News - SOMUCHPOKER / Asia-Pacific
APT Macau Championships 2018: Hung Sheng Lin wins the Main Event
At the APT Macau Championships 2018 ongoing at Macau Billionaire Poker, Taiwanese pro Hung Sheng Lin dominated the Final 8 of the Main Event to capture the exclusive APT Championship Ring and the HK$ 587,000 (~US$74,700) first prize. This has now become Lin’s single largest live tournament career score and his first major victory since […]
The APL (Asia Poker League) announces a 5 Billion VND GTD Main Event in Vietnam
The APL held its first event outside of China this February with overwhelming success at the Royce Hotel & Casino in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. The Asia Poker League intends to continue this trend in Vietnam with its APL Road Series Vol. 2 Vietnam. Hosting the event will be the Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh […]
Rake race and Highstakes tables: Natural8 strengthens its Omaha offering
Natural8 is the leading skin on Asian network GGNET, and action has been growing on the network lately, with PLO increasingly gaining popularity with players. $25/$50 games have been running regularly, with players looking to jump into some big pots and find a little more action. Natural8 has decided to take this fact on board […]
Match Poker: Lau Heng Seng leads team Singapore to victory in Bangkok
Unorthodox poker seems to be an increasingly common occurrence in Asia, with Triton’s announcement of upcoming short deck poker tournaments being followed by the results of the Match Poker’s Asian Pairs Challenge which took place in Bangkok, Thailand on April 19th. The festival saw Singapore win the competition. The game format was ‘pure skill’ meaning that all players […]
Triton Returns with HKD 1M Buy-In Short Deck Event
Triton Poker is back once again, bringing with it all the usual familiar joys of high stakes tournaments. There will however be something a little less familiar this time around, with the introduction of a short deck ante-only event. Short deck ante-only event In fact, there will be two. The first is a HK$250,000 multiple […]
Macau Millions: Chen An Lin wins his first- ever Main Event title
Poker player Chen An Lin had plenty to celebrate tonight. The Taiwanese pro overcame the massive 2,499 entry field of the Macau Millions Main Event to seize his first-ever major title. He pocketed his largest career payout of HK$1,159,000 (~US$147,700) and snatched up a PokerStars Players Championship Platinum Pass. In the PokerStars live blog, Lin […]
Poker in China: Crackdown on Online Poker Applications
China poker community is in shock after the announcement of a massive crackdown on online poker applications. For the past years, Texas Hold’em online poker apps have been fuelling the growth of the game in the country. To summarize the “state of mind” of the community, poker pro Guo Duong, Tencent Ambassador, shared on his […]
Cryptocurrencies slowly enter the asian poker arena
The poker community has been without a doubt one of the earliest adopters of cryptocurrencies. Many players jumped into the crypto bandwagon not so much as speculators expecting to make a profitable investment but as users looking for an easier way to transfer money, sometimes large amounts of money between fellow players and/or poker sites. […]
Pinoy Briefs: Joseph Sia wins the Metro Summer Event; Martin Gonzales loses big and wins big
The Metro Card Club, the largest poker room in the Philippines, was buzzing with action on April 11 – 16 with local players flooding in for the second big festival of the year, the Metro Summer Event 3M Guaranteed. Each year, the Metro hosts a variety of these guaranteed events accompanied by very affordable entry […]
Muskan Sethi officially joins PokerStars Team Pro hours before the launch of PokerStars India
PokerStars has been spicing up the poker terrain in India this week. On Monday, April 16, the brand officially named India’s Muskan Sethi as the newest member of the Team Pro. Sethi becomes the second player from India to sport the red spade with Aditya Agarwal signed on since 2015. For those who may not […]
APPT Korea: Michael Soyza wins the Main Event and a Platinum Pass;
Malaysia’s Michael Soyza was the man of the hour at the APPT Korea after he bested the largest-ever seen Main Event field of 449 entries. Soyza came from behind at the heads up round against Japan’s Mitsuhiro Shiga to seize the ₩158,700,000 (US$148,629) and the coveted PokerStars Players Championship Platinum Pass worth (US$30,000). As soon […]
International Poker Tour announces its return in May! First stop in Macau
Alisports returns to action on May 16 – 20 for its second-ever International Poker Tour (IPT) event. The five-day poker festival will take place at the luxurious Venetian Macao with joint organizer Poker King Club. According to the announcement, this will be the first of several destinations lined up for the calendar year. In December […]
All Japan Poker Circuit branches out to Taiwan
Following through on the announcement made in January, the All Japan Poker Circuit (AJPC) has sealed a deal that will extend the brand to Taiwan. According to the recent press release, the AJPC and the Taiwan Poker Club (Chinese Texas Holdem Association) have partnered up to bring in the first-ever Japanese poker brand to Taiwanese […]
APPT Korea: Back-to-back victories for Yuki Ko; Diego Palma wins a Platinum Pass; Xing Zhu with four cashes
The next Asian stop for players to try and land themselves a coveted PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship Platinum Pass was Korea with the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Korea ongoing at Paradise City, Incheon. The festival began on April 6 and will run through April 15. As of today, two passes have already been […]
Aussie Briefs: Bobby Zhang takes down India; Crown Poker Championship in a week; Sydney Championships A$2.25 Million GTD announced
Australia has some big events to look forward to starting with the Crown Poker Championship hitting the felt in just a week’s time. This festival is the newest addition to the Crown Poker yearly schedule and it comes with an estimated A$500,000 Main Event prize pool. Another one on the way is the Sydney Championships. […]
Macau Briefs: Longest sea bridge nears completion; Galaxy acquires Wynn shares; Macau revenue up in March
Macau is stirring with movers and shakers these days. Read up on the gambling capital’s latest top stories below. Macau, China, and Hong Kong about to be linked to by controversial bridge After 8 years of construction, the longest sea bridge is about to open on the Pearl River Delta linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai (mainland […]
Xing Biao Zhu: Chatting with a Rising Chinese Poker Pro
Xing Biao Zhu has burst onto the Asian poker scene in some style this year, picking up a staggering 18 cashes in the first two months of 2018. He is quickly becoming an early contender for the PokerStars Asia Player of the Year title despite only being a part of the live circuit since 2016. […]
Asian Poker Tour brings the Championships back to Macau at the end of April
Having recently concluded a highly successful event in the Philippines, the Asian Poker Tour heads to the Las Vegas of the East for their next big festival, the APT Macau Championships 2018. This upcoming event will no doubt be very exciting with the Main Event backed by a rich HK$2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. The APT […]
New criminal case ruling underlines the complexity of the legal situation of Poker in India
When it comes to poker laws in India, it is much like the United States with individual states given the green light on deciding the game’s fate. While some high court officials, such as in Karnataka and Kolkata, have ruled poker as a game of skill, the Bombay High Court begged to differ. Just days […]
APT Philippines Championships: Iori Yogo seizes the Championships Event title; Lester Edoc wins the APT Player of the Series
The APT Philippines Championships 2018 witnessed what could possibly be the most engaging conclusion to the festival with Japanese pro Iori Yogo denying Filipino pro Lester Edoc the victory at the Championships Event. Both players had fantastic runs throughout the twelve-day event to earn them the top two places in the APT Player of the […]
