On July 24 to 29, premier poker brand China Poker Games will host its final CPG Satellite event of the season. The six day event takes place in the bustling Shanghai metropolis inside the Big Ship Hotel. This is the last live opportunity for players to try to secure a seat / package to the […]
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2021 WSOP Online bracelet winners #5 – #8: Jeremiah Williams, Tyler Denson, Michael Mercaldo, Carlos Welch; Taiwan’s Pete Chen joins the action
The 2021 World Series of Poker Online [USA leg], ongoing at platform WSOP.com, minted another four new winners. Seizing gold bracelets were American players Jeremiah “freestylerr” Williams, Tyler “ShipTheShip” Denson, Michael “Stiltwalk” Mercaldo, and Carlos “CarlosWelch” Welch, all of them were first time WSOP champions. With eight players now having turned their dreams into reality, […]
Natural8 to host GGPN’s First-Ever Short Deck Series
Article sponsored by Natural8 July 2021 is starting off strong! This month, GGPoker Network (GGPN) will be running its first-ever Short Deck Series, and Natural8—Asia’s largest online poker room—will be one of the hosts for this series. This series will run from 4th July to 11th July 2021. With $1M in tournament guarantees and plenty […]
2021 WSOP Online: Bracelet hunt underway in USA; Jose Noboa, Manig Loeser, Donnell Dais, and Jeffery Hoop first winners
The 2021 World Series of Poker is well underway in the United States of America with games taking place at online platform WSOP.com. Just like last year, only players geo-located in New Jersey and Nevada have access to the site and have a chance at the year’s first gold bracelets. The series kicked off on […]
Covid-19 crisis puts Australian poker scene to a halt
After what was deemed to be a smooth recovery for live poker’s return in Australia, the arrival of the new Delta strain in the country has abruptly caused a number of issues in the scene’s awaited comeback. Just last week, the government declared its largest city Sydney, to be a Covid-19 hotspot, resulting in a […]
A slew of first time champions at the APT Manila 2017; Anthony Abram wins Player of the Series
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. […]
Online Qualifier Marti Roca De Torres wins the WSOPE Main Event for €1,115,207
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 […]
WSOPE: High Roller events steal the show
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. […]
Top stories of the APT Noumea 2017; Andre Moracchini reigns
Off the South Pacific, poker festivals in the pristine islands of New Caledonia may only come by a couple of times a year however this tiny French territory does see some action. Last year, the Asian Poker Tour held its first event in Noumea, the capital city of the country, and as expected many locals […]
The 2017 ACOP by the numbers
After 17 days of continuous poker festivities running from October 13 -29, the 2017 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) is now officially in the books. This year’s edition of the ACOP was by far the largest and richest with 48 tournaments for a grand prize pool of HK$166,276,022 (~US$21.3M). Here is a look at the […]