenko. </p>

<p>The Tour will feature at least four major events in 2009. Further announcements regarding this year and next year’s events will be made by the APT later in the month.</p>

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