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The Asia Poker League concluded the first festival of its “APL Trilogy: Enter The Dragon” series with nine days of games hosted at the Grand Loyal Poker Club in Hanoi, Vietnam. Initially intended to take place in May 2020, the global health crisis pushed it back nearly one year until it finally ran on April […]

After a year and a half long wait, the World Poker Tour is finally back in Vietnam! Starting today, host venue Crown Poker Club will welcome in players to the tour’s premier mid-major WPTDeepStacks festival. While this is the brand’s fourth visit to the country, it will be its first festival in the capital city […]

Topping the headlines once again was Swedish pro Niklas Astedt who conquered this week’s edition of the Sunday Five Million for a towering US$ 1,095,740.82, the largest festival payout to date. This was his fourth victory, the most by any player. Finland’s Sami Kelopuro won the Super High Roller for US$ 520K. Also proving their […]

Martin Jacobson is a Swedish professional poker player. He was born on June 30th, 1987 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Over one week of games have now been slayed at the Natural8 – GG Spring Festival 2021 to bring the total number of champions to 126. The newest heroes were Brazil’s “RealGanjaBoy” and Germany’s “TOTOROO”, both players taking down the featured GGSF Opening Act-L events. Also navigating to victory were Singapore’s Ho Bao “Yummers19” Qiang, […]

Following an action packed opening night, the next two days at the GG Spring Festival 2021 hosted at online platform Natural8 were just as loaded with 27 events served and three others on its final day. The biggest winners were Canada’s Guillaume Nolet and USA’s Lev “LevMeAlone” Gottlieb. Nolet seized over one million dollars at […]

Matt Berkey is an American professional poker player. He was born on January 29th, 1982 in Leechburg, Pennsylvania.

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting news and gossip from our favourite poker people. Negreanu vs. Hellmuth Duel – Fuel for more bets After Daniel Negreanu was beaten by Phil Hellmuth in the first round of the High Stakes Duel, things are heating up even more. Daniel re-challenged Hellmuth immediately […]

Springtime has arrived and with it the biggest online event of the season. Buzzing last night on computer screens around the world was the highly anticipated US$ 150 million guaranteed GG Spring Festival 2021, hosted by online platform Natural8 on the GG Network. Join Natural8 – $100 in Free tickets with your 1st Deposit The […]

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. PLO5 on Natural8 The GGPoker Network has rolled out a new update. The main addition to the game offering is PLO5. As we have seen in the past couple of months, Omaha is […]

With the world wrapped up in the whole Covid-19 situation, it appears some individuals have been spending their time focused on recreational activities to escape reality. Last Friday night’s events as featured by NBA All-Star Paul Pierce, seemed to be exceptionally intriguing as his followers caught a sneak peek in the basketball icon’s recent festivities. […]

April Fools’ day aside, the excitement for this year’s awaited live World Series of Poker continues on as tentative dates are finally announced! As previously hinted by six-time bracelet champion Daniel Negreanu, the festival is scheduled to run beginning on September 30 – November 23, 2021 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas. […]

The first round of 15-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth against fellow poker icon Daniel Negreanu’s High Stakes Duel finally came into action yesterday after weeks of social media banter leading up to the game. After 6 long hours of heads-up play, Hellmuth emerged victorious following a successful comeback from a 19:1 chip deficit, banking in […]

Artur Martirosyan is a Russian professional poker player. He was born in 1997.

Everybody knows who Vanessa Kade is now after her Twitter run-in with Dan Bilzerian, her criticism of GGPoker to sign him as an ambassador and the drama around her Affiliate account. She managed to REALLY turn this story around, however, by getting signed by America’s Card Room as an ambassador and then moving on to […]

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Spring Festivals everywhere Once upon a time there was only one notable big spring poker festival. Now it has become an industry-wide phenomenon. PokerStars, partypoker, GGPoker and Sky Poker have announced online poker […]

Good news on the Asia live front with land based festivals alive and well in China, Vietnam, and Korea. Last week, the China Poker Games (CPG) concluded its first satellite event of the year in Fuzhou; in Korea, the J88 Poker Tour (J88PT) Spring Festival completed two of its 8 Main Event starting days; and […]

Live poker for the once budding poker hub in Asia has reached a complete downfall since the global health crisis broke out earlier in 2020. Prior to the pandemic, Metro Manila, Philippines was a popular pitstop for major poker brands having hosted several successful festivals year after year. Non-essential businesses which included the gaming sector […]

Three weeks ago, the World Poker Tour revealed its return to Vietnam for its first live event in the country since 2019. The much awaited event is the tour’s premier mid major WPTDeepStacks festival, slated to run in mid April 2021 at the capital city of Hanoi. To give players a taste of what’s to […]

Dominik Nitsche is a German professional poker player. He was born on October 11th, 1990 in Minden, Germany.