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Philippines’ Benhur Ybarsabal tops 2024 APPT Warm Up Main Event Flight A
Flight A of the APPT Warm Up Main Event featuring a PHP 5 Million guarantee played out today at the Pokerstars LIVE room at Okada Manila, Philippines. A total of 88 entered across the ten levels of registration and played nearly nine hours before the bubble burst to signal the end of day. The […]
07/10/2024
Asian Players Find Success At Other Las Vegas Festivals
Summer in Las Vegas brings a lot of action with all the poker rooms at the biggest casinos throwing huge poker events. It may not bring bracelet winners, but each festival still produces champions who compete at a world-class level. Listed below are several Asia player success stories around Sin City. 2024 Aria Poker Classic […]
07/09/2024
Jangkyu Lee, Dao Minh Phu, Tarun Goyal Among Asia Top Stacks At Record Breaking 2024 WSOP Main Event
It was a close one but in the end, the 2024 World Series Of Poker – WSOP Main Event pulled ahead with 10,112 players, setting a new record once again. By the end of Day 2, only 3,262 players remained with a long list of Asians in the running for the historic title. Among the […]
07/09/2024
Natural8’s $50M GTD Bounty Hunters Series
From 7th July – 29th July 2024, Natural8 will be running the summer $50,000,000 GTD Bounty Hunters Series on its game client. This is the biggest Bounty Hunters Series you’ll find this summer, and you won’t want to miss it! In a Bounty Hunters game, every player has a bounty on their head. Each time […]
07/09/2024
2024 WSOP Main Event Underway With Asians Representing
The 2024 World Series of Poker Main Event is in full swing at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. There have been 9,353 total entries so far across four starting days to create a prize pool of $86,982,900. That number will continue to rise as registration remains open for two hours in Day 2. […]
07/08/2024
Guide to WPT Cambodia Passport To The World Championship
In just a few days, the World Poker Tour will kick off another exciting festival at NagaWorld Integrated Resorts with the WPT Cambodia Passport to the World Championship set to run on July 12 to 23, 2024 in capital city Phnom Penh. In partnership with Connaissance Management Group, the schedule features 41 tournaments and over […]
07/08/2024
Aditya Agarwal Finally Locks Up The Dream Bracelet At 2024 WSOP
After a long 17 year grind and relentless pursuit, Aditya Agarwal‘s golden dream came true in the morning hours of Monday, July 9, 2024. The Indian pro crushed the final table of the 2024 WSOP Event #82: $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout, outlasting 1,423 players to clasp his first ever World Series of Poker bracelet. […]
07/08/2024
Tony Dunst Secures Third WSOP Bracelet with Early Morning Win: ‘Such a Massive Deal’
Poker pro and commentator Tony Dunst has added another accolade to his illustrious poker career, winning his third World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet
07/06/2024
Hong Kong Makes Some Noise As Wing Po Liu Wins Second Bracelet And Danny Tang Runner Up At 50K HR PLO
Hong Kong made its mark at the ongoing 2024 World Series of Poker with Wing Po Liu locking up his career second gold bracelet at Mixed Big Bet and Danny Tang finishing 2nd at the $50K High Roller Pot Limit Omaha. Here are those stories. Wing Po Liu Wins Career Second Bracelet At Mixed […]
07/05/2024
2024 WSOP Latest Wins And Deep Runs By Kai Hung Hu, Hisashi Yamanouchi
The 2024 World Series of Poker taking place at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas awarded another five bracelets. Asian players were not among the winners however Taiwan’s Kai Hung Hu and Hisashi Yamanouchi secured final table finishes. Here are the stories. 2024 WSOP Latest Winners Georgios Skarparis Is Last Player Standing; Taiwan’s Kai […]
07/05/2024
Josh Arieh Net Worth: How Rich is Georgia’s 3rd All Time Money List Poker Pro?
Josh Arieh may not have reached the pinnacle of the All Time Money List, but he has been a longtime prominent figure in the professional poker scene thanks to
07/05/2024
WSOP Names 10 Finalists for Poker Hall of Fame 2024: Who Will Be Inducted?
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has announced the ten finalists for this year’s Poker Hall of Fame. One of these poker legends will be inducted later this
07/04/2024
Record Breaking Taiwan Millions Tournament One Week Away
The 16th edition of the Taiwan Millions Tournament is drawing near with games set to kick off on July 11, 2024 at the Asia Poker Arena in Taipei City. The highly popular homegrown series created by the Chinese Texas Hold’em Association promises to be the biggest one yet with games running until July 29, 2024. […]
07/04/2024
Singaporean Yujian Eugen Zhou Debuts In 2nd Place at 2024 WSOP Colossus
Year after year, the World Series of Poker draws the largest crowd at the COLOSSUS event with buy in at an affordable $400. This season was no different with a record-breaking 19,337 entries to generate a prize pool of $5,940,883. Many players from Asia were scattered around the floor with a large number surviving into […]
07/04/2024
Three day countdown for PokerStars LIVE’s APPT Warm Up begins
Following last June’s record breaking results, PokerStars LIVE is gearing up for a busy month ahead with two full-fledged festivals taking the stage at Okada Manila, Philippines this July. Players in preparation for the upcoming Asia Pacific Poker Tour Manila 15 can test the felt as early as this Sunday, July 7th with the […]
07/04/2024
Japan’s Shiina Okamoto Wins The 2024 WSOP Ladies Championship
Japanese poker pro Shiina Okamoto was on a mission to win the 2024 WSOP Event #71: $1,000 No Limit Hold’em LADIES Championship. At this same event last year, Okamoto was so close to winning her first bracelet, but had to settle for a runner-up finish, losing to Tamar Abraham. This year, Okamoto sought redemption. A total of 1,245 […]
07/03/2024
Scott Seiver On Cloud Nine After 3rd Win At 2024 WSOP; Yang Wang Lands First Final Table
Excitement continues at the ongoing 2024 World Series of Poker with more players minted. Among them was Scott Seiver who locked up his third bracelet in this series. We’ve got those winning stories below including the deep runs by Asian players Yang Wang, Jin Hoon Lee, Naoya Kihara, and Ryutaro Suzuki. The festival has now awarded […]
07/03/2024
Wuyi Wang “Loris51” Ships APL Online Green Dragon Main Event At Natural8
The fourth Ace Poker League – APL Online series – concluded its three-week run at Natural8 with China’s WuYi Wang aka Loris51 adding another feather to his cap at the Green Dragon Main Event. Loris51 shipped the CNY 1,814,029 (~$249.5K) top prize and claimed the limited Green Dragon Avatar. Loris51 is no stranger to winning […]
07/03/2024
Phil Galfond’s New YouTube Docuseries Gives Behind-the-Scenes Look Into His Professional Poker Life with Wife Farah
Three-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Galfond is giving his fans an inside look into his life as a professional poker player and family man in his new YouTube
07/02/2024
Natural8 India continues to be under fire, Bombay High Court refuses to dismiss allegations
While online poker has welcomed continuous growth throughout the years, it’s safe to say that the thriving industry has met its fair share of ups and downs. GGPoker, the largest online poker gaming network to date, has consistently tapped into new locations to expand its hold, of which includes the most populous India to its […]
07/02/2024