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More Big Names Eye Manila Millions
April 11, 2012 by Posted By: Adam Smith Johnny Chan Yesterday, Poker Portal Asia exclusively released the announcement from Asian Poker Tour (APT) and Resorts World Manila on the Manila Millions – the biggest buy-in poker tournament in Asia’s history – which is set to go down at 3pm local time on April 20 during APT Philippines 2012. The one-day super high roller event will feature a HKD $1 million buy-in (USD $129,000) an... Read more»
Trickett’s $2 million Pot in Macau
April 11, 2012 by Posted By: Adam Smith Sam Trickett Late last month, Macau’s nosebleed cash game at StarWorld Hotel’s Poker King Club was again in full swing and Sam Trickett was one of the select few pros allowed to sit in on the game. Tom Dwan and Gus Hansen were also there but Trickett reportedly came out the big winner. At the time of the game, Trickett tweeted “Just won my biggest pot ever…” and promised to wri... Read more»
Exclusive: ‘Manila Millions’ Announced with Ivey and Dwan Confirmed
April 10, 2012 by Posted By: Adam Smith RWM's Genting Club There has been much speculation and gossip within the poker community over the last few months regarding the arrival of a new Super High Roller poker tournament in the Philippines. Now Poker Portal Asia can bring you the official word on what will be the largest buy-in tournament ever seen in Asia. It will feature some of the biggest names in poker – try Phil Ivey and Tom ... Read more»
PokerStars Confirms SCOOP 2012 Schedule
April 6, 2012 by Posted By: Adam Smith PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker On Thursday April 5 2012, PokerStars published the final schedule for its Spring Online Poker Championships (SCOOP) 2012 after previously releasing a preliminary line-up of events. This time around they are holding 120 separate tournaments spread out over 40 events, which is six more than last year’s 114 SCOOP tournaments. Each event will feature three buy-in levels (Low, Med... Read more»
Del Prado on Defending his APT Philippines Title
April 5, 2012 by Posted By: Adam Smith Enrique del Prado The Asian Poker Tour announced yesterday that Enrique del Prado will be returning to defend his title at APT Philippines 2012 on April 19-25. Last year, Del Prado took home USD $179,260 when he became the APT’s oldest Main Event champion, outlasting a field of 231 players and snatching the title from young-gun Elton Tsang at heads up. Predictably, the 70-year-old Del Prado... Read more»
Rich Zhu to Focus on Asian Tournaments
April 4, 2012 by Posted By: Adam Smith Richard Zhu at China Poker Carnival 2012 As an ambassador for online poker site DafaPoker, Rich Zhu is now making his presence felt in the Asian poker scene after conquering tournament poker in the United States. Zhu joined the action at the recent China Poker Carnival (CPC) at MGM Sanya Resort in Hainan, playing in the CNY 1 million guaranteed Main Event and some of the specially-invited side events. “It was ver... Read more»
Isildur1 Wins USD $1 million SuperStar Showdown
April 3, 2012 by Posted By: Adam Smith Viktor Blom (Image from PokerStarsBlog.com) To the Viktor go the spoils. At least, that’s what happened in the last day of Viktor “Isildur1” Blom’s USD $1 million PokerStars SuperStar Showdown tangle with Isaac “philivey2694” Haxton. As reported yesterday, Blom was going into their latest confrontation with a lead of USD $281,365. That meant that Haxton had to attempt a comeback using the USD $218,635 left... Read more»
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