Kitty Kuo
- WPT Career Highlights Value Rank; Career Earnings: $515,815: 494: Cashes: 10: 256: Final Tables: 2: 353: Titles: 0: 10,773.
- Hui Chen ‘Kitty’ Kuo from Taiwan is one of the best known female poker players in Asia. Kuo has been playing tournaments since 2007 and has been making small earnings for her efforts. But in 2007, she caught the attention of the poker community when she landed 1st place at the PokerStars Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Main Event grabbing for herself a trophy and a cash prize worth USD$71,899.
Kitty Kuoについて Kitty Kuoは紹介する必要はありません。彼女はアジアでトップの女性ポーカープレイヤーの1人であり、2009年には Red Dragon Cupで優勝し、同時に最初のAPOY（Asian Player of The Year）を獲得しました。.
This week on Five of a Kind: Jason Somerville returns to poker, Kitty Kuo’s dating advice, another Jamie Kerstetter gem, Ben Lamb’s gambling adventure in South America and Denise Pratt drops some heat!
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Jason Somerville’s Poker Comeback!?
Jason Somerville’s last 11 cashes have all come at the Run it Up Reno series that he organizes bi-annually at the lovely Peppermill Resort & Casino. In the last few years, Somerville’s been very active with his own studio in Las Vegas, expanding his Twitch empire to greater heights every year but it’s a shame w don’t see him in action during the big events anymore! Somerville’s last cash in a major event dates back to the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event, but as the photo down below indicates: He hasn’t lost his magic touch! Congrats Jason!
who says I don’t know how to play poker any more?? 💵💵💵 pic.twitter.com/vShbnXd33q
— jcarver (@JasonSomerville) March 26, 2019
Connor “Fedor Holz” McGregor?
Yesterday, Connor McGregor announced his retirement from the MMA, but Jamie Kerstetter isn’t sold on his withdrawal from the sport that brought him millions of dollars and global fame. In poker, we’ve seen fake retirements play out numerous times over the years but yet players are never truly ready to say goodbye to the game that brought them to the top. Will things be different for someone who was getting punched in for a living? Only time will tell!
McGregor retires like poker players retire
— Jamie Kerstetter (@JamieKerstetter) March 26, 2019
Kitty Kuo’s Dating Corner
Astutely noted by Doug Maverick in the Tweet below, Kitty Kuo shared some high-level dating advice for people looking for a rich husband! When school is in session with Kitty Kuo delivering the lectures you listen, ask questions and improve your approach to life. Thank you Kitty for teaching us your ways!
No truer words ever spoken “you want rich husband don’t go Poker room. Everyone poker room broke. You go baccarat room want rich husband” –@kittykuopoker
— Doug Maverick (@DougMaverick) March 27, 2019
Lamb-ling in South America!
Is this the worst punt on the word “gambling” I could come up with? Yes. Was I following Ben Lamb’s Tweets with extra attention as he spun it up with Jonathan Depa and John Cynn? Obviously! Check out the whole thread below as Lamb and his buddies went on the adventure of a lifetime with some nice profits to show for!
Having one of the cooler experiences of my life. Let me explain…@partypokerlive put on a amazing event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Beautiful city and the venue, Copacabana Palace was amazing. Like out of a movie. In the 25k high roller tournament @EnjoyPde added 500k…
— Ben Lamb (@BenbaLamb) March 25, 2019
F&$% The Haters!
Denise Pratt was a breath of fresh air with her entertaining appearance on Poker Ater Dark Femme Fatale II on PokerGO this week. While many loved the talkative, brash and confrontational style that Pratt displayed, the haters weren’t far behind. Don’t listen to the haters, Denise. We love you, keep it up!
Learn more about Denise Pratt in this candid interview on Poker Central. Link.
How about the fat tweets? I love my life and prefer not to ridicule people about things they cannot help.. for those of you who enjoy posting pot shots… 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻I will pray for you to grow up and be treated as kindly as you have treated others
— SneakieNesie (@SneakieNesie) March 26, 2019
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Not many people sit with a McDonalds bag in arm's reach and pull from it only sliced apple. No sign of a cheeseburger. No fries. No six pack of chicken McNuggets. Was it possible that Kitty Kuo had become the first person in history to walk into a McDonalds restaurant to just buy several bags of sliced apple, the stuff usually sold to parents trying to offset the salt levels in a Happy Meal?
'But it's very healthy!' she said. 'I want to live a healthy life!'
Yes, it was possible.
But then this is Kitty Kuo, the confident, talented, sparkly poker player who sets her own standard whether at the poker table, in her personal life, or on twitter (which is a crazy combination of both). Nobody lives their life quite like her, because they couldn't if they tried. When was the last time you bought nothing but apple from a fast food chain?
Maybe that contributes a little to Kuo's good form right now, which follows a successful 2014.
Back then she recorded cashes in Italy, Monaco, the United States, Spain, Macau and Canada. It's a hint of her lifestyle, which these days involve living out of a suitcase rather than in her previous home of Las Vegas, or in her native Taiwan.
But despite spending so long on the road, and still enjoying the live poker lifestyle, it's online where Kuo is having the most fun these days. If players in the women's Sunday didn't realise how much fun the first time Kuo won that title, they did the second time. Any doubts were finally put to bed when she won it a third time a little more than a week ago. As Kuo put it on Twitter:
I won three times $55 sunday woman in one year,just too easy for kitty kuo pic.twitter.com/FfCZmDM2HD
— kuo hui chen (@kittykuopoker) March 16, 2015
'That was a joke!' she said today. 'I'm sorry! It's never easy.'
You could put this down to confidence, but Kuo rarely seems to have a problem believing in herself -- few people who wear rings in the shape of cats, have their nails decorated with diamonds, and who wear watches that sparkle in the dark, ever do.
That extends to her phone too. The case has the words 'Go your side' on it, a phrase that could one day enter the poker lexicon, it being Kuo's insistence that you leave her alone and stick to your side of the table.
Then there's Twitter, where Kuo is a minor legend for her forthright proclamations and apparent lack of inhibition. It's refreshing for some, terrifying for the guy who gets lucky against her in a tournament. But it's all part of the Kuo personality that makes her one of the most original characters on the tour.
Kitty Kuo Thomas
She's not super human (although walking out of McDonalds without something greasy takes upper human strength in most books) and admits to moments where her confidence suffers, the same set-backs that every poker player must endure. But then Kuo is not one to let life and poker shape her. She prefers to keep it the other way around.
'When you lose your confidence you just need to study more, talk more, go through hands with your friends and I tried to find a new coach. I have a poker coach (Ryan Fee). I try to improve my poker skills to see what's going on.'
Kitty Kuo Hendon Mob
Right now that's working in Malta. No doubt she left staff at the local golden arches in open-mouthed surprise as she paid for her bag of fruit this morning. If she plays to form she'll be getting a similar reaction from a few players by the end of this week.
Kitty Kuo Boyfriend
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Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.