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When it comes to tournament series’ in the southern hemisphere, few, if any compare to the Aussie Millions in terms of size and prestige. For those who look forward to this series every year, the release of the schedule is an important date. For Aussie Millions 2020, that date has now arrived. For the top […]

The WSOP has always been a special series for players, recreational and professional alike. However, few have the history, the success and the near misses associated with Daniel Negreanu. With 6 bracelets, he has accomplished more at this series than most players, and yet his years at the World Series remain marked by moments of […]

The Asian Poker Tour is getting ready to host its seventh leg of the calendar year. Coming up fast is APT Korea Incheon 2019 taking place at Paradise City Casino from August 2 to 13. Unlike the tour’s previous visits to Incheon, this installment will be bigger than ever with 24 exciting games lined up […]

This summer, The Star Sydney is spearheading tournament action in Australia with its keenly awaited series – the Sydney Championships 2019. The tournaments got underway on July 11th and are set to run until August 5th, with 17 events filling the schedule. With everything from a AU$330 Crazy Pineapple event to a AU$3,000 NLH Main […]

Poker Central brings Super High Roller Bowl and British Poker Open to London Poker Central will be topping off an action-packed summer of 2019 in some style at the beginning of September, with two major events coming to London. Poker Central has decided to switch to a European venue for two of their flagship events, […]

The tournament tables may have been packed up and Hossein Ensan’s celebratory confetti swept away over at the Rio, but despite the WSOP lights being switched off for now, poker doesn’t sleep in Las Vegas. In Bobby’s Room, the action has remained red-hot, with thousands of dollars being shovelled around the cash tables in recent […]

WSOP 2019: Huge celebration at the World Series of Poker 2019 with one of Asia’s leading pros, Daniel Tang, achieving the dream at Event #90: US$50K Final Fifty No Limit Hold’em High Roller. Tang overcame the 123 strong field to capture his first-ever bracelet and a bucketful US$ 1,608,406 in winnings Interview by Christin Maschmann […]

The WSOP Player of the Year (POY) award is one of the most hotly contested titles in poker and everyone who heads to Vegas to play a full schedule in the summer will hope to collect the accolade, and ideally a couple of bracelets along the way. The award has been collected by some stellar […]

During the Main Event each year, the poker world is introduced to the latest members of the Poker Hall of Fame. Chosen by votes shared between the surviving members of the Hall of Fame and a panel of journalists, the Hall of Fame celebrates those who have made a serious contribution to the game, either […]

With an abundance of focus and fanfare being centred on the Main Event in the last week, you could be forgiven for thinking that it is the last event of the series. In fact, there are still plenty of other events which have recently concluded, with some interesting stories and near misses having been experienced […]

Day 1A of this event now feels a very long time ago. It was in fact a full two weeks ago that this huge event got underway, before going on to become the second largest field in WSOP Main Event history at 8,569 entries. Last night, the journey came to an end with Hossein Ensan […]

Alex Foxen is an American professional poker player. He was born on February 1st, 1991 in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Formerly, he played football as a tight end

APT Vietnam Ho Chi Minh 2019 concluded its 12-day run that took place from July 3 to 14 at Pro Poker Club. The second half of the festivities witnessed several players cash in quite large. New Zealander Oliver Helm won the Championships Event, Philippine player Christopher Mateo shipped two events, and Nguyen Tien Thanh aka […]

After a week of highly intensive poker, the WSOP Main Event took a break once the final table was set on Friday. Thankfully, gone are the days when that break covered several months. This time, the players had just a day to gather their thoughts and prepare themselves for the biggest test of their poker lives […]

Every year we see poker players achieve huge milestones such as reaching the top of the GPI country ranking, turning a satellite ticket to a goldmine, winning that first life changing million dollars, and for some, breaking a world record. Last week Hong Kong pro Edward Chun Ho Yam did exactly that. While attending the […]

10 days of tournament play in 2019 WSOP Main Event have all boiled down to this. The end of day 7 brought with it, an unrecognisable list of chip counts as the former leaders fell away and a new leader emerged from the pack to march into a commanding chiplead. We now have a strong […]

After another frenetic day at the WSOP Main Event, just 35 contenders are left vying for a place at the final table. Nicholas Marchington managed to win a flip against a short-stack late in the day to top the counts, with former leader Timothy Su holding steady in 3rd after leading for most of the […]

Day 5 of the 2019 WSOP Main Event has been a lengthy day of notable names falling and 354 players being chopped down to just 106 survivors, each with dreams of a final table seat and a seven-figure prize. There is $10,000,000 set aside for the eventual champion, a crown which Timothy Su has laid […]

Huge celebration at the World Series of Poker 2019 with one of Asia’s leading pros, Daniel Tang, achieving the dream at Event #90: US$50K Final Fifty No Limit Hold’em High Roller. Tang overcame the 123 strong field to capture his first-ever bracelet and a bucketful US$ 1,608,406 in winnings. Tang’s WSOP achievements For the vast […]

Ongoing in Ho Chi Minh City at the Pro Poker Club is the Asian Poker Tour’s sixth festival of the year. APT Vietnam 2019 has been running since July 3 and is scheduled to conclude on July 14. This is the tour’s second visit of the year with a third one lined up for early […]