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United States33699 Posts
Source: MyDaily
Former Brood War and SC2 progamer Boxer (Lim Yo Hwan) took second place at a February 19th Asian Poker Tour event in the Philippines. Boxer competed in the 6 Handed event with 144 other participants and won 208,800 PhP (approximately $4679 USD at the time of writing) for his second place finish. Boxer's wife Jessica (Kim Ga Yeon) finished 11th place in the same event.
In December of 2013, Boxer announced he was becoming the main model for Korean Poker site Fulpot Poker, as well as a professional poker player.
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Wow. I was expecting Boxer to start out as some aggro-donk but I guess I was proven wrong or he had a lot of experience behind him in the past during his time on ACE or something. Good on him.
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He was here? Damnit.
Wasnt he training to be a poker pro though? And from my experience, poker players arent that good here - we're probably too emotional to be good bluffers.
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I'm now dreaming of boxer and elky at the same table
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On February 26 2014 10:18 ZAiNs wrote:
$4679? Sounds low.
yeah sounds low so i guess the tournament wasn't sharky but still a good showing by BoXer (and Jessica !). Hopefully he will keep improving it would be great to see him achieve great public results in Poker.
On February 26 2014 10:25 myxoma_strain wrote:
I'm now dreaming of boxer and elky at the same table
BoXer would get crushed REALLY hard ^_^
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Um wtf his wife plays too? I hope they can cash their checks.
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2nd place BoxeR? I expect better micro and macro of cards from BoxeR... cmon BoxeR don't be the yellow of poker!
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On February 26 2014 10:29 Marou wrote:yeah sounds low so i guess the tournament wasn't sharky but still a good showing by BoXer (and Jessica !). Hopefully he will keep improving it would be great to see him achieve great public results in Poker. Show nested quote +On February 26 2014 10:25 myxoma_strain wrote:
I'm now dreaming of boxer and elky at the same table BoXer would get crushed REALLY hard ^_^
That's the point, I'm picturing elky having held a grudge all these years after that OSL and loving every minute of it
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owning in Poker ! 
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Man, I wish I was in Cebu for that!
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144 players and 4.6k in winnings? Buy-in was meh.
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boxer tearing it up in the motherland, go boxer in the P.i
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My first Vegas tourney was at a daily at the Venetian, and it was 80-90 players and a $120 buy-in. I got first place for $3200, but the tournament was a joke. The final table had 2 regulars who weren't even that good, and the rest were tourists who played tight passive and played against the board. I'm guessing Boxer played a bunch of the dailies and finally placed high enough in one to report. The Venetian structure was good (play was 7.5 hours), but a lot of Asian countries have pitiful structures where edge from skill is strongly diminished. I doubt this tournament is a reflection of Boxer being a skilled player. Having said that, congrats Boxer =p
Btw, tourney is in the Philippines because Koreans can't gamble within their own country.
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speaking of poker, anyone knows hows FreeDoM doing these days?
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ah, not really front page esports news imho, but congrats to boxer i guess
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