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USOP: Poker 2U Taiwan Series 20M guaranteed in less than a week! – February 10 to 19 at CTP Club
In just under a week, U Series of Poker makes landfall in Taipei City, Taiwan! This is the brand’s first venture into the live arena and it aims to be highly memorable featuring 23 trophy events and TWD 20 Million (~$625,600) in guaranteed prize pools. If you missed our earlier posts, no fret as […]
Online News: Natural8 – GGNet’s Mini MILLION$ doubles in on the action; GGpoker granted license to operate in Czech Republic; 888Poker’s The Wizard’s Spell promotion; $2.5M GTD WCOPS at TigerGaming underway
In this column, we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Natural8 – GGNet’s Mini MILLION$ doubles in on the action On its last leg, Natural8 – GGNet’s ongoing Mini MILLION$ series is once again attracting massive fanfare with its low buy-ins and eye-catching […]
Natural8 Announces Asian Poker Tour Online (APTO) Schedule
Natural8 to host APTO series with $10,000,000 in guarantees. Last week, Natural8 signed a five-year agreement to become the Title Sponsor for the Asian Poker Tour (APT) and will celebrate the new relationship with the Asian Poker Tour Online (APTO) Series. Today, Natural8 announced the full schedule for the APT Online which takes place […]
Upcoming live festivals in Asia: CTP Championship Series x Japan High Roller, APL Hong Kong, APT Hanoi, USOP: Poker2U-Taiwan Series
After a rush of lucrative season openers lighting up the Asian region, the next wave of games is at hand. Make sure to mark them down. CTP Championship X Japan High Roller Series: January 27 to February 6 Popular card room, Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association aka CTP Club and Japan High Roller team […]
Get ready for Triton Poker Vietnam this March
Premium poker brand, Triton Poker, has set its imprint in various places around the world and coming this March, Vietnam will be added to that list. Revealed earlier this month, the event takes place from March 1 to 13 at Hoiana Resort & Golf in Hoi An, Vietnam. It will be the brand’s first […]
The Biggest Low-Stakes Tournament Is Back on Natural8
Get your dimes and pennies ready, for the mini MILLION$ series is back! This January, as a gift to Natural8 players, we have decided to double down on the previous mini MILLION$ guarantees and make it $10,000,000 in guaranteed prizes! “This is the ultimate poker series for everyone and every bankroll!” – Marketing Director […]
Check Out Your 2023 Zodiac Luck Forecast
Life can sometimes be seen as one of those games of chance: as each day arrives, we have no real idea of what’s in store. According to Chinese beliefs, the year of our birth sees us being assigned a powerful animal. While there can be little dispute that luck plays a part in life, it’s […]
Taiwan Millions Tournament 13 pays out over $1M; Ding Siang Lin wins Main Event; Lok Ming Chan, Yu Wei Chang, Zong Chi He among top highlights
The Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association (CTP Club Taipei) opened the new year with the 13th edition of the Taiwan Millions Tournament. Running from January 2 to 17, the highly popular homegrown festival guaranteed players NT$ 10 Million in combined prize pools. Like past editions, locals poured in, filling the room to capacity. At […]
New chapter for Asian Poker Tour: APT Hanoi 2023 revamped schedule and five-year sponsorship deal with Natural8
2023 marks a new chapter for the Asian Poker Tour with new owners, APT Events Private Limited, aiming to take the brand to greater heights. This past week revealed some of those changes starting with a revamped APT Hanoi 2023 schedule. Following the release, the APT also announced an agreement with Natural8 that will […]
Poker Dream Malaysia concludes with Devan Tang crowned Main Event champion; festival pays out RM 3.65M (~$845K)
Poker Dream opened the new year at Resorts World Genting Highlands with a weeklong series running from January 9 to 15, 2023. This was the young brand’s second visit to Malaysia and as expected, it dragged out the biggest names in Asian poker with several seizing titles. Among the big winners were Danny Tang, […]
Taiwan is calling! U Series of Poker – Poker2U Taiwan Series Early Bird Packages – February 10 to 19 at CTP Club
The U Series of Poker – Poker 2U Taiwan Series is coming up in just a few weeks and what better way to jumpstart your plans than by taking advantage of the Early Bird Packages. Two types of packages are offered. Early Bird Standard Package – US$ 660 The Early Bird Standard Package costs […]
Asia’s finest looking forward to World Poker Tour Prime Cambodia; full schedule released – US$ 1M guaranteed – March 9 to 21
The poker world is buzzing with the recent release of the World Poker Tour Prime Cambodia Season XXI schedule. With the upcoming festival just a month and a half away, players are already planning their trip. Here are some of Asia’s best expressing their enthusiasm. David Erquiaga, Season XXI WPT Prime Cambodia Main Event […]
World Poker Championship pays out over ₫51.6 Billion (~$2.2M); Tuong Manh Ha wins Player of the Series; WPC returns to Grand Loyal on March 31 to April 9
On January 15, the World Poker Championship (WPC) in partnership with the Hanoi Series of Poker (HSOP) concluded its season opener at the Grand Loyal Poker Club in Hanoi. The event got underway on January 3 featuring a confident US$ 1 Million guarantee. Locals and Koreans flooded the felt, joined by a scatter of […]
Korean pros Steve Yea and Seungmook Jung sign with Bluff & Catch
With live poker thriving in Korea, organizers have been seeking out players to best represent their brand. Late last year, high profile Korean pros Yohwan Lim – more famously known as BoxeR – and Sung Joo Hyun both signed with Winjoy Poker League then several days ago Steve Yea and Seungmook Jung both signed […]
Vietnam’s Thang Ngoc Dao crowned World Poker Championship Main Event champion!
After five hours of intense competition, Thang Ngoc Dao is the newest World Poker Championship Main Event champion! He eliminated five players at the final table that included fellow countryman Hung Van Huynh at heads up to clinch the title and an ICM payout deal of ₫1,540,030,000 (~$65,700). Relive the Final 8 race to […]
Hong Kong’s Hoi Wai Tam leads the World Poker Championship Main Event Final 8; VN₫2.7B ($115.6K) up top
After a lengthy 15+ hours of Day 2 play, the World Poker Championship MAIN EVENT Final 8 was established. Hong Kong’s Hoi Wai Tam bagged up the mightiest stack of 81 BB and holding firm as last rank was Day 2 chip leader Grant Gardner with 15 BB. The title-chase continues on Saturday, January […]
Kick Off The New Year With Super MILLION$ Week
2023 is off to a great start. From 8th – 16th January 2023, you can take all that you learned in 2022 and challenge the first Super MILLION$ Week of the year. This year, to make it even more rewarding, there will be a special Super MILLION$ Super Ranking Leaderboard, where all the points you […]
WSOPC Online: “VeryMerry” wins Main Event for $1,184,690; Pavel Plesuv runner-up; Asia’s “dynastyfuren”, “Doubledeee” reach final table
The World Series of Poker Online Circuit completed another lucrative festival at Natural8 – GGNetwork with over $46 Million paid out across 18 ring events. Games ran nonstop from December 4 to January 10. Anonymous player nicknamed “VeryMerry” emerged the biggest winner, earning $1.1M+ at the Main Event. Other ring champions that banked seven […]
Poker Dream Malaysia: Danny Tang, Phachara Wongwichit, Tan Zi Xuan among early winners; Main Event RM 2 Million gtd underway
Lots of great poker action taking place in Malaysia with Poker Dream back at Resorts World Genting Highlands in Kuala Lumpur. Like its inaugural run, the high roller events have once again dragged in the industry’s biggest players and locals have joined the hunt, coming out in full force. The series kicked off on […]
World Poker Championship Main Event draws 651 entries for over ₫14.2 Billion prize pool; Grant Gardner bags overall lead; 82 advance to Day 2
Full house at the Grand Loyal Poker Club on Thursday, January 12 as players converged for the final two flights of the World Poker Championship MAIN EVENT. Kicking it off was Day 1C which was the most popular with a thunderous 233 signing up. Only 29 reached the money round led by Vietnam’s Nguyen […]