Asian Poker Tour Announces Schedule

This big set of 4 events will be kicking off on May 27th of 2008 in the Philipeans. The following 3 events out of the series of 4 tournaments will be held in Singapore, Macau, and South Korea. Each of these events will cost $2,500 to enter, and will gaurantee a prize pool of $1,000,000. So they are hoping to be able to draw some big names into this tournament, but there's one problem. They made an awful decision on when to schedule this tournament, considering that the biggest series of tournament events, the WSOP, is having their first even on the same date. So the chances of the poker pro's going to the Asian Poker Tour over the $10,000 buy in WSOP even is very slim.

Personally I would love to attend these events but I don't quite have that kind of money yet, but a lot of my poker friends do, and are definitely going to play in the WSOP even instead since there is a chance to win so much more money. But at the same time that means that the field of players is going to be a lot weaker over at the Asian Poker Tour so you would probably have a better chance of winning some money. Either way i figured I'd talk about this because i thought it was just such a stupid idea to schedule it like that because the WSOP is on almost the same exact schedule every year, there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to schedule around it.