APT Championship Taipei 2026: 210 events at Red Space, with a USD 5m guarantee on the Main Event

The Asian Poker Tour returns to Taipei this month for the APT Championship, the largest festival on Taiwan's calendar and one of the biggest in Asia. It is scheduled at Red Space, the Taipei room that has become the tour's effective home floor, with 210 events in all and 23 of them designated Championship Events.

The headline event is a USD 10,000 Main Event freezeout carrying a USD 5,000,000 guarantee. A freezeout at that price is unusual for the region, where re-entry formats dominate, and it sets the Main Event apart from most of what Taipei stages.

One detail is worth flagging rather than smoothing over: the festival's overall guarantee has been quoted at two different figures. A March 2026 announcement put the series at roughly USD 6.5 million in guarantees, while a 3 November update refers to over USD 8 million. We have not found the two reconciled on the tour's own pages, and the schedule released so far does not name or price the individual events beyond the Main Event, so the per-event breakdown remains unpublished. Treat the larger number as the current claim rather than a settled total.

The dates themselves carry a small discrepancy of the same kind — the event page gives 12 to 29 November while an accompanying headline gives 13 to 29. Our record follows the 13 November start, which is the date the tour has used consistently elsewhere.

For players travelling in, the thing to know about Taipei is structural rather than scheduling: the city's clubs deal tournaments only. There are no cash games anywhere in the Taiwanese club estate, because the skill-competition framing that keeps the rooms open does not survive a ring game. What the clubs run between festivals is the time limit tournament, played for a fixed block of hours and settled on stacks when the clock stops. A player arriving for the APT expecting to fill the gaps between events with a cash session will not find one.