APT Taipei 2024 Smashes Several Records; Awards Largest Main Event Prize in Tour's History

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:35:52 +0000

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) Taipei 2024 festival has wrapped up and it is safe to say it surpassed all expectations. APT Taipei boasted over 100 trophy events, making it one of the busiest schedules in the tour’s long and illustrious history, but it is the prize money awarded in some of those events that make APT Taipei 2024 extra special.

Eleven events broke APT and country records, including the Main Event, which raised the bar in terms of the total prize pool and the first-place prize awarded in Taiwan. The TWD 70,000 (US$2,270) buy-in Main Event drew in 737 unique players who purchased 445 re-entries between them, taking the total attendance to 1,182.

Bertrand Grospellier

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 05:26:17 +0000

Biography

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier is a French poker player and GGPoker Ambassador. His is also a Triple Crown winner, having won a World Series of Poker bracelet, as well as World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour titles.

He is also a former PokerStars Team Pro, having represented the site from 2006-2018, and a former partypoker pro having represented the site from 2018-2020.

Biography

Grospellier was born in Melun, France. Before he started playing poker, he was a world-famous StarCraft player under the name ‘ElkY’. In 2001 moved to South Korea to pursuit his passion for StarCraft. He took part in a number of competitions beating thousands of his opponents and collecting top place finishes. Grospellier says that his gaming experience is one of the main reasons why he’s so successful at the poker tables.

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APT Taipei 2024 Smashes Several Records; Awards Largest Main Event Prize in Tour's History

Bertrand Grospellier

Biography

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