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Poker In China: Interview with Zhang Yangchun, CEO of Beijing Poker Club
The Beijing Poker Club will host the APL Reloaded event next month in Beijing. Somuchpoker took some time to discuss the event with Zhang Yangchun, CEO of Beijing Poker Club. Somuchpoker: Currently, many foreigners think that poker is not very legitimate in China due to government regulation. So, can you introduce your Beijing Poker Club […]
03/27/2017
MBP Highlights: Tom Dwan runner-up at the SHR! Andy Chan wins the Main Event
The Macau Billionaire’s Poker 2017 Spring Challenge that ran from March 17th-20th at the Babylon Casino in Macau Fisherman’s Wharf was loaded with stories up the wazoo with well known pros running deep in the Main Event. Out of all the news though, none was more intriguing than everyone’s favorite mystery man Tom Dwan. Tom Dwan […]
03/22/2017
India Briefs: Dhaval Mudgal leaves Team Thrill; PokerBaazi cancels ongoing event
The past few days has churned up some interesting poker news in India with Dhaval Mudgal, PokerBaazi Live, and Deltin Poker Tournament as the top highlights. From new beginnings, to sacrifices, and to bigger and better events, here’s a read on what’s shaking up the Indian poker scene. Dhaval Mudgal parts ways with Team Thrill […]
03/21/2017
Australia’s federal parliament bans online poker
The verdict is out and it is a big facepalm. Australian legislators have just shut the door on online poker. The crushing decision was reached yesterday, at the country’s parliament, despite several Senators voicing out their support for the online game. This certainly comes as a big letdown to the Australian Online Poker Alliance (AOPA) […]
03/21/2017
Interview: Martin Gonzales talks of his recent MPC Red Dragon deep finish
Martin Rundulf Gonzales was the talk of the town in Manila during the recent Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon event. The Filipino pro stole away the chip leader’s status at the end of Day 2 with a fantastic read on a player while holding just King high. Gonzales took the time to discuss the details […]
03/18/2017
The Australian Online Generation takes control of the National GPI Ranking
A few weeks ago one of our highlight stories was on the Australian poker legends who spent years grinding it out in live tournaments. While these featured players have certainly earned every bit of their fame in the ITM department, a much different breed of players is claiming its own section, the 2017 GPI ranking for […]
03/15/2017
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 […]
03/14/2017
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 […]
03/13/2017
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 […]
03/12/2017
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 […]
03/08/2017
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 […]
03/06/2017
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 […]
03/05/2017
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. […]
03/02/2017
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 […]
02/28/2017
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 […]
02/28/2017
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 […]
02/27/2017
[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 […]
02/23/2017
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 […]
02/21/2017
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 […]
02/20/2017
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 […]
02/18/2017