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Nicolas Dumont Wins EPT Monte Carlo Main Event, Peters 4th, Antonius 6th

Nicolas Dumont Wins EPT Monte Carlo Main Event, Peters 4th, Antonius 6th

The EPT Monte Carlo Main Event is an event which is keenly anticipated every year, as it takes place in one of Europe’s most luxurious locations and has an unusual habit of creating final tables with star names and interesting stories. The 2018 instalment was no different, with star players Ole Schemion and Patrick Antonius […]
05/04/2018
APT Macau Championships 2018: Hung Sheng Lin wins the Main Event

APT Macau Championships 2018: Hung Sheng Lin wins the Main Event

At the APT Macau Championships 2018 ongoing at Macau Billionaire Poker, Taiwanese pro Hung Sheng Lin dominated the Final 8 of the Main Event to capture the exclusive APT Championship Ring and the HK$ 587,000 (~US$74,700) first prize. This has now become Lin’s single largest live tournament career score and his first major victory since […]
05/03/2018
PPPoker App: Everything You Should Know by Somuchpoker

PPPoker App: Everything You Should Know by Somuchpoker

Whether you’re from Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam or even Australia, chances are your heard of PPPoker. The online club-only poker room has been taking off since its release in 2015 and now services over 100 countries worldwide! The PPPoker app is available from their website, Apple Store, and Android stores, and offers players the opportunity to […]
05/02/2018
The APL (Asia Poker League) announces a 5 Billion VND GTD Main Event in Vietnam

The APL (Asia Poker League) announces a 5 Billion VND GTD Main Event in Vietnam

The APL held its first event outside of China this February with overwhelming success at the Royce Hotel & Casino in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. The Asia Poker League intends to continue this trend in Vietnam with its APL Road Series Vol. 2 Vietnam. Hosting the event will be the Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh […]
05/01/2018
Rake race and Highstakes tables: Natural8 strengthens its Omaha offering

Rake race and Highstakes tables: Natural8 strengthens its Omaha offering

Natural8 is the leading skin on Asian network GGNET, and action has been growing on the network lately, with PLO increasingly gaining popularity with players. $25/$50 games have been running regularly, with players looking to jump into some big pots and find a little more action. Natural8 has decided to take this fact on board […]
04/30/2018
Match Poker: Lau Heng Seng leads team Singapore to victory in Bangkok

Match Poker: Lau Heng Seng leads team Singapore to victory in Bangkok

Unorthodox poker seems to be an increasingly common occurrence in Asia, with Triton’s announcement of upcoming short deck poker tournaments being followed by the results of  the Match Poker’s Asian Pairs Challenge which took place in Bangkok, Thailand on April 19th. The festival saw Singapore win the competition.  The game format was ‘pure skill’ meaning that all players […]
04/27/2018
Watch: Looking Back at Poker Legend Johnny Chan

Watch: Looking Back at Poker Legend Johnny Chan

Johnny Chan is truly one of the great champions of our game, with 10 WSOP bracelets to his name and back to back Main Event titles in 1987 and 1988 (he finished 2nd in 1989). Chan has achieved everything in the game and in this 20 minutes episode of Pokerography he talks about his upbringing […]
04/26/2018
Jason Koon shares his approach to the game and his goals

Jason Koon shares his approach to the game and his goals

Last October, Jason Koon became the latest high-profile poker player to join Partypoker’s team pro. Koon, who has won over $12,000,000 on the live poker circuit is one of the world’s most accomplished No Limit Hold’em player. Gaelle Jaudon is bringing us this exclusive long format interview. Somuchpoker: You said you first started playing poker because […]
04/25/2018
Triton Returns with HKD 1M Buy-In Short Deck Event

Triton Returns with HKD 1M Buy-In Short Deck Event

Triton Poker is back once again, bringing with it all the usual familiar joys of high stakes tournaments. There will however be something a little less familiar this time around, with the introduction of a short deck ante-only event. Short deck ante-only event In fact, there will be two. The first is a HK$250,000 multiple […]
04/24/2018
Macau Millions: Chen An Lin wins his first- ever Main Event title

Macau Millions: Chen An Lin wins his first- ever Main Event title

Poker player Chen An Lin had plenty to celebrate tonight. The Taiwanese pro overcame the massive 2,499 entry field of the Macau Millions Main Event to seize his first-ever major title. He pocketed his largest career payout of HK$1,159,000 (~US$147,700) and snatched up a PokerStars Players Championship Platinum Pass. In the PokerStars live blog, Lin […]
04/23/2018
Poker in China: Crackdown on Online Poker Applications

Poker in China: Crackdown on Online Poker Applications

China poker community is in shock after the announcement of a massive crackdown on online poker applications. For the past years, Texas Hold’em online poker apps have been fuelling the growth of the game in the country. To summarize the “state of mind” of the community, poker pro Guo Duong, Tencent Ambassador, shared on his […]
04/22/2018
Cryptocurrencies slowly enter the asian poker arena

Cryptocurrencies slowly enter the asian poker arena

The poker community has been without a doubt one of the earliest adopters of cryptocurrencies. Many players jumped into the crypto bandwagon not so much as speculators expecting to make a profitable investment but as users looking for an easier way to transfer money, sometimes large amounts of money between fellow players and/or poker sites. […]
04/21/2018
Exclusive Private Freeroll on Tonybet: €100 prize pool, No deposit needed

Exclusive Private Freeroll on Tonybet: €100 prize pool, No deposit needed

Tonybet will be offering an exclusive €100 freeroll to Somuchpoker followers, and with the field size expected to be small, you have a great chance to get your hands on some easy money. You do not have to make any sort of deposit to play the freeroll, just open an account and follow the instructions […]
04/20/2018
Pinoy Briefs: Joseph Sia wins the Metro Summer Event; Martin Gonzales loses big and wins big

Pinoy Briefs: Joseph Sia wins the Metro Summer Event; Martin Gonzales loses big and wins big

The Metro Card Club, the largest poker room in the Philippines, was buzzing with action on April 11 – 16 with local players flooding in for the second big festival of the year, the Metro Summer Event 3M Guaranteed. Each year, the Metro hosts a variety of these guaranteed events accompanied by very affordable entry […]
04/19/2018
Muskan Sethi officially joins PokerStars Team Pro hours before the launch of PokerStars India

Muskan Sethi officially joins PokerStars Team Pro hours before the launch of PokerStars India

PokerStars has been spicing up the poker terrain in India this week. On Monday, April 16, the brand officially named India’s Muskan Sethi as the newest member of the Team Pro. Sethi becomes the second player from India to sport the red spade with Aditya Agarwal signed on since 2015. For those who may not […]
04/19/2018
Phil Galfond’s plans for Run it Once poker room alive and well

Phil Galfond’s plans for Run it Once poker room alive and well

Phil Galfond broke his lengthy silence on his new upcoming online poker room ‘Run It Once’ a few days ago to reaffirm his ambitions and present players with a new window for launch, which is this summer. It was all the way back in 2016, just after the WSOP when Galfond first announce his ambition […]
04/18/2018
APPT Korea: Michael Soyza wins the Main Event and a Platinum Pass;

APPT Korea: Michael Soyza wins the Main Event and a Platinum Pass;

Malaysia’s Michael Soyza was the man of the hour at the APPT Korea after he bested the largest-ever seen Main Event field of 449 entries. Soyza came from behind at the heads up round against Japan’s Mitsuhiro Shiga to seize the ₩158,700,000 (US$148,629) and the coveted PokerStars Players Championship Platinum Pass worth (US$30,000). As soon […]
04/16/2018
International Poker Tour announces its return in May! First stop in Macau

International Poker Tour announces its return in May! First stop in Macau

Alisports returns to action on May 16 – 20 for its second-ever International Poker Tour (IPT) event. The five-day poker festival will take place at the luxurious Venetian Macao with joint organizer Poker King Club. According to the announcement, this will be the first of several destinations lined up for the calendar year. In December […]
04/16/2018
Daniel Negreanu unveils action-packed summer schedule featuring over $2M in Buy-Ins

Daniel Negreanu unveils action-packed summer schedule featuring over $2M in Buy-Ins

The time of year is almost upon us. Las Vegas will be flooded with optimistic poker players in a little over six weeks, each hunting for an elusive WSOP bracelet. Among them will be fan favourite Daniel Negreanu, who has been seeking his seventh bracelet since 2013. $1.4M WSOP Negreanu has now posted his schedule […]
04/14/2018
All Japan Poker Circuit branches out to Taiwan

All Japan Poker Circuit branches out to Taiwan

Following through on the announcement made in January, the All Japan Poker Circuit (AJPC) has sealed a deal that will extend the brand to Taiwan. According to the recent press release, the AJPC and the Taiwan Poker Club (Chinese Texas Holdem Association) have partnered up to bring in the first-ever Japanese poker brand to Taiwanese […]
04/13/2018
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