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The WSOP 2019 Main Event moved on to its second starting flight yesterday, leaving the 375 lost souls from day 1A in its wake. With the second of three day 1’s playing out, the Rio was full of players hoping to follow the 960 survivors from the day before. The field size for day 1A […]

Yesterday’s action has brought the best and worst of doubles to the fore, with one player taking his second runner-up spot of the series while another claims his second bracelet this summer. In addition, former bracelet winners have been getting busy, with two of them adding to their career collection in the last 24 hours. […]

The biggest WSOP event of all has finally arrived – event 73. The $10,000 NLH Main Event is underway, with the first of three starting day flights having played out last night. With the smoke having cleared after the opening salvos, we have all the latest on risers and fallers to bring you. Typically, the […]

Reports suggest the current blinds in Bobby’s Room are $4K/8K and $250K pots are changing hands. Who said summertime in Vegas was all about the WSOP? This cash game action does of course spring up partly due to the WSOP bringing players together, but many players head to Vegas at this time of year purely […]

The 2019 WSOP continues to roll on, with stories and bracelet battles springing up across the Rio. Yesterday saw two exciting Asian stories unfold, with Korea’s Sejin Park adding to Korea’s stellar series, and Yueqi Zhu attempting to win the same event two years running, having also final tabled it the year before that. Event […]

We’ve entered the last half of the year and with that comes plenty of exciting poker all over the Asian region. Focusing our attention on the Philippines, this July will see plenty of cards flying and chips shuffling at Okada Manila. Two events will bookend the month, the Manila Super Series 11 and APPT Manila. […]

This week has been a fascinating one at the Rio, with the $50K Player’s Championship concluding, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan getting involved in the action, and star names going deep in events too. There may not be too many $10K events left, but the biggest one of all is now not far away. With […]

Timofey Kuznetsov, better known as his PokerStars screen name Trueteller, is a Russian professional poker player. He was born in 1991. For most of his career

The inaugural Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Jeju crowned its first Main Event champion with Macau’s Huidong Gu overcoming the 362 field at Jeju Shinhwa World – Landing Casino. This was Gu’s first-ever major title; he pocketed KR₩ 183,695,000 (~US$ 159,000), the largest live score of his career. In a brief interview with APPT, Gu expressed, “I […]

From June 21 to 27, the poker tables at ARIA casino filled with action for the World Poker Tour’s Zynga Poker WPT500. There was plenty of opportunity to join with eight stating flights offered. In the aftermath, 1,932 entered for a very juicy prize pool of $ 966,000. Navigating his way to the top was […]

Shifting our attention from west to east, one of the most prestigious tours offered in Asia is underway. PokerStars LIVE Asia is hosting the inaugural Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Jeju at the Jeju Shinhwa World – Landing Casino. Doors opened on June 22 and is scheduled to run until June 29. The top story […]

For many years, the online tournament throne has been occupied by the same man. Chris “Moorman1” was the first to cross the $10 million in 2013, and $15 million mark for online tournaments in 2018, as far as anyone knew. Now, having been quietly amassing a fortune in online tournament scores for thirteen years, a […]

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With plenty of prestigious events going on this week, the crowds in Las Vegas have had their fair share of big names fighting it out for bracelets. They have also seen numerous Asian players grinding away in the latter stages of tournaments too, and after several close calls, we now have our first Asian winner […]

It’s not all about winning WSOP bracelets in Las Vegas. Around the city, numerous poker events also offer juicy guarantees. From June 17 to 21, the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) held a $3,000,000 guaranteed Main Event at the Venetian. It drew a massive 2,472 entrants each one ponying up the $1,600 buy-in for a prize […]

We have reached the halfway mark of the 2019 World Series of Poker at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The series has been running since May 28 to conclude on July 16. A total of 89 events fill up the schedule. At the time of writing, 43 events have completed. […]

The last twenty-four hours has seen one of poker’s most controversial stars come agonisingly close to a seventh bracelet, while the man who defeated him heads-up picked up what was the seventh bracelet of his own career Elsewhere, Joseph Cheong picked up the first bracelet of his career, with China’s Zinan Xu also going deep. Event […]

What were just a few promising festivals hosted in Taipei last year has now turned into a real trend. The boom is fueled largely by the challenges organizers have faced in Macau. Ever since the closure of PokerStars Macau, poker events have been scarce in Asia’s entertainment mecca; it is practically impossible to host an […]

The World Series of Poker in Las Vegas has been heating up nicely during the past week, with numerous stories being written over in sin city. The last twenty-four hours alone have seen China come close to a bracelet, not for the first time this summer. The biggest story, however, has been the astonishing achievement […]

Former professional StarCraft Pro Gamers from South Korea, Lim Yo Hwan and Hong Jin Ho have signed sponsorship contracts with J88Poker at the end of May. “BoxerR” enters the J88Poker ring Lim Yo Hwan, also known as “BoxeR”, is widely considered to be one of the most successful StarCraft players. He has been the first […]