Having recently concluded an Asia-dedicated online series on Natural8, the World Poker Tour wasted no time hosting another online festival. This one was exclusive to players from India. Running from November 5 to 22 on poker client Adda52 was the inaugural WPT Online India featuring a whopping ₹ 13.5 crore (~US$ 1,822,200) in guaranteed prizes […]
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Online Poker News: partypoker announces Russian client and 2021 WPT festival dates; Curacao gambling licenses changes
In this column, we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. GVC/Entain aims for 99% regulation, launches Russian partypoker client As reported in last week’s Online Poker News partypoker mothership GVC Holdings plc (soon to be rebranded to Entain) is committing to achieve 99% regulation […]
Nevan Yu Chung Chang wins the 2020 WPTDeepstacks Taiwan Warm Up
Players in Taiwan finally got a tickle of the World Poker Tour’s famous WPTDeepstacks with the brand wrapping up a four-day stint at the highly popular CTP Club Taipei (Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association). This event has been in the works since last year and was intended to launch in March 2020 until Covid 19 […]
Online Poker News: WPT Online action on partypoker; MPL Poker: India’s largest poker platform; KKPoker’ Jackpot Sit & Gos; Unibet Online Series X; Poker on Microgaming; André Akkari’s Furia partners with PokerStars
In this column, we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. WPT Online action on partypoker The World Poker Tour (WPT) and partypoker have teamed up once again to offer some more online action in lieu of live events. One of the most popular […]
WPT Asia Online Series final wrap: Hao Shen “GambleMan” wins the Main Event; Loris51 snatches 2nd WPT Trophy; Motoyoshi Okamura “falcon8808”, Gaurav Sood “Haversham”, and aixin2020 claim trophies; Hong Kong wins Asia Nation’s Cup
After 23 days of games at the WPT Asia Online Series the inaugural festival reached its conclusion with Chinese player Hao Shen “GambleMan” as the envy of all. GambleMan shipped the headliner WPT Asia Main Event to claim the largest series payout of HK$ 2,536,280.42 (~US$ 327,250). Also bringing home WPT trophies were Motoyoshi Okamura “falcon8808”, […]
WPT Asia Online Series: Kosei Ichinose; Jung Chou Chen “DragonChou”, Wai Kiat Lee “Mr Lee”, Walter-White, bigwhailie, & LTC Hong bag trophies; Back to back Nation’s Cup for China; Entry flights running for Main Event HK$ 10M GTD
Another six players captured trophies at the inaugural WPT Asia Online Series. The latest champions were Kosei Ichinose, Jung Chou Chen “DragonChou”, Wai Kiat Lee “Mr Lee”, Walter-White, bigwhailie, & LTC Hong. In addition to the champions, Vietnamese pro Ha Duong “Harry1403” reached the final table again making that four final tables with a victory […]
WPT Asia Online Series: Abhinav Iyer “OBellaCiao”, Loris51, DontWantARiver, BetAddict, Xiasong Zhu “zgheinan”, & clockmaker lift WPT trophies; China wins Nation’s Cup 1st Week Leaderboard; btones1 wins the freeroll
Another week of thrilling action at the WPT Asia Online Series taking place at online platform Natural8 – GG Network. Of the 17 remaining trophies, six were claimed this past week. Israel took home two – DontWantARiver and BetAddict -, two for China – Xiaosong Zhu “zgheinan” and Loris51 -, one for clockmaker and Abhinav Iyer […]
WPT Asia Online Series first big winners: Harry Duong “harry1403”, Zhe Feng “jjsjsjjsj”, Peiyuan Sun “fish3098”, Jr_hiroki, and Muchen888; Daniyar Aubakirov, Mango5, and angelabobo dazzle at side events
The first five champions of the WPT Asia Online Series have emerged: Harry Duong “harry1403” (Trophy #1: Beat the Pros Bounty), Zhe Feng “jjsjsjjsj” (Trophy #2 WPTDeepStacks), Peiyuan Sun “fish3098″ (Trophy #3: WPT Vietnam Championship, Jr_hiroki (Trophy #4: WPT300), and Muchen888 (Trophy #5: WPT Korea Championship). Daily WPT side events were also offered. Daniyar Aubakirov won the first Super High Rollers event, Mango5 and […]
World Poker Tour announces HK$100M GTD Asia Online Series at GGPoker
Players geo-located in Asia have plenty to be excited about in October with globally renowned World Poker Tour announcing its first ever WPT Asia Online Series. Taking place at GGPoker from October 3 to 25, the festival will be the biggest Asia dedicated online event, guaranteeing a mighty HK$100 Million (~US$ 12.9 million) across 22 trophy […]
WPT Championship Recap: Phil Mighall scoops up Main Event title for $1,550,298; Five winners awarded packages for the next WPT Tournament of Champions; Last three events on schedule
After the number of major series happening one after the other, many would think that online poker action would have slowed down in the coming weeks, given the possible dent on players’ bankrolls from all the recent great value tournaments. However, this is not the case as all eyes are currently on the World Poker […]