Yan Zhang wins the Asia Pacific Poker Tour 2014 Beijing Cup, and PokerStars LIVE Manila announce the schedule of their first-ever major event – the 2015 Manila Megastack.
Zhang outlasted 346 players, capturing the first prize of $99,700 in the main event of a four-day festival of poker that included Pot Limit Omaha (PLO), No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE), and Flip-Out style contests. The $1,500 freezeout style main event created a total prizepool of $445,000, and of the 38 players who made the money, 33 of them were from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
It was a wonderful victory for Zhang, who defeated his fellow countryman Yonggang Wang, in heads-up action – particularly when you figure into the equation his runner-up appearance in the 2014 Beijing Millions.
The 2014 Beijing Millions was the first major poker contest to be held in Mainland China, and the 2,732-player field created a record as the largest ever live poker tournament to be held outside of the US. That record was broken by the 2014 Grosvenor United Kingdom & Ireland (GUKPT) Goliath event when Ryan Foster defeated a field of 3,394 players.
PokerStars LIVE Manila Announce 2015 Manila Megastack Schedule
Maintaining the Asian poker theme, we bring you news of the first major event to be held in the newly opened PokerStars LIVE Manila cardroom. The event, christened The 2015 Manila Megastack, will run 14-18 Jan 2015 and feature six events climaxing with a $560 buy-in Manila Megastack Main Event.
The Main Event will begin on 17 Jan 2015 and will be a two-day event. The rest of the schedule will consists of the usual array of NLHE side-events.
“Our relationship with City of Dreams has been nothing short of amazing in our poker room in Macau. I have the utmost confidence that our continued collaboration in Manila will take poker in the Philippines to new heights,” said Danny McDonagh, PokerStars’ Director of Live Operations for Asia-Pacific.
The full schedule can be found here.
