200 Free Tickets to Be Given Away for the APT Championship Main Event

The Asia Poker Tour (APT) Championship 2026 will take place from November 13 to 29 at The Red Space Taipei in Taipei, Taiwan. The festival's total guaranteed prize pool has been announced as 8.1 million dollars.

The headline event is the main event, played with a 10,000 dollar buy-in. The prize pool for this tournament is guaranteed at 5 million dollars. Last year's championship distributed 6,192,637 dollars in prizes. Given the high participation APT has attracted in 2026, the pool this year is expected to be even larger.

PokerNews is running a special free tournament together with GGPoker and Natural8. The tournament starts on October 31 at 19:00 GMT. Players must use the code PNXATPC2026 to enter. The top 200 finishers will each receive a 12 dollar ticket credited to their account, which grants entry to a 90 dollar Taipei satellite.

Players who use this ticket can move from the 90 dollar satellite to a 600 dollar satellite. From there, they can play a satellite in which they can win one of 10 seats, numbered 2 to 10, to the 10,000 dollar main event. This is also how players can gain a chance to share the guaranteed 5 million dollar prize pool of the main event.

The festival features 209 tournaments in total, including 23 major championship events and 20 women's events. The schedule offers a range of buy-ins, formats and variants, and it draws many players from distant countries.