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Players geo-located in Asia have plenty to be excited about in October with globally renowned World Poker Tour announcing its first ever WPT Asia Online Series. Taking place at GGPoker from October 3 to 25, the festival will be the biggest Asia dedicated online event, guaranteeing a mighty HK$100 Million (~US$ 12.9 million) across 22 trophy […]

The annual World Championship of Online Poker held in one of the industry’s most formidable platforms, PokerStars went successfully underway these last four weeks, having awarded over $80 million in guarantees. With 75 featured events spread out across three buy-in levels each, a total of 225 tournaments completed the full schedule. The generous lineup ran […]

In this column, we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Unibet Poker 3.0 It had been teased last month that Kindred Group’s independent online poker room Unibet was working on a full client overhaul. And now the time has come. A lot of […]

With the latest online poker series drawing in huge successes the past few months, 888poker is joining in on the action with its biggest tournament festival the site has ever seen. The ongoing Millions Superstorm series is set to run a staggering total of 480 tournaments spread out across 32 days, covering over $8 million […]

Rising to fame back in 2009, amateur poker player Darvin Moon captured the hearts of many poker enthusiasts for his overall humble and true-to-self personality. Over a decade ago since Moon’s first appearance in the renowned World Series of Poker Main Event, Moon passed away last September 20th as shared by friend Todd Anderson on […]

Patrick Leonard is a British professional poker player. He was born in 1989 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

After the number of major series happening one after the other, many would think that online poker action would have slowed down in the coming weeks, given the possible dent on players’ bankrolls from all the recent great value tournaments. However, this is not the case as all eyes are currently on the World Poker […]

A new game has emerged within recent years and has quickly gained popularity across the world with leading operators such as the World Series of Poker including the so-called variant in their scheduled games. Adding a new flair to modern poker, Six-plus Hold’em or otherwise known as Short Deck, follows similar rules with the traditional […]

In this column, we deliver you the latest and most interesting news and gossip from our favourite poker people. Solver Scandal with Fedor Kruse Unfortunately it looks like we have another online poker cheating scandal. While many poker players often struggle with integrity in general it seems that a group of fellow German players had […]

In this column, we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. PokerStars exits Serbia, stays in Japan We have been reporting previously about PokerStars leaving some grey-area markets in Asia. China, Taiwan and Macau so far have been on the list and now a […]

Coming from a hugely successful World Series of Poker online series, Natural8 – GGPoker network continues its unstoppable momentum with another remarkable schedule of tournaments. With guarantees smashed in the recent weeks across the 54 bracelet events, nearly $150 million in cash was awarded to winning players, with the recorded largest prize pool for an […]

While many poker fans were closely cheering for GGPoker ambassador Daniel Negreanu to claim his seventh World Series of Poker bracelet, the long-time poker icon unfortunately ended the summer festival with a miss. Unable to break his seven-year bracelet drought, Negreanu is left with no choice but to stick with his six-bracelet standing until […]

Asian Poker Tour was one of many land-based poker operators hit hard by the pandemic. Of the eleven festivals scheduled for 2020, only two came to fruition. It has now been six months since their last live event and while the likelihood of a full blown APT festival is still uncertain for 2020, the brand […]

Niklas Astedt, better known by his PokerStars screen name “Lena900”, is a Swedish professional poker player. He was born on October 21st, 1990.

While players worldwide click away online for a chance at golden glory, in China the action was at Sanya, Hainan Island for the 2020 China Poker Games Championships. Featuring a RMB 10,000,000 (~US$ 1.4 million) guaranteed MAIN EVENT (Repechage) and 17 side games, the 8th annual festival ran from August 21 to 28 at the […]

The Coronavirus pandemic has been a large looming problem for the Philippines since news of the situation broke out earlier this year. While neighboring countries such as Taiwan and Vietnam have successfully controlled the spread of infection, the reported third world country has continuously seen a rise in confirmed cases throughout recent months. Deemed now […]

In this column, we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. PokerBros Apple Store disappearance just a ‘misunderstanding’ A short moment of panic ensued in the U.S. poker world on 27th August when the popular PokerBros mobile app was suddenly pulled from the Apple […]

Annie Duke is an American former professional poker player. She was born on September 13th, 1965 in Concord, New Hampshire. Her maiden name is Lederer – she

The 2020 World Series of Poker Online [ international ] is a wrap! The bracelet series ran from July 19 to September 6 at online platform Natural8 on the GG Network. The last gold bracelet was captured by American pro Connor Drinan who bulldozed through the final table of the $ 10K WSOP Super MILLION$. […]

Seeing as the game of poker quickly gained popularity in the past decade, the so-called poker boom in the early 2000’s may have not been entirely possible if it were not for Mike Sexton. Famed as a successful player, outstanding commentator and an overall industry leader, Sexton is considered one of the field’s greatest ambassadors […]