PokerStars LIVE Manila is about and set for the highly anticipated APPT Manila Season 10 poker festival which happens on the luxurious City of Dreams Manila from July 28 to August 8!

Last year, the tour's annual Philippines leg took an incredible step in cementing its place as a must-play event at the Asia poker circuit. The poker festival went from 558 total entrants in 2014 to an enormous 2,769! In fact, the ₱50,000 Main Event alone surpassed the 2014 figures with 585 runners.

With big fields comes big money and last year's prize pools totalled greater than ₱52 million (USD $1.1 million). This time promises to be even bigger and better!

WARMING UP (July 28-31)

If you're fortunate enough to make the outlet weekend of the 12-day schedule then you definately don't need to overlook out at tha three?rm-up event which comes with a ₱3 million prize pool guarantee.

Last year, Singapore's Alex Lee took down the opener for a payday of over ₱1 million. The ₱10,000 buy-in tournament drew 570 entrants for a prize pool of nearly ₱5 million!

HIGH ROLLER (August 3-4)

Norwegian poker pro Henrik Tollefsen won last season's ₱200,000 High Roller after defeating a 33-player field. However, the 2-day event has now moved to the eve of the primary Event to place itself to grow substantially from its ₱6 million prize pool.

"The change has received a large number of positive feedback so we're expecting the High Roller to peer one of the most biggest increases amongst all of the events within the poker festival," said poker site manager Gerardo 'Hill' Alim.

MAIN EVENT (August 4-8)

₱50,000 buy-in. 585 players. 41 different countries. ₱25,535,250 prize pool.

That's the stat line for last year's APPT Manila Main Event making it the Philippines' biggest international poker tournament in history. There's simply no event at USD $1,000+ buy-in within the country that remotely comes as regards to producing those roughly numbers.

With another year under its belt, PokerStars LIVE Manila is primed for another huge turnout and Season 10 may actually shatter those already-impressive figures.

The man to look at would definitely be Aussie poker pro Aaron Lim who won the primary Event last year - becoming the first, and only, two-time APPT winner. Lim has confirmed his attendance for APPT Manila and he's in good form after recently winning the APPT Seoul High Roller event.

Live and online satellites to the primary Event are actually running.

Full your entire APPT Manila schedule please visit the APPT website.

Tournament Structures can be found here.

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