Best of Poker News in 2019
They made the 2019 Poker Headlines: the most important Players, Tournaments, Regulations, Scandals, and much more…
All covered by Asia-Pacific #1 Poker Media: Somuchpoker.
Thanks to our 2019 Best of, re-live all the Highlights that you may have missed!
January
Record-breaking 822 players at the Aussie Millions 2019 Main Event; 169 remain; numerous Asian players in contention
The ground was shaking down under with a record-breaking 822 players turning up for the AU$10,600 buy-in Aussie Millions 2019 Main Event. Year after year, this annual event never fails to draw players from all around the world that it has now become one of the most...
February
Chow Cliff wins APT Taiwan Main Event; Adrian Attenborough & Azusa Maeda among side winners
The Asian Poker Tour kicked off the month of February with a couple of first-time destinations. The first one was in Tokyo, Japan which concluded mid-month. The second one is APT Taiwan 2019 in Taipei currently ongoing at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association...
Team Thailand wins the first-ever PPWC Teams Event for PHP 7 Million
Team Thailand has done it! The PPPoker World Championship – Teams Event – saw 10 teams enter the arena and after three days of heated battle, Team Thailand rose to the throne crushing Team Malaysia at the finals. Team Thailand was awarded the enormous PHP...
Richard Marquez crowned the first-ever PPWC Main Event champion
The final race to the first-ever PPPoker World Championship – Main Event title seemed to be more of a continuation of Day 3 with Filipino player Richard Marquez in full command. Marquez once again brought his mighty axe to the table and slashed four players in...
Kannapong Thannarattrakul wins inaugural APT Tokyo Japan Main Event; Jin Bo wins Player of the Series
From February 3 to February 11, players in Japan finally experienced their first-ever Asian Poker Tour festival in their home country. The Japanese have been long time supporters of the brand, participating in numbers at stops around the region. The inaugural APT...
Bryn Kenney wins the Aussie Millions Main Event for AU$ 1,272,598
Like we said, despite Bryn Kenney entering the final day at the bottom of the rung, he was undoubtedly the biggest threat at the Aussie Millions Main Event. He was the most decorated and experienced player with over US$25 Million in live earnings, and he displayed it....
March
Vincent Chauve wins the WPT Vietnam Main Event
After five days of intense poker action that drew 686 entries to Pro Poker Club for the WPT Vietnam – Main Event, Thailand’s Vincent Chauve emerged victorious! He entered the final day running fourth-in-chips, proceeded to rail five players to capture the WPT...
Asia Poker League draws 1043 Main Event entries in Kunming
It was a frantic start for the Asia Poker League with notice that the APL Road Series Kunming festival in Yunnan Province, China had to be cancelled just before opening day. Instead of a crowd being welcomed in to Wilo intelligent Transportation Hall on March 8, doors...
Triton High Roller Series concludes with Timothy Adams winning the Main Event
The Triton High Roller Series 2019 in Jeju, South Korea has concluded. Over six scheduled events, 369 high rollers from across the globe battled for a total of HK$275.619 million (US$35.10 million) in prize money. Adams wins the title 48 entries formed a HK$90,204,000...
Triton High Roller Series: Career best score for Michael Soyza!
One of Asian poker’s breakout talent, Malaysia’s Michael Soyza, was victorious in the third event of the Triton High Roller Series in Jeju, South Korea. The 29-year-old takes home the title and HKD 11.15 million (USD 1.421 million). Soyza had broken his hand two weeks...
APT Taiwan closes with record breaking Championships Event, two years of partnership with CTP, and Alan Lau for POS
This past weekend saw the Asian Poker Tour wrap up a highly successful inaugural APT Taiwan 2019 in Taipei City. The event took place from February 20 to March 3 at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association (CTP Club). The first half witnessed a record-setting...
April
Chi Jen Chen wins APL Taiwan Main Event for NT$ 1,278,500, Steve Yea takes down the High Roller
The Asia Poker League Taiwan festival has come to a conclusion. The festival took place from April 20th to April 28th at the CTP Club in Taipei. A Main Event champion had been crowned and more trophies have found new owners in several side events. Read our first...
Kai Paulsen takes down the Metro Card Club MSE Main Event
On April 15, the Metro Card Club in Pasig City, Philippines wrapped up their annual Metro Summer Event with Norwegian pro Kai Paulsen denying the locals the Main Event title. Paulsen was one of a small number of international players that attended and was the only...
May
A dominating victory for China’s Zhu Yong at the APL Vietnam Main Event
In just six hours of final table competition that saw a total of 92 hands, Chinese player Zhu Yong railed six players in his path to the Asia Poker League Vietnam Main Event title to seize the VND 1,700,440,000 (~US$72,000) first place purse. This was Yong’s...
Bryn Kenney wins Triton Series Montenegro 2019 Main Event, Danny Tang runner-up
Bryn Kenney once again proved that to win in poker you need a healthy balance of skill, intuition and luck. Kenney most recently showcased his superiority in this combination by winning the Triton Series Montenegro Main Event for HKD 21,300,000 (USD 2,713,876), just...
APT wraps up its largest event of the year; Siyoung Lee wins the Championships & Iori Yogo tops Player of the Series
The Asian Poker Tour concluded a 12-day run at Resorts World Manila with APT Philippines 2019 taking place from April 24 to May 5. This was the fourth stop of the tour this year and as the trend has been for the brand this year, it drew large fields across the board....
China’s Wei Huang runner-up to Manig Loeser in EPT Monte Carlo Main Event
The prestigious PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo has come to a conclusion. The 41-event festival ran from 25th April to 4th May 2019 and ended with the victory of the German high roller Manig Loeser in the €5,300 Main Event. Several Asian players scored big...
APT Philippines early highlights: Christopher Mateo wins the Main Event; Iori Yogo & Narutoshi Otsuka win High Rollers
The Asian Poker Tour is currently running its fourth event of the year with APT Philippines 2019 ongoing at Resorts World Manila. Games began on April 24th and is scheduled to conclude on May 5th. Through the years, this leg has proven to be the most popular. With...
June
Full review of Asian performance during the first half of 2019 WSOP
We have reached the halfway mark of the 2019 World Series of Poker at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The series has been running since May 28 to conclude on July 16. A total of 89 events fill up the schedule. At the time of writing, 43 events have...
Poker action shifting from Macau to Taiwan
What were just a few promising festivals hosted in Taipei last year has now turned into a real trend. The boom is fueled largely by the challenges organizers have faced in Macau. Ever since the closure of PokerStars Macau, poker events have been scarce in Asia’s...
WSOP 2019: Singapore’s Ong Dingxiang runner-up in event 16 as Femi Fashakin tops largest ever tournament field
The bracelets are finding wrists to call home thick and fast now with the 2019 WSOP entering the tail end of week two. Asian players have continued to put in strong showings, with Singapore and Japan almost getting a bracelet winner. No big names have picked up...
APT Korea Seoul 2019: Go Saito wins the Main Event; Early highlights of the series
The Asian Poker Tour is in full swing at Grand Walkerhill Paradise Casino for the fifth leg of their calendar season. APT Korea Seoul 2019 kicked off on May 29 and is slated to run for twelve days to conclude on June 9. Half of the events have already completed...
Ken Chan wins WPT New Zealand Main Event; Vincent Chauve crowned WPT Asia-Pacific POY
The World Poker Tour New Zealand 2019 festival at SkyCity Auckland casino ran from 23rd May to 3rd June, and came to a conclusion with finding a Main Event champion. Ken Chan takes down the Main Event The NZ$2,000 buy-in Main Event had 333 entries, and Ken Chan came...
July
WSOP 2019: Highlights of the Asian contingent
Every year the World Series of Poker drags in players from all around the globe each one aspiring to become a world champion and bring home one of the iconic gold bracelets. This year, a large contingent from Asia sought that dream. Many ran well however only four...
Interview with WSOP bracelet winner Danny Tang
WSOP 2019: Huge celebration at the World Series of Poker 2019 with one of Asia’s leading pros, Daniel Tang, achieving the dream at Event #90: US$50K Final Fifty No Limit Hold’em High Roller. Tang overcame the 123 strong field to capture his first-ever bracelet and a...
APT Vietnam 2019: Oliver Helm wins the Championships Event; Terry Nguyen awarded Player of the Series; Christopher Mateo bags two
APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh 2019 concluded its 12-day run that took place from July 3 to 14 at Pro Poker Club. The second half of the festivities witnessed several players cash in quite large. New Zealander Oliver Helm won the Championships Event, Philippine player...
Edward Chun Ho Yam breaks world record of most cashes in a year
Every year we see poker players achieve huge milestones such as reaching the top of the GPI country ranking, turning a satellite ticket to a goldmine, winning that first life changing million dollars, and for some, breaking a world record. Last week Hong Kong pro...
APT Vietnam 2019: Zhou Jiaping ships the Main Event; Eunho Kwon & Junwoo Oh among early winners
Ongoing in Ho Chi Minh City at the Pro Poker Club is the Asian Poker Tour’s sixth festival of the year. APT Vietnam 2019 has been running since July 3 and is scheduled to conclude on July 14. This is the tour’s second visit of the year with a third one lined up for...
August
2019 China Poker Games Championship breaks all barriers; Main Event delivers the largest field in Asia and US$4.1M prize pool
It may come as a surprise to many players that the biggest live poker tournament in Asia is currently taking place in Sanya, Hainan Island, China. For the past three days , the 2019 China Poker Games Championship has been nothing short of monumental. The Main Event...
Chien Fa Chou wins the inaugural PKC Taiwan Main Event; David Erquiaga finishes runner-up
After much anticipation, the Poker King Club hosted its first-ever event in Taipei City, Taiwan at the highly popular tournament venue, the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association aka CTP Club. The five-day festival – PKC Taiwan – ran from August 16 to 20....
APL Hanoi: UK’s Sam Beesley wins the Main Event; Tran Nam Trung banks the High Rollers; final winners
From August 6 to 16, players from all over the Asian region took part in the first Asia Poker League festival hosted in Hanoi, Vietnam. From kickoff, the APL Hanoi event was certain to be a big one with 562 charging in the Loyal Poker Club for the opener. Wedged in...
APT Korea Incheon final highlights: Graeme Siow ships the Championships Event; Li-Ta Hsu tops Player of the Series
Twelve days of nonstop action took place in Korea with the Asian Poker Tour hosting its seventh festival of the calendar year. This was another successful run for the brand in the country with attendance and prize pools way up from their previous visits. APT Korea...
APT Korea Incheon: Tsang Hang ships the Main Event; Pete Chen & Hung Sheng Lin among early winners
Several events ran simultaneously in Asia early this month. In Korea was the Asian Poker Tour’s seventh festival of the season dubbed as APT Korea Incheon 2019. The event is still ongoing at Paradise City Casino located within the Incheon International Airport...
September
Tadashi Takei takes WPT Korea Main Event title for KRW108,170,000 (US$90,582)
WPT’s Asia Swing finished in style yesterday, with Japan’s Tadashi Takei taking the WPT Korea Main Event title and bringing the four-day tournament to a close. It was not the only exciting tournament finale to have taken place in Korea lately though, as several side...
IPC: Raj Talwar tops biggest Main Event field seen in India
Since September 11th, Big Daddy Casino in Goa has been busy hosting the India Poker Championship (IPC). The tournament series has returned after a 3 year break. Instagram star Dan Bilzerian has been in attendance, with dozens of great players all looking to land an...
Hamish Crawshaw crushes the final day to win the WPT Vietnam Main Event
After six days of thrilling poker action, that saw a final table run for six hours, the newest WPT Vietnam Main Event champion emerged. Lifting the prestigious title was New Zealand’s Hamish Crawshaw who crushed the competition sending every player to his knees....
October
WPT India: Ashish Munot wins the Main Event; Yasheel Doddanavar wins High Roller
Poker fans in India have been treated to the best of WPT India in the last few days as the Main Event and High Roller have been busy concluding. With the crest of that wave having now broken and the WPT title hopes of almost all those involved having gone the same...
APT Taiwan 2019 closes with Jinho Hong claiming the Championships Event; Mike Takayama wins Player of the Series
Another Asian Poker Tour festival wrapped up with APT Taiwan 2019 awarding the last of its champions this past Sunday.The event ran from October 9 to 20 at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. Days ago we published the early winners. For the second half,...
APL HCMC: Terry Nguyen claims Main Event title for VND1.2 Billion
APL Ho Chi Minh City Main Event reached its climactic conclusion over the weekend, with Terry Nguyen overcoming a field of 365 challengers to take the trophy. In addition, five more side events are now in the books, with five more happy champions picking up APL...
November
Brian Tougias clinches WPT Cambodia Main Event for US$131,430
USA’s Brian Tougias entered the final day of the Main Event in second rank, proceeded to knock out three players, then overcame a chip deficit at heads up to defeat Malaysia’s Kai Fu Wong and claim victory. Tougias pocketed his largest- ever live...
Vincent Chauve wins APT Vietnam Championships Event & Player of the Series; final side event winners
APT Vietnam 2019 ran from November 6 to 17 at Pro Poker Club. The festival wrapped up with France’s Vincent Chauve going back to back final tables at the featured events eventually closing out the series winning the Championships Event. He departed the wealthiest and...
Zhihao Zhang wins Red Dragon Main Event; Bin Sun wins Super High Roller, Liuheng Dai takes High Roller trophy
Red Dragon Jeju 2019 has provided one of the highlights of the Asian poker calendar in recent years, with the Red Dragon Main Event being one of the most coveted titles on the circuit. Here is all the latest from this year’s edition, included the all-important Main...
Akshay Nasa denies Vincent Chauve at the APT Vietnam Main Event
The Asian Poker Tour is rousing up Ho Chi Minh City with their third festival in the country this year. APT Vietnam 2019 kicked off on November 6 at Pro Poker Club and will run until November 17. Half of the events have already been claimed including the Main Event...
December
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.