PokerStars APPT Returns to Cambodia in May as 2025 Tour Kicks Off
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The first of three PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) festivals in 2025 is rapidly approaching. APPT Cambodia is scheduled to take place at Phnom Penh, NagaWorld, between May 2 and 13. Over $1.5 million is guaranteed across a packed schedule, which includes a $1 million guaranteed APPT Cambodia Main Event.
The 2025 edition of APPT Cambodia marks the fourth time PokerStars has headed to Phnom Penh since 2022. The first two iterations had 25 events on their schedule, with last year seeing that number increase to 42. Between May 2-13, APPT Cambodia sees 68 events and satellites planned, making it the largest APPT Cambodia festival yet.
APPT Cambodia 2025 kicks off with the aptly named NagaWorld Kickoff, a $500 buy-in, $50,000 guaranteed tournament. Other eagerly anticipated events include a $750 Mystery Bounty with $100,000 guaranteed, a $1,000 APPT National boasting a $150,000 guarantee, and the $3,000 APPT High Roller, which also has $150,000 guaranteed.
This year’s APPT Cambodia Main Event commands a $1,750 buy-in and features a $1 million guarantee on its prize pool. A myriad of live APPT Cambodia Main Event satellites will be available during the festival, as will online satellites and Power Path specials at PokerStars closer to the festival’s dates.
2025 APPT Cambodia Key Dates
| Dates | Event | Guarantee |
|---|---|---|
| May 2-5 | $500 NagaWorld Kickoff | $50,000 |
| May 3-5 | $750 Mystery Bounty | $100,000 |
| May 5-7 | $1,000 APPT National | $150,000 |
| May 8-11 | $1,750 APPT Main Event | $1,000,000 |
| May 11-12 | $600 Suvivor KO | $75,000 |
| May 11-12 | $3,000 APPT High Roller | $150,000 |
2025 APPT Cambodia Schedule
Expand the table below and feast your eyes on the full 2025 APPT Cambodia schedule, including all the planned satellites.
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 May | 11:30 a.m. | $500 NAGAWORLD Kickoff Flight A |
| 1:00 p.m. | $1,500 Warm-Up High Roller | |
| 5:00 p.m. | $500 NAGAWORLD Kickoff Flight B | |
| 7:00 p.m. | $300 Knockout Turbo Bounty | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $200 APPT Main Event Qualifier | |
| Sat 3 May | 11:30 a.m. | $750 Mystery Bounty Flight A |
| 11:30 a.m. | $3,00 SuperStack Day 1 | |
| 11:30 a.m. | $500 NAGAWORLD Kickoff Final Day | |
| 1:00 p.m. | $2,500 Megastack High Roller | |
| 5:00 p.m. | $400 Bubble Rush | |
| 7:00 p.m. | $300 Megastack Turbo | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $200 APPT Main Event Qualifier | |
| 10:00 p.m. | $70 Step 1 APPT Main Event Super Qualifier | |
| Sun 4 May | 11:30 a.m. | $300 Shot Clock |
| 11:30 a.m. | $750 Mystery Bounty Flight B | |
| 11:30 a.m. | $300 SuperStack Final Day | |
| 1:00 p.m. | $1,000 PLO | |
| 5:00 p.m. | $750 Mystery Bounty Flight C | |
| 8:00 p.m. | $70 Step 1 APPT Main Event Super Qualifier | |
| 8:00 p.m. | $300 Win The Button | |
| 8:30 p.m. | $1,500 Mini High Roller Hyper Turbo | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $200 APPT Main Event Qualifier | |
| Mon 5 May | 11:30 a.m. | $1,000 APPT National Flight A |
| 11:30 a.m. | $300 Double Stack PLO | |
| 11:30 a.m. | $750 Mystery Bounty Day 2 | |
| 1:00 p.m. | $2,000 Mini High Roller | |
| 3:00 p.m. | $400 Split Hold’em | |
| 7:00 p.m. | $250 6-Handed Turbo | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $200 APPT Main Event Qualifier | |
| Tue 6 May | 11:30 a.m. | $300 NLHE |
| 11:30 a.m. | $1,000 APPT Natonal Flight B | |
| 1:00 p.m. | $2,500 Knockout High Roller | |
| 3:00 p.m. | $500 PLO Knockout | |
| 7:00 p.m. | $1,000 APPT National Flight C | |
| 8:00 p.m. | $250 Showtime Hold’em | |
| 8:00 p.m. | $70 Step 1 APPT Main Event Super Qualifier | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $200 APPT Main Event Qualifier | |
| Wed 7 May | 11:30 a.m. | $600 Super Knockout Bounty |
| 11:30 a.m. | $1,000 APPT National Day 2 | |
| 1:00 p.m. | $10,000 APPT Super High Roller Day 1 | |
| 2:00 p.m. | $70 Step 1 APPT Main Event Super Qualifier | |
| 4:00 p.m. | $290 APPT Main Event Super Qualifier | |
| 7:00 p.m. | $400 PLO Turbo | |
| 8:00 p.m. | $2,000 High Roller Turbo | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $400 APPT Main Event Qualifier | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $200 NLHE 10/10/10 | |
| Thu 8 May | 11:00 a.m. | $400 APPT Main Event Hyper Turbo Qualifier |
| 11:30 a.m. | $300 6-Handed | |
| 11:30 a.m. | $1,750 APPT Main Event Flight A | |
| 11:30 a.m. | $600 Super Knockout Bounty Final Day | |
| 11:30 a.m. | $1,000 APPT National Final Day | |
| 12:00 p.m. | $10,000 APPT Super High Roller Final Day | |
| 1:00 p.m. | $3,000 Single Day High Roller | |
| 3:00 p.m. | $500 NLHE/PLO | |
| 7:00 p.m. | $300 Deepstack Turbo | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $400 APPT Main Event Qualifier | |
| Fri 9 May | 11:00 a.m. | $400 APPT Main Event Hyper Turbo Qualifier |
| 11:30 a.m. | $500 Megastack | |
| 11:30 a.m. | $1,750 APPT Main Event Flight B | |
| 1:00 p.m. | $3,500 Mystery Big Bounty High Roller | |
| 3:00 p.m. | $400 6+ Hold’em | |
| 7:00 p.m. | $300 Run It Twice Turbo | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $400 APPT Main Event Qualifier | |
| Sat 10 May | 11:00 a.m. | $400 APPT Main Event Hyper Turbo Qualifier |
| 11:30 a.m. | $270 NLHE 25/15/10 | |
| 11:30 a.m. | $1,750 APPT Main Event Flight C | |
| 1:00 p.m. | $2,000 Freezeout Challenge | |
| 3:00 p.m. | $600 Teams Event | |
| 6:00 p.m. | $500 5-Card PLO Turbo | |
| 6:30 p.m. | $1,750 APPT Main Event Flight D | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $2,000 High Roller Hyper Turbo | |
| Sun 11 May | 11:30 a.m. | $600 Survivor Knockout Flight A |
| 12:00 p.m. | $1,750 APPT Main Event Day 2 | |
| 4:30 p.m. | $3,000 APPT High Roller Day 1 | |
| 5:00 p.m. | $600 Survivor Knockout Flight B | |
| 6:00 p.m. | APPT Players Party | |
| 7:00 p.m. | $400 PLO Bomb Pot Turbo | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $300 6+ Hold’em Hyper Turbo | |
| Mon 12 May | 11:30 a.m. | $400 APPT Mini Main Event Day 1 |
| 11:30 a.m. | $600 Survivor Knockout Day 2 | |
| 12:00 p.m. | $3,000 APPT High Roller Day 2 | |
| 12:00 p.m. | $1,750 APPT Main Event Day 3 | |
| 4:30 p.m. | $2,000 Knockout High Roller | |
| 5:00 p.m. | $500 NLHE Double Stack Day 1 | |
| 9:00 p.m. | $300 NLHE 15/10/5 | |
| Tue 13 May | 11:30 a.m. | $300 Deepstack |
| 11:30 a.m. | $500 Double Stack Final | |
| 11:30 a.m. | $400 APPT Mini Main Event Final | |
| 12:00 p.m. | $1,750 APPT Main Event Final | |
| 3:00 p.m. | $300 Knockout Turbo | |
| 3:00 p.m. | $2,000 Last Chance High Roller Turbo | |
| 5:00 p.m. | $200 Last Chance Super Hyper Turbo |
2025 APPT Cambodia Main Event Has Twice the Guarantee as 2024
November 2024 was the last time an APPT Cambodia Main Event occurred. Then, it cost $1,650 to enter and PokerStars placed a $500,000 guarantee on its prize pool. Including re-entries, 518 players bought in and created a $746,153 prize pool.
The nine-handed final table was a cosmopolitan affair, with eight countries represented. Four finalists, Vyacheslav I, Ziad Zebib, Nicola Spicher, and runner-up Donghyup Kim, bagged career-best prizes despite contending with some vastly experienced opponents.
Ireland’s Sven McDermott finished seventh for $23,000, with Singapore superstar Abraham Ceesvin collecting $30,000 for his sixth-place finish. David Erquiaga, a player with over $2 million in cashes, finished fifth for $39,000.
Trong Hieu Ngo, the Vietnamese grinder who took down the 2024 APPT Manila event, was the third place finisher and scooped $66,000.
Christopher Mateo defeated Donghyup Kim heads-up, after striking a deal, and reeled in $126,500; Kim received $113,000. Mateo will almost certainly be in Cambodia to attempt a title defense; he is a regular on the Asian poker circuit and has so far racked up over $1.1 million from 220 cashes in Asia.
2024 APPT Cambodia Main Event Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Mateo | Philippines | $126,500 |
| 2 | Donghyup Kim | South Korea | $113,000 |
| 3 | Trong Hieu Ngo | Vietnam | $66,000 |
| 4 | Nicola Spicher | Switzerland | $50,600 |
| 5 | David Erquiaga | Philippines | $39,000 |
| 6 | Abraham Ceesvin | Singapore | $30,000 |
| 7 | Sven McDermott | Ireland | $23,000 |
| 8 | Ziad Zebib | United States | $17,700 |
| 9 | Vycheslav I | Russia | $13,953 |
2024 APPT Cambodia Results
Expanding the table below reveals every result from the 2024 APPT Cambodia festival, so you know what to expect if you head to Phnom Pehn in May.
| Event | Entrants | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,650 NLHE APPT Main Event | 518 | $746,153 | Christopher Mateo | $126,500 |
| $5,000 NLHE High Roller | 51 | $232,509 | Mike Takayama | $75,600 |
| $10,000 NLHE Super High Roller | 14 | $131,726 | Artem Vezhenkov | $66,000 |
| $900 NLHE APPT National | 278 | $218,425 | Hyeinsik Yun | $44,350 |
| $3,000 NLHE Single Day High Roller | 27 | $72,284 | Anonymous | $27,470 |
| $3,000 NLHE 6-Max High Roller | 27 | $72,284 | Chengcai Pan | $27,468 |
| $2,000 NLHE Mini High Roller | 37 | $66,038 | Dmitriy Suchkov | $22,783 |
| $3,000 NLHE High Roller Bounty | 32 | $53,670 | Roy Putra | $18,500 |
| $600 NLHE Mystery Bounty | 341 | $187,616 | Anton Poliakov | $18,518 |
| $2,000 NLHE High Roller Hyper Trubo | 24 | $44,232 | Jinlong Hu | $16,800 |
| $2,000 NLHE High Roller Turbo | 21 | $37,481 | Takashi Yagura | $16,120 |
| $400 NLHE NAGAWORLD Kickoff | 254 | $86,726 | Homma Itsuki | $14,350 |
| $1,500 NLHE Warm-Up High Roller | 26 | $34,804 | Aladin Reskallah | $13,226 |
| $500 NLHE Double Stack | 106 | $45,241 | Aleksey Ignatyev | $11,818 |
| $400 NLHE APPT Mini Main Event | 137 | $46,777 | Francis Garson | $11,628 |
| $500 NLHE APPT Turbo | 108 | $50,000 | Chudapal Siarhei | $11,342 |
| $1,500 NLHE Last Chance High Roller Turbo | $10,936 | |||
| $500 NLHE/PLO | 82 | $34,998 | Ivan Zabiyakin | $9,855 |
| $300 NLHE SuperStack | 156 | $39,948 | Jussi Rintalahti | $9,347 |
| $2,500 NLHE Megastack High Roller | 8 | $17,848 | Tong Hieu Ngo | $8,924 |
| $300 NLHE Megastack | 170 | $43,534 | Seong Park | $8,830 |
| $1,100 PLO | 20 | $19,206 | Leo Kamiya | $8,258 |
| $500 NLHE Survivor KO | 127 | $54,224 | Piyawat Tangwilai | $7,235 |
| $300 NLEH APPT Hyper Turbo | 91 | $30,000 | oliver Biles | $6,945 |
| $300 NLHE Shot Clock | 90 | $23,047 | Matuphoom Pangsrivinij | $6,148 |
| $200 NLHE Megastack Turbo | 152 | $25,949 | Alan Lambert | $6,070 |
| $300 NLHE Deepstack Turbo | 88 | $22,986 | Zhang Lei | $6,010 |
| $300 PLO | 70 | $17,926 | Tuomas Urtti | $5,378 |
| $300 NLHE Deepstack Freezeout | 73 | $18,694 | Woo Kim | $5,266 |
| $400 NLHE 6-Max | 77 | $19,718 | Seyed Ebrahimi | $4,568 |
| $600 NLHE Teams Event | 18 | $9,428 | Hyung Chul Hyun | $4,054 |
| $300 NLHE Knockout | 91 | $14,203 | Yoke Woon | $3,788 |
| $400 PLO Turbo | 29 | $9,902 | Seungil Song | $3,763 |
| $400 NLHE Win the Button | 28 | $9,560 | Dorian Debals | $3,633 |
| $400 NLHE 6+ Hold’em | 25 | $8,536 | Ebiya Yoshimune | $3,244 |
| $200 NLHE Run it Twice | 61 | $10,414 | Adrien Zychowski | $3,175 |
| $500 NLHE Super KO Turbo | 58 | $10,254 | Jiaofang Duan | $3,054 |
| $200 NLHE Turbo | 51 | $8,707 | Aleksandr Kraev | $2,829 |
| $200 NLHE 25/15/10 | 56 | $9,560 | Ryoma Hasegawa | $2,596 |
| $250 NLHE Bubble Rush | 40 | $8,536 | Arun Godiyal | $2,433 |
| $200 NLHE Showtime Hld’em | 32 | $5,463 | Yi Lin | $1,885 |
| $200 NLHE Last Chance Hyper Turbo | 27 | $4,714 | Anton Poliakov | $1,791 |
Other 2025 APPT and PokerStars LIVE at Okada Manila Stops
Two other APPT stops are currently scheduled between now and the end of 2025. APPT Manila runs from July 23 to August 4, guaranteeing over $2.4 million. Then there is the APPT Championship at Coral Lounge, Okada Manila, from October 16-27. It has combined guaranteed prize pools tipping the scales at over $2.6 million.
Several series and festivals are confirmed at the PokerStars LIVE room at Okada, Manila, in the Philippines. The Super Series 21 is already done and dusted, but ten events, including the aforementioned APPT Manila and APPT Championship are upcoming.
| Dates | Series |
|---|---|
| March 13-23 | Manila Megastack 22 |
| April 4-13 | Okada Manila Millions |
| May 9-11 | PokerStars LIVE Manila Special |
| June 6-15 | Manila Sper Series 22 |
| July 20-22 | APPT Super Qualifier |
| July 23-August 4 | APPT Manila |
| September 19-28 | APPT Championship Warm-Up |
| October 16-27 | APPT Championship |
| November 27-December 8 | Manila Megastack |
Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.
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