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After more than two weeks of events at the WSOP, Australia now has a 2018 champion. Michael Addamo triumphed over a field of 1,637 players, winning $653,581 and a gold bracelet for his efforts, which is the first of his career. It is by no means his first big cash however, as he already has […]

The 2018 World Series of Poker concluded one of the largest events the festival has seen thus far, the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em MILLIONAIRE MAKER event, with Germany’s Arne Kern capturing his first WSOP gold bracelet. This was a huge achievement for Kern who had to navigate the massive 7,361 field, and overcome some of […]

Following a massive success in Montenegro, Triton Poker has announced plans to head to Korea and Russia. The Montenegro Triton Super High Roller Series was impressive, to say the least. From May 12th to the 18th there were four high roller events as well as insanely high stakes televised cash games. The event featured two Six-Plus […]

Live poker tournaments are booming in Vietnam and seems to only be getting much busier. With the recent authorization given to local poker clubs allowing them to host tournaments, 2018 has already seen two highly successful events storm through the country with a large percentage of locals in attendance. Early this month, the Asia Poker […]

The Asian Poker Tour and CoinPoker have joined forces to bring players from all over the world a chance to win a MAIN EVENT seat to the upcoming APT Korea Seoul 2018. Qualifiers to the Main Event Satellite have already begun. 5 Main Event seats worth KRW 1,100,000 (~US$1,025) each are up for grabs. How […]

Asian players begin their WSOP journey! The great migration has started once again. Players from all around the world have been arriving in Las Vegas these last few days to begin their challenge for coveted WSOP bracelets. Asian players may not be filling up the registration lists for events just yet, but significant numbers are […]

Randy “nanonoko” Lew made a name for himself by 24-tabling 6-Max No Limit Hold’em mid stakes on PokerStars and in the process achieved Supernova Elite six times. He is now a familiar face in the Asian live poker circuit. An interview by Gaelle Jaudon SMP: You were first known for crushing online. How did you work […]

Ivey returns In what is arguably the biggest piece of news to come out of the first few days of the WSOP, Phil Ivey has once again returned to the biggest tournament stage of all, entering the $100,000 High Roller event. His presence will surely have sent ripples around the Rio, especially as he made […]

As the WPT Main Tour Season XVI came to a close in Las Vegas with Matthew Waxman winning the Tournament of Champions, in another part of the globe, one event getting ready to fire up was the inaugural WPT New Zealand at SkyCity in Auckland. WPT New Zealand is part of the brand’s WPTDeepstacks Season […]

Another installment of the Manila Super Series has come and gone and once it again it produced an impressive field with 784 entries charging the felt at City of Dreams Manila. The series is one of the lowest buy-in festivals hosted by PokerStars LIVE with this year’s editions in Manila offering players a chance at […]

The largest poker tournament Vietnam has ever seen wrapped up with Singapore’s Lew Yin How winning the Asia Poker League Main Event. Last night, Lew Yin How withstood the final 9 round to emerge as champion and capture the VND 1,476,360,000 (~US$64,700) first place prize money. Ever since tournament poker opened up to local players […]

It’s that time of the year again with the biggest poker festival upon us, the World Series of Poker. On May 29 – July 17, 2018, players from all over the globe will descend upon the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for the 49th edition of this annual celebration. Up for grabs […]

Vietnam is undeniably the hotbed for poker these days with the Asia Poker League drawing in a monstrous 864 entries to the Main Event. The 11-day festival has been running since May 25 at the Pro Poker Club in Ho Chi Minh City and will conclude on June 4. The past four days was dedicated […]

Hosted at the Aria Casino, the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) has quickly established itself as one of the events all top pros want to win. With a $300,000 price tag on each seat and a field of world class talent to get through in order to take home the $5 million top prize, buying […]

After a successful festival in the Philippines, which saw Filipino pro Lester Edoc triumphant in the Main Event, the Asia Poker League is now hosting its second event of the year in the up-and-coming Vietnamese poker market. The organizers teamed up with Pro Poker Club. The club saw a record-breaking APT Kick off Vietnam event last […]

To the delight of many players seeking live tournament action in Macau, the month of May avoided a dry spell with Poker King Club launching the Oriental Poker Championship 2018 (OPC). The inaugural six-day series took place at the Venetian Macao on May 23 – 28 with PKC CEO, Winfred Yu, opening the festivities with […]

After a series of delays during the construction of ‘Run It Once’ online poker room, the site created by Phil Galfond is almost ready to throw open its doors and treat players to the first phase of its offerings. Several key details have already been revealed in recent weeks, giving an insight into just what […]

What started out in China on April 2017 has just ended in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tonight, the World Poker Tour closed out another successful season of events that were held in various parts of the globe such as as Beijing, Amsterdam, Montreal, and the USA. Along the way, 18 champions added their names to the […]

Last month, the poker community was shocked to hear of the PokerStars LIVE room closure in City of Dreams Macau. For the past five years, players have come to rely on PokerStars LIVE Macau to offer the biggest and richest live poker events in Asia. With this unfortunate turn of events, along with the sudden […]

To players in the United States, American player Nam Le is one of several Vietnamese-descent players well-known in the live circuit. Recording his first cash back in 2004, Le has racked up an incredible list of live poker earnings (mostly in the states) amounting to well over US$7.3M. Contributing to that figure was his victory […]