The Season 21 Grand Final of the Japan Open Poker Tour (JOPT) took place in January and set a new attendance record for the JOPT. Some 1,128 players had bought in by the time late registration slammed shut, blowing the previous record of 818 entries, set by last season’s JOPT Grand Final, out of the water.
Tournaments part of the JOPT Grand Final’s schedule came with combined prize pools of ¥100 million ($865,200) with a cool ¥15 million ($129,700) paid out by the main event alone.