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Flight A of the APPT Warm Up Main Event featuring a PHP 5 Million guarantee played out today at the Pokerstars LIVE room at Okada Manila, Philippines. A total of 88 entered across the ten levels of registration and played nearly nine hours before the bubble burst to signal the end of day. The […]

Summer in Las Vegas brings a lot of action with all the poker rooms at the biggest casinos throwing huge poker events. It may not bring bracelet winners, but each festival still produces champions who compete at a world-class level. Listed below are several Asia player success stories around Sin City. 2024 Aria Poker Classic […]

It was a close one but in the end, the 2024 World Series Of Poker – WSOP Main Event pulled ahead with 10,112 players, setting a new record once again. By the end of Day 2, only 3,262 players remained with a long list of Asians in the running for the historic title. Among the […]

From 7th July – 29th July 2024, Natural8 will be running the summer $50,000,000 GTD Bounty Hunters Series on its game client. This is the biggest Bounty Hunters Series you’ll find this summer, and you won’t want to miss it! In a Bounty Hunters game, every player has a bounty on their head. Each time […]

The 2024 World Series of Poker Main Event is in full swing at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. There have been 9,353 total entries so far across four starting days to create a prize pool of $86,982,900. That number will continue to rise as registration remains open for two hours in Day 2. […]

In just a few days, the World Poker Tour will kick off another exciting festival at NagaWorld Integrated Resorts with the WPT Cambodia Passport to the World Championship set to run on July 12 to 23, 2024 in capital city Phnom Penh. In partnership with Connaissance Management Group, the schedule features 41 tournaments and over […]

After a long 17 year grind and relentless pursuit, Aditya Agarwal‘s golden dream came true in the morning hours of Monday, July 9, 2024. The Indian pro crushed the final table of the 2024 WSOP Event #82: $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout, outlasting 1,423 players to clasp his first ever World Series of Poker bracelet. […]

Hong Kong made its mark at the ongoing 2024 World Series of Poker with Wing Po Liu locking up his career second gold bracelet at Mixed Big Bet and Danny Tang finishing 2nd at the $50K High Roller Pot Limit Omaha. Here are those stories. Wing Po Liu Wins Career Second Bracelet At Mixed […]

The 2024 World Series of Poker taking place at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas awarded another five bracelets. Asian players were not among the winners however Taiwan’s Kai Hung Hu and Hisashi Yamanouchi secured final table finishes. Here are the stories. 2024 WSOP Latest Winners Georgios Skarparis Is Last Player Standing; Taiwan’s Kai […]

The 16th edition of the Taiwan Millions Tournament is drawing near with games set to kick off on July 11, 2024 at the Asia Poker Arena in Taipei City. The highly popular homegrown series created by the Chinese Texas Hold’em Association promises to be the biggest one yet with games running until July 29, 2024. […]

Year after year, the World Series of Poker draws the largest crowd at the COLOSSUS event with buy in at an affordable $400. This season was no different with a record-breaking 19,337 entries to generate a prize pool of $5,940,883. Many players from Asia were scattered around the floor with a large number surviving into […]

Following last June’s record breaking results, PokerStars LIVE is gearing up for a busy month ahead with two full-fledged festivals taking the stage at Okada Manila, Philippines this July. Players in preparation for the upcoming Asia Pacific Poker Tour Manila 15 can test the felt as early as this Sunday, July 7th with the […]

Japanese poker pro Shiina Okamoto was on a mission to win the 2024 WSOP Event #71: $1,000 No Limit Hold’em LADIES Championship. At this same event last year, Okamoto was so close to winning her first bracelet, but had to settle for a runner-up finish, losing to Tamar Abraham. This year, Okamoto sought redemption. A total of 1,245 […]

Excitement continues at the ongoing 2024 World Series of Poker with more players minted. Among them was Scott Seiver who locked up his third bracelet in this series. We’ve got those winning stories below including the deep runs by Asian players Yang Wang, Jin Hoon Lee, Naoya Kihara, and Ryutaro Suzuki. The festival has now awarded […]

The 2024 World Series of Poker has completed a month of games at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas with two-thirds of the coveted gold bracelets now claimed. Among them were Dario Sammartino who snapped the 12 year hunt, Elie Nakache at the 10K PLO Championship, Frank Funaro at the swingy 10K Super Turbo Bounty, Frank […]

Another batch of champions crowned at the 2024 World Series of Poker taking place at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. While many Asia Pacific players went deep such as Tzu Peng Wang, Kunal Patni, Yik Yin Chiu, Kartik Ved, Katsuhiro Mori and Martin Ward, the gold bracelets remained elusive. Here are the latest winners. 2024 WSOP […]

With all eyes on the ongoing annual summer festivities in Las Vegas, July is ready to be seen in a different light with Asia’s live poker scene heading straight back into action. Several events are pinned on the calendar with Red Dragon Poker Tour’s debut in Landing Casino, Jeju Shinhwa World, South Korea, on top […]

In just under two weeks, cards will be flying at the world class NagaWorld Phnom Penh as the World Poker Tour returns for a twelve-day festival from July 12 to 23, 2024. In partnership with Connaissance Managament Group, the upcoming WPT Cambodia Passport to the World Championship features 41 tournaments and over USD 750,000 in […]

The 2024 WSOP Event #58: $50,000 Poker Players Championship is one of the more prestigious titles to win at the World Series of Poker apart from the Main Event. Since this event was inaugurated in 2006, it has brought about some of the best – and really THE BEST – poker players in the world. […]

The world’s largest micro stakes festival is back. From 23rd June to 7th July 2024, Natural8 will be hosting the microFestival 2024. With buy-ins starting at just $1, this festival offers all Natural8 players a chance to win big without breaking the bank.   Second Chance Freerolls: More Ways to Win This year, the microFestival […]