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Asia Poker League Vietnam concluded the first of four starting days of the Main Event with 64 entries (55 uniques, 9 re-entries) buzzing up the tables at Pro Poker Club. After the scheduled fourteen 40-minute rounds, the field trimmed down significantly to just 14 players. Amassing the largest  stack was Nguyen Thi Hien Hoa with […]

The Global Poker Index (GPI) has become an established measurement of live tournament prowess since it began and has seen its top 10 positions populated by some illustrious names in recent years. While Asian players have seen some success in globally recognisable tournaments, they have always struggled to establish themselves in the GPI top 10. […]

Hengqin is an island west of Macau and south of Zhuhai, also known under its Portuguese name Ilha de Montanha. Parts of Hengqin have been leased out to Macau in order to support the massive plans of developing the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. Since 2005 there have been conversations around a multi-billion dollar plan […]

Kristen Bicknell is a Canadian professional poker player. She was born on December 29th, 1986 in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Daniel “Jungleman” Cates is an American professional poker player. He was born on November 14, 1989 in Bowie, Maryland.

The prestigious PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo has come to a conclusion. The 41-event festival ran from 25th April to 4th May 2019 and ended with the victory of the German high roller Manig Loeser in the €5,300 Main Event. Several Asian players scored big in the side events. Manig Loeser denies China a […]

The Asian Poker Tour concluded a 12-day run at Resorts World Manila with APT Philippines 2019 taking place from April 24 to May 5. This was the fourth stop of the tour this year and as the trend has been for the brand this year, it drew large fields across the board. Overall a grand […]

The online poker landscape is evolving quickly with private applications taking a growing share of the cash game market and Asian poker sites like Natural8 investing massively in expanding their tournament offerings. In response to this increased competition, the market leaders PokerStars and partypoker have too keep innovating and double down on safety and trust. […]

This May 12th, Natural8 is bringing back the much anticipated Good Game Series. Since its first installment last November featuring $3.5M in guarantees, Natural8 is making a leap to $10M GTD this May. The Natural8 Good Game Series 2 (N8GGS2) is a MTT festival comprising of 157 events across 15 days, from May 12 – […]

The Asia Poker League Taiwan was wrapped up last week and we can already look forward to the next stop of this popular poker festival series. It will be the first APL event in Vietnam in 2019 from 9th to 20th May at the Pro Poker Club HCMC. Players are encouraged to travel to the […]

Triton has announced Tom “durrrr” Dwan as their latest brand ambassador. Dwan has been a supporter of the Triton Series from the start and it has served the poker community as a window into Dwan’s otherwise illusive and legendary poker life. Tom Dwan is the second big name to join as a Triton ambassador. His […]

The Asian Poker Tour is currently running its fourth event of the year with APT Philippines 2019 ongoing at Resorts World Manila. Games began on April 24th and is scheduled to conclude on May 5th. Through the years, this leg has proven to be the most popular. With this year’s festival falling during Japan’s Golden […]

The social media front was hot over the last week, with Daniel Negreanu and Shaun Deeb competing with Dan Bilzerian to create the biggest outrage. Negreanu’s revealing poolside picture As a man who always speaks his mind regardless of who it annoys, Daniel Negreanu is fully accustomed to people telling him to put a sock […]

The Asia Poker League Taiwan festival has come to a conclusion. The festival took place from April 20th to  April 28th at the CTP Club in Taipei. A Main Event champion had been crowned and more trophies have found new owners in several side events. Read our first report from the festival here. Chi Jen Chen  wins the Main Event […]

Since its launch in October 2017, the Asian online brand J88Poker the asian online brands keeps developing its offering both on the live field and the online one. In April the brand hosted a successful festival in Taiwan which saw a total of 452 players entering the Main Event. In May the operator is putting […]

While most Asian countries have a more liberal approach, China maintains strong restrictions on poker, especially its digital versions. Online giants like Tencent, Alisports (Alibaba), and Ourgame, all had their own apps in the market but ended up shutting them down last year. This week, Techcrunch reported on a new wave of restrictions aiming to […]

This week’s online action has seen three eye-catching stories rise to the surface. GPI#1 Alex Foxen pockets big scores at Americas Card Room, “Lucky_Jew_17” wins the Sunday Million twice and online tournament beast Chris Moorman has been going about his usual Triple Crown collecting business. Alex Foxen crushing online Alex Foxen has consolidated his lead at the top of […]

Chris Moorman is a British professional poker player. He was born on July 12, 1985 in the United Kingdom. He currently still resides in his home country, in

After a successful opening event in China with a 1043-strong Main Event field the Asia Poker League now kicked off their second event of the year. The event is running from 20th to 28th April and is hosted at the CTP Club in Asia’s poker hotspot Taipei, Taiwan. It is partnered with the Deepstack Open, […]

This week has seen Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan get busy with some big pots and power plays during Triton’s Cash Game. While this isn’t entirely new, partypoker’s offer to host the Durrr Challenge, allowing it to resume, certainly is. The challenge has been going for around a decade now, with months, or even years passing between […]