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2024 WSOP Online: Konstantin Held Wins Bracelet; Marc Rivera, Chuan Feng, Seiichi Kanemitsu Among Finalists
The 2024 WSOP Online continues to heat up the GG Network with more bracelets being snatched up at online platform Natural8. To date, 12 bracelets have been
2024 WSOP Update: Close Calls For Asia Continue as Yuichi Kanai, Robert Natividad finish second
The second week of the 2024 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas is drawing to an end and in the latest batch of tournament results, two players from Asia finished in second place. Two close calls but one spot away from the elusive victory as the waiting game continues. Below is a recap of […]
Japan’s Shoichiro Tamaki hails as latest APT Incheon Main Event champion, taking down KRW 271,447,000 (~US$ 206,030) for his win
After six full days of intense action at the Paradise City Casino, the latest Asian Poker Tour Incheon Main Event has crowned Japan’s Shoichiro Tamaki as its newest champion. Tamaki collected an astonishing KRW 271,447,000 (~US$ 206,030) payout following a three-way ICM deal and defeating China’s Tsz To Wan in heads up play. The $1 […]
APT Incheon Main Event: Japan’s Shoichiro Tamaki stacks high up on sixteen player survivor list; KRW 346,647,000 (~US$ 262,090) awaits champion
The nonstop APT Incheon Main Event action across the past five days has rounded the field down to its remaining sixteen contenders after another ten levels of play. The final numbers recorded a total of 930 entries (564 unique) across the event’s four onsite and slew of online starting flights, with 134 having returned […]
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 […]
2021 WSOP Main Event: $62M prize pool; Moneymaker, Hellmuth, Hachem survive Day 2; Abhinav Iyer, Pete Chen, SJ Kim, Norbert Koh, Phachara Wongwichit among 71 Asians left
For the past week, all the action at the 52nd World Series of Poker was focused on the highly anticipated $10,000 Main Event NL Hold’em World Championship. Now that the rush has calmed, the official player count was 6,650 which was incredibly impressive given the vaccination mandate and challenges faced by many international travelers. This […]
2021 WSOP: Japanese takeover as Kazuki Ikeuchi strikes gold and Kosei Ichinose runner up; Ryan Hansen and Chad Norton win bracelets
A strong contingent of Japanese players have made the trek to the 52nd annual World Series of Poker and many have run deep at various events. Making the country very proud were two highly distinguished pros, Kazuki Ikeuchi, who snapped a triple runner up streak to capture his first ever bracelet, and Kosei Ichinose, who […]
2021 WSOP: Gold bracelets for Connor Drinan, Tyler Cornell, Martin Zamani, Mark Herm; Asian pros Mike Takayama, Kosei Ichinose, Alex Lee, Naoya Kihara hit the felt
Players continue to pour into the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino for the 52nd World Series of Poker festival. Its fifty-four day run got underway on September 30 and will play through November 23. Grabbing the spotlight were the two newest bracelet winners Connor Drinan and Tyler Cornell. For Drinan, it was his career […]
Natural8-WSOPC: Ficho and RyutaroYT lock up WSOPC Rings; D. Coleman, K. Ichinose, R. Sharma among side winners; Sunday highlights
As always, Sunday was red hot at the Natural WSOP 2021 Super Circuit Online Series with two WSOPC Rings claimed and 33 side events conquered. The newly minted champions were Germany’s “Ficho” and Japan’s Ryutaro “RyutaroYT” Suzuki. At the side games, Blake “Beast2018!” Bohn won big, David Coleman landed his fifth, Pablo “Singleleg” Wesley shipped […]
Natural8-WSOPC: James “PHJ10” Carroll claims a career second WSOP ring; Japan’s Kosei Ichinose, Thailand’s “pennyblack”, and India’s “EasyShips” among side winners
The World Series of Poker is back on the GG Network with a month long Super Circuit Online Series hosted at online platform Natural8. Running for the full month of May, the festival boasts of US$ 100 Million in guaranteed prizes with a total of 18 WSOP Circuit Rings up for grabs. For the first […]
Natural-GGSF: Over US$ 120M paid out; Connor Drinan with an epic win; Juan Pardo Dominguez ships NLHE Headliner; Mikita Badziakouski banks US$ 1.1M; Kosei Ichinose, Pete Chen, Abhinav Iyer go deep
Another week done and dusted at the GG Spring Festival 2021 and to cap it, the week-ender guaranteed over US$ 26.7 million across 20 games. This was the biggest day yet to bring the festival total payout to US$ 120,238,547 million across 231 games. Among the biggest winners were Belarusian pro Mikita Badziakouski who crushed […]
Online Poker News: GGPoker approved for Pennsylvania; PokerStars makes statement in Michigan; Tax returns for Dutch poker pros; partypoker’s MyGame Whiz; Poker operators react to UK black market; China gives ultimatum
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. GGPoker gets approval for Pennsylvania It took a bit over a year for the approval process to go through, but on 10th February it was decided that GGPoker’s parent company NSUS Group will […]
Online Poker News: GGPoker’s Isle of Man license and Flip & Gos; Entain refuses MGM takeover bid; Michigan will join interstate online poker liquidity; WCOAP on partypoker
In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Isle of Man license for GGPoker Players and the public were informed on 12th January that GGPoker will from now on operate under an Isle of Man license. Up until now GGPoker had […]
Natural8-WSOPC: Natural8 Team Hot Kosei Ichinose runs deep at the $500 Daily Main; first WSOPC win for Golden snitch
Day 16 at the WSOP Super Circuit Online Series may have had a lighter roster than the previous day where four players seized rings and a few players won over a million dollars, however, it still offered events that paid out generously. The day’s biggest winner was UK’s Golden snitch for $ 88.5K. Natural8 Team […]
Natural8 GGSeries 2020s: ElkY, Kosei Ichinose, Golden snitch, MaShaAllah, and more ship it; WooKah stays on pace, PocketJah rising fast
Another four days of games rocked the online scene as players logged in for the ongoing Natural8 GGSeries 2020s. The 22-day series has been running since April 5 with the final day to participate on April 26. A total of 16 days have now been completed. With six more days ahead, the once ambitious $ […]
WPT Cambodia: Multi-final tablists Phachara Wongwichit and Victor Chong bring it home
While the Main Event commanded the room, a couple of side events came to a conclusion. The latest winners were Phachara Wongwichit and Victor Chong. Both players reached the final table more than once at the festival and this time they were able to close it out. High Roller Single Day: PHACHARA WONGWICHIT – US$ […]
Yan Li wins a second title at the APPT Korea National event; Phachara Wongwichit claims the Short Deck
The first APPT – Asia Pacific Poker Tour – festival of the year has been buzzing up Paradise City Casino in Incheon, South Korea with the who’s who of the poker world filling up the floor since its start on April 5. Year after year, the APPT has grown in popularity. It continues to be […]
APT Finale Philippines 2018: Iori Yogo, Kosei Ichinose, and Jae Wook Shin among the final winners
The Asian Poker Tour wrapped up their last event of the calendar year with the ten-day APT Finale Philippines 2018 at Resorts World Manila. The event ran from November 27 to December 6. Among the players to claim the last of the trophies was Japanese pro Iori Yogo. Also finishing strong was Kosei Ichinose who […]
APT Finale Philippines 2018: Mikiya Kudo wins the Main Event; Marco Almerez, Bobby Zhang, Kosei Ichinose among the early winners
The end of the year is a busy one for poker players in the region. One of the ongoing festivals attracting players is the Asian Poker Tour’s last event of the season taking place in the Philippines. The APT Finale 2018 is currently underway at Resorts World Manila. The festival runs from November 27 to […]
PKC Macau: Longyun Li claims the Main Event title; Ichinose and Takayama win trophies
The Poker King Cup Macau concluded its second stand alone poker festival with an invasion of new faces and seasoned pros taking turns at the spotlight all week. The nine-day event ran from May 18th-26th at the Venetian Macau with the highlight tournament, the HK$5 million guaranteed Main Event, wrapping up last night. Emerging as […]
Kosei Ichinose adds more to his impressive online records
Several days ago, Japanese poker pro Kosei “shinbunshi” Ichinose overcame a field of 374 entries at the Turbo Championship of Online Poker 2017 (TCOOP) Event 53: US$215 H.O.R.S.E. and shipped in US$13,673.75. This recent victory came just three months after his 4th place finish at the PokerStars Sunday Million for a sweet US$81,000 (deal made) payout and another […]
