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Asia-Pacific

Sparrow Cheung and Pete Chen top world ranking for most cashes in a single year

2017 is officially done and sitting atop the world ranking for the highest number of cashes are two Asian pros – Hong Kong’s Park Yu Sparrow Cheung and Chinese Taipei’s Pete Yen Han. Both players not only improved on their performance last year, but also now hold the best records for the highest in a […]

12/30/2017
Asia-Pacific

7 Greatest Asia-Pacific Player Achievements of 2017

A vibrant year of poker has just come and gone with poker brands continuously expanding and highly lucrative festivals running every month. For the avid tournament player, there certainly was never a lack of games to enjoy. Now that the 2017 season has concluded, many players can say they’ve had a fantastic year however there […]

12/28/2017
Asia-Pacific

Yunpeng Zhou wins first-ever WSOP China gold bracelet

Days ago, the inaugural WSOP China wrapped up a very successful ten-day festival that ran from December 13 – 22 at the Shangri-La Resort & Spa in Sanya, Hainan Island. In partnership with Tencent – Asia’s largest technological firm – the Main Event stormed in with an enormous 781 players each one looking to seize […]

12/26/2017
Online Poker

Partypoker announces the largest guaranteed prize pool in online poker history

Millions Online 2018 Prizepool Quadrupled Online players at partypoker will have an early Christmas present next year, as the Millions Online 2018 has had its prize pool quadrupled to $20,000,000. The inaugural edition of this event took place a few weeks ago, between December 1st and 4th with Jon Van Fleet taking down the tournament […]

12/24/2017
Asia-Pacific

PokerStars brings back APPT and announces PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship

In an announcement that has shaken up the live tournament calendar for the coming year, PokerStars has informed the poker world of changes which are on the way. The APPT, EPT and LAPT will be making their return next year. Return of the APPT The schedule for next year will begin with the Macau Poker Cup […]

12/16/2017
Asia-Pacific
Online Poker

Pokamaax Satellite Series to APT Kick Off Vietnam 2018 begins this Saturday

With 2018 just around corner, the APT is ready to start the next year with a bang. The APT Vietnam Kickoff will run January 19th-28th in Ho Chi Minh City. It is the first time the APT have run any events in the metropolis and they made sure there are multiple ways for players to […]

12/14/2017
Asia-Pacific

PokerMaster Tokyo Cup 2017 Grand Final on December 16 & 17

Through the years, the number of poker players in Japan has increased dramatically with poker tournaments gaining in popularity. Just last month, the inaugural WPT Japan took place with a healthy turnout of 469 entries for the Main Event. In just a couple of days, another big event will be taking place at the heart […]

12/13/2017
Asia-Pacific

New Milestone for Tetsuya Tsuchikawa – APT Player of the Year 2017 champion

Almost everyone in the Asian poker circuit knows Tetsuya Tsuchikawa. And how can they not? The Japanese professional poker player entered the live tournament scene in 2010 and since then has earned numerous achievements in practically all of the big events in Asia. 2014 was a particularly big year for him; he won the WPT […]

12/12/2017
Asia-Pacific

APT Finale Macau Championships: Final Highlights

With 2017 coming to a close, many poker outfits have already gone on break for the holidays. One of the last ones to host its season-ender was the Asian Poker Tour. Two nights ago, they wrapped up their twelve-day APT Finale Macau Championships event at the Macau Billionaire Poker that ran from November 29 – […]

12/11/2017
Rest of the World

When Cheaters Take Card Marking to the Next Level

Cheating has been around since before there were even casinos, and it has evolved drastically ever since. When trying to beat an opponent or a casino at Poker, Blackjack or Punto Banco, card marking is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Security measures are constantly being updated, but cheaters are becoming increasingly inventive. […]

12/07/2017
Online Poker

Cards are in the air at the brand new Asian Network PokamAAx

Virtual cards are in the air at the brand new Asian Network PokamAAx. The brand is operating on its own network and is aiming to capture a piece of the rapidly expanding South East Asian poker market. The site is making a soft opening with a few Hold‘em and Omaha games (currently running), although the […]

12/06/2017
Asia-Pacific

Early Highlights of the APT Finale Macau Championships 2017

Macau may be a bit chilly this time of year but at the ongoing APT Finale Macau Championships 2017 at the Macau Billionaire Poker in Babylon Casino, poker enthusiasts have been heating up the felt with many of the events already claimed. Here are some of the festival’s early highlights: Varun Gupta wins the Main […]

12/06/2017
Asia-Pacific

Poker destination: DSO and ASOP Festivals in Mauritius

The year may be drawing to a close, but big live poker festivals are set to get underway across the world in the new year. Players who prefer their felt to be live rather than virtual still have plenty to sink their teeth into in January, with the Deepstack Poker Open (DSO) and African Series […]

12/04/2017
Asia-Pacific

An overview of the massive Suncity Cup 2017 event by the numbers

Poker King Club’s biggest event of the year has arrived and for the past eight days, players from all over the region, and scattered parts of the world, have converged at the Venetian Macau for this much-awaited year-ending event – the Suncity Cup 2017 with its jaw-dropping HKD 8 Million Guaranteed Main Event (US$1,000,000). With […]

12/01/2017
Online Poker

Fedor Holz and Isildur1 take down High Roller events on PokerStars

Fedor Holz Wins Event #1 of the  PokerStars Super HighRoller Series Fedor Holz takes down yet another high stakes poker tournament: the PokerStars High Rollers Event #1. The event was the first of 22 high roller events, starting on Nov. 26 and had a buy-in of $2,100. Despite an alluring guaranteed prize pool of $1 […]

11/29/2017
Asia-Pacific

Eiji Kimura wins the first-ever WPT Japan

Eiji Kimura won the first-ever WPT Japan on Sunday. He defeated a field of 460 entries to win the $10,000 WPT Multi-Passport top prize. An Unique Event WPT President Adam Pliska attended the event and got proceedings underway, after especially pleasing local players by announcing how special WPT Japan was personally to him, given that his […]

11/28/2017
Rest of the World

Incredible week for Sam Greenwood at the 2017 Caribbean Poker Party

In recent times, partypoker have been posing a challenge to PokerStars when it comes to being the top poker room, and that has been further underlined by the live festival offerings which partypoker are now bringing to the poker community. The most recent of these festivals took place in Punta Cana in the Caribbean, with millions of […]

11/26/2017
Asia-Pacific

WSOP and Tencent unveil WSOP China schedule

The 48th Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas may have come and gone but on December 13 – 22, 2017, the world’s most prestigious poker brand will be hosting its first-ever WSOP China at the Shangri-La Resort & Spa in Sanya, Hainan Island, the country’s prime beach destination. This past summer, the WSOP […]

11/23/2017
Asia-Pacific

APT Game of Champions: An exclusive battle of APT 2017 title-holders

Every December, the Asian Poker Tour offers big rewards recognizing the top players in its circuit for the calendar year. The most popular avenue they’ve done this is through the APT Player of the Year race. This year, in addition to the APT POY, another exciting player incentive program was introduced, the APT Game of […]

11/20/2017

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