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We are well past the mid-year mark and it is prime time to update everyone on the exciting Player of the Year races in Asia. Pete Yen Han Chen leads both the GPI Overall Asia and GPI Asia POY 217 standings 2017 has been a year of fireworks for Pete Yen Han Chen and to […]

Filipino pro John Tech conquered the biggest event that rocked Macau last week, the 2017 Macau Billionaire Poker Summer Showdown Hope Cup Main Event. The event boasted of a HKD 20M guarantee which was impressively attained with a massive turnout of 826 entries, most of them hailing from mainland China. With each one ponying up […]

The inaugural PokerStars Festival Manila stormed through City of Dreams Manila for 11 days of unrelenting poker action from July 28th- August 7th. Here’s a look at some of the festival’s biggest winners. Massive victory for India’s Uday Bansal at the Main Event There were quite a number of players from India representing their home […]

The Sydney Championships has attracted hundreds of players from many parts of the world here to Star Poker Room for this festival, and they have not been disappointed. Big guarantees have been met and great poker has been played, but the curtain is now closing on this series for another year. Here is a rundown […]

Allowing for players to fix their calendars, Crown Melbourne has announced the schedule for the Aussie Millions 2018 Poker Championship Festival which will run from January 17 to February 5, 2018. The Aussie Millions is expected to surpass records next year.  With numbers hoped to be bigger than this year’s event, Crown Melbourne has prepared an […]

The land of the rising sun will soon experience its first major poker event with the World Poker Tour (WPT) and the Japan Poker Union Corporation (JPUC) teaming up for a special event branded WPT Japan. The official announcement was just released and it will be the first ever WPT poker festival held in the country. The […]

Poker in Vietnam set a huge milestone this past weekend with the Pro Poker Club concluding its first major event, the Pro Poker Cup. For those just getting around to the news, the Pro Poker Club is the newest poker club to open in Vietnam and is the first legal poker club in Ho Chi […]

The Vietnam poker scene is undergoing a complete transformation. In a country where locals are largely banned from entering casinos, poker has found an alternate path to cater to the population, who have expressed an interest in the game. What started in Hanoi over a year ago with the opening of Aces Poker Club (now […]

With the WSOP Main Event final table dominating poker headlines over the past week, it would be easy to forget that other tours and tournaments have been going about their business in other parts of the world. PokerStars have in fact been running their own festival in Korea, with notable names from the Asian community […]

The young Vietnam poker community is growing quickly, thanks to a more favorable legal setting, but also because of the passion of the people building the game in the country. Interview is available in Vietnamese: Phỏng vấn anh Julien Tran, nhà đồng sáng lập của Poker Coach Vietnam Somuchpoker has decided to discuss the issue with […]

The WSOP Circuit tour will once again be back at The Star Casino in 2017, with events beginning on November 28th and ending on December 18th. Having already hosted an excellent series at the same location last year, this year will see 13 events taking place across a 21-day period. As well as offering smaller […]

Chinese poker community buzzing with news of restaurant arrests Several key members of the Chinese poker community were arrested on June 20th while playing poker in a restaurant in Beijing, as China once again showed that the authorities will swiftly clamp down on any live cash games taking place in the country. The reports first surfaced […]

Since 2013, James Obst has consistently raked in the dough at the series however a bracelet has eluded him. Well not anymore! The superstar Aussie from Adelaide won his first gold bracelet at Event #26: US$10,000 Razz Championship. Interview by Gaelle Jaudon Somuchpoker: You had a really great start this year with a second place […]

While Las Vegas sizzles with the WSOP back in town, on the other side of the globe its Asian counterpart also experienced a little fire of its own with the Asian Poker Tour back in the Las Vegas of the East for the APT Macau 2017. This latest festival ran a course of nine days, […]

On the surface, the Chinese poker scene can sometimes give the appearance that poker is struggling to take root in the country, but this is in fact quite far from the truth. The Chinese poker scene is dynamic, it’s just that many of the tournaments are not reported to the rest of the world. Here […]

Back in March, Somuchpoker reported on the worrying developments down under as the government in Australia barred online poker. There was support for online poker, and some senators stood up and spoke for the game to be treated differently to other forms of gambling, but as is so often the case when politicians make judgements on […]

People always say, “do you want to hear the good news first or the bad news?” In our latest Pinoy Briefs, there are a couple of stories that won’t exactly leave a smile on your face so we opted to start with them. The first one is a follow up story on the tragic incident […]

The Vietnamese poker community has seen the latest of numerous positive steps this week, as the coastal city of Nha Trang announced the opening of a new poker federation. This latest development is part of a poker turnaround in Vietnam which has followed several years of difficulties. Nha Trang is a prime location for bringing […]

May 31st saw Mediarex Sports & Entertainment and JuzhongJoy host a joint ceremony that would signal the beginning of the first poker league in China: The GPL China. The GPL is not a new concept of course, having first left its mark on the world of poker back in 2016 when it was launched globally […]

Resorts World Manila targeted in fatal attack The Asian poker world has been left in a state of shock after Resorts World Manila, one of the prime poker destinations in Asia was struck by a gunman, who set tables ablaze and killed 38 people in the process. The gunman was seen on CCTV walking around […]