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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 […]

After a 20 day marathon challenge at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,  the results of the Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante  shocked the whole poker community when  the Artificial Intelligence (AI) “Libratus” beat 4 of the best poker players in the world heads-up in No Limit Texas Holdem. It is already known to […]

Negreanu launches YouTube channel After a 2016 which we will describe in kind terms as ‘complicated’ Negreanu has eagerly set about trying to accomplish some of his goals for 2017. One of those goals is to start producing more content for the fans he still has left after some equally ‘complicated’ twitter rows during election […]

The long-standing Durrrr Challenge between Tom “Durrr” Dwan and Daniel “Jungleman” Cates is back in the headlines once again. Last month, Cates tweeted the likelihood of some hands being played out this year, something we’ve heard numerous times before. Durrrr Challenge As a quick refresher, back in 2009, Dwan proposed a high stakes online heads […]

January 3rd saw an impressive session from Chun Lei ‘SamRostan’ Zhou as he took on notorious players such as Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom, Alexander ‘joiso’ Kostritsyn, ‘spaise411’, Ben ‘Sauce123’ Sulsky, and Matt ‘MUSTAFABET’ Ashton at the $1K/$2K 8-Game tables.  He won that day $123,665. He gave a dominant display of skill in what was far from being […]

Script by Craig Bradshaw – Video Bruno Thienard Its 1995 in Las Vegas and Archie Karas has achieved the gambler’s ultimate dream. In an astonishing winning streak he has turned $50 into a $40 million bankroll while playing dice, Baccarrat and poker. This incredible rush has now become part of Las Vegas legend, and is […]

The much awaited complete schedule of the World Series of Poker 2017 (WSOP) has finally been released.   The biggest festival in the poker world will happen from May 30 to July 18, 2017 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and will have a total of 74 events across the series including 8 new additions. New […]

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered poker bot named Libratus developed by a computer science team at Carnegie Melon University (CMU) is currently up against a challenge versus 4 of the best professional poker players in the industry in what has been coined Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante.  The match is taking place at the […]

We initially wanted  in this video to underline Daniel Negreanu’s latest top recent achievements but we unfortunately haven’t been able to find them. And so, we ended up exploring the top five fails  endured by the Canadian pro in 2016. 5 – In at number five is…. tournament blanks. Tournaments have always been Negreanu’s main focus, and his hopes going into 2016 […]

Christian Harder wins the very first Pokerstars Championship The very first PokerStars Championship which was held from January 6-14, 2017 at the Atlantis Resort & Casino in the Bahamas, just ended with Christian Harder taking down the Main Event after making a deal with Cliff Josephy, his backer in 2008 when he placed 7th for […]

Deepstacks Poker Tour which started organizing live tournaments in the US in 2012 is now 100% owned by the World Poker Tour (WPT). As such the WPT® will be in full control of WPTDeepStacks operations. WPTDeepStacks which initially partnered with the WPT® in 2014, was created to replace the WPT Regional and DeepStacks Poker Tour […]

The Global Poker Index (GPI), the authority in live tournament rankings and results, is awarding its GPI Player of Year (PoY) trophy to David Peters of the United States. Peters has accumulated a total of 3,666.31 GPI POY points while unstoppable Fedor Holz from Germany follows at 2nd with 3,644.80 points. What is the GPI […]

With 2016 now consigned to the pages of history, we delve into the numbers and take a closer look at who the big online winners and losers of last year were. We use HighstakesDB as our source, and while this is a globally recognised website with accurate tracking, it doesn’t necessarily tell the entire story. […]

Las Vegas is once again opening a new casino – The Casino Lucky Dragon – after 6 years, the last opened casino being the Cosmopolitan  which opened in 2010. Somuchpoker’s friend  Las Vegas Jaunt from Las Vegas has given a full report after visiting the newly opened casino. When East meets West A step away […]

We all know the feeling of waking up in the first few days of January and seeing a fresh opportunity before us. Each new year seems like a clean slate and a chance to push our game and bankroll to the next level, but not all years can be great ones even for the best […]