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Win Poker announces VND 3B Guarantee National Poker Champions 6
National Poker Champions is a local festival that is progressively making a name for itself in the Vietnamese poker scene. Poker clubs only started to open their doors in mid-2016, but Win Poker is already about to kickoff the 6th edition of the National Poker Champions. The festival will take place from December 7th to […]
APT Finale Philippines 2018: Mikiya Kudo wins the Main Event; Marco Almerez, Bobby Zhang, Kosei Ichinose among the early winners
The end of the year is a busy one for poker players in the region. One of the ongoing festivals attracting players is the Asian Poker Tour’s last event of the season taking place in the Philippines. The APT Finale 2018 is currently underway at Resorts World Manila. The festival runs from November 27 to […]
Michael Soyza officially joins Natural 8’s “Team Hot”
Michael Soyza has enjoyed a close relationship with Natural 8 in recent years and has been seen wearing their logo on several occasions when lifting trophies and playing at the tables. While his affiliation was not official back then, it certainly is now. Natural 8 have announced that Michael Soyza is now part of their […]
PPPOKER World Championship Announced at Resort World Manila
The social poker application PPPoker has gained tremendous popularity in recent years. Initially launched in Asia, PPPoker is now widely used across the World. While the application is better known by players as a platform on which to organise games between friends, its Global Tournaments series also allows players to compete for prizes. On top […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City: Final wrap and last winners Le Ngoc Khanh, Eunho Kwon, Duy Ho
After 11 days of continuous poker action, Asia Poker League wrapped up the APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 literally with the lights out as heavy rain pounded the roof of Pro Poker Club. The festival ran from November 15 to 25 with over 2000 entries and VND 21 Billion (US$898K) in prizes. 17 trophies […]
Exclusive Freeroll on 888Poker: $150 for Grab – No Deposit Needed!
We have teamed up with 888poker! The poker room is offering exclusive $150 freerolls to Somuchpoker followers every Sunday! The field size is expected to be small, you have a great chance to get your hands on some easy money. You do not have to make any sort of deposit to play the freeroll, just open […]
APL HCMC: Quang Nguyen wins the Main Event! Soo Jo Kim runner-up
After six hours of incredibly thrilling final table action, Asia Poker League awarded its newest Main Event champion. The man claiming all the glory was Vietnamese pro Quang Nguyen who overcame a 4:1 chip deficit at heads up to seize the APL Ho Chi Minh City championship title and the VND 1,618,750,000 (~US$69,300) first prize. […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City Main Event: Meet the Final 8
After six days of competition that witnessed a field of 587 entries at Pro Poker Club, the APL Ho Chi Minh City – Main Event is down to the Final 8. All of these players reached this marker in different ways but only one of them will lift the trophy and the VND 1,618,750,000 (~US$69,300) […]
APL HCMC Main Event: Down to 29 players with Minh Le leading into Day 3
147 players returned to Pro Poker Club for Main Event Day 2 of the APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3. By the end of the scheduled ten rounds of play, the field trimmed down to just 29 players. Three players crossed into the million marker with Vietnam’s own Minh Le earning the chip lead […]
APL HCMC Main Event: 587 entries, 147 into Day 2; Xuewei Li takes overall chip lead
The APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 concluded its fourth and last starting day of the VND 8 Billion Guaranteed Main Event and to say it was a big day is no doubt correct. Host venue, Pro Poker Club was packed to the hilt with every seat on the main floor taken. Side […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City: Do Thanh Duy, Abhishek Paul and Christopher Mateo win events
Another three side event trophies have been awarded here at the APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 at Pro Poker Club. The latest winners were Do Thanh Duy, Abhishek Paul, and Christopher Mateo. At the time of writing, all three players have joined the Day 1C of the Main Event. No Limit Hold’em 1 – […]
APL HCMC: Main Event Day 1C draws 179 entries; Dang Van Hien leads the 47 survivors
The APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 hit the ground running today at Pro Poker Club with tables quickly filling up for Day 1C of the Main Event. At the close of registration, 179 entries had saddled up which was more than the entries of the two starting days combined. Among the attendees […]
Viet Poker Charity: Vietnamese players Team up
At least 700 million people in the world live in extreme poverty on less than $2 a day. More and more poker players realize this and decide to give back by donating to charitable causes. Especially when there is a specific need, like a natural disaster, and the poker community is asked to stand up […]
APL HCMC: Main Event Day 1B ends with Norbert Koh in command
The APL Ho Chi Minh City Road Series Vol.3 concluded another Main Event starting day at Pro Poker Club with 22 players out of the 88 total entries surviving the 14 scheduled rounds. Navigating his way to the top with a dominating 209,200 stack is a player we know all too well in the live Asian […]
World Poker Tour announces 2019 schedule with stops in Vietnam and New Zealand; WPT India breaks record
The World Poker Tour is gearing up for a very busy 2019. The brand recently announced 18 stops for their WPTDeepstacks circuit all taking place in the first half of the year. Included in the announcement were two events in the Asia-Pacific region, WPT Vietnam and WPT New Zealand. WPT Vietnam – March 14 to […]
APL HCMC: Xiaoyin He tops Main Event Day 1A; Dang Xuan Canh among the leaders
Asia Poker League concluded Day 1A of the APL HCMC Road Series Vol.3 – Main Event VND 8 Billion Guaranteed. Out of the 82 entries, 24 players made the cut into Day 2. Unsurprisingly, the locals dominated in numbers however claiming the chip lead was Xiaoyin He from China. Xiaoyin staged a late game run, […]
Exclusive Freeroll on 888Poker: $150 for Grab – No Deposit Needed!
We have teamed up with 888poker! The poker room is offering exclusive $150 freerolls to Somuchpoker followers every Sunday! The field size is expected to be small, you have a great chance to get your hands on some easy money. You do not have to make any sort of deposit to play the freeroll, just open […]
APL Ho Chi Minh City: Side action winners
The games are heating up in Vietnam with APL Ho Chi Minh City – Road Series Vol.3 underway at Pro Poker Club. Now on its third day, side events have been keeping players very busy before the upcoming Main Event – VND 8 Billion Guaranteed. In addition to the first-ever DeepStack Open Vietnam title awarded […]
T-minus 2 days before the $3.5M Gtd GG Series on Natural 8 – $100,000 tickets giveaway
Two more days until the inaugural N8GGS tournament series begins! Between November 18th and December 3rd Natural 8 will be putting up a huge guaranteed prize pool of $3.5 million for its ‘Good Game Series’. The series comes in the wake of player traffic hitting new heights on the site and will be the first […]
APL HCMC awards Hwang Sang Yeon inaugural DeepStack Open Vietnam title
Asia Poker League teamed up with European poker brand DeepStack Open to bring the world-famous event to Southeast Asia for the first time. The DSO kicked off the APL Ho Chi Minh City festivities at Pro Poker Club and after two days, the event concluded with Hong Kong’s Hwang Sang Yeon rising above the 154 […]
