The recent changes at the world’s largest poker site has led to a heated debate in the poker community. First PokerStars parted ways with several pros, including Joe Cada, Marcel Luske and Alex Kravchenko, then they announced a new currency exchange rate, which was followed up by a general rake …
Just a year ago, in November 2013, Yaxi Zhu played her first live tournament. It was the WPT National China. The final table of six played out in South Korea in December after a break and Yaxi Zhu finished in 4th place for $80,650. Since then the young Chinese has …
The WPT Montreal is about to kick off on November 20. with the first of three starting flights. The event will conclude on the 26. with a new champion being crowned. PokerWomenNews caught up with Canadian poker player Thi Nguyen (aka Tea Newyen), who’s had great success at the Playground …
What a weekend it has been for women in poker! In South Africa Lacey Jones and Diane Crous went deep in WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic. Jones made it to the final two tables and finished in 11th place for $7,376 and Diane Crous made it to the final table …
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to take a look at the Player of the Year Ladies (PoYL), The Global Poker Ladies 25 and the Women’s All time Money List. Since September, when we last took a look at the different rankings, the tournament schedule has been …
In episode three of the televised poker show the Shark Cage, online qualifier Matthew Herminiano from Toronto gets a chance to win one million US dollar. But the Canadian is up against a very tough line-up consisting of Victoria Coren, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, David Williams and Maria Ho. Without …
Day 4 of the Main Event at Asia Championship of Poker proved to be a very tough one for Chinese poker prodigy Yaxi Zhu. Zhu entered the day as chip leader with more than one million in chips after climbing the leader board on Day 3. Team PokerStars pro Celina …
62 players returned to PokerStars LIVE Macau to play Day 3 of Asia Championship of Poker Main Event. Exactly half of them would leave empty-handed as only 31 players would get paid. Among the notables still left in the field were Mike McDonald, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Joseph Cheong, Dimitar Danchev, Ami …
In November last year Yaxi Zhu played in her first tournament! It was the WPT National China. Inspired by the WSOP November Nine concept the final table of six played out in South Korea in December after a long break. This final table was remarkable in more than one sense. …
The Asia Championship of Poker in Macau is more than halfway through the poker festival, and today the HK$100,000 Main Event kicked off. The prestigious tournament saw 286 entries and as registration is open until the start of Day 2 this number is bound to increase. A lot of notables …