Welcome to the 2024 WPT Prime Taiwan Championship!

2023 WPT Prime Taiwan Main Event winner Seonguk Huh

One of the most highly anticipated live poker tournaments of the year in Taiwan kicks off today, as the 2024 WPT Prime Taiwan Championship is slated to get underway at 11 a.m. local time. Host venue will once again be the Asian Poker Arena in Taipei City and the event is held in cooperation with the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association.

It is the fourth time since 2020 that the World Poker Tour is heading to the Republic of China in partnership with the CTP Club and the event has been setting prize pool and attendance records in previous editions. The very same can be expected from this year’s WPT Prime Taiwan Championship Main Event, which comes with a TWD35,000 buy-in and guaranteed prize pool of $1 Million.

Compared to last year’s edition, all early key events on the schedule have seen an increase in participation numbers and that is a very promising sign for the days ahead. A total of three starting flights in as many days are scheduled for the next three days, all of which get underway before lunch time.

The players start with 40,000 in chips, which represents 200 big blinds in the opening level at blinds of 100-200 and a big blind ante of 200. Late registration is available for the first nine levels and following break until approximately 17:45 local time for each of the Day 1 heats with unlimited re-entries available during that period.

All of the starting days will play until the money has been reached with approximately one out of eight players (12.5% of each field) set to advance. In order to reach Day 2, participants have to bag up chips. The WPT Action Clock comes into play at the conclusion of level 15. Each player will receive four time bank extensions with further extensions to be awarded during later milestones in the tournament.

One year ago, the crown jewel on the schedule set a new record for largest WPT-sponsored live event in Asia with 1,359 entries and it also set the record attendance for the WPT Prime brand until it was broken in Liechtenstein shortly after. The TWD 39,546,900 prize pool was split among the top 173 finishers with three contenders from South Korea reaching the final table:

1st:  Seonguk Huh (South Korea)  – TWD 6,319,800 / $197,741*
2nd:  Yannick Leonard (France)  –  TWD 4,212,000 / $131,790
3rd:  Seung Hun “Manny” Ko (South Korea)  –  TWD 3,118,000 / $97,559
4th:  Jacky Wang (Singapore)  –  TWD 2,331,000 / $72,935
5th:  Tung Wing Wong (Hong Kong)  –  TWD 1,760,000 / $55,069
6th:  Dongkyu Kim (South Korea)  –  TWD1,342,000 / $41,990
7th:  Tao Wei Chang (Taiwan)  –  TWD 1,034,000 / $32,353
8th:  Feng Wen Chen (Taiwan)  –  TWD 803,700 / $25,147
9th:  Guillem Segarra (Spain)  –  TWD 633,000 / $19,806

One of them, Seonguk Huh, came out on top of a topsy-turvy heads-up duel with French poker pro Yannick Leonard to not only win the tournament but also receive the $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas on top of his cash prize. The same will also be the case for this year’s winner as well.

Stay tuned for the updates right here on WPT.com as another headline tournament unfolds in Taiwan.