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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 […]

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 […]