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A few weeks ago one of our highlight stories was on the Australian poker legends who spent years grinding it out in live tournaments. While these featured players have certainly earned every bit of their fame in the ITM department, a much different breed of players is claiming its own section, the 2017 GPI ranking for […]

Escalating tensions between China and South Korea over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system have made one unfortunate casualty: the upcoming World Poker Tour National Korea scheduled for March 17-21. Pressure in China on travel firms forced airlines and cruise operators to cut routes to South Korea: China Eastern Airlines and Spring Airlines have already […]

The Star Poker Festival, the newest poker event in Australia, came to a close last night with Branko Ulsjebkra winning the Australian Poker League (APL) Million Main Event for a beefy AU$265,000. In addition, the two-week festivities, which ran from February 28th-March 13th at The Star Poker Room in Sydney, saw several other players bring home the bacon in […]

Alex Xiang Wei Lee wins the ACOP Platinum Series Main Event The ACOP Platinum series has been progressing throughout this week, with big prizes being awarded across numerous events. The HK$5,500 Main Event always generates special interest, and this year saw 209 players pulling up chairs. The prize pool grew to HK$942,694 ($121,417) with […]

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: March 26th on Betfair – 3PM WET REGISTER – What can I win: 100 Euros to be shared between a relatively small number of players […]

In the land of Aussies, poker is hot on the plate with ongoing events, upcoming festivals, and online poker riding on the edge. Here is a rundown of all the latest news.  Cards in the air at the Star Sydney for the APL Million Main Event The latest craze in the Australian poker circuit is […]

The New Caledonia Poker Event Noumea 2017 wrapped up an action packed ten-day festival at Casinos De Noumea with a changing of the guard as Japan’s Mitsuhiro Shiga defeated New Caledonia’s Daniel Gilles at the heads up round to be crowned the newest Main Event champion. This was a highly significant victory for Shiga as […]

Poker is surely churning all around the Asian circuit with back-to-back events quickly filling up the days of the calendar. We decided to zone in and focus our attention on what’s heating up the Philippine poker scene. Here’s a quick newsflash on a few of those stories. 719 entries for the first edition of the […]

It is still very early in the GPI POY race for 2017, but two stars of Asian poker are already stamping their authority on the leaderboard. Alan King Lun Lau and Sparrow Cheung have stormed into the top 10 places and hope to be key players in the race as it heads into the spring. […]

For the first time in 5 years, the World Poker Tour (WPT) is going to step out of its Chinese tropical paradise in Sanya and will hold an event at the heart of Mainland China – in its capital Beijing.  Right after the end of WPT Season XV, WPT XVI will kick off in WPT […]

Sergio Aido, currently ranked third in Spain’s All Time Money List, is one of the hottest running young pros in the high rollers scene today. Aido recently won the Macau Poker Cup 26 Single Day High Rollers event then followed it up with two deep runs at the Triton Super High Rollers Series Manila. His […]

While many poker outfits are focused on tapping the growing market in China, one country silently making its way back into the arena is the Republic of India. Several years ago, tournament poker was booming in the country and showing a lot of potential. However, after a tariff was imposed, the numbers immediately plunged, and […]

English Poker Pro Jake Cody, who has accumulated more than US$4 Million in live tournament earnings, has just released a new Vlog about his first time in Macau.  He specifically focuses on his cash game and tournament experience during the Macau Poker Cup.  As cameras are not allowed during the cash games that he was […]

74 year old Pierre Neuville enters the GPI’s Top 50, wins prop bet While sitting at 119th in the GPI rankings during the 2016 WSOP – Pierre Neuville made an interesting offer to the poker community. The offer was a prop bet at even odds that he would break into the top 50 players on the GPI rankings […]

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: February 26th on Betfair – 3PM WET REGISTER – What can I win: 100 Euros to be shared between a relatively small number of players […]

Last year was full of surprising news that rocked the poker community – there were the changes in PokerStars’ Live tournament offerings, the end of the Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), the separation of the Aussie Millions and PokerStars brand and more. Definitely one of the most shocking and the most saddening was the announcement that […]

IDNPlay is the largest Asian Poker Network.  According to the Pokerscout, it ranks 2nd behind PokerStars and has surpassed 888poker. Most of IDNPlay’s traffic comes from Indonesia and China. As such, the network includes a large number of skins, each of which is aimed at players from different Asian countries, namely, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Nepal, […]

Considered by many as the best poker player in the planet, Phil Ivey has unfortunately been missing in action for most of 2016. Despite this, he still managed to steal some of the year’s headlines even if the news wasn’t quite to his favor. A few days ago, the American pro casually strode into an […]

Entering the final table with the second largest stack, Germany’s Koray Aldemir defeated Spain’s Sergio Aido at the heads up round of the HK$1,000,000 (US$128,845) buy-in Main Event to become the newest champion of the Triton Super High Roller Series. The Somuchpoker team was lucky enough to have a brief interview with the champion before […]

American legendary pro Erik Seidel is back in Manila, Philippines for the prestigious 2017 Triton Super High Roller Series running from February 17th-21st at Solaire Resort & Casino. Coming out strong, he finished one spot shy of victory at the HK$250,000 6-Max event, adding US$302,380 to his total live earnings. With this cash, Seidel inched even […]