Online poker giant PokerStars has signed two Asian poker players to its Team PokerStars Pro roster.

On Wednesday, PokerStars announced that it was pleased to welcome Taiwan’s Chen-An Lin and China’s Yaxi Zhu to its list of sponsored pro players. Both players plan to be covered in PokerStars patches during the ongoing Macau Poker Cup, which runs until September 13 at the PokerStars Live Macau poker room at the City of Dreams casino.

Lin’s biggest live scalp to date was a $50k cash at the 2014 Macau Poker Cup, while Zhu earned her biggest score last year at a European Poker Tour Prague side event. Kirsty Thompson, PokerStars associate director of pro & celebrity marketing, said the pair were “highly respected in their local and national communities and will help to raise the profile of their game in their regions.”

Lin and Zhu join a host of other Asian-based members of Team PokerStars Pro, including Bryan Huang, Celina Lin, Vivian Im, Aditya Agarwal, Kosei Ichinose and Naoya Kihara. PokerStars said its ambition was to “grow the game in one of the world’s biggest emerging poker markets,” even if the overwhelming majority of the Asian market views poker – online or live – as a prohibited activity.