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Somuchpoker Team covers the Asian poker circuit. During our last event coverage, we filmed some of the best players in action and afterwards asked them to comment about the most interesting hands. Hand #1: Vincent Chauve – WPT Vietnam Main Event Vincent Chauve faced a complicated decision on the river in the first levels of […]

From March 14 to 24, WPT Vietnam took command of Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh City with 15 thrilling events packing the house from start to finish. The largest draw was none other than the Main Event breaking its previous attendance. 686 entered to create the biggest prize pool in Vietnam history of […]

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 championship trophy and pocket VND 2,300,000,000 (~US$ 99,100), Chauve also slid into […]

WPT Vietnam is just one day away from awarding its newest Main Event champion! What started as 686 entries over the course of three starting days, today’s Day 2 saw 170 players return to Pro Poker Club, each one battling to survive the scheduled 11 rounds. In the end, only 14 secured their spot into […]

WPT Vietnam was the place to be for every poker player in Asia. The past two days saw the Main Event draw a crowd of 136 for Day 1A, 211 for Day 1B, and today at Day 1C, an enormous 339 stormed in to bring the overall attendance to 686 entries. With each entry ponying […]

WPT Vietnam filled nearly every seat at Pro Poker Club with Main Event Day 1B attracting a large field of 211 entries. Breaking that down, there were 174 unique players and 37 re-entering. When combined with the 136 entries of Day 1A, the total came very close to breaching the VND 8 Billion (US$344,800) guarantee […]

After an initial cancellation, the Asia Poker League Road Series Kunming Festival in Yunnan Province, China, had eventually kicked off with a 2-day delay on 10th March 2019 to the relief of everyone involved. All scheduled events were held in the same order as originally planned and the postponement did not seem to dampen the […]

The “100 Series” is the first ever internationally held poker series organised by the popular  Indian online poker portal PokerRaj. The 2-day event is limited to 100 players and will take place at Bally’s Casino in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 20th & 21st April. The event will have a US$ 5,500 buy-in and a guaranteed […]

The WPT Vietnam festival ongoing at Pro Poker Club rolled in today with several players earning their time under the spotlight. The Super High Roller event, intended to run for just two days, completed in three with Wayne Heung overcoming the rough terrain. The Short Deck event and Deepstack Turbo also resumed with Macaron Tran […]

The first starting day of the WPT Vietnam – Main Event – came and went with 117 unique players pouring in at Pro Poker Club for an early start at the races. Of that number, 19 re-entered for 136 entries total. While there were many countries represented, a large contingent of Indian players could not […]

The World Poker Tour is back in Vietnam for the penultimate event of Season XVII Asia Pacific. The festival kicked off on March 14 at Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh City. It runs a course of 11 days to conclude on March 24. At this time, four days of games have already wrapped […]

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 were closed. However, two days later, the lights […]

In less than a week’s time, cards will be flying in Ho Chi Minh City as the World Poker Tour returns for the second installment of WPT Vietnam. The 11-day event takes place from March 14 to 24 at Pro Poker Club, the most popular card room in the country. The festival features 15 events […]

Poker continues to flourish in Taiwan with J88Poker set to host a six-day festival at CTP Club – Chinese Texas Hold’em Association – in Taipei City from March 29 to April 3. Last time this young tour showcased their brand of poker in Taiwan, they gathered both the largest crowd of over 360 runners and […]

Poker King Cup postponed Poker King Club has announced the postponement of the Poker King Cup Macau 2019, originally scheduled from 15th to 21st March 2019, until further notice. No specific reasons were given other than “due to unforeseen circumstances that have arisen”. There is a compensation procedure in place for those that have made […]

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 prior to the event while snowboarding in Japan and wore […]

Press release sponsored by 138.com February 27, 2019 (Wednesday), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Poker Lifestyle Brand 138Poker.vn held its first major event in Vietnam in conjunction with the Pro Poker Club. Held 20 to 24 February, the event attracted nearly 300 registered players and included a guaranteed prize pool of PRO700,000,000 with a special […]

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 prize pool Main Event in Taiwan while the second half […]

Two weeks ago Paul Phua went to trial in Macau and has now been “found innocent of all charges in a criminal case file against him years ago in Macau.” The news was distributed this week via a press release. Just as it was the case in the U.S. trial, things basically fell apart and […]

The J88Poker Tour Taiwan is once again calling for action from 29th March to 3rd April 2019. The Main Event boasts a guaranteed NT$5 million and will be held at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association (CTP) in Taipei, Taiwan. The winner of the J88Poker Tour Taiwan Main Event will also receive entry to the […]