Online poker in Asia is catching up with the rest of the world, and becoming a booming industry there thanks to huge economic growth across the continent. Card games have always traditionally been different in Asia with each Asian country having its own unique card games. Poker has taken a while to become more popular and widespread across Asia but in the past few years a growing number of international poker brands, such as GG Poker, are opening their markets to Asian players. The demand for reliable, secure and reputable poker sites is increasing in Asia, as well as an appetite for tournaments, prizes and exciting poker games. Live poker events are increasingly being held in Asia, particularly the Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) which is the largest poker tournament in Asia. It is hosted in cities across the Asia-Pacific, and has brought the first major government-sanctioned real-money live poker tournaments to Korea and China. The Philippines is another Asian country which is quickly becoming an important hub for the online betting industry in South East Asia – it hosts several high-profile poker events in Macau. Check out our list of the ten best online sites for Asian players to get some poker action!

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888 Poker

Another worldwide bookmaking heavyweight, 888 is a well-known brand in Asia also. It os the fastest growing online gaming site in the industry and it promises an “elite, world-class consumer experience” for poker players who join. It has been up and running since 1997 and has amassed 5 million users. It offers high-tech, industry leading software which is easy to download and use. A wide range of poker variants are offered here and plenty of tournaments are always running with huge prizes up for grands

Bodog Poker

This Canadian poker brand was established in 1994 and has recently become popular with some Asian countries. It is a stylish site with excellent features and reliable software. Bodog offers its players fast payouts and speedy deposits. Customer service is noteworthy here and the poker client is easy to use. Tournaments have a decent mix of casual and serious players so the competition is varied.

Dafabet Poker

This Asian site confidently claims to be the best online poker site in the entire continent of Asia. It promises fast, easy and secure payments into your account once you join up. The range of games have enough options to suit any level of poker player. The downloadable poker client is easy to use and straightforward. New players are rewarded with an instant $20 Welcome Bonus once they sign up, with no deposit necessary. There’s plenty of freerolls for new depositors too, as well as high stakes tournaments. Promotions here are updated frequently and are quite attractive.

Pokamania

This Asian-friendly poker room is fairly new on the scene. It is popular for its 200% First Deposit bonus, which rewards new players with a match bonus up to $400. Every hand you play on Pokamania will generate a number of bonus points and for every 2000 points earned you will be playing with a free 10 euros. Software here is easy to use and available both on Mac and PC. All poker games are run in Euros and traffic tends to peak in European evenings and on weekends. The Pokamania site has a feature of “All-In Insurance” which ensures that you don’t have to fear a bad beat. Pokamania’s easy to use cashier offers a large variety of deposit options which include Neteller, Skrill, Credit Card, Bank Wire, Clickandbuy and Ukash. It is an efficient and reliable processor of cash withdrawals from your account.

Partypoker

Partypoker is the world’s largest listed online gaming business and was once the top site in the world. It has high-profile tournaments which run frequently and offers players the chance to win a seat at big events like the WPT. It has a Poker school for new players, which includes a blog full of daily tips from the team of professional poker players on the site.

PokerMonster

Part of the Beijing Lianzhong gaming company which has a huge number of players across Asia – it claims to have in the region of 500 million registered users. PokerMonster hosts a wide range of events and tournaments with big prizepools and has an extensive “how to” section for beginners.

PokerStars

The world’s favourite online poker site has been recently expanding its influence in Asia to take advantage of the emerging online poker markets there, particularly in countries like China and Japan. PokerStars said their ambition was to “grow the game in one of the world’s biggest emerging poker markets,” even though the overwhelming majority of the Asian market views poker as a questionable activity. PokerStars has plenty of online traffic, an average of 15,000 players online at any given time (this number can be closer to 30,000 at times) and it caters for both low and high stakes poker fans. The site has a wide variety of games available and the tournaments here have jackpots that exceed $1 million. There’s always a consistent level of action here and customer service is efficient. Asian players can try their luck against the PokerStars Team Asia – a selection of top professional Asian poker players that play on PokerStars. The site also offers the chance to enter satellites for Asian players to win a spot at the APPT live tournament series.

Tiger Poker

A popular Canadian site for online poker which is also being favoured by Asian players and shares a network with BOL Poker so shares a player pool with US players. It’s been running since 1999, offering high stakes poker action and low buy-ins. Tiger Poker had plenty of poker variants like Texas hold’em, Omaha, 7 Card Stud on offer, as well as the chance to play unusual poker games such as Chinese poker, Big 2 Poker and “Guts Poker”. Tiger poker has a range of casino games, like blackjack on offer too. The software is simple to download and it includes handy features like Buddy List and the ability to make player notes. Daily tournaments and freerolls here have the potential for huge cash prizes. An extensive “how to” section is available for inexperience players to introduce them to the world of online poker.

TonyBet Poker

A popular online betting site that has become widely used in Asia. It has the accolade of holding the biggest live Open Face Chinese Poker event in the online gambling world, the Tonybet Poker OFC World Championship. Tonybet is an ideal spot for new and inexperienced players as the games here seems to be still quite soft, making it a great poker room for beginners. Those joining the site will receive a great 100% bonus up to €2,000 on their first deposit. There’s some attractive promotions here, with TonyBet rewarding Sit and Go Heads-Up players with €1,000 (each week the Top 18 Sit and Go players share the €100 leaderboard prize pool, while the best 18 throughout the month are rewarded with €600). The rake system here is very generous and it’s worth becoming a regular player to avail of the rewards!

Online poker is a bit like this jock guy who peaked in high school around 2010. He used to be handsome, gigantic and ripped to the bone, he could throw a mean ball and he used to get all the girls. Unfortunately, he never got to play for an A-list team, now he's pushing thirty, he's starting to develop a beer belly and while he can still throw that mean ball he's in desperate need of something that would reinvigorate him.

Online poker environment is far more difficult to thrive in and far less popular than it used to be. The idea of playing cards for a living is now no more romantic than the idea of becoming an esports player or creating a successful startup company. Poker lost a bit of its cultural significance and it isn't as attractive for the potential new players as it once was.

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Why Asia?

In case you've been living under a rock for the past year or two there's a clear new trend when it comes to managing western online poker rooms. PokerStars is the obvious example of a site that does everything in it's power to make itself less attractive to regs and more attractive to recreational players by cutting down on volume rewards, making bum hunting as difficult as possible, filming commercials with famous celebrities and coming up with new fast poker formats aimed at attracting the western clientele with ever decreasing attention spans.

Even if we consider another example of poker network that seems infinitely more reasonable and less revenue oriented in its changes like Microgaming decreasing the rake at micro stakes and allowing for unlimited screen name changes is supposed to have the same effect PokerStars is hoping for - increasing the number of new players and new deposits.

Asian market represents everything western poker so desperately seeks. A fresh batch of new players excited about gambling with lots of disposable income. Even though Chinese economy is slowing down it still managed to produce a large middle class that has time for leisure and money to spend. Given the fact that China is so insanely populous Asian poker market is no joke and might be the best thing that happened to poker since Chris Moneymaker's win at the WSOP Main Event in 2003.

Gambling Tradition

'If you don’t gamble, you don’t know how lucky you are'. - Chinese Proverb

In western countries, we're socialized to think that we're the masters of our own domain, that we can achieve anything as long as we work hard enough. We don't need luck or fate or God. Asian countries promote a vastly different narrative. Deep belief in luck and faith is at the very core of eastern culture.

People believe that their destiny is largely predetermined by the ancestors and therefore being lucky at a poker table is a sign of being blessed by the gods. Gambling is often a part of family gatherings, it's not uncommon for Korean families to play gambling games for real money during New Year's Holiday or Thanksgiving (Chuseok). Think about what would happen if you proposed a nice game of short handed 50NL to your parents and siblings after the next Christmas dinner.

Gambling is something that's far more socially acceptable in the Asian countries than it is in western culture. It also has a higher cultural significance. Sure we had Casino, Maverick, Rounders and countless other works of fiction that managed to appeal to some parts of our society (namely young men), but poker is generally frowned upon when presented as an alternative career or even a serious hobby.

The social aspect of gambling is much more pronounced in Asia than it is in Europe or USA. The deeply-rooted ideas of capitalism and individualism make it obvious for western players that in order to play the game of poker with any degree of seriousness you have to value EV over everything else.

In Asia, a gambling game is as much about the result as it is about building the sense of kinship. Playing dice, poker or mahjong for money is not viewed as a problem by most because it's done in the social context with other people. That's why Asian poker rooms have the potential to create ecosystems that are far easier to sustain since money isn't the only motivator for the large percentage of the player population.

Lastly, if we look at the gambling addiction rates in Asia when compared to Europe it's clear that games of chance are far more prevalent in the eastern culture. The rate of gambling addiction in Europe varies between 0.5% to 3% depending on the country while in Japan it's 2 to 10 times higher at 5%.

Getting Your Feet Wet - Conventional Asian Poker Sites

If you're convinced that Asian poker rooms might be something that's worth looking into here's a good news - you're just a few clicks away from setting up an account at All in Asia and getting access to the IDN Network that's full of players.

The experience will be largely the same as it would be if you decided to set up an account with PartyPoker, PokerStars or a Microgaming Network skin, with the only difference being the softer player pool. You'll even get a good old-fashioned 30% rakeback deal (paid every Monday) and you can deposit or withdraw money using most of the methods available to you on western sites.

More about All In Asia: The Star of an Asian Poker Boom you can read here.

Agent System and the Rise of Home Game Apps

Asian poker goes way deeper than simply setting up an account on a big, widely available poker room. We're all used to the idea of simply looking up something on the internet and having immediate access to it.

If you want to play poker on Unibet you just google Unibet (or an affiliate website like PokerVIP), a few clicks and one filled out form later you're a proud member of a Unibet player pool. In Asia, the process can be much more complicated. In many different eastern countries including China poker is technically illegal, there are no regulations or taxes, but due to the cultural significance of gambling, everyone is still playing games of chance.

Poker in China is sort of a gray area that's not very easy to get into especially for western players. Many Chinese poker rooms don't market themselves to western players and in order to play there, you need to get in contact with an agent.

Asian poker rooms and online gambling, in general, operates on a so-called 'agent system'. Agents act as both cashiers and gatekeepers. They are the people who decide if you can play on a certain poker room and all of the money transactions are handled through them. For example, you can make a request for an agent to deposit 500$ in your name on certain account to play poker with (same goes for sports betting etc.).

Finding an Asian poker room might not be the hardest thing in the world but just because you can find the site it doesn't mean that you can get in on the action. As we already mention many Asian poker rooms don't market themselves to the English speaking audience and a good agent can be instrumental in breaking both the language and the cultural barrier.

But wait, there's more! The fact that social aspect of gambling is so important in Asia combined with the lack of regulations resulted in the raise of home game apps. For the uninitiated apps like 'PP Poker' look like little mobile play money home games but in reality, many home game hosts assign a value to the play money chips which result in the creation of small poker rooms.

Some apps allow for the existence of rake and therefore running a successful poker club through the app can be very profitable for the host bringing in thousands of dollars in profit a day. Imagine how much value gaining access to such a poker room would represent to a solid western regular.

Unfortunately, the process isn't very straightforward, and it boils down to befriending the club's owner or finding an agent that will enable you to become a member of a certain home game app. This is obviously a lot more complicated than what most of us are used to and few western players will even bother trying to get access to those games which makes them all the more attractive to the people who will.

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