Asian Poker Tour launches new Asian Series

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) has announced a new poker series in Asia looking to attract more local and regional players, and offering followers and fans the chance to compete at an international poker tournament event.

The inaugural event of this exciting new series is the ‘APT Asian Series’, which is set to take place from January 10 to 17, 2011 at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino in Cebu, Philippines.

The event launched in partnership with the All-In Sports Club, PAGCOR and the Waterfront Hotel, will take place during the traditional Sinulog Festival in Cebu.

“The APT Asian Series is aimed at expanding the APT calendar with events designed to suit the Asian poker community and we are anticipating huge player participation for this event. I am delighted that our first event will be hosted with All-In-Sports Club and I’m looking forward to what should be a fun and popular event. APT will be staging at least three APT Asian Series Events in 2011” commented APT Chief Executive Officer Jeff Mann.

The APT Asian Series Cebu will follow the very popular APT format of presenting 7-days of poker action including 7 side events, 7 satellite events and a Main Event with a buy-in PhP 46,500+ PhP 3,500.

The event will also include the 5th annual Cebu Poker Open which with a buy-in of PHP5,000 + PHP500 will offer a guaranteed prize pool of PHP1 Million.

Players can qualify for this event by entering the online satellites running on PKR.com. PKR Daily Freerolls are available from November 29 to January 7 as a $2,700 package awaits the qualifier for the Main Event, worth roughly $1,135.