Several days ago, the Asian Poker Tour opened its calendar year with the nine-day APT Kickoff 2017 at Resorts World Manila. Today saw the highlight tournament, the US$1,650 buy-in APT Main Event, enter its first day. After a scheduled eight rounds of play, it was Japanese player GACKT who ruled with a massive stack of 474,300.

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http://www.theasianpokertour.com/news/gackt-rules-main-event-day-1a-hung-sheng-lin-wins-head-hunter-event.html