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Intro: Welcome to Poker After Dark 2017 It feels like a long time since we’ve seen a televised monster cash game with an exciting line up on our screens. Tom Dwan has, in particular, been missed by poker fans in the years since he burst onto the scene. The long wait for more televised cash […]

The Asian Poker Tour headed to Korea for its second event in the country this year. Instead of Daegu or Jeju, the event was held in a new destination, at the recently opened Paradise City in Incheon. The APT Korea Incheon 2017 festival ran from August 12th – August 20th; many pros were in attendance […]

Elton Tsang is not your average poker player. While his recent win in the Big One for One Drop will have brought his name to the attention of the masses, to those who inhabit the elusive super high stakes cash games in Asia, Elton Tsang is already well known. Not only has he been a […]

Jarrod Thatcher wins Melbourne Poker Championship Main Event 456 entrants bought into the Main Event at the  Melbourne  Poker Championship, paying AU$1,500 to enter and generating a prize pool of AU$684,000. The event played out over the course of 3 days, and with five of the final sixplayer hailing from Australia, it seemed a near certainty […]

It’s July 24th, and Isildur1 has just closed his tables after a very profitable session. He has just made over half a million dollars in a single day of playing PLO and Triple Draw. This elevates him to the status of biggest online winner of 2017 by some distance, with the Swede having turned profits […]

We all remember those days when High Stakes Poker was at its peak, and the live poker legends were left squirming in their seats by a young online pro who seemed to blast everyone off their hand at every opportunity. While High Stakes Poker is no longer on our screens, that particular young pro soon […]

In this second video for our community, Steffen will address the three most common manifestations of tilt. More: Poker Mindset: What is Tilt?  Steffen is a Mental Game Coach and a Counseling Psychologist. His passion for the mental game of poker started during his own active career as a poker player. He now helps poker players achieve their […]

We are well past the mid-year mark and it is prime time to update everyone on the exciting Player of the Year races in Asia. Pete Yen Han Chen leads both the GPI Overall Asia and GPI Asia POY 217 standings 2017 has been a year of fireworks for Pete Yen Han Chen and to […]

Filipino pro John Tech conquered the biggest event that rocked Macau last week, the 2017 Macau Billionaire Poker Summer Showdown Hope Cup Main Event. The event boasted of a HKD 20M guarantee which was impressively attained with a massive turnout of 826 entries, most of them hailing from mainland China. With each one ponying up […]

The inaugural PokerStars Festival Manila stormed through City of Dreams Manila for 11 days of unrelenting poker action from July 28th- August 7th. Here’s a look at some of the festival’s biggest winners. Massive victory for India’s Uday Bansal at the Main Event There were quite a number of players from India representing their home […]

The Sydney Championships has attracted hundreds of players from many parts of the world here to Star Poker Room for this festival, and they have not been disappointed. Big guarantees have been met and great poker has been played, but the curtain is now closing on this series for another year. Here is a rundown […]

Allowing for players to fix their calendars, Crown Melbourne has announced the schedule for the Aussie Millions 2018 Poker Championship Festival which will run from January 17 to February 5, 2018. The Aussie Millions is expected to surpass records next year.  With numbers hoped to be bigger than this year’s event, Crown Melbourne has prepared an […]

In a world dominated by men, Jennifer Harman occupies a very special place in the poker world. She is one of  the only three women to have won two World Series of Poker bracelets in open events. But her greatest success has come from playing the biggest cash games, including the “Big Game,” in Bobby’s […]

Powerfest returns The 3rd of September marks the day when the Powerfest series returns to partypoker, bringing $35 million in guarantees to the tournament playing masses. The buy ins for these events will range from the affordable, all the way up to $25,500, with guaranteed prize pools bringing the chance of overlays in certain events. […]

The land of the rising sun will soon experience its first major poker event with the World Poker Tour (WPT) and the Japan Poker Union Corporation (JPUC) teaming up for a special event branded WPT Japan. The official announcement was just released and it will be the first ever WPT poker festival held in the country. The […]

Poker in Vietnam set a huge milestone this past weekend with the Pro Poker Club concluding its first major event, the Pro Poker Cup. For those just getting around to the news, the Pro Poker Club is the newest poker club to open in Vietnam and is the first legal poker club in Ho Chi […]

The Vietnam poker scene is undergoing a complete transformation. In a country where locals are largely banned from entering casinos, poker has found an alternate path to cater to the population, who have expressed an interest in the game. What started in Hanoi over a year ago with the opening of Aces Poker Club (now […]

Script and Audio by Craig Bradshaw / Video Bruno Thienard FULL STORY It’s April 14th 2011 and Phil Ivey finishes his latest session of poker. His total winnings on Full Tilt are almost at the $20M mark, making him by far the biggest winner in online history…. but things are about to change. Phil Ivey’s […]