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Blazing start for Natural8 GGSeries 2020s; LlinusLLove and WooKah win two High Roller events
Cards flying high in the virtual arena with the Natural8 GGSeries 2020s underway on Sunday, April 5. The series will run until April 26. Plenty of money can be made over the next three weeks with an ambitious $50 million in prizes guaranteed. A total of 49 events have...
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...
WPT Taiwan Rescheduled; APT Philippines 2020 Cancelled
More live tournaments are being set to a later date given the current situation. Majority of scheduled events for the first quarter of 2020 have been greatly affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. With increasing confirmed cases day to day, multiple...
Online: Poker Tools – Zoom in on Skrill and its Multi-currency Wallet Feature
Digital wallets or what we mainly refer to as “e-wallets” have been around the online poker scene for years now. Offering secure, easy and reliable monetary transactions have encouraged many poker enthusiasts to take advantage of these characteristics. Skrill, an...
J88PT Millionaire $240,000 GTD Going Online This April 2020
With limited options amidst the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and online poker booming across all markets, J88Poker is joining the bandwagon featuring its highly awaited J88PT Millionaire this coming 15-19 April, 2020. The series is set to go live on its very own...
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Natural8 kicks off a massive US$ 50 Million guaranteed festival this April
Get ready for more madness in the online poker world as Good Game Series hosts a massive festival starting this Sunday. Coming April 5 to April 26 is the Natural8 GGSeries 2020s with a jaw-dropping US$ 50 Million in guarantees. The schedule is packed with 375 events...
Live poker alive and well in Taiwan with Global Poker League and Masters Poker Series
With many businesses forced to close temporarily and social distancing the current norm, live poker events in Asia are pretty much non existent, that is unless you are in Taiwan. This past weekend saw players take to the felt at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker...
Asian Poker Tour announces Online Series on Natural8
With live poker grounded to a halt, event organizers in Asia have ramped up their offerings online via their own poker applications. Soon to join the virtual party is land based poker outfit, the Asian Poker Tour. In collaboration with Asia’s leading online brand...
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Blazing start for Natural8 GGSeries 2020s; LlinusLLove and WooKah win two High Roller events
Cards flying high in the virtual arena with the Natural8 GGSeries 2020s underway on Sunday, April 5. The series will run until April 26. Plenty of money can be made over the next three weeks with an ambitious $50 million in prizes guaranteed. A total of 49 events have...
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...
Online: Poker Tools – Zoom in on Skrill and its Multi-currency Wallet Feature
Digital wallets or what we mainly refer to as “e-wallets” have been around the online poker scene for years now. Offering secure, easy and reliable monetary transactions have encouraged many poker enthusiasts to take advantage of these characteristics. Skrill, an...
INTERVIEWS
Kenny Hallaert: Interview With An Ambassador Of The Belgium Poker Scene
Present on the circuit for almost fifteen years, Kenny Hallaert fulfilled his dream in 2016 by reaching the final table of the Main Event of the World Series Of Poker. The tournament director talks to Gaëlle Jaudon about this highlight, and the milestones of his...
A Conversation With Veronica Brill – The Whistleblower Who Exposed Mike Postle
Last October, former commentator and player at Stones livestreamed cash game, Veronica Brill was the first to raise suspicions on Mike Postle by tweeting that the team behind the scenes could not use mobile phones during live streaming due to concerns about a player. ...
Interview: Five minutes with poker streamer Jaime Staples
Jaime Staples is one of the most famous poker streamers, besides Jason Somerville. He primarily plays on partypoker after joining partypoker Team Online in 2018. Recently, YouTube removed numerous poker videos including some of his content. Interview by Gaelle Jaudon...
STRATEGY
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...
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...
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Five key areas for strengthening your Short Deck game
With Hold’em having been puzzled over and analysed under a microscope for over twenty years, the strategic elements of the game are beginning to follow a choreographed tightrope of game theory. Increasing numbers of players are playing almost every situation optimally...
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...
FEATURED ASIA
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,...
Florencio Campomanes clinches the APPT Manila 2019 Main Event
After four days of heated competition that included a final day that ran for 13 hours at Okada Manila, semi-retired Filipino player Florencio Campomanes railroaded the latter half of the final table to become the newest APPT Main Event champion. He pocketed his...
Mid-year update on GPI Asia’s top 10: Daniel Tang takes the lead
With the summer’s biggest poker event all wrapped up, it’s time for a mid-year review on the Global Poker Index Asia rankings. Since our last update significant changes have taken place; only six players secured their top ten standing and Hong Kong’s Daniel Chi Tang...
REST OF THE WORLD
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...
Five untold stories about the genius that was Stu Ungar
When it comes to poker legends and the story of their lives, none can match Stu Ungar’s in terms of genius and degeneracy. Born with incredible intelligence and a photographic memory, Ungar was surrounded by gambling from the time he could walk. He won his first Gin...
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