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The Macau Poker Cup is back once again with 17 days of poker festivities at the PokerStars LIVE Macau poker room in City of Dreams. The ongoing event kicked off on August 25th and is set to conclude on September 10th with the most prestigious event in Asia, the Red Dragon Main Event, sure to […]

In 1990, Stu Ungar had a chance to become the only player in history to win three Main Event titles in freezeout format (Johnny Moss won the first ever Main Event by a vote taken between the 7 players). Having already been crowned champion in 1980 and 1981, Ungar held a commanding chiplead as the […]

Season XVI of the WPT Legends of Poker was the talk of the town in Bell Gardens, California with 35 days of festivities that ran from July 28th – August 31st at The Bicycle Hotel & Casino. Hours ago, the Main Event concluded with Art Papazyan defeating poker legend Phil Hellmuth to ship in his […]

Mediarex Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the Global Poker League (GPL), has just announced its expansion into India, one of Asia’s most promising poker markets. The announcement was headlined with: “GPL India is Coming – Get ready to compete against the best players in the country and the world in India’s Premiere Poker […]

There was a time when Samad Razavi dominated the APT circuit. There was a time when Samad Razavi fiercely hunted down the APT’s highest honor – the APT Player of the Year title – capturing it an incredible four years in a row from 2012-2015. There was a time when everyone thought he couldn’t be […]

Poker is one of those special games that tends to attract people from all walks of life. Without exception, many well-known celebrities from a wide variety of professions have been seen taking on the felt albeit a famous athlete, actor, gamer, magician, comedian, TV host, you name it. And many of them not only steal […]

The poker community has descended upon Barcelona this month, each player keen to pull up a chair in the PokerStars Championship in Barcelona. The tour, which replaced the European Poker Tour has stopped off at many venues around Europe this year, with Barcelona being the second to last stop of 2017. Asian players Tsugunari Toma […]

Poker Night in America showcases 4-way duel for $200,000 Poker Night in America brought more exciting televised poker to our screens this week, as Frank Kassela and Phil Hellmuth were joined by notorious online pros, Doug ‘WCGRider’ Polk and Dan ‘jungleman12’ Cates. In the competition which was dubbed ‘King of the Hill’, each player put […]

Many players will advise you that setting a stopping point when you are ahead or behind by a certain amount in a cash game, is a good idea. While there is some merit to stopping when you are behind if the circumstances are no longer ideal, this is not a magic formula. Stopping a session […]

Flopmania at 888Poker 888Poker has been one of three major online poker rooms shaking up their offerings lately, with Flopmania and Push or Fold Flopmania being their headline innovations. These new games are part of a drive to eliminate parts of the game that slow down or take the fun out of poker. Flopmania is […]

Born July 26, 1974 in Toronto, (Ontario, Canada) seven years after his parents, Annie and Constantin emigrated from Romania, Daniel Negreanu, aka

He’s the youngest player ever to win ten WSOP bracelets. In addition, he’s appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables and won one World Poker Tour title.

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 […]