Robert Cheung, a businessman from Hong Kong, China, began playing poker at the River Rock Casino, in Richmond, BC, as a hobby, but soon started taking part in tournaments. A friend of his introduced him to the game in 2005, and eventually, he took to playing professional poker. Robert Cheung, nicknamed “RCW”, lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at present.
He cashed in at his very first tournament, the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event of the British Columbia Poker Championship, on November 19, 2005. A major victory for Robert Cheung came on April 17, 2006, in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event at the Fourth Annual Five Star World Poker Classic. In this event, he finished first and went home with $46,655. Robert Cheung ranked fourth in the Harrah's Lake Tahoe Poker Tournament – World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Event held on June 19, the same year and won a larger sum of $82,720. He played in Event 41 - No-Limit Hold'em at the 37th Annual World Series of Poker held on August 5, ranked 23rd, and bagged $8,935. The next significant booty for Robert Cheung was $9,965, which he claimed in the No-Limit Hold'em event at the Festa al Lago/World Poker Tour (WPT) that took place on October 7. At the 38th Annual World Series of Poker, Robert Cheung earned another $16,582 by finishing 22nd in the WSOP Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship. On June 23, Robert Cheung gave a remarkable performance in the No-Limit Hold'em event of the 38th Annual World Series of Poker when he finished first to claim a whopping sum of $673,628.
Robert Cheung had yet another first-place finish on March 8, 2008 in the No-Limit Hold'em event of the Wynn Classic in which he won $94,573 in prize money. The $13,500 won at the Bay 101 Shooting Star/WPT Event Season 6 in the No-Limit Hold'em Championship event held on March 14, the same year, forms a part of his winnings at poker. In the No-Limit Hold'em (Event 32) event of the World Poker Challenge/WPT Event Season 6 held on March 22, 2008, Robert Cheung potted $11,294 by finishing in seventh place. At the 39th World Series of Poker 2008, in Event 5 - WSOP No-Limit Hold'em held on June 3, 2008, Robert Cheung finished 20th and he went home richer by another $16,496. On June 17, 2008, Robert Cheung had another notable victory at the Mega Stack Series in the Pot-Limit Omaha event (Event 20) when he ranked first for the fourth time in live tournaments and added $14,278 to his bankroll. Robert Cheung was one among the participants of the Pot-Limit Hold’em (Event 38) at the 39th WSOP 2008 held on June 20, 2008. In the event, he ended up in sixth place and walked away with another $20,100.
Robert Cheung, whose ambition is to compete at the highest level in the game of poker, likes to play chess and basketball during his leisure. He is an avid watcher of the 007 series, and he loves listening to Trouble over Bridgwater, the eighth album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit.
