The curtain came down on the 2025 PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) season with the crowning of the APPT Manila Championship champion. With re-entries included, 384 players exchanged PHP 165,000 (approx. $2,900) for the chance to become this event's champion. South Korea's Minwoong Jeong is the man who will forever be known for taking down this tournament. He banked a career-best PHP 11,850,000 ($202,981).
The top 55 finishers secured a slice of the PHP 60,000,000 ($1,027,753) prize pool. Familiar names such as Bernard Vu, 2025 APPT Manila Main Event champion Justin Ong, and 2025 WPT Prime Cambodia winner Alexander Puchalski were among them; the latter busted in tenth place and popped the final table bubble.