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The first-ever African Poker Championship (APC) concluded at Le Grande Casino in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, after a grueling 17-hour final day. The $1,000 buy-in Main Event drew 256 entries, generating a $215,040 prize pool with the top 32 finishers earning a payout.
South Africa’s Adriaan Jacobs, widely known as Aidan, defeated the UK’s Anuj Sareen heads-up in the early hours of Monday, October 5, to secure the title and the $48,000 top prize. Jacobs became South Africa’s youngest WSOP bracelet winner earlier this year, capturing the $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold’em event shortly after turning 21.
Sareen, who had traveled to Tanzania alongside poker pro Dan “Jungleman” Cates, settled for $32,000 as runner-up. The win marked Jacobs’ second title of the year on the newly launched African tour, created by Monster Jam Poker Tour founder Marc Joseph.
The final table also featured Le Grande Casino owner Costa Giannakopoulos and his son Panayiotis Giannakopoulos, who both fell in the opening stages of the nine-handed table.
Earlier in the tournament, the money bubble burst within the first two levels, triggering a wave of eliminations. Cliton Taliwanth surged from the middle of the pack to chip leader before eventually finishing fifth after a quads-fueled knockout by Sareen.
The final table alone lasted nearly twice as long as the stretch from 39 players down to the last nine, with Vietnam’s Tome Dinh briefly leading before falling in third. Jacobs then sealed victory after a dramatic back-and-forth heads-up battle against Sareen.
