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People News: Alleged man responsible for 1,800 unauthorized online gambling accounts arrested; WPT champion Blieden faces jail time; Big win for Perkins ; Postle possibly faces more fees
In this column, we deliver you the latest and most interesting news and gossip from our favourite poker people. Alleged man responsible for 1,800 unauthorized online gambling accounts arrested The New Jersey State Police recently arrested 44-year old Casey Ennis...
Videos of the Week: The funniest side bet in Poker; Phil Hellmuth’s Greatest Poker Moments and more…
In this article we deliver you a couple of selected poker videos of the past week. The FUNNIEST side bet in Poker It’s a lot of fun when poker players play the game “Lodden Thinks” – and it’s even better when this happens at a televised table. Enjoy Phil Ivey...
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UAnniversary 2: A UPoker sneak peek
Article sponsored by UPoker UPoker began its journey two years ago with the sole purpose of bringing bigger better poker to the global poker community. UPoker is the living embodiment of poker future. Today, UPoker stands as the epitome of poker technology with...
Exclusive Freeroll on 888Poker: $100 for Grab – No Deposit Needed!
We have teamed up with 888poker! The poker room will be offering exclusive $100 freerolls to Somuchpoker followers every Sunday! The field size is expected to be small, you have a great chance to get your hands on some easy money. You do not have to make any sort of...
PokerBROS Spin-It Now Features 1000x Multiplier!
Article sponsored by PokerBROS PokerBROS players have been asking for an extra zero to be added to the top multiplier on our Spin-It wheel – and they’ve made it happen. A staple of short-handed, fast-paced action in the Gold Lobby and selected Unions, Spin-It...
INTERVIEWS
Interview with German High Stakes Pro Rainer Kempe
German high roller Rainer Kempe talked with Somuchpoker’s Gaelle Jaudon in this exclusive interview. He touched on a vast array of subject, including the time he rose to the highest stakes in tournaments, his poker study routine, and even about where he will...
Interview with Poker Pro and Solve For Why Founder Matt Berkey
High-stakes cash game pro Matt Berkey sat down with Somuchpoker’s Gaelle Jaudon to discuss a number of topics, including the origin of the name of his poker academy, GTO vs. exploitative play, and the latest high-stakes heads-up challenges. You may know Berkey...
Somuchpoker Talks: Joe Stapleton about online poker commentary
Joe Stapleton has been on top of the poker commentator list for many years. Often a polarizing character, he is known for his sometimes below the belt jokes on air and very much so below the belt humour as a stand-up comedian. In this interview we talk about his...
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Asian Poker Tour shifts focus to booming South Korean market
The past few years have been witness to a massive poker boom in South Korea with Hold’em poker pubs spreading like wildfire. Today, hundreds of pubs have sprouted, some of which are used as staging grounds to feed players into larger poker festivals held in the...
CTP 5th year anniversary; P.Y.Han Chen wins the Main Event, S.D.Chen comes out the richest, & P.H.Huang tops the POS
Five years ago in the city of Tao Yuan, Taiwan, the first Chinese Texas Hold’em Poker Association (CTP Club) opened with just two tables and a third one at the nearby market. Fast forward to today, CTP has grown to five branches. The largest and most popular is...
Schedule, Satellites, Promotions, Freerolls: Everything you should know to play the WSOP on Natural8
A couple of days left on the calendar until the highly anticipated 2020 World Series of Poker Online kicks off its international leg happening on one of the fastest growing platforms in the industry, Natural8 – GGPoker Network. Unlike its previous 50 versions...
China Poker Games resumes; on track for annual championships event in August
For Chinese players, every year since 2013 the China Poker Games (CPG) Championship has been the event to look forward to. Held in Sanya, Hainan Island, it is the biggest annual event in Asia with eight days of nonstop festivities running at the end of August. For the...
Six Asia poker trends of 2019
It was a dizzying year of poker in Asia with barely a break in the live tournament scene. Players had plenty to choose from as festivals sometimes overlapped. Vietnam and the Philippines were consistently busy with nonstop events both local and international. Coming...
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Polk ends heads up challenge vs Negreanu with a $1.2M win
After 36 sessions and over a hundred hours of battle, the heads up challenge between icons Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu has finally come to a close. Polk, a master of the heads up game has proven his prowess time and time again, ending his most recent grudge match...
Argentina’s Damian Salas crowned the 2020 WSOP Main Event champion
After two WSOP Main Event online legs, two live final table showdowns, and one ultimate heads up world championship, the 51st Annual World Series of Poker finally crowned its $10,000 No Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT champion. Standing victorious and proud was Argentinian...
Negreanu, Kitai, Ensan, Kanit, Blum and More: The Poker Community Talks About Covid-19’s Impact on Their Lives
The poker community, like the rest of the world, has not been spared the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis. The gaming industry has been hit hard by casino closings and the stopping of live tournaments, which has meant a sudden halt to their activities and plans for many...
PokerStars Founder Isai Scheinberg surrenders to American authorities
If PokerStars was once an empire of the online world, then Isai Scheinberg was its emperor. Over a relatively short space of time, Scheinberg’s online poker room had ridden the crest of the poker boom to become an all-conquering business behemoth, basking in the rays...
An exclusive conversation with 2019 WSOP Main Event Champion Hossein Ensan
Last July, Germany’s Hossein Ensan outlasted Italy’s Dario Sammartino and Canada’s Alex Livingston to win the WSOP Main Event. The 55-year-old, who was born in Iran but moved to Germany 30 years ago, became the oldest world poker champion since Noel Furlong and the...
STRATEGY
Top 10 Beginners Tips for Six Plus Hold’em / Short Deck
It’s been over a year since PokerStars introduced Six Plus Hold’em and since then other major poker sites like GGPoker have followed suit. Six Plus might seem very similar to regular Texas Hold’em, except the ante structure and of course having the deck being stripped...
Everything you should know before making a deal in a tournament
Over the years, deal making has become an increasingly popular and important factor in tournaments. It allows players to flatten the payouts in the late stages which decreases the variance which can make tournament grinding difficult to manage as a profession. Most...
Are re-entries and late registrations hurting the poker economy?
There once a time when poker tournaments involved one buy-in, one stack and one shot. In the simpler days of a freezeout you’d only ever see a player bust once. But these days, professionals can fire bullet after bullet until they finally build a big stack they can go...
6 reasons why you need to start beating online micro stakes if you want to take poker seriously
There is a common complaint among players who want to be successful at poker but cannot climb the ladder. They claim to have difficulty beating the micro stakes and moving up because their sophisticated plays do not work on weak players. You’ll normally find such...
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