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Asia Poker League Taiwan in full swing, Kwon Eun Ho claims DSO title

Asia Poker League Taiwan in full swing, Kwon Eun Ho claims DSO title

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, […]
04/23/2019
In Brief: partypoker may host Durrr Challenge, Dwan bluffs and Rio in jeopardy

In Brief: partypoker may host Durrr Challenge, Dwan bluffs and Rio in jeopardy

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 […]
04/22/2019
Joe Ingram’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth

Joe Ingram’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth

Joe Ingram, aka “Chicago Joey” is an American professional poker player and podcast host. He was born on June 24, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois.
04/22/2019
Online poker bots: Six-figure sums refunded by partypoker and Americas Cardroom

Online poker bots: Six-figure sums refunded by partypoker and Americas Cardroom

One of toughest problems to have faced online operators since the dawn of online poker is the infiltration of virtual tables by computer-controlled players. These ‘bots’ have an almost perfect mathematical grasp of the game, can implement game theory ideas efficiently and never tire or tilt. The technology guiding these bots has improved over the […]
04/19/2019
Up and Down: Isildur1 banking scores on partypoker as Chinese Player wins Sunday Million

Up and Down: Isildur1 banking scores on partypoker as Chinese Player wins Sunday Million

When online poker’s greatest legend gets busy at the tables and wins a tournament, you can guarantee there will be people interested. The same can be a said of a Chinese national winning PokerStars’ Sunday Million tournament when the legality of their operations in China could perhaps be considered questionable. Both of our stories have […]
04/17/2019
Kai Paulsen takes down the Metro Card Club MSE Main Event

Kai Paulsen takes down the Metro Card Club MSE Main Event

On April 15, the Metro Card Club in Pasig City, Philippines wrapped up their annual Metro Summer Event with Norwegian pro Kai Paulsen denying the locals the Main Event title. Paulsen was one of a small number of international players that attended and was the only decorated pro entering the final day. This marks his […]
04/17/2019
APPT Korea 2019: Sparrow wins the Main Event; Soyza crowned Super High Roller champion

APPT Korea 2019: Sparrow wins the Main Event; Soyza crowned Super High Roller champion

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour stopped in Incheon, Korea from 5th to 14th April 2019 and it was a success all around. There were 3,247 total entries (including re-entries) over the 21-event festival, who competed for a whopping KRW 3,654,222,800 (~USD 3.22 million) in prize money, but it was the Main Event that was the […]
04/15/2019

Lex Veldhuis’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth

Lex Veldhuis is a Dutch professional poker player and Twitch streamer. He was born on December 29th, 1983 in Vlissingen, Netherlands.
04/15/2019
APT Philippines rolls out an action-packed schedule with over P22 Million in guarantees

APT Philippines rolls out an action-packed schedule with over P22 Million in guarantees

One of Asia’s most popular poker brands is about to belt out a gigantic roar as the Asian Poker Tour gets set to host APT Philippines 2019. This annual stop in the APT calendar may arguably be the biggest event held by the brand each year. It will once again take place at Resorts World […]
04/14/2019
Natural8 smashes previous guarantees to gain ground on industry leaders

Natural8 smashes previous guarantees to gain ground on industry leaders

When it comes to online poker rooms taking huge strides towards becoming the leading brand within the industry, few names stand out. While partypoker’s big guarantees have been well documented in recent times, Natural8 have also been busy raising eyebrows with their own generous tournament offerings. Their latest announcement, detailing the upcoming Blade Series makes […]
04/13/2019
Interview with Taiwanese poker pro Chen An Lin

Interview with Taiwanese poker pro Chen An Lin

Chen An Lin is a highly recognized Asian poker professional from Taiwan. He began mounting numerous deep runs in 2015, mostly in Macau. He earned his first six-figures in 2016 at the EPT Monte Carlo High Roller event, then when 2018 rolled in, his live tournament career boomed. He finished 8th at the Aussie Millions […]
04/12/2019
Yan Li wins a second title at the APPT Korea National event; Phachara Wongwichit claims the Short Deck

Yan Li wins a second title at the APPT Korea National event; Phachara Wongwichit claims the Short Deck

The first APPT – Asia Pacific Poker Tour – festival of the year has been buzzing up Paradise City Casino in Incheon, South Korea with the who’s who of the poker world filling up the floor since its start on April 5. Year after year, the APPT has grown in popularity. It continues to be […]
04/11/2019
HKPPA concludes first series outside of Hong Kong; ArTLess wins the Main Event

HKPPA concludes first series outside of Hong Kong; ArTLess wins the Main Event

The Hong Kong Poker Players Association (HKPPA) Premier League series came and went last weekend running from April 4 to 7 in Taipei, Taiwan at the highly popular CTP Club – Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. This was the first time HKPPA ventured outside of Hong Kong to host a full blown series with 8 […]
04/11/2019
Daniel Negreanu targets third WSOP POY Title and small buy-in events

Daniel Negreanu targets third WSOP POY Title and small buy-in events

Every year, as we approach the WSOP, Daniel Negreanu announces his list of personal goals for the series and for the year. While he hasn’t yet released his list for 2019, he has been speaking about his plans for the series on the DAT Poker Podcast he co-hosts. His talent has yielded results in the past with Negreanu […]
04/10/2019

Phil Galfond’s Life: Net Worth, Biggest Profits, Losses and Private Life

Phil Galfond is an American professional poker player. He was born on January 16, 1985. He has been very successful in both online and live poker. He has won
04/09/2019
Vegas poker alternatives to the WSOP this summer

Vegas poker alternatives to the WSOP this summer

Every summer for many years now, Vegas becomes the world’s poker mecca. Players do not just come to play the World Series of Poker events at the Rio themselves, they also flog to about half a dozen other poker rooms to battle it out on the felt. Somuchpoker.com provides you with a concise overview of the […]
04/08/2019
APPT Korea opens with Xing Biao Zhu owning the kickoff; Yan Li wins the freezeout

APPT Korea opens with Xing Biao Zhu owning the kickoff; Yan Li wins the freezeout

PokerStars is back in Incheon, South Korea to stage a second edition of Asia Pacific Poker Tour Korea in the highly luxurious Paradise City Casino. Festivities have been underway since April 5 and is scheduled to run a course of 10 days to close on April 14. Players from all over the world have already descended, including […]
04/08/2019
World Poker Tour announces stop in Taiwan

World Poker Tour announces stop in Taiwan

The World Poker Tour issued a press release yesterday to announce a new WPT stop in Taiwan for this summer. After Vietnam this is the latest addition to the Asia-Pacific region by the poker giant and it it’s likely that more stops in the region will be announced in the near future. WPT Taiwan announcement […]
04/05/2019
J88Poker Tour closes with high marks and Eemil Tuominen winning the High Roller

J88Poker Tour closes with high marks and Eemil Tuominen winning the High Roller

J88Poker Tour wrapped up another successful festival at the CTP Club – Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. The first edition in December 2018 – which so happened to be their first-ever live venture – saw a packed house everyday that this second edition was staged just a short three months after. The festival ran for […]
04/04/2019
Metro Card Club Summer Event P3 Million Guaranteed begins tomorrow

Metro Card Club Summer Event P3 Million Guaranteed begins tomorrow

If you are in Asia, most especially in the Philippines, the place to be for the next 11 days is the Metro Card Club. Most commonly known by the locals as the Metro, the standalone card room is the largest and most popular poker room in the country with over 30 tables. Due to their […]
04/04/2019
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