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WPT Vietnam Main Event Day 2 closes with 14 remaining; Malaysia’s Jin Yong in command
WPT Vietnam is just one day away from awarding its newest Main Event champion! What started as 686 entries over the course of three starting days, today’s Day 2 saw 170 players return to Pro Poker Club, each one battling to survive the scheduled 11 rounds. In the end, only 14 secured their spot into […]
WPT Vietnam Main Event sets record prize pool of VND 15.1 Billion; Sumit Sapra tops Day 1C
WPT Vietnam was the place to be for every poker player in Asia. The past two days saw the Main Event draw a crowd of 136 for Day 1A, 211 for Day 1B, and today at Day 1C, an enormous 339 stormed in to bring the overall attendance to 686 entries. With each entry ponying […]
WPT Vietnam Main Event Day 1B draws 211 entries with Thai Ha rising to the top; Norbert Koh ranked second
WPT Vietnam filled nearly every seat at Pro Poker Club with Main Event Day 1B attracting a large field of 211 entries. Breaking that down, there were 174 unique players and 37 re-entering. When combined with the 136 entries of Day 1A, the total came very close to breaching the VND 8 Billion (US$344,800) guarantee […]
Li Xiao-Xiang wins APL Kunming Main Event
After an initial cancellation, the Asia Poker League Road Series Kunming Festival in Yunnan Province, China, had eventually kicked off with a 2-day delay on 10th March 2019 to the relief of everyone involved. All scheduled events were held in the same order as originally planned and the postponement did not seem to dampen the […]
First ever international poker series to be hosted by PokerRaj in April
The “100 Series” is the first ever internationally held poker series organised by the popular Indian online poker portal PokerRaj. The 2-day event is limited to 100 players and will take place at Bally’s Casino in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 20th & 21st April. The event will have a US$ 5,500 buy-in and a guaranteed […]
WPT Vietnam: Wayne Heung ships the Super High Roller; Macaron Tran, Pang Choyi, & Le Ngoc Khanh win events
The WPT Vietnam festival ongoing at Pro Poker Club rolled in today with several players earning their time under the spotlight. The Super High Roller event, intended to run for just two days, completed in three with Wayne Heung overcoming the rough terrain. The Short Deck event and Deepstack Turbo also resumed with Macaron Tran […]
WPT Vietnam Main Event Day 1A closes with Indian players Yasheel Doddanavar & Eka Vedantham on top
The first starting day of the WPT Vietnam – Main Event – came and went with 117 unique players pouring in at Pro Poker Club for an early start at the races. Of that number, 19 re-entered for 136 entries total. While there were many countries represented, a large contingent of Indian players could not […]
WPT Vietnam in full swing: Everything you should know!
The World Poker Tour is back in Vietnam for the penultimate event of Season XVII Asia Pacific. The festival kicked off on March 14 at Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh City. It runs a course of 11 days to conclude on March 24. At this time, four days of games have already wrapped […]
Asia Poker League draws 1043 Main Event entries in Kunming
It was a frantic start for the Asia Poker League with notice that the APL Road Series Kunming festival in Yunnan Province, China had to be cancelled just before opening day. Instead of a crowd being welcomed in to Wilo intelligent Transportation Hall on March 8, doors were closed. However, two days later, the lights […]
Maria Ho’s Life: Net Worth, Biggest Profits, Losses and Private Life
– General Introduction – Maria Ho is a Taiwanese-born American professional poker player, show host and commentator. She was born on March 6th, 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to the United States with her family at the age of 4. She started off playing Limit Texas Hold’em cash games in California casinos during her … Read more
Liv Boeree’s Life: Net Worth, Biggest Profits, Losses and Private Life
– General Introduction – Olivia Boeree, better known as Liv Boeree, is a British professional poker player. She was born on July 18th, 1984 in Kent, United Kingdom. She comes from a scientific background, and science is a subject that she still talks about habitually. Boeree got her start in poker on a Channel 5 … Read more
An interview with Alex Foxen – #1 GPI
In the past two years, Alex Foxen has had such incredible success on the international poker circuit that he was crowned GPI Player of the Year 2018. Currently, he is still leading the GPI ranking. This is a very important honor to him, which he confided to our reporter Gaëlle Jaudon in this interview, as well as discussed […]
WPT Vietnam approaches; tight race for Asia Pacific Player of the Year title
In less than a week’s time, cards will be flying in Ho Chi Minh City as the World Poker Tour returns for the second installment of WPT Vietnam. The 11-day event takes place from March 14 to 24 at Pro Poker Club, the most popular card room in the country. The festival features 15 events […]
Triton High Roller Series concludes with Timothy Adams winning the Main Event
The Triton High Roller Series 2019 in Jeju, South Korea has concluded. Over six scheduled events, 369 high rollers from across the globe battled for a total of HK$275.619 million (US$35.10 million) in prize money. Adams wins the title 48 entries formed a HK$90,204,000 prize pool in the HK$2 million buy-in Main Event. The final […]
[Watch] New Tom Dwan Interview released by Triton Poker
Tom Dwan arrived on the poker scene in the same way many others did ten years ago. Having risen through the ranks online he became one of an elite few who sat at the biggest tables in the online world. It was only once he stepped into the live arena though, that Dwan set himself […]
J88Poker Tour about to rock the vibrant Taiwanese poker scene
Poker continues to flourish in Taiwan with J88Poker set to host a six-day festival at CTP Club – Chinese Texas Hold’em Association – in Taipei City from March 29 to April 3. Last time this young tour showcased their brand of poker in Taiwan, they gathered both the largest crowd of over 360 runners and […]
Cancelled events and rumors – What is happening to Macau Poker scene?
Poker King Cup postponed Poker King Club has announced the postponement of the Poker King Cup Macau 2019, originally scheduled from 15th to 21st March 2019, until further notice. No specific reasons were given other than “due to unforeseen circumstances that have arisen”. There is a compensation procedure in place for those that have made […]
Triton High Roller Series: Career best score for Michael Soyza!
One of Asian poker’s breakout talent, Malaysia’s Michael Soyza, was victorious in the third event of the Triton High Roller Series in Jeju, South Korea. The 29-year-old takes home the title and HKD 11.15 million (USD 1.421 million). Soyza had broken his hand two weeks prior to the event while snowboarding in Japan and wore […]
138Poker.vn Pro Championships attracts 294 entries; Future events planned in Vietnam
Press release sponsored by 138.com February 27, 2019 (Wednesday), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Poker Lifestyle Brand 138Poker.vn held its first major event in Vietnam in conjunction with the Pro Poker Club. Held 20 to 24 February, the event attracted nearly 300 registered players and included a guaranteed prize pool of PRO700,000,000 with a special […]
APT Taiwan closes with record breaking Championships Event, two years of partnership with CTP, and Alan Lau for POS
This past weekend saw the Asian Poker Tour wrap up a highly successful inaugural APT Taiwan 2019 in Taipei City. The event took place from February 20 to March 3 at the Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association (CTP Club). The first half witnessed a record-setting prize pool Main Event in Taiwan while the second half […]
