News - SOMUCHPOKER / Asia-Pacific
PPPOKER World Championship Announced at Resort World Manila
The social poker application PPPoker has gained tremendous popularity in recent years. Initially launched in Asia, PPPoker is now widely used across the World. While the application is better known by players as a platform on which to organise games between friends, its Global Tournaments series also allows players to compete for prizes. On top […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City: Final wrap and last winners Le Ngoc Khanh, Eunho Kwon, Duy Ho
After 11 days of continuous poker action, Asia Poker League wrapped up the APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 literally with the lights out as heavy rain pounded the roof of Pro Poker Club. The festival ran from November 15 to 25 with over 2000 entries and VND 21 Billion (US$898K) in prizes. 17 trophies […]
APL HCMC: Quang Nguyen wins the Main Event! Soo Jo Kim runner-up
After six hours of incredibly thrilling final table action, Asia Poker League awarded its newest Main Event champion. The man claiming all the glory was Vietnamese pro Quang Nguyen who overcame a 4:1 chip deficit at heads up to seize the APL Ho Chi Minh City championship title and the VND 1,618,750,000 (~US$69,300) first prize. […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City Main Event: Meet the Final 8
After six days of competition that witnessed a field of 587 entries at Pro Poker Club, the APL Ho Chi Minh City – Main Event is down to the Final 8. All of these players reached this marker in different ways but only one of them will lift the trophy and the VND 1,618,750,000 (~US$69,300) […]
APL HCMC Main Event: Down to 29 players with Minh Le leading into Day 3
147 players returned to Pro Poker Club for Main Event Day 2 of the APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3. By the end of the scheduled ten rounds of play, the field trimmed down to just 29 players. Three players crossed into the million marker with Vietnam’s own Minh Le earning the chip lead […]
APL HCMC Main Event: 587 entries, 147 into Day 2; Xuewei Li takes overall chip lead
The APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 concluded its fourth and last starting day of the VND 8 Billion Guaranteed Main Event and to say it was a big day is no doubt correct. Host venue, Pro Poker Club was packed to the hilt with every seat on the main floor taken. Side […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City: Do Thanh Duy, Abhishek Paul and Christopher Mateo win events
Another three side event trophies have been awarded here at the APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 at Pro Poker Club. The latest winners were Do Thanh Duy, Abhishek Paul, and Christopher Mateo. At the time of writing, all three players have joined the Day 1C of the Main Event. No Limit Hold’em 1 – […]
APL HCMC: Main Event Day 1C draws 179 entries; Dang Van Hien leads the 47 survivors
The APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 hit the ground running today at Pro Poker Club with tables quickly filling up for Day 1C of the Main Event. At the close of registration, 179 entries had saddled up which was more than the entries of the two starting days combined. Among the attendees […]
Viet Poker Charity: Vietnamese players Team up
At least 700 million people in the world live in extreme poverty on less than $2 a day. More and more poker players realize this and decide to give back by donating to charitable causes. Especially when there is a specific need, like a natural disaster, and the poker community is asked to stand up […]
APL HCMC: Main Event Day 1B ends with Norbert Koh in command
The APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 concluded another Main Event starting day at Pro Poker Club with 22 players out of the 88 total entries surviving the 14 scheduled rounds. Navigating his way to the top with a dominating 209,200 stack is a player we know all too well in the live Asian […]
World Poker Tour announces 2019 schedule with stops in Vietnam and New Zealand; WPT India breaks record
The World Poker Tour is gearing up for a very busy 2019. The brand recently announced 18 stops for their WPTDeepstacks circuit all taking place in the first half of the year. Included in the announcement were two events in the Asia-Pacific region, WPT Vietnam and WPT New Zealand. WPT Vietnam – March 14 to […]
APL HCMC: Xiaoyin He tops Main Event Day 1A; Dang Xuan Canh among the leaders
Asia Poker League concluded Day 1A of the APL HCMC Road Series Vol.3 – Main Event VND 8 Billion Guaranteed. Out of the 82 entries, 24 players made the cut into Day 2. Unsurprisingly, the locals dominated in numbers however claiming the chip lead was Xiaoyin He from China. Xiaoyin staged a late game run, […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City: Side action winners
The games are heating up in Vietnam with APL Ho Chi Minh City – Road Series Vol.3 underway at Pro Poker Club. Now on its third day, side events have been keeping players very busy before the upcoming Main Event – VND 8 Billion Guaranteed. In addition to the first-ever DeepStack Open Vietnam title awarded […]
APL HCMC awards Hwang Sang Yeon inaugural DeepStack Open Vietnam title
Asia Poker League teamed up with European poker brand DeepStack Open to bring the world-famous event to Southeast Asia for the first time. The DSO kicked off the APL Ho Chi Minh City festivities at Pro Poker Club and after two days, the event concluded with Hong Kong’s Hwang Sang Yeon rising above the 154 […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City – Road Series Vol. 3 opens doors with the DeepStack Open Main Event
Asia Poker League is back in Vietnam! The APL Ho Chi Minh City – Road Series Vol. 3 opened today with an action-packed schedule with 18 events over the course of 11 days from November 15 to 25 at Pro Poker Club. The festival is expected to be much bigger than previous. Exciting new events […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City draws 154 to inaugural DeepStack Open event in Asia
Opening day of Asia Poker League’s – APL Ho Chi Minh City – Road Series Vol.3 did not disappoint with 154 total entries attending the inaugural DeepStack Open Main Event. This was the first time the APL And DSO joined forces bringing Asian players a taste of the European tour. Flight A drew in 136 […]
PokerStars LIVE Manila relocates to Okada Manila and announces Manila Megastack in December
PokerStars is back on the beat! It was just last week when PokerStars LIVE Asia announced Jeju Red Dragon 2018. Now, another good news! It is confirmed. PokerStars LIVE Manila has found a new home in Okada Manila. The official opening has yet to be announced but players will be very thrilled to know that […]
AJPC wraps up in Taiwan with Kazuhiko Yotsushika, Hirokazu Kobayashi, & Wen-Kai Chen as the biggest winners
The All Japan Poker Championship (AJPC) returned to Taiwan for their second visit this year as part of the AJPC Asian Circuit. Once again the festival was held at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Club (CTP) in Taipei City, home of the highly popular Taiwan Millions. The festival ran from October 31 to November 4 […]
PokerStars brings the Red Dragon to Jeju; Macau and Philippines on standby
Big announcement has just come out of the PokerStars dugout, the highly popular Red Dragon festival will hit the felt before the year ends. The distinctive event is slated for November 30 to December 9 at Jeju Shinhwa World – Landing Casino – in Jeju, Korea. This is the first update on The Stars Group’s […]
Interview: Getting to know two-time WSOP bracelet winner Michael Addamo
Two years ago, Michael Addamo peeked into our radar as one the young players from Australia to keep a close watch on. Fast forward to today, at just 24 years of age, Addamo has already captured two WSOP bracelets, both won this year. He has accumulated nearly US$3.5 Million in live tournament earnings and currently leads […]
