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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 […]

Once in Las Vegas there are a lot of satellite options for the World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino itself. But what if you haven’t booked your ticket to Sin City yet and would rather like to try your chances online? Here is an overview of online satellite options to […]

There was once a time, not so long ago when PokerStars was the only place to find tournaments which offered life-changing money. The live tournament circuit also saw PokerStars take a lead role in setting up tours with huge prizes. In the last few years though, we are beginning to see an increasing amount of […]

The online poker landscape is evolving quickly with private applications taking a growing share of the cash game market and Asian poker sites like Natural8 investing massively in expanding their tournament offerings. In response to this increased competition, the market leaders PokerStars and partypoker have too keep innovating and double down on safety and trust. […]

This May 12th, Natural8 is bringing back the much anticipated Good Game Series. Since its first installment last November featuring $3.5M in guarantees, Natural8 is making a leap to $10M GTD this May. The Natural8 Good Game Series 2 (N8GGS2) is a MTT festival comprising of 157 events across 15 days, from May 12 – […]

Since its launch in October 2017, the Asian online brand J88Poker the asian online brands keeps developing its offering both on the live field and the online one. In April the brand hosted a successful festival in Taiwan which saw a total of 452 players entering the Main Event. In May the operator is putting […]

This week’s online action has seen three eye-catching stories rise to the surface. GPI#1 Alex Foxen pockets big scores at Americas Card Room, “Lucky_Jew_17” wins the Sunday Million twice and online tournament beast Chris Moorman has been going about his usual Triple Crown collecting business. Alex Foxen crushing online Alex Foxen has consolidated his lead at the top of […]

One of toughest problems to have faced online operators since the dawn of online poker is the infiltration of virtual tables by computer-controlled players. These ‘bots’ have an almost perfect mathematical grasp of the game, can implement game theory ideas efficiently and never tire or tilt. The technology guiding these bots has improved over the […]