News - SOMUCHPOKER / Asia-Pacific
World Poker Tour National Korea Cancelled
Escalating tensions between China and South Korea over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system have made one unfortunate casualty: the upcoming World Poker Tour National Korea scheduled for March 17-21. Pressure in China on travel firms forced airlines and cruise operators to cut routes to South Korea: China Eastern Airlines and Spring Airlines have already […]
The Star Poker Festival: Branko Usljebkra bags the APL Million for AU$265K
The Star Poker Festival, the newest poker event in Australia, came to a close last night with Branko Ulsjebkra winning the Australian Poker League (APL) Million Main Event for a beefy AU$265,000. In addition, the two-week festivities, which ran from February 28th-March 13th at The Star Poker Room in Sydney, saw several other players bring home the bacon in […]
Macau Briefs: Alex Lee Xiang Wei wins the ACOP Platinum Main Event
Alex Xiang Wei Lee wins the ACOP Platinum Series Main Event The ACOP Platinum series has been progressing throughout this week, with big prizes being awarded across numerous events. The HK$5,500 Main Event always generates special interest, and this year saw 209 players pulling up chairs. The prize pool grew to HK$942,694 ($121,417) with […]
Aussie Briefs: APL Million begins; Fight continues for online poker; Sydney Championships 2017
In the land of Aussies, poker is hot on the plate with ongoing events, upcoming festivals, and online poker riding on the edge. Here is a rundown of all the latest news. Cards in the air at the Star Sydney for the APL Million Main Event The latest craze in the Australian poker circuit is […]
Mitsuhiro Shiga becomes the 1st foreign national to win the NCPO Main Event
The New Caledonia Poker Event Noumea 2017 wrapped up an action packed ten-day festival at Casinos De Noumea with a changing of the guard as Japan’s Mitsuhiro Shiga defeated New Caledonia’s Daniel Gilles at the heads up round to be crowned the newest Main Event champion. This was a highly significant victory for Shiga as […]
Pinoy Newsflash: PS Manila Super Series, Edoc Tops National GPI Rankings
Poker is surely churning all around the Asian circuit with back-to-back events quickly filling up the days of the calendar. We decided to zone in and focus our attention on what’s heating up the Philippine poker scene. Here’s a quick newsflash on a few of those stories. 719 entries for the first edition of the […]
GPI POY – Hong Kong’s Alan Lau and Sparrow Cheung Move Into the Top 10
It is still very early in the GPI POY race for 2017, but two stars of Asian poker are already stamping their authority on the leaderboard. Alan King Lun Lau and Sparrow Cheung have stormed into the top 10 places and hope to be key players in the race as it heads into the spring. […]
WPT Beijing announced: New event and new location in Mainland China
For the first time in 5 years, the World Poker Tour (WPT) is going to step out of its Chinese tropical paradise in Sanya and will hold an event at the heart of Mainland China – in its capital Beijing. Right after the end of WPT Season XV, WPT XVI will kick off in WPT […]
India concludes its first big event of 2017 onboard the Deltin Royale
While many poker outfits are focused on tapping the growing market in China, one country silently making its way back into the arena is the Republic of India. Several years ago, tournament poker was booming in the country and showing a lot of potential. However, after a tariff was imposed, the numbers immediately plunged, and […]
Vlogs: Jake Cody and Alec Torelli share their experiences about Macau
English Poker Pro Jake Cody, who has accumulated more than US$4 Million in live tournament earnings, has just released a new Vlog about his first time in Macau. He specifically focuses on his cash game and tournament experience during the Macau Poker Cup. As cameras are not allowed during the cash games that he was […]
[Interview] Danny McDonagh: Inside, Out and Back Again
Last year was full of surprising news that rocked the poker community – there were the changes in PokerStars’ Live tournament offerings, the end of the Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), the separation of the Aussie Millions and PokerStars brand and more. Definitely one of the most shocking and the most saddening was the announcement that […]
Koray Aldemir ships in the 2017 Triton SHR series Main Event title
Entering the final table with the second largest stack, Germany’s Koray Aldemir defeated Spain’s Sergio Aido at the heads up round of the HK$1,000,000 (US$128,845) buy-in Main Event to become the newest champion of the Triton Super High Roller Series. The Somuchpoker team was lucky enough to have a brief interview with the champion before […]
Final 6 players of the 2017 Triton Super High Roller Main Event Manila
For the past few days, several of the world’s leading poker pros were holed up in an exclusive room at the Solaire Resort & Casino with the 2017 Triton Super High Roller Series rolling out its fourth installment of the series. The HK$1,000,000 buy-in Main Event saw 39 total entries for a prize pool of […]
MPC 26: Alan Lau wins the Red Dragon for HK$3,2M
The Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon Main Event is finally finished with Alan Lau standing victorious above a record breaking field of 1,216 players. The MPC has been running from February 3-19, 2017 at the PokerStars Live Macau at the City of Dreams featuring the Red Dragon Main event which has a buyin of […]
Daniel Colman reigns at the Triton SHR 6-Max; Erik Seidel in second
While Saturday evening dragged in many enthusiastic gamblers to the slot machines of Solaire Resort & Casino in Manila, Philippines, happening right above them in an exclusive room at The Forum was an intense game of high stakes poker with many well known pros and several affluent Asian businessmen in attendance. Entering its second day […]
MPC 26: The Red Dragon Main Event by the numbers
The Macau Poker Cup (MPC) has been running from February 3-19, 2017 at the PokerStars Live Macau in City of Dreams. It features the Red Dragon Main Event that has a buy-in of HK$15,000 and guarantees a massive prize pool of HK$10,000,000. The Main Event has been running and is now down to 75 players. But there are […]
Meet the Final Nine players of the MPC 26 Red Dragon
The MPC 26 Red Dragon, which began one week ago, is nearing its end with the final table established late last night. While there were many crowd favorites running deep, such as past Red Dragon champion Terry Fan, Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody, and Day 3 entering chip leader, Rundulf Martin Gonzales, they all would […]
MPC 26 Highlights: Chen, Aido, Cheung win Trophies. Lin Defeated
Here are some highlights of the Macau Poker Cup (MPC), a 17 day Festival running from February 3-19, 2017 at PokerStars Live Macau. Celina Lin one spot short of making history In a surprising turn of events, Feng Wen Chen defeated the Queen of Asian Poker Celina Lin in the Baby Dragon Event which had […]
Save the dates: Busy days ahead for Australian Poker Players
Several days ago, one the most successful editions of the Aussie Millions wrapped up with a massive turnout of 7,049 total entrants, a sweet bump up from last year’s 6,370 entries. Satellite winner Shurane Vijayaram turned his $180 winning ticket to a jackpot payout of AU$1.6M after taking down the Main Event. This successful […]
Kosei Ichinose adds more to his impressive online records
Several days ago, Japanese poker pro Kosei “shinbunshi” Ichinose overcame a field of 374 entries at the Turbo Championship of Online Poker 2017 (TCOOP) Event 53: US$215 H.O.R.S.E. and shipped in US$13,673.75. This recent victory came just three months after his 4th place finish at the PokerStars Sunday Million for a sweet US$81,000 (deal made) payout and another […]
