Former APPT Main Event Champions

There are three former champions still in the APPT Manila Main Event field, hoping to become the third two-time APPT Main Event winners after Aaron Lim (APPT Seoul 2013 & APPT Manila 2015) and Yifan Zheng (APPT Macau 2016 & APPT Macau 2018)

APPT National Manila runner-up Linh Tran is in the best position with almost double average. He won this event back in 2016 for ₱6,135,000.

Sparrow Cheung took down the APPT Incheon Main Event back in April for KRW 198,100,000, with Huidong Gu (pictured) the most recent winner, winning the APPT Jeju Main Event in June for KRW 183,695,000.