Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUL 2022年7月 亞博匯 106 10 YEARS AGO A ll that’s old is new again, or so it seems. In the July 2012 issue of Inside Asian Gaming , our team delved into the rapidly growing world of live poker across Asia – led by the Asian Poker Tour (APT) and PokerStars’ Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT). Led by growing numbers of mainland Chinese players travelling not only to Macau but further afield to the Philippines, Cambodia and India among other venues, IAG pointed to events such as APT Macau at StarWorld – which attracted a field of more than 300 enthusiasts – and series fields topping 1,000 in Manila as evidence of the game’s popularity. Fast forward a decade and the game is growing once again – this time coming off the COVID-19 pandemic when card rooms all across Asia-Pacific were forced to shut down. The World Poker Tour, which has been aggressively expanding its brand across Asia-Pacific, saw a national record of 777 players enter the Main Event of WPT Vietnam in early June, coming off a record-breaking WPTDeepStacks Sydney Main Event which attracted 2,023 runners in March. Meanwhile, the Asian Poker Tour has announced plans for substantial regional expansion, having already revealed new deals for tour stops in Manila, Hanoi and Taiwan. And even the APPT is back after a lengthy hiatus, holding the APPT Open Manila in June with a Main Event field of 464 players. One problem persists, however, from 2012 when the The game is growing once again – this time coming off the COVID-19 pandemic when card rooms all across Asia-Pacific were forced to shut down. 在因應新冠疫情全球大流行整個亞太地 區的撲克牌室被迫關閉之後，賽事再次 得到發展。