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WSOPC – Natural8: Paulius Plausinaitis wins the Main Event for over US$ 1.2M
The World Series of Poker Winter Online Circuit officially concluded with Paulius Plausinaitis crowned the Main Event champion. Plausinaitis captured his first ever WSOP circuit ring, first ever seven figure payout worth US$ 1,236,360.75, and brought Lithuania its...
South Korea’s Jeju Shinhwa World searches for missing banknotes valued to be at US$13 million
A prime destination in Asia for gamblers and tourists alike, Jeju, South Korea has grown to be a popular holiday island, home to ten casinos catering only to foreign guests. While the popular spot receives an average of 15 million visitors yearly, Jeju is clearly not...
Online Poker News: GGPoker’s Isle of Man license and Flip & Gos; Entain refuses MGM takeover bid; Michigan will join interstate online poker liquidity; WCOAP on partypoker
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Isle of Man license for GGPoker Players and the public were informed on 12th January that GGPoker will from now on operate under an Isle...
Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson dies at 87
Self-made Sheldon Gary Adelson, mainly known as one of the prime visionaries of the Las Vegas gaming scene, made dozens of headlines earlier this week as news of his death at the age of 87 years old surfaced. The casino mogul had his bout of health issues since 2001...
Nine weeks of action await players as the U-Series of Poker – World of Champions begins next week
The rise in popularity of mobile poker applications has enabled players all across the globe to tune into their favorite table games at any time of the day. With simply a click away, traffic in these platforms have grown exponentially in recent years, giving players a...
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WSOPC – Natural8: David “MyLastHand!” Comeron captures second career ring, Niklas Astedt and Samuli “BeastsSag_A” Sipila earn a first; Joseph Cheong among MAIN EVENT final 9; Wei Zhao leads the POS race
The World Series of Poker Winter Online Circuit taking place on Natural8 – GG Network will soon come to a close with 17 rings now claimed. Latest winners were David “MyLastHand! Comeron who captured his second WSOP ring while Niklas Astedt and Samuli...
Poker Videos of the Week: Bryn Kenny vs Rick Salomon $868,200 Pot; Joey Ingram presents Chance Kornuth; Can Spraggy BLUFF Lex Veldhuis?; Spraggy Twitter News
In this article we deliver you a couple of selected poker videos of the past week. Bryn Kenny vs Rick Salomon $868,200 Pot on High Stakes Poker The stuff we all came here to see. High Stakes clashes between some of the game’s greatest! Here is a highlight hand from...
Celina Lin and Chris Moneymaker exit PokerStars’ umbrella to start the year
A new year marks a new chapter, a new beginning for all and it seems a few of the industry’s most decorated pros have decided to switch their attention elsewhere. Bidding farewell to PokerStars’ Team Pro are two prominent figures in the live tournament poker scene,...
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WSOPC – Natural8: Paulius Plausinaitis wins the Main Event for over US$ 1.2M
The World Series of Poker Winter Online Circuit officially concluded with Paulius Plausinaitis crowned the Main Event champion. Plausinaitis captured his first ever WSOP circuit ring, first ever seven figure payout worth US$ 1,236,360.75, and brought Lithuania its...
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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 Poker News: GGPoker’s Isle of Man license and Flip & Gos; Entain refuses MGM takeover bid; Michigan will join interstate online poker liquidity; WCOAP on partypoker
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Isle of Man license for GGPoker Players and the public were informed on 12th January that GGPoker will from now on operate under an Isle...
Nine weeks of action await players as the U-Series of Poker – World of Champions begins next week
The rise in popularity of mobile poker applications has enabled players all across the globe to tune into their favorite table games at any time of the day. With simply a click away, traffic in these platforms have grown exponentially in recent years, giving players a...
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...
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