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 will be its first festival in the capital city […]
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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 nearly one year until it finally ran on April […]
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 announced a much bigger project around this. […]
Las Vegas’ return to normal faster than expected
The past twelve months has been considerably challenging for the Entertainment Capital of the World as its tourism-reliant economy saw a temporary shutdown just a little over a year ago. While Las Vegas was not immune to the drastic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, the city appears to be focused on getting back on its […]
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 Kelopuro won the Super High Roller for US$ 520K. Also proving their […]
Natural8-GGSF: “RealGanjaBoy” & “TOTOROO” ship Opening Acts; Lev Gottlieb bags third win; Fedor Holz, Stefan Schillhabel, & Ho Bao Qiang victorious; four final tables for Joshua McCully
Over one week of games have now been slayed at the Natural8 – GG Spring Festival 2021 to bring the total number of champions to 126. The newest heroes were Brazil’s “RealGanjaBoy” and Germany’s “TOTOROO”, both players taking down the featured GGSF Opening Act-L events. Also navigating to victory were Singapore’s Ho Bao “Yummers19” Qiang, […]
Exclusive Freeroll on 888Poker: $100 for Grab – No Deposit Needed!
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 deposit to play the freeroll, just […]
Natural8-GGSF: Guillaume Nolet turns US$1K satellite ticket to US$1M; Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb banks two SHR events; Ivan “Cordialement” Deyra & Pulkit Goyal among winners; four final table cashes for Juan Dominguez
Following an action packed opening night, the next two days at the GG Spring Festival 2021 hosted at online platform Natural8 were just as loaded with 27 events served and three others on its final day. The biggest winners were Canada’s Guillaume Nolet and USA’s Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb. Nolet seized over one million dollars at […]
People News: Negreanu vs. Hellmuth Duel – Fuel for more bets; Mike Postle string folds and more…
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting news and gossip from our favourite poker people. Negreanu vs. Hellmuth Duel – Fuel for more bets After Daniel Negreanu was beaten by Phil Hellmuth in the first round of the High Stakes Duel, things are heating up even more. Daniel re-challenged Hellmuth immediately […]
Online News: PLO5 on Natural8, All-in or Fold on KKPoker and more…
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. PLO5 on Natural8 The GGPoker Network has rolled out a new update. The main addition to the game offering is PLO5. As we have seen in the past couple of months, Omaha is […]