The Asian Poker Tour (APT) Manila Classic 2025 Main Event has officially made history, setting a new record for the largest-ever field in the Philippines on the Asian Poker Tour (APT). The series is currently being held inside the Grand Ballroom of the prestigious Crowne Plaza Galleria in collaboration with Metro Card Club.
All eyes are now its PHP60k (~$1,030) buy-in no-limit hold ’em Main Event, which saw a whooping 1,202 entries across four starting flights, shattering the previous record for the largest APT event in Manila, Philippines, set during the APT Manila 2024. The record-breaking field smashed the PHP 60 Million GTD, generating a prize pool of PHP 61,681,680 (~$1,100,000).
From the prize pool, the eventual champion will claim the bigger piece, collecting PHP 11,069,680 (~$190,20), the coveted Gold Lion APT Main Event Trophy, and an APT Championship (APTC) ticket valued at approximately $10,700.
2025 APT Manila Classic 2025 Day 2 and Day 3 Quick Recap
Of the 1,202 entries, only 377 players survived to advance to Day 2. As the field whittled down on Day 2, it was the top 175 players who made it into the money with a mini-cash of PHP94k (~$1,615).
Several Indian players also made it into the money in the record-breaking main event, including Ish Agarwal, Rahul Rajendra Darak, Somasekhar Sanampuri, Raju Jaruplavath, Bharath Jayram, Siddharth Karia, and Rishi Mehra.
Day 3 of the 2025 APT Manila Classic Main Event kicked off on February 13 and ran for over 9 hours until the field was down to 48 players. Hong Kong’s Jie Zhang, who was among the mid-stack when Day 3 kicked off, ended up as the chip leader moving into Day 4 with almost 4 million in Chips.
Zhang is followed by Alexander Ugay who holds the second-largest stack with 2,335,000. Start-of-day chip leader Po-Shuo Huang ended the day with 1,755,000, while Jayden Zalac (1,740,000), and Niklas Warlich (1,365,000) all ended up the day among the top 10 stacks.
Two Indian Players Still in Contention
Meanwhile, there are two poker players from India advancing to Day 4 of this prestigious tournament– Rishi Mehra and Siddharth Karia. Karia has less than 1 million in chip stacks, while Mehra is among the top 10 in chip stacks holding 1.4 million chip stacks.
2025 APT Manila Classic Main Event Top Stacks For Day 4
| Rank | Name | Chips |
| 1 | Jie Zhang | 3,930,000 |
| 2 | Alexander Ugay | 2,335,000 |
| 3 | Samuel Sabu Mullur | 2,065,000 |
| 4 | Geno Gendrano | 1,995,000 |
| 5 | Po-Shuo Huang | 1,755,000 |
| 6 | Jayden Zalac | 1,740,000 |
| 7 | Tetsuya Tsujisaka | 1,630,000 |
| 8 | Egidijus Digrys | 1,609,000 |
| 9 | Rishi Mehra | 1,465,000 |
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Source: Asian Poker Tour
