Samuel Mullur APT Manila Main Event runner-up, cashes €107,728

The Asian Poker Tour Manila Classic 2025 series took place in the Philippine capital in recent days, bringing the Main Event with a buy-in of €993 and a guarantee of just under €1 million.

The Main Event brought in 1,202 entries, bringing the prizepool to a value of €1,031,615. A €183,267 prize awaited the winner here, along with a ticket to the APT Taipei Championship worth €10,430, which will be held at the end of the year.

Nine players advanced to the final day and they were led by Dmitrii Belikov with a stack of to 8,890,000. The most famous and successful player here was Austrian Samuel Mullur, who started the final table from the penultimate position with a stack of 2,150,000, which was 13 blinds.

However, Samuel was able to battle his way up to chipleader position during the game and held that position until the last three players. He even made an incredible call to knock out Israeli player Or Yaaqov Nezer, who finished in 4th place. Nezer decided to bluff after laying out a full board and put his entire stack of over 5 million into play. However, Mullur sensed the bluff and called his opponent's call with just a pair of fours. However, those were enough in this case.

Mullur entered the last three as a massive chipleader, but he didn't hold that position for long. Ivan Govorov stepped up to take over the chipleader position and didn't let the chance for the success to slip away. He went into the final heads-up with a stack of up to 38 million, against Mullur with a stack of 10 million. Heads-up play lasted only a few minutes, after which Russian player Govorov emerged as the winner. Samuel Mullur earned €107,728 for his second place finish.

Source - theasianpokertour.com, youtube