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The highly awaited APPT Manila Championship festivities at the award-winning PokerStars hub at Okada Manila, Philippines, has officially opened its curtains today, October 18th. Opening day of the grand festival sees the first five events of its 62 tournament lineup take the stage, with three champions set to walk away with spade trophies by day’s end. 

Three more highlights across the lineup have been dusted, with this time, Germany’s Martin Sedlak claiming the largest of three. Sedlak secured the highly coveted APT Bronze trophy, having shined across the APT High Roller field.

Rene Von Reden claims victory at APT Taipei Poker Classic 2024, winning NTD 14.4 million as Main Event winner.

The APT Taipei Poker Classic 2024 Main Event finds its 1,991 entry field drawn down to its final nine players looking to take the largest share of the NTD 86,011,200 (~US$ 2,722,735) prize pool.

Halfway through its twelve day lineup, Day 3 of the Main Event came to a close with 47 players out of its staggering 1,991 entry field remaining in contention. Singapore’s Abraham Abdulla Ceesvin currently leads the charge, having bagged the largest across yesterday’s games, and remains in prime position to claim the NTD 14,413,200 (~US$ 453,430) top prize.

APT showcases another successful season across the felt with its ongoing Main Event games serving as its biggest showing to date in Taiwanese history

Two final flights ran its course and saw its NTD 65,000,000 (~US$ 2M) guarantee breached midway through Flight C

By bagging time of Flight B, only 181 players stood to move forward, led by Chee Sim Yong

Keigo Kubo shines at APT Taipei Poker Classic 2024; Phanlert, Isaac, and Ravn excel in a thrilling competition.

Zhou Quan wins the Mystery Big Bounty at Poker Dream Jeju 12, excelling in NLH/PLO side events. Explore the highlights now.

Kaihung Hu wins APT National Cup as Main Event begins with NTD 65M guarantee. Discover the latest from SOMUCHPOKER.

U Series of Poker - Hai Phong pays out incredible VN₫ 168 Billion (~US$ 6.8M) in prizes. Xinxing Tang hailed as Player of the Series.

Seen in the mix across the U Series of Poker Hai Phong games, Somuchpoker had a chance to catch up with Anton Zhen Zhao Lu. The Australian runner is

The culmination of Day 5 of Manila Megastack 19 marks the halfway point of the series. Running from September 19 to 29 at the first-class Okada Manila in

After ten days of thrilling poker action, the 12th annual China Poker Games - CPG Championship wrapped up at the Howard Johnson Resort Sanya in Hainan Island, China. Running from Agust 21 to 30, 2024, it was the largest edition put forth by the brand with 91 events (including satellites) from start to finish. Scroll down for the highlights.

The annual World Series of Poker Europe returned to King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic last October 25th through November 15 for three weeks of immense poker action. A total of 15 bracelet events were awarded with several Asian runners bagging gold and making multiple final table appearances in the games. Taiwan’s Eric Tsai […]

A budding hub for live poker, Manila, Philippines is continuing to cement its rightful place in the tournament scene with nonstop great value action month after month. Just following last June’s Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Open Manila held at Okada Casino, major operator PokerStars is back again with two full festivals – Manila Super […]

Live action is back and running in one of the most popular tournament poker stops throughout the region with PokerStars LIVE Asia having recently concluded its fourth event of the year in the Philippine capital. The Asia Pacific Poker Tour Manila Open ran from May 30 through June 5, 2022 at Okada Manila featuring a […]

Wrapping up a great start to the year are Asia Pacific’s biggest winners this month of January, having bested the toughest contenders and top tier fields of the season. Thai pro Punnat Punsri gained global recognition as he jump started his 2022 career with not one, but two high roller tournament wins in Las Vegas. […]

Considering the global health crisis, the vaccination mandate, and other travel restrictions, it was uncertain if a large contingent of players from Asia would make the trip to the 52nd Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. In the end, the numbers exceeded all expectations. Newcomers, recreational players, and well known pros came out […]