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Poker King Club’s biggest event of the year has arrived and for the past eight days, players from all over the region, and scattered parts of the world, have converged at the Venetian Macau for this much-awaited year-ending event – the Suncity Cup 2017 with its jaw-dropping HKD 8 Million Guaranteed Main Event (US$1,000,000). With […]

Fedor Holz Wins Event #1 of the  PokerStars Super HighRoller Series Fedor Holz takes down yet another high stakes poker tournament: the PokerStars High Rollers Event #1. The event was the first of 22 high roller events, starting on Nov. 26 and had a buy-in of $2,100. Despite an alluring guaranteed prize pool of $1 […]

Eiji Kimura won the first-ever WPT Japan on Sunday. He defeated a field of 460 entries to win the $10,000 WPT Multi-Passport top prize. An Unique Event WPT President Adam Pliska attended the event and got proceedings underway, after especially pleasing local players by announcing how special WPT Japan was personally to him, given that his […]

In recent times, partypoker have been posing a challenge to PokerStars when it comes to being the top poker room, and that has been further underlined by the live festival offerings which partypoker are now bringing to the poker community. The most recent of these festivals took place in Punta Cana in the Caribbean, with millions of […]

The 48th Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas may have come and gone but on December 13 – 22, 2017, the world’s most prestigious poker brand will be hosting its first-ever WSOP China at the Shangri-La Resort & Spa in Sanya, Hainan Island, the country’s prime beach destination. This past summer, the WSOP […]

Every December, the Asian Poker Tour offers big rewards recognizing the top players in its circuit for the calendar year. The most popular avenue they’ve done this is through the APT Player of the Year race. This year, in addition to the APT POY, another exciting player incentive program was introduced, the APT Game of […]

The 888 entries to the World Poker Tour (WPT) Sanya Main Event is now down its final nine aspirants bringing an end to Day 4 of the competition here. Wu Xin became the bubble boy as his wilted against the of chip leader Qian Zhi Qiang on a board of to now bring to an end Day […]

The Final Table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Sanya is set to clash starting tomorrow (November 21st) at 12:00NN (local time) with a new champion to be crowned and the top prize of $242,555 still at stake. But before the finale, let’s get to meet the nine players who will engage in the last […]

For those that love to get their hands on free money, the €100 Somuchpoker freeroll on Betfair is the opportunity of the week, with no requirement to make a deposit before registering. Next freeroll:  November 19, 2017 on Betfair – 3PM WET REGISTER – What can I win: 100 Euros to be shared between a relatively small number […]

After busting out of the ongoing World Poker Tour (WPT) Sanya, Pete Chen has decided to stop playing poker for the next three days. The real reason for this is that he wanted to spend more time with his girlfriend, who had flown to this island paradise southwest of mainland China for the weekend. He […]

The World Poker Tour (WPT) Sanya Main Event field has been whittled down to 74 as Day 2 came to a close with the money bubble being burst, the two American WPT titlists eliminated and lots of incredible poker action going down here at the MGM Grand Hotel in Hainan, China. The first news maker of […]

It’s not every day that World Poker Tour (WPT) champions get immersed in an event on this side of the planet. But WPT Sanya is fortunate to actually have two titlists locking horns with the immense local field here and for these American tournament veterans that have made a name for themselves in the Western hemisphere, […]

Day 1B is now in the books as 169 players move on to Day 2 of the Main Event here as a global flavour, the return of past champions and the arrival of no less than the big boss himself highlights the day’s headlines here in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Sanya.  Adam Pliska, WPT’s […]

The Asian Poker Tour may see the likes of Japanese pros Tetsuya Tsuchikawa and Iori Yogo grabbing the headlines at many of their stops, however joining them at the APT Manila 2017 in making the news were numerous players all claiming their first trophies of the year, some even picking up their first-ever APT title. […]

If there’s one thing you can rely on in poker, it’s that the WSOPE Main Event will provide interesting stories. With final tables that regularly feature big names (Annette Obrestad, Phil Hellmuth and John Juanda  have all won the event), it’s no wonder this tournament is keenly awaited every year. This year, despite the stellar field assembled in the […]

Explore insights from Jamie Gold, the winner of the $12M WSOP Main Event, in an exclusive conversation about his journey.

WSOPE One Drop: Massive victory for Dominik Nitsche Dominik Nitsche is certainly no stranger to winning bracelets, having already amassed three of them before this event, all in Hold’em tournaments. His first bracelet came in a huge field of 4,620 back in 2012, and he followed that up by winning the WSOP National Championship in 2014. […]

In anticipation of their biggest event of the year, the Asian Poker Tour has just announced a new way for players to enter the two featured events of the upcoming APT Finale Macau Championships 2017. On Saturday, November 19 at 21:00pm GMT +8, Natural8 – the flagship skin of GGNetwork – will host Online Starting […]

It’s official! Chris Ferguson “Jesus” is the 2017 World Series of Poker Player of the Year champion. Ferguson cashed 17 times at the WSOP in Las Vegas, added 6 more at the WSOP Europe in Rozvadov, to seize the title and receive a reward of one free entry to the 2018 WSOP Main Event. While […]

Qui Nguyen is one of the very few who have managed to reach the highest rung of the tournament ladder, winning the most coveted prize of all – the WSOP Main Event. Nguyen became poker’s world champion in 2016, and Somuchpoker decided to catch up with him for an interview, to see where his life […]