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The flourishing poker variant Six Plus Hold’em, or also commonly referred to as Short Deck can now be found at Natural8! Short Deck is a stripped-deck version of Texas Hold’em. In playing the game, all the deuces through fives are removed, leaving a deck of just 36 cards instead of the normal 52. Because of […]

In truth, you could outline dozens of ways in which PokerStars and partypoker have chosen divergent paths in terms of what they offer players. The successes or failings of many of these strategic differences can never be measured. But one thing that can be measured and discussed is the changes we have seen in Sunday […]

The Asia Poker League has been very active on the live poker scene in recent years with multiple events hosted across Asia. Despite this offline prominence, it is now set to redeploy its efforts into the online field. The online poker application “APL Poker” will be live on October 29th, 2019! APL Poker has been […]

Shockwaves were sent rolling through the gambling industry today as The Stars Group, who own PokerStars, announced a merger with Flutter Entertainment, formerly known as Paddy Power Betfair. The two huge gambling companies struck a near $12 billion deal which gave Flutter 55% of the shares for the new merged company, while The Stars Group […]

GGSeries3 may have been a huge success, but with the dust barely having settled on that tournament festival, Natural8 has delivered its promotion plans for October. As ever, variety and value are at the core of the promotions, as Natural8 seeks to further its standing in the online poker world. Here are the key promotions […]

GGNetwork home of Natural8 has grown in stature as a network in recent years. One of the main reasons for that growth is that GGNetwork are innovative, always looking to improve and are receptive to player input. Building on those key principles even further, GGNetwork has now released its “Public Roadmap”, in which it shows customers […]

The opening week of online poker’s most anticipated series has concluded with Michael “imluckbox” Addamo winning event 13 – the Sunday Million High Roller for $258,952. In the 6 preceding days, we saw Shaun Deeb claim a record 7th WCOOP title, with China also joining the list of nations that have a WCOOP winner. Addamo […]

Natural8 has been making headlines recently with its N8GGS3 tournament series, which gets underway on September 8th. This series alone, with its $50 million guarantee, is enough to suggest Natural8 is looking to improve its standing in the pecking order of global online poker rooms. However, the latest offerings from Natural8 are not a one-off […]

Over the past decade, poker software has slowly crept up from a ground level and wrapped itself around the very fibres of our game. It is now inseparably knitted into the fabric of online poker, and while that fact is irreversible and widely accepted – is the gradual shift from post-game analysis aids to potential […]

In less than 4 months, Natural8’s flagship tournament series makes its third appearance with a sizeable bite to match its bark. With $50,000,000 guaranteed, the series will break all records set before on the network. The Natural8 Good Game Series (N8GGS3) strikes the online poker scene this September 8th to September 29th, with a $50 […]

For many online poker players in Asia, partypoker is set to become obsolete. Choice is an important commodity for consumers in any market and so we should all lament the news delivered to Asian players this week. As the primary competitor to the online poker industry’s biggest brand, partypoker’s announced exit from a large portion […]

For those who enjoy tournaments and play most of their poker online, Bodog and Ignition are the places to be in August. The Super Millions Poker Open is currently underway, offering $4.5 million across the duration of a series which spans 139 separate events. Super Millions Poker Open guarantees $5 million  Tournaments offer a kind […]

This August, Natural8 has released a new, industry first feature for tournaments — Bubble Protection for Early Birds, alongside another Rush & Cash promotion — $100,000 Drop Race. There is also a $200,000 giveaway for Omaha players. Below are the details. $100K Rush and Cash Giveaway Natural8 is offering another Rush & Cash promotion with $100,000 […]

PokerMaster has  almost come to an end. Just 2 years ago, Daniel Cates was talking on Doug Polk’s podcast about high stakes games that were being played on Chinese apps. Since then however, the popularity of these apps may have grown but the landscape has shifted drastically. The Chinese authorities have reiterated that private games […]

August 2017 marked another knot in a string of dark days for online poker. The Australian senate made an inexplicable decision to follow the lead of the US in passing a draconian bill which all but ended online poker in the country. The Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016 resulted PokerStars, 888Poker and partypoker issuing a […]

For many years, the online tournament throne has been occupied by the same man. Chris “Moorman1” was the first to cross the $10 million in 2013, and $15 million mark for online tournaments in 2018, as far as anyone knew. Now, having been quietly amassing a fortune in online tournament scores for thirteen years, a […]

[Press Release] Every online mobile poker player dreams to play in a BOT-FREE environment that is guaranteed safe. With an organic grown player-base, UPoker ensures your poker ecosystem is fueled by real people and real friendships. UPoker is against bots and that’s just the beginning of the good news. With UPoker you may enjoy a bot-free […]

Natural8 is known to offer players the chance to qualify for live events hosted by the Asia Poker Tour. After Korea it now has been announced that throughout June another 4 seats are guaranteed for the APT Main Event in Vietnam through Natural8 satellites. These exclusive $150 satellites to the APT Ho Chi Minh 2019 […]

Natural8 is giving away $300,000 to players during the month of June in the $300,000 Gold Hunt promotion. Rush & Cash made its debut to Natural8’s Chinese customers earlier in 2019, and now they are celebrating the international launch with $300,000 worth of prizes. Rush & Cash is Natural8’s take on the “fast-fold” cash games. […]

16 days, 219 tournaments, over a million entries and more than $105 million in prize money. Another Spring Championship Of Online Poker is in the books and officially the biggest online poker series of all time. The record breaking series had a few newsworthy highlights. Gianluca “Tankanza” Speranza wins back-to-back SCOOP High Main Events It’s the […]