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APT heats up July with the Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Championships

APT heats up July with the Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Championships

This July, the Asian Poker Tour heads back to Vietnam to host their fifth event of the season, the APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Championships. The upcoming event promises to be bigger than before with twelve days of nonstop poker festivities taking place at the Pro Poker Club from July 11 to July 22. As […]
07/03/2018
Jinwoo Kim champions the APT Korea Seoul Main Event; Stephane Blouin wins Player of the Series

Jinwoo Kim champions the APT Korea Seoul Main Event; Stephane Blouin wins Player of the Series

The Asian Poker Tour concluded its fourth festival of the season with APT Korea Seoul 2018 wrapping up on June 24 at Paradise Casino Walkerhill. This was the tour’s first visit to the city bringing with them ten days of nonstop poker festivities. The top story was online player Jinwoo Kim. Last year, Kim finished […]
06/25/2018
Not all about the WSOP for players; Vincent Kwun Li tops record field of Wynn Summer Classic

Not all about the WSOP for players; Vincent Kwun Li tops record field of Wynn Summer Classic

Every year poker players worldwide flock to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas each one eager to compete and hopefully triumph at the grandest stage of all. With the series now approaching its midway mark, players have already flooded sin city however their attentions aren’t just focused on the WSOP. Running simultaneous are […]
06/20/2018
Up next for Triton Poker: Russia and Korea

Up next for Triton Poker: Russia and Korea

Following a massive success in Montenegro, Triton Poker has announced plans to head to Korea and Russia. The Montenegro Triton Super High Roller Series was impressive, to say the least. From May 12th to the 18th there were four high roller events as well as insanely high stakes televised cash games. The event featured two Six-Plus […]
06/14/2018
More events in Vietnam; No cool down for the local poker scene

More events in Vietnam; No cool down for the local poker scene

Live poker tournaments are booming in Vietnam and seems to only be getting much busier. With the recent authorization given to local poker clubs allowing them to host tournaments, 2018 has already seen two highly successful events storm through the country with a large percentage of locals in attendance. Early this month, the Asia Poker […]
06/13/2018
Win 1 of 5 Main Event seats to APT Korea Seoul 2018 through CoinPoker

Win 1 of 5 Main Event seats to APT Korea Seoul 2018 through CoinPoker

The Asian Poker Tour and CoinPoker have joined forces to bring players from all over the world a chance to win a MAIN EVENT seat to the upcoming APT Korea Seoul 2018. Qualifiers to the Main Event Satellite have already begun. 5 Main Event seats worth KRW 1,100,000 (~US$1,025) each are up for grabs. How […]
06/11/2018
Asian players head to Las Vegas for 2018 WSOP campaign

Asian players head to Las Vegas for 2018 WSOP campaign

Asian players begin their WSOP journey! The great migration has started once again. Players from all around the world have been arriving in Las Vegas these last few days to begin their challenge for coveted WSOP bracelets. Asian players may not be filling up the registration lists for events just yet, but significant numbers are […]
06/09/2018
Nauv Kashyap wins the inaugural record-breaking WPT New Zealand Main Event

Nauv Kashyap wins the inaugural record-breaking WPT New Zealand Main Event

As the WPT Main Tour Season XVI came to a close in Las Vegas with Matthew Waxman winning the Tournament of Champions, in another part of the globe, one event getting ready to fire up was the inaugural WPT New Zealand at SkyCity in Auckland. WPT New Zealand is part of the brand’s WPTDeepstacks Season […]
06/05/2018
I-Cheng Lin wins the 784-entry Manila Super Series Main Event; Mike Takayama finishes 3rd

I-Cheng Lin wins the 784-entry Manila Super Series Main Event; Mike Takayama finishes 3rd

Another installment of the Manila Super Series has come and gone and once it again it produced an impressive field with 784 entries charging the felt at City of Dreams Manila. The series is one of the lowest buy-in festivals hosted by PokerStars LIVE with this year’s editions in Manila offering players a chance at […]
06/04/2018
Lew Yin How wins the record-breaking Asia Poker League Vietnam Main Event

Lew Yin How wins the record-breaking Asia Poker League Vietnam Main Event

The largest poker tournament Vietnam has ever seen wrapped up with Singapore’s Lew Yin How winning the Asia Poker League Main Event. Last night, Lew Yin How withstood the final 9 round to emerge as champion and capture the VND 1,476,360,000 (~US$64,700) first place prize money. Ever since tournament poker opened up to local players […]
06/02/2018
WSOP bracelets and Asia-Pacific players

WSOP bracelets and Asia-Pacific players

It’s that time of the year again with the biggest poker festival upon us, the World Series of Poker. On May 29 – July 17, 2018, players from all over the globe will descend upon the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for the 49th edition of this annual celebration. Up for grabs […]
06/01/2018
Asia Poker League Vietnam Main Event attracts massive turnout of 864 entries

Asia Poker League Vietnam Main Event attracts massive turnout of 864 entries

Vietnam is undeniably the hotbed for poker these days with the Asia Poker League drawing in a monstrous 864 entries to the Main Event. The 11-day festival has been running since May 25 at the Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh City and will conclude on June 4. The past four days was dedicated […]
05/31/2018
The Asia Poker League attracts large field in Vietnam; International players dominate locals

The Asia Poker League attracts large field in Vietnam; International players dominate locals

After a successful festival in the Philippines, which saw Filipino pro Lester Edoc triumphant in the Main Event, the Asia Poker League is now hosting its second event of the year in the up-and-coming Vietnamese poker market. The organizers teamed up with Pro Poker Club. The club saw a record-breaking APT Kick off Vietnam event last […]
05/29/2018
Poker King Club concludes a highly successful inaugural Oriental Poker Championship

Poker King Club concludes a highly successful inaugural Oriental Poker Championship

To the delight of many players seeking live tournament action in Macau, the month of May avoided a dry spell with Poker King Club launching the Oriental Poker Championship 2018 (OPC). The inaugural six-day series took place at the Venetian Macao on May 23 – 28 with PKC CEO, Winfred Yu, opening the festivities with […]
05/28/2018
WPT closes out Season XVI with Matthew Waxman winning the Tournament of Champions

WPT closes out Season XVI with Matthew Waxman winning the Tournament of Champions

What started out in China on April 2017 has just ended in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tonight, the World Poker Tour closed out another successful season of events that were held in various parts of the globe such as as Beijing, Amsterdam, Montreal, and the USA. Along the way, 18 champions added their names to the […]
05/27/2018
PokerStars LIVE enters into a new era in Asia with Stanley Choi

PokerStars LIVE enters into a new era in Asia with Stanley Choi

Last month, the poker community was shocked to hear of the PokerStars LIVE room closure in City of Dreams Macau. For the past five years, players have come to rely on PokerStars LIVE Macau to offer the biggest and richest live poker events in Asia. With this unfortunate turn of events, along with the sudden […]
05/26/2018
A brief moment with Taiwanese pro Kitty Kuo

A brief moment with Taiwanese pro Kitty Kuo

Kitty Kuo is a female poker pro ranked 4th in Taiwan. She has over US$1.6M in live earnings. She is a well-traveled player frequenting the biggest tours annually such as the WSOP, EPT, and the Aussie Millions. Once in while she’ll hit the felt in Macau where she  won the PokerStars Macau Poker Cup back […]
05/23/2018
The World Poker Tour closes out Season XVI with style in Las Vegas

The World Poker Tour closes out Season XVI with style in Las Vegas

Somuchpoker is in Las Vegas, Nevada this week to bring you the action at ARIA Resort and Casino where the World Poker Tour has taken over the poker scene since the month began. The tour’s Season XVI games, which began in Beijing a year ago, will conclude with the highly anticipated WPT Tournament of Champions […]
05/22/2018
The elite go public at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Montenegro

The elite go public at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Montenegro

To summarize the recently concluded Triton Super High Roller Series in Montenegro, it was impressive. For the first time, a festival delivered something innovative to fans worldwide: short deck tournaments and a televised cash game with pots ballooning to $2M. Elite players such as Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan were in attendance with the former […]
05/20/2018
Interview with Guo Dong on the state of poker in China

Interview with Guo Dong on the state of poker in China

On April 20, the Chinese poker community was shaken by the news of a government shutdown on all online poker apps and any social apps that promote the game of Texas Hold’em. This ban is to be in effect starting June 1, 2018. With not much information on this ban circulating out of China, Somuchpoker […]
05/19/2018
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