When an agency calls itself Poker Royalty, it will be hard-pressed to live up to its title. It’s a good thing that the high-profile agency for professional poker players is meeting expectations and working double-time to beef up its roster of clients. Poker Royalty’s newest client is David Chiu, considered by most as the most successful poker player that was born in China.

Players who sign up with Poker Royalty agree that they be represented for all their marketing and promotional needs. Ideally, this enables the players to ignore the gobbledygook that goes on around them and just focus on what is important—winning at the felt. Poker Royalty handles everything from mainstream media to commercial endorsements. We can assume they also get a pretty hefty cut for all their troubles.

It really shouldn’t be a surprise that Chiu was the next in line to join Poker Royalty. Poker is starting to attract a lot of attention in Asia and someone like Chiu can only strengthen the interest further. Chiu’s has won over $6 million dollars in tournaments. To add to an already glowing poker resume, Chiu has won four WSOP bracelets and a WPT championship. Just how good a poker player is he? He has cashed 44 times at the World Series of Poker. That should be proof enough.

Other poker pros signed up by Poker Royalty include Johnny Chan, Antonio Esfandiari, Gus Hansen, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren, Evelyn Ng and Scotty Nguyen. The line-up is growing and if Poker Royalty keeps at it, anyone who wants to have anything to do with a major poker star might very well have to get through them.

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