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Brian Yip Wins 2016 Boyaa Poker Tour Main Event
- Updated: October 26, 2016
After three days of intensive competition, the 2016 Boyaa Poker Tour (BPT) came to the end Oct. 24 and the Hong Kong player Brian Yip topped a field of 300 players to become the global champion of the Main Event with a prize of 560,000 HKD.
Executives from Boyaa Interactive and PokerKing signed the corresponding check for Yip.
This year, BPT successfully drew the attention of many overseas players. Nearly 70 percent of the players came from the U.S., Germany, Italy, Poland, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia and Iraq.
Some of the players that attended this year’s BPT also attended last year’s BPT, due to their fond memories of the tournament and Boyaa Texas Hold’em Poker. Even so, most of the overseas players coming to this year’s BPT were new.
The 2016 BPT was more like a poker carnival than a competition because its astonishing 50 percent prize pool rewarded half of its participants. In order to …
