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The Asian Poker Tour closed out their first event in Macau this year with the APT Macau Championships 2018 running for 12 days from April 25 – May 6 at Macau Billionaire Poker. The final day of festivities saw the crowning of two highly decorated pros, Hong Kong’s Sparrow Park Yu Cheung for winning the […]

At partypoker’s ‘The Big Game’ Matt Kirk has been giving the poker world a reminder of what truly hideous runs of bad luck look like. His misfortune has now reached beyond the realms of the poker community, having gone viral on Reddit, and other forums. One viewer decided to trawl through all Kirk’s televised hands […]

Last week, the Asian poker community was stricken by a startling announcement – a ban on all poker applications in Mainland China. This was promptly followed by a decision restricting poker promotion on all Chinese social media such as WeChat. This week also brings its share of unpleasant news with the closure of two poker […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]