APT Adds Three New Ambassadors
After the Macau tournament was over the Asian Poker Tour (APT) signed three top professional poker players to serve as their ambassadors. The new ambassadors for the APT are J.C. Tran, Quinn Do and Nam Le. They job as ambassadors will be to represent the APT on the World Poker circuit.
This announcement comes after Le won the APT Macau High Rollers event for $474,358 dollars and Quinn Do finished third in the event for a win of $153,846 dollars. After winning the High Rollers Event Nam Le said in a press release that was distributed by APT on Tuesday, “I’m truly delighted to have won and so happy to have gotten my deal with the APT off to the best possible start. I’m looking forward to representing the Tour around the world. It wasn’t looking great for me in this tournament at one stage, but I was always confident that I would bounce back.”
Le has enjoyed a great career playing poker he finished in second place at the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2006 World Series of Poker earning him $401,647 dollars at his first WSOP final table appearance. Then in 2007 he finished in third place in another tournament winning $239,230 dollars.
JC Tran is now a WSOP gold bracelet holder as he won this year's $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event for a $631,170 dollar win. Throughout his poker career he has won over $1.7 million dollars from just WSOP and Circuit Events. Tran also made five final table appearances on World Poker Tour events. He placed second in the LA Poker Classic earning him $1.1 million dollars.
Quinn Do is another great poker player joining the APT as an ambassador. He won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet and $265,975 dollars in 2005 for winning the $2,500 Limit Hold'em event. His other wins include a second place finish for $909,400 dollars in the LA Poker Classic.
“We have big plans for these guys and are happy they signed with us to spread the word about the APT worldwide. We expected success, but such a [big] result for two of the ambassadors so quickly is brilliant", said Tom Hall, the CEO of Asian Logic also the operator of the Asian Poker Tour.
