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Natural8-GGSF: Over US$ 85.6M paid out; Ronny Kaiser denies Mikita Badziakouski; Michele Dattani ships the High Thriller; Artur Martirosyan wins one; Kosei Ichinose reaches two final tables
GG Spring Festival 2021 is well beyond its halfway point with 13 days of games completed. Day 11, Day 12, and Day 13 contributed a combined US$ 11,694,000 in prize money to bring the cumulative festival payouts to an impressive US$ 85,664,000. Among the biggest...
WPTDeepstacks Hanoi: Warm Up Event draws 357, smashes guarantee; 45 players advance to Day 2; Superstack & Single Day High Roller up next
Wall to wall action at the inaugural WPTDeepstacks Hanoi as players filled up host venue Crown Poker Club for the last two entry flights of the Warm Up Event. At the completion, a headstrong 357 entered across four starting days to crush the advertised VNđ 1.5 billion...
Somuchpoker Talks: Andrew Neeme about getting back to Live Poker
Although his best friend Brad Owen has a bigger following by now, Andrew Neeme is seen by many as the poker vlogger GOAT. His vlogs were the first coming from Las Vegas in a high production value with consistent reliability. During COVID Andrew transitioned to online...
WPTDeepStacks Hanoi: Warm Up Event opens with 89 entries; two flights remain; Tạ Khánh Linh wins the Deepstack Turbo
Opening day at the inaugural WPTDeepStacks Hanoi engaged the crowd with two events running at host venue Crown Poker Club. The Warm Up Event VNđ 1.5 billion (~US$ 65,065) guaranteed was the most sought after with 89 entries while the Deepstack Turbo closed with Tạ...
10 Years After Black Friday
For the younger poker players the day that is named “Black Friday” is a legend, a thing from the past that affected players and the industry a decade ago. For those that were already playing online poker or working in the industry, the 15th of April, 2011 revokes...
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WPTDeepStacks Hanoi begins today
After a year and a half long wait, the World Poker Tour is finally back in Vietnam! Starting today, host venue Crown Poker Club will welcome in players to the tour’s premier mid-major WPTDeepStacks festival. While this is the brand’s fourth visit to the country, it...
APL Hanoi pays out over US$ 550K; Huỳnh Ngọc Cường wins Main Event & Kickoff; Nguyễn Duy Vũ & Andre Lettau top high roller events
The Asia Poker League concluded the first festival of its “APL Trilogy: Enter The Dragon” series with nine days of games hosted at the Grand Loyal Poker Club in Hanoi, Vietnam. Initially intended to take place in May 2020, the global health crisis pushed it back...
Online News: WPT launches NFTs; The Venom PKO on WPN and more…
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. WPT launches NFTs We did recently report about Tony G being the first known poker person to launch NFTS, but now the World Poker Tour has...
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Natural8-GGSF: Over US$ 85.6M paid out; Ronny Kaiser denies Mikita Badziakouski; Michele Dattani ships the High Thriller; Artur Martirosyan wins one; Kosei Ichinose reaches two final tables
GG Spring Festival 2021 is well beyond its halfway point with 13 days of games completed. Day 11, Day 12, and Day 13 contributed a combined US$ 11,694,000 in prize money to bring the cumulative festival payouts to an impressive US$ 85,664,000. Among the biggest...
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Somuchpoker Talks: Andrew Neeme about getting back to Live Poker
Although his best friend Brad Owen has a bigger following by now, Andrew Neeme is seen by many as the poker vlogger GOAT. His vlogs were the first coming from Las Vegas in a high production value with consistent reliability. During COVID Andrew transitioned to online...
Online News: WPT launches NFTs; The Venom PKO on WPN and more…
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. WPT launches NFTs We did recently report about Tony G being the first known poker person to launch NFTS, but now the World Poker Tour has...
Natural8-GGSF: Niklas Astedt ships over US$1M at the Sunday Five Million; Sami Kelopuro pockets US$520K; Jack Salter & China’s “judd trump” among latest multi winners; US$10M gtd Super MILLION$ underway
Topping the headlines once again was Swedish pro Niklas Astedt who conquered this week’s edition of the Sunday Five Million for a towering US$ 1,095,740.82, the largest festival payout to date. This was his fourth victory, the most by any player. Finland’s Sami...
Somuchpoker Talks: Vanessa Kade about winning the Sunday Million
Everybody knows who Vanessa Kade is now after her Twitter run-in with Dan Bilzerian, her criticism of GGPoker to sign him as an ambassador and the drama around her Affiliate account. She managed to REALLY turn this story around, however, by getting signed by...
Interview: Out of Quarantine with Danny McDonagh
After a long hiatus, the World Poker Tour is back in Asia-Pacific. This month, Ha Noi will host its first ever WPT Deepstacks event. Somuchpoker takes time to discuss with WPT Live Events Specialist – Danny McDonagh who will also act as Tournament Director...
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Top 10 Beginners Tips for Six Plus Hold’em / Short Deck
It’s been over a year since PokerStars introduced Six Plus Hold’em and since then other major poker sites like GGPoker have followed suit. Six Plus might seem very similar to regular Texas Hold’em, except the ante structure and of course having the deck being stripped...
Everything you should know before making a deal in a tournament
Over the years, deal making has become an increasingly popular and important factor in tournaments. It allows players to flatten the payouts in the late stages which decreases the variance which can make tournament grinding difficult to manage as a profession. Most...
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Are re-entries and late registrations hurting the poker economy?
There once a time when poker tournaments involved one buy-in, one stack and one shot. In the simpler days of a freezeout you’d only ever see a player bust once. But these days, professionals can fire bullet after bullet until they finally build a big stack they can go...
6 reasons why you need to start beating online micro stakes if you want to take poker seriously
There is a common complaint among players who want to be successful at poker but cannot climb the ladder. They claim to have difficulty beating the micro stakes and moving up because their sophisticated plays do not work on weak players. You’ll normally find such...
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CTP celebrates its 5th year anniversary; Pete Yen Han Chen wins the Main Event, Shou Dien Chen comes out the richest, & Ping Hao Huang tops the POS
Five years ago in the city of Tao Yuan, Taiwan, the first Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association (CTP Club) opened with just two tables and a third one at the nearby market. Fast forward to today, CTP has grown to five branches. The largest and most popular is...
Schedule, Satellites, Promotions, Freerolls: Everything you should know to play the WSOP on Natural8
A couple of days left on the calendar until the highly anticipated 2020 World Series of Poker Online kicks off its international leg happening on one of the fastest growing platforms in the industry, Natural8 – GGPoker Network. Unlike its previous 50 versions...
China Poker Games resumes; on track for annual championships event in August
For Chinese players, every year since 2013 the China Poker Games (CPG) Championship has been the event to look forward to. Held in Sanya, Hainan Island, it is the biggest annual event in Asia with eight days of nonstop festivities running at the end of August. For the...
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Polk ends heads up challenge vs Negreanu with a $1.2M win
After 36 sessions and over a hundred hours of battle, the heads up challenge between icons Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu has finally come to a close. Polk, a master of the heads up game has proven his prowess time and time again, ending his most recent grudge match...
Argentina’s Damian Salas crowned the 2020 WSOP Main Event champion
After two WSOP Main Event online legs, two live final table showdowns, and one ultimate heads up world championship, the 51st Annual World Series of Poker finally crowned its $10,000 No Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT champion. Standing victorious and proud was Argentinian...
Negreanu, Kitai, Ensan, Kanit, Blum and More: The Poker Community Talks About Covid-19’s Impact on Their Lives
The poker community, like the rest of the world, has not been spared the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis. The gaming industry has been hit hard by casino closings and the stopping of live tournaments, which has meant a sudden halt to their activities and plans for many...
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