Asia Pacific Poker Tour

Posted on September 28, 2008 
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SeoulLost in the glow of the World Series of Poker Europe is the Asia Pacific Poker Tour event in Seoul, Korea. While Southeast Asia remains a difficult area of the world to bring big poker tours to, because of various national laws and controls. There is both an Asian Poker Tour and competing Asia Pacific Poker Tour. The APPT main event in Seoul is down to a final table of nine players today and unlike many tournaments, this one has not been dominated by either youthful internet players or big name professionals. While most of the "name" players are in London or on the rail here in Seoul for the final table, the field was full of internet qualifiers, but age and experience seems to have won out at the APPT, thus far. Only one player under 21 years of age will take a seat for the championship. Here is the line-up for today's final table.

Seat 1: Dan Williams, Canada (42,000 in chips): This 29-year-old is playing in his first live tournament.
Seat 2: Daniel Schreiber, Seoul, South Korea (253,500): At the age of 22, he arrived in South Korea in 2004 to compete as a professional StarCraft gamer.
Seat 4: Fam Yat, Singapore (66,500): A 28-year-old primary school maths tutor.
Seat 5: David Horvath, Szodliget, Hungary (124,000): A 29-year-old experienced poker player, who qualified online.
Seat 6: Yuji Masaki, Hiroshima, Japan (13,500): A 45-year-old pharmacist, he also qualified via an online satellite.
Seat 7: Sam Faqiryar, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (185,000): Just 20 years of age, but he calls himself a full time professional poker player.
Seat 8: Brian Kang, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (394,000): This 29-year-old financial analyist was born in Canada to Korean parents.
Seat 9: Hidenari Shiono, Tokyo, Japan (269,000): A 39-year-old president of a hardware company.
Seat 3: Yoshihiro Tasaka, Osaka, Japan (226,500): This 49-year-old service industry employee has been playing poker for over 30 year. LATE UPDATE: Yoshihiro Tasaka is the winner of the APPT Seoul Championship.

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