In this week’s Calling the Clock we bring you all the weekly poker news including the Asia Poker League setting up shop in Beijing, the Charity Series of Poker partnering with the Maximum Hope Foundation in Hollywood, and Matt Marafioti emerges to relieve everyone’s fears.

A short but sweet roundup of poker news this week and we will begin in China with the Asia Poker League (APL).

18-months ago, PokerStars sponsored the Nanjing Millions event that was stomped all over by the Chinese police. The rules and regulations surrounding playing live poker are a little grey in this part of the world, and it’s believed the organiser’s decision to make the event a re-entry upset those in power.

Underground games continue, but nobody has advertised an event on the Chinese mainland since that mess, until now.