APT Sets 2027 Calendar With Four Stops Between Jeju and Taipei

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) already knows where it wants to spend a substantial part of 2027.

On October 8, the APT released the first batch of dates for next season, with four marquee festivals split evenly between Jeju and Taipei. 

The 2027 calendar opens in South Korea in January and closes 10 months later with the $10,000 APT Championship Main Event in Taiwan. In between, Taipei gets an expanded spring stop while Jeju returns for the tour’s autumn series.

PokerWired has the details.

So far, all the destinations are familiar, but the calendar itself has been trimmed a little and jumbled around, at least for now.

When the 2026 season was announced, it had five stops across three destinations: Jeju Classic, Taipei, Incheon, Jeju and the Taipei Championship. This initial 2027 announcement lists just four marquee stops and no Incheon festival in sight.

The Asian Poker Tour has something to prove with its 2027 calendar. Right now, it's going against a 2026 season that has already shattered record after record and it's not even done yet.

The Jeju Classic Main Event started the year with 1,718 entries, making it the largest international poker tournament held in South Korea at the time. Its KRW 2.2 billion guarantee eventually became a KRW 3.414 billion prize pool, with William Li collecting KRW 579.6 million for first. 

Taipei went that much bigger at festival level. The 12-day stop drew 26,009 tournament entries from 3,890 unique players, paid more than TWD 598.9 million, around $19.1 million, and became APT’s largest non-Championship festival. Its Main Event alone attracted 2,354 entries and generated approximately $3.59 million. 

Incheon followed with another record. Its Main Event reached 1,393 entries and KRW 3.01 billion, while the complete festival awarded close to KRW 16 billion, around $11.4 million. 

Jeju raised the overall Korean festival benchmark yet again in September and October. The 13-day series recorded 10,667 entries across 130 trophy tournaments and awarded more than KRW 19.4 billion, around $14.6 million. 

The 2026 APT Championship is still to come in November, so one final benchmark remains unfinished.

For now, the 2027 schedule is keeping the two locations that produced some of its biggest numbers this year. The individual schedules will arrive in due time, but the 2027 season is already starting to take shape: Jeju is reserved for the opening and autumn dates, while Taipei holds the spring festival and the Championship.