TAIPEI — With 2,223 players from 44 countries generating 13,153 total entries over 106 trophy events, the recently concluded Asian Poker Tour Taipei 2024 that offered a staggering TWD 383.49 million (USD 12.19 million ) in prize money has officially become the biggest and richest series ever to play out in Taiwan.

Run in partnership with Chinese Texas Hold'em Poker Club (CTP) from February 28 to March 10 at the Asia Poker Arena — Asia's largest permanent poker room — and the CML (Chinese Mahjong League, the 12-day festival drew 3 four-figure fields, with the APT Main Event the biggest of them all.

Multiple records were broken during the series. The Superstar Challenge set a new standard for largest first-place prize ever awarded in Taiwan, with France's Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier claiming the honors.

However, this was immediately broken by the APT Main Event, which set a new all-time Taiwan record for prize pool and first-place prize.

The tour's two other signature events, the APT Super High Roller and APT High Roller, also raised the bar; the Super High Roller set a new event record for prize pool and first place prize, and the High Roller record for the top prize.

The Mystery Bounty Hunter set a new APT standard for prize pool and first-place prize, as did the Sunday Super Stack, the Zodiac Classic, the Mini Main Event and the Micro Main Event.

Close to a fifth of the series prize money (18.8 percent) was awarded in the record-breaking Main Event, which saw 1,182 entries (737 unique) from 34 countries/regions compete for Taiwan's richest prize pool of all time — a sizable TWD 72,232,020 (~$2,286,275).

It was Japan's Daisuke Ogita who claimed the largest first-place prize ever to be awarded in the region — a mammoth TWD 12,944,020 (~409,730)!

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