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Christoph Vogelsang Wins 2017 Super High Roller Bowl for $6 Million Five days ago, 56 elite poker players took their seats at the prestigious Super High Roller Bowl held at Aria Casino & Resort in Las Vegas. This highly anticipated event sold out as quickly as it was announced back in February with pros from […]

The WSOP 2017 may still be a day away but the heated action in Las Vegas has already begun. Since last week, the Aria Super High Roller festival at the Aria Casino and Resort has been the talk of the town with nothing but big stories to boot. One of the top headlines was Tony […]

Paul Phua is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and well-known figures in the world of Asian poker, as one of the cornerstones of the biggest live games in that part of the world. New videos listed on Paul Phua’s poker school One of his projects has been the Paul Phua Poker School which can […]

Every year, starting this May, the poker world starts a great migration. Players from all around the world fly to Las Vegas to play poker for 3 months of non-stop action. The World Series of Poker is of course the main focus of  a lot of players, but countless competitions will take place in Las Vegas during the […]

The World Series of Poker has just announced the end of the November 9 nine concept. Year after year this tournament hasn’t lost its prestige and is still a dream for poker players and amateurs worldwide. Here’s a look at the most important dates in the event’s history: 1) 2017: No more November 9 –  A tradition established in […]

While poker players may spend a lot of mental resources calculating their optimal plays, some of them seem to lose that level of judgment when they start betting away from the poker table. Here’s our collection of the dumbest poker prop bets on record. 1) Mike Noori will eat $1,000 worth of McDonald’s in 36 hours Emerging on […]

The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is heating up everyone’s computer consoles these days and now that they are halfway through the event, there are several pros that have been running well and outshining. Famous online pro Victor “Isildur1’ Blom is currently ranked 3rd overall, and pros Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel, Martin Jacobson, and […]

Last year, the WPT Tournament of Champions trialed an “action clock” at their event in order to address the growing concern of habitual tankers stalling the game. This new concept was met with much success prompting other poker organizers to introduce a “shot clock” at their respective events. PokerStars Championship Bahamas was one of the […]

During its trip to Florida to cover the WPT Tournament of Champions, Somuchpoker took some time to chat with Adam Pliska, the current CEO of the World Poker Tour. Somuchpoker: The poker environment is changing a lot, so how would you see the WPT growing in terms of your goals for the next year? [pullquote]The […]

#5. Cliff Josephy aka Johnny Bax In 5th place on our list is a man named Cliff Josephy aka Johnny Bax. By 2005 he was already considered by many as a legend in the online world, claiming top spot of the online tournament ranking site PocketFives and winning his first WSOP bracelet — in […]

The WPT Tournament of Champions, which represents the jewel in the crown of the WPT season was set aside solely for those who had already proved themselves champions. A total of 66 former WPT champions paid the $15,000 buy in, generating a prize pool of $1,090,000. Audi ensured there was a cherry on top of […]

66 former champions of the WPT made the trip to Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino to participate in the WPT Tournament of Champions. It’s the second edition of this event which saw Farid Yachou besting a field of 64 players last year. The tournament is a special addition to the poker calendar, as it […]

Somuchpoker is reporting live from Miami this week, bringing you all the latest action from the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. There are currently two events at the final table stage, with some exciting names staking their claim to the titles and stacks of cash which are up for grabs. $3,500 WPT Seminole Hard […]

Trueteller – Biggest online winner of the year so far Timofey ‘Trueteller’ Kuznetsov has had a busy year at the online tables so far, with more than 20,000 hands in the books across 301 sessions at the time of writing. There have been swings during that time, but his recent downturn in February had endangered his […]

888Poker, Partypoker and PokerStars currently hold the distinction of being among the largest online poker rooms in the world, but despite their virtual tables seeing plenty of action, these companies have a growing interest in expanding their live tournament offerings. Russia: The new frontier? When it comes to live poker, Russia is almost as unchartered […]

Sergio Aido, currently ranked third in Spain’s All Time Money List, is one of the hottest running young pros in the high rollers scene today. Aido recently won the Macau Poker Cup 26 Single Day High Rollers event then followed it up with two deep runs at the Triton Super High Rollers Series Manila. His […]

74 year old Pierre Neuville enters the GPI’s Top 50, wins prop bet While sitting at 119th in the GPI rankings during the 2016 WSOP – Pierre Neuville made an interesting offer to the poker community. The offer was a prop bet at even odds that he would break into the top 50 players on the GPI rankings […]

Considered by many as the best poker player in the planet, Phil Ivey has unfortunately been missing in action for most of 2016. Despite this, he still managed to steal some of the year’s headlines even if the news wasn’t quite to his favor. A few days ago, the American pro casually strode into an […]

American legendary pro Erik Seidel is back in Manila, Philippines for the prestigious 2017 Triton Super High Roller Series running from February 17th-21st at Solaire Resort & Casino. Coming out strong, he finished one spot shy of victory at the HK$250,000 6-Max event, adding US$302,380 to his total live earnings. With this cash, Seidel inched even […]

Ema Zajmovic makes World Poker Tour history at WPT playground Having come into the championship event of WPT Playground as a Partypoker qualifier, Ema Zajmovic was probably not one of the favourites going into the event, but the Candian had a little more bite than many realised. With no female player ever having won an […]