{"id":8666,"date":"2025-10-08T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/archives\/8666"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:14:27","slug":"asia-moves-onto-the-global-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/archives\/8666","title":{"rendered":"Asia moves onto the global stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matt Savage shares the same optimism.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the summer in Las Vegas, many Japanese players have made the trip. And we\u2019re having Chinese players, Taiwanese players, and players from India. It\u2019s exciting to see that, and in the next five years, I think Asian players could become the #1 players in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also believes Asia\u2019s presence on the global stage will only continue to grow.<\/p>\n

The numbers really show it. Every year, the number of players coming from Asia keeps rising. I think this year there were hundreds of Japanese players at the World Series of Poker. It\u2019s not just the players, it\u2019s also the bloggers and influencers like Masato Yokosawa, who are doing a fantastic job of spreading the word and generating excitement about poker.<\/p>\n

As organizers packed up and looked ahead to the next edition, one message rang clear \u2013<\/p>\n


\n<\/span>Asia is no longer finding its place in the global poker scene, it\u2019s helping define it.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Savage shares the same optimism. \u201cDuring the summer in Las Vegas, many Japanese players have made the trip. And we\u2019re having Chinese players, Taiwanese players, and players from India. It\u2019s exciting to see that, and in the next five years, I think Asian players could become the #1 players in the world.\u201d He also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tda"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8687,"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions\/8687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tda.asiapokerarena.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}