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For just their second-ever live tournament, J88Poker Tour surely did not disappoint. The Main Event produced another impressive result attracting a combined total of 452 entries over the three starting days. With a buy-in of NT$25,000 (US$810) each, this doubled the 5M advertised guarantee. Also, the eventual winner will receive a WSOP 2019 Main Event […]

J88Poker Tour 2019 concluded another starting day to the Main Event with 121 entries at the close of registration. Combine that with the 105 of Day 1A, the NT$ 5 Million guarantee has been reached. There is still one entry day left to fatten up that prize pool even further. For now, we’ve got the day’s […]

The J88Poker Tour 2019 kicked off the weekend with its spotlight on Day 1A of the Main Event. This first of three starting heats drew out 105 runners to the CTP Club – Chinese Texas Hold’em Association. The day also saw the Opening Event on its final run with 36 players back in action for the […]

Doors are open and action is underway at the J88Poker Tour taking place in Taipei, Taiwan at the CTP Club – Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. Bringing immediate life to the room was the Teams Event with 12 teams storming the felt. The Opening Event will follow at 6pm. This is just the beginning of […]

It was full blown action at opening day of the J88Poker Tour with two events commanding the floor of the CTP Club – Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association. The Team Event heated things up in the afternoon while the Opening Event took full control in the evening with an impressive 240 runners. We’ve got those results for […]

Somuchpoker Team covers the Asian poker circuit. During our last event coverage, we filmed some of the best players in action and afterwards asked them to comment about the most interesting hands. Hand #1: Vincent Chauve – WPT Vietnam Main Event Vincent Chauve faced a complicated decision on the river in the first levels of […]

The Triton Super High Roller Series attracts a lot of attention for its huge prizes and star names, but it is also becoming synonymous with interesting interviews. Players who normally shun the spotlight and rarely give interviews have developed a habit of sitting down to talk to Paul Phua Poker at Triton events lately. Andrew […]

Shaun Deeb is an American professional poker player. He was born on March 1st, 1986 and grew up in Schenectady, New York.

From March 14 to 24, WPT Vietnam took command of Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh City with 15 thrilling events packing the house from start to finish. The largest draw was none other than the Main Event breaking its previous attendance. 686 entered to create the biggest prize pool in Vietnam history of […]

After five days of intense poker action that drew 686 entries to Pro Poker Club for the WPT Vietnam – Main Event, Thailand’s Vincent Chauve emerged victorious! He entered the final day running fourth-in-chips, proceeded to rail five players to capture the WPT championship trophy and pocket VND 2,300,000,000 (~US$ 99,100), Chauve also slid into […]

WPT Vietnam is just one day away from awarding its newest Main Event champion! What started as 686 entries over the course of three starting days, today’s Day 2 saw 170 players return to Pro Poker Club, each one battling to survive the scheduled 11 rounds. In the end, only 14 secured their spot into […]

WPT Vietnam was the place to be for every poker player in Asia. The past two days saw the Main Event draw a crowd of 136 for Day 1A, 211 for Day 1B, and today at Day 1C, an enormous 339 stormed in to bring the overall attendance to 686 entries. With each entry ponying […]

WPT Vietnam filled nearly every seat at Pro Poker Club with Main Event Day 1B attracting a large field of 211 entries. Breaking that down, there were 174 unique players and 37 re-entering. When combined with the 136 entries of Day 1A, the total came very close to breaching the VND 8 Billion (US$344,800) guarantee […]

After an initial cancellation, the Asia Poker League Road Series Kunming Festival in Yunnan Province, China, had eventually kicked off with a 2-day delay on 10th March 2019 to the relief of everyone involved. All scheduled events were held in the same order as originally planned and the postponement did not seem to dampen the […]

The “100 Series” is the first ever internationally held poker series organised by the popular  Indian online poker portal PokerRaj. The 2-day event is limited to 100 players and will take place at Bally’s Casino in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 20th & 21st April. The event will have a US$ 5,500 buy-in and a guaranteed […]

The WPT Vietnam festival ongoing at Pro Poker Club rolled in today with several players earning their time under the spotlight. The Super High Roller event, intended to run for just two days, completed in three with Wayne Heung overcoming the rough terrain. The Short Deck event and Deepstack Turbo also resumed with Macaron Tran […]

The first starting day of the WPT Vietnam – Main Event – came and went with 117 unique players pouring in at Pro Poker Club for an early start at the races. Of that number, 19 re-entered for 136 entries total. While there were many countries represented, a large contingent of Indian players could not […]

The World Poker Tour is back in Vietnam for the penultimate event of Season XVII Asia Pacific. The festival kicked off on March 14 at Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh City. It runs a course of 11 days to conclude on March 24. At this time, four days of games have already wrapped […]

It was a frantic start for the Asia Poker League with notice that the APL Road Series Kunming festival in Yunnan Province, China had to be cancelled just before opening day. Instead of a crowd being welcomed in to Wilo intelligent Transportation Hall on March 8, doors were closed. However, two days later, the lights […]

Maria Ho is a Taiwanese-born American professional poker player, show host and commentator. She was born on March 6th, 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to the