Joseph Cheong

Joseph Cheong
Joseph Cheong (2018)
Personal information
Date of birth	June 3, 1986
place of birth	Seoul
Nicknames 0 0	subiimePokerStars, Full Tilt Poker & Bodog xenishUltimateBet solohomerCake Poker
place of residence	Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 4,130,049
Total prize money	$ 14,563,015
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	48
Best main event	3rd ( 2010 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	10
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	1
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	3
Last updated: January 27, 2020

Joseph Sanghyon "Joe" Cheong (born June 3, 1986 in Seoul , South Korea ) is a professional American poker player .

Personal

Cheong came to the United States with his family from South Korea at the age of six and moved to La Mirada , California . At the University of California in San Diego he made two Bachelor's degrees , the Bachelor of Science in Psychology and the joint Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Economics . Cheong lives in Las Vegas .

Poker career

Career

Cheong has been playing online since the beginning of 2007 under the nicknames subiime ( PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and Bodog) , xenish ( UltimateBet ) and solohomer (Cake Poker) . Its online tournament earnings to PokerStars be in excess of 2.5 million US dollars , also he won 900,000 dollars at Full Tilt Poker . Since 2009, Cheong has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

In June 2010 , Cheong was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and reached the money ranks in two tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . He then played the $ 10,000 WSOP main event . After losing a much-discussed hand to the Italian Filippo Candio as chip leader on the seventh day of the tournament , Cheong went to the final table with the third-largest chip stack , which was played on November 6, 2010. There he was able to keep his third place and won prize money of more than four million dollars. In October 2011, Cheong placed in the money for the first time at the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) and reached 31st place for 16,000 euros in Sanremo . At the 2012 WSOP , he narrowly missed winning a bracelet and finished second in a mixed poker event for just under $ 300,000. At the World Series of Poker Europe taking place in Cannes in October 2012 , he took fourth place in the main event for almost 300,000 euros in prize money. In mid-April 2013 , Cheong finished second in the High Roller Rebuy of the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific in Melbourne and received more than 500,000 Australian dollars . A few days later he won the Manila Millions in the Philippines with a bonus of around 1.3 million dollars. At a super high roller event on the World Poker Tour at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas in May 2013, Cheong finished in second place for more than $ 600,000. In early November 2014, he finished fifth in the Super High Roller of the Asia Championship of Poker in Macau for the equivalent of just under 530,000 dollars. At the 2015 WSOP , Cheong finished 15th in the most expensive event on the tournament schedule, the High Roller for One Drop with a buy-in of $ 111,111, for around $ 250,000. At the end of August 2016, he finished sixth at the EPT High Roller in Barcelona for 233,300 euros. In mid-August 2018, Cheong finished eighth at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship in Hollywood and received more than $ 100,000 in prize money. At the 2019 WSOP , he prevailed against 6,213 other players in a double-stack event and secured a bracelet in addition to the prize money of almost $ 700,000.

Overall, Cheong has made more than $ 14.5 million in poker playing live tournaments .

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2009	00.00.8883	1
2010	04,654,694	2
2011	00.136,572	-
2012	01,242,229	-
2013	02,727,981	2
2014	01,621,776	2
2015	00.661.060	-
2016	00.744,442	2
2017	00.256.451	-
2018	00.926.242	4th
2019	01,563,862	3
2020	00.018,825	-
total	14,563,015	16

Web links

Commons : Joseph Cheong  - Collection of Images

• Joseph Cheong in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Joseph Cheong in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Joseph Cheong in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Joseph Cheong in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Джозеф Чеонг (Joseph Cheong) on propokerpro.net, accessed on March 27, 2016 (Russian).
2. ^ Joseph Cheong in the Global Poker Index database, accessed March 27, 2016.
3. ↑ subiime in the PocketFives database, accessed on May 29, 2018 (English).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Joseph Cheong in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 27, 2016 (English).
5. ↑ Filippo Candio 57s vs AA di Cheong DAY 8 World series of poker ME 2010 on YouTube on October 28, 2010, accessed on March 27, 2016 (English).
6. ↑ November Nine Countdown - Joseph Cheong, the rest in person ( memento of March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on pokerolymp.com of November 2, 2010, accessed on March 27, 2016.
7. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 27, 2016 (English).
8. ↑ EPT - 8 - San Remo (€ 4,600 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 27, 2016 (English).
9. ↑ 43rd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2012 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Mixed Max (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 27, 2016 (English).
10. ↑ 2012 World Series of Poker - Europe (€ 10,000 + 450 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 27, 2016 (English).
11. ↑ World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) (A $ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Rebuy) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 29, 2018.
12. ↑ APT - Philippines (HK $ 1,000,000 Manila Millions) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 27, 2016.
13. ↑ WPT World Championship ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 27, 2016 (English).
14. ↑ APPT 2014 Asia Championship of Poker (HK $ 500,000 Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 29, 2018.
15. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em High Roller for One-Drop (Event # 58)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 29, 2018.
16. ↑ EPT - 13 - ESPT - 7 - Barcelona (€ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8 Handed (Event # 49)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 29, 2018.
17. ↑ 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 5,250 No Limit Hold'em - SHRPO Championship (Event # 19)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2018.
18. ↑ 50th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2019 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Double Stack (Event # 34)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 20, 2019.