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We have teamed up with 888poker! The poker room will be offering exclusive $100 freerolls to Somuchpoker followers every Sunday! The field size is expected to be small, you have a great chance to get your hands on some easy money. You do not have to make any sort of...
Daniel Negreanu bets $400,000 that Phil Hellmuth is a losing player
Well-known poker icon Daniel Negreanu has regularly reveled in the industry’s spotlight whether it be for his skills in gameplay, daring opinion or exciting matches. Most recently, the Canadian pro is once again under the limelight as social media banter against...

People News: Holz vs. Malinowksi; Jon van Fleet joins ACR Team Pro and more
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting news and gossip from our favourite poker people. Ryan Fee buys new car and needles Dnegs Daniel Negreanu was very clear on social media and the DAT poker podcast that his loss of $1.2 million in the Grudge...

Online News: Natural8 Fish Buffet reboot; 888poker’s new tournament schedule and more…
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Natural8 Fish Buffet reboot The Fish Buffet Rewards program has received an upgrade. All fixed cashback levels are now called Platinum....

Natural8 – GGPoker Network hosts awaited $30M guaranteed Super MILLION$ Week
The industry’s fastest growing platform is back this time with its biggest high stakes festival to date. Running until March 7, 2021 on the Natural8 – GGPoker Network, the 8-day Super MILLION$ is currently underway with an astounding line up of 31 events. The...
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Videos of the Week: Giang vs Greenstein; Tom Dwan in Trouble?; Scott Seiver Table Talk; Brad Owen vlog: I Win $1000/Hr
In this article we deliver you a couple of selected poker videos of the past week. Giang vs Greenstein in the PokerStars Big Game PokerStars presents us with some highlight hands from the popular Big Game show with two poker legends in their own right: Chau Giang and...

Genting Group carries on with expansion plans in Malaysia and Singapore amid Covid-19 pandemic
While the gaming and casino industry has been hit exceptionally hard throughout this whole global health crisis ordeal, it appears the Genting Group is focused on its long term standing rather than the current predicament. One of Asia’s leading multinational...

Online Poker News: Full Tilt retiring; WSOP packages a good sign?; WPN client update and more…
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Full Tilt finally retiring Many poker fans reacted to this news with “Huh? Wasn’t Full Tilt already gone?”. Technically yes, but...
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We have teamed up with 888poker! The poker room will be offering exclusive $100 freerolls to Somuchpoker followers every Sunday! The field size is expected to be small, you have a great chance to get your hands on some easy money. You do not have to make any sort of...
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Interview: Jon ‘apestyles’ Van Fleet takes us through his online poker journey
Done by Gaelle Jaudon in partnership with https://www.clubpoker.net/ Jon Van Fleet or otherwise known as “apestyles” has been around the online poker scene for more than a decade and has grown to be an iconic character in the poker industry. While his lifetime record...

Online News: Natural8 Fish Buffet reboot; 888poker’s new tournament schedule and more…
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Natural8 Fish Buffet reboot The Fish Buffet Rewards program has received an upgrade. All fixed cashback levels are now called Platinum....

Natural8 – GGPoker Network hosts awaited $30M guaranteed Super MILLION$ Week
The industry’s fastest growing platform is back this time with its biggest high stakes festival to date. Running until March 7, 2021 on the Natural8 – GGPoker Network, the 8-day Super MILLION$ is currently underway with an astounding line up of 31 events. The...

Interview: APL CEO Judic Kim walks us through the Korean online and live poker scene
A strong passion for the game, Judic Kim entered the business side of the poker industry roughly six years ago with a goal to engage the Asian market with the whole poker scene. With more than 30 years of experience being a player himself, Kim eventually ventured to...

Interview: WSOP gold bracelet winner Meli Razavi talks about her early life in Iran, her struggles, her great victory in the summer and more!
Last year, she couldn’t get a visa to the United States to play in the World Series of Poker because of her Iranian passport. This year, the dreaded coronavirus pandemic gave her an opportunity, and she seized it. Melika Razavi took down Event #82: $1,050 Beat...
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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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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...

Six Asia poker trends of 2019
It was a dizzying year of poker in Asia with barely a break in the live tournament scene. Players had plenty to choose from as festivals sometimes overlapped. Vietnam and the Philippines were consistently busy with nonstop events both local and international. Coming...

Asia Pacific’s biggest player achievements of 2019
Another incredible year of poker has come anphuad gone. Once again, players from Asia – Pacific outshined around the globe. For some, their wallets weighed down with large scores, for others dreams were fulfilled. Many definitely deserve acknowledgment. Here’s a...

China Poker Games revealed: Interview with Mr. Li, President of Hainan Poker Association
On August 23 to 30, China Poker Games delivered the biggest and wealthiest live poker event in Asia with 3,132 Main Event entries and a prize pool spilling over US$ 4.1 million. The festival took place at the Howard Johnson Resort in Sanya, Hainan Island,...
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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...

PokerStars Founder Isai Scheinberg surrenders to American authorities
If PokerStars was once an empire of the online world, then Isai Scheinberg was its emperor. Over a relatively short space of time, Scheinberg’s online poker room had ridden the crest of the poker boom to become an all-conquering business behemoth, basking in the rays...

An exclusive conversation with 2019 WSOP Main Event Champion Hossein Ensan
Last July, Germany’s Hossein Ensan outlasted Italy’s Dario Sammartino and Canada’s Alex Livingston to win the WSOP Main Event. The 55-year-old, who was born in Iran but moved to Germany 30 years ago, became the oldest world poker champion since Noel Furlong and the...

WSOPE: James Chen wins €250,000 Super High Roller title and first ever bracelet for Taiwan!
The 2019 World Series of Poker Europe at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic kicked off with James Chen taking down the most expensive event of the series and bringing home the first gold bracelet for his home country of Taiwan. €250,000 Super High Roller...

Five stories that built Billy Baxter’s legacy
When it comes to legends of poker, Billy Baxter is certainly not spoken of as much as he should be. Not only has he accumulated 7 WSOP bracelets and been cashing at the WSOP for over forty years, but he also paid Stu Ungar’s 1997 Main Event entry because he was having...