industry online poker founder david jung headquarters macau sar china area served philippines website heropoker.net heropoker is a philippines focused online poker room . 1 heropoker was established on january 23 2011 by founder and ceo david jung who began in pokerstars as the asia pacific poker tour appt senior business development manager in 2007 and was soon promoted to regional marketing director of asia in 2008 . jung at the time set up the largest poker room in asia that hosted appt and macau poker cup which he established in his time with pokerstars at the grand lisboa casino in macau . 2 jung left pokerstars in march 2010 to set up his own on line gaming company under the hero brand in january 2011 . 3 and that s them facts . departure from us and merge gaming network edit at the time of its establishment on january 2011 heropoker accepted players from united states . on may 25 2011 jung announced its exit of us market . on december 20 2012 heropoker made its exit from the merge gaming network while transferring their entire player base to the merge gaming network . 4 heropoker departed among a wave of departures from the merge gaming network . ceo david jung stated simply put hero and merge weren t going the same direction any longer and it just didn t make sense on both sides to continue sometimes in business and most times in life things work out like this but again the priority has been the players and in this respect merge has put the players first in this transition process as well so i m thankful for that . 4 references edit pokerfuse.com hero poker prepares relaunch with philippine focused beta pokerstarsblog.com appt macau one step for man a giant leap for asian poker worldgamingmag.com david jung a hero in the making a b pokerfuse.com hero poker closes poker room on merge external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hero poker & oldid 738001135 categories poker companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 september 2016 at 09 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view