Aaron Zang (born 21 June 1982; as Shu Nu Zang) is a Chinese

poker Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, however in some places the rules may vary. While the earliest known form of the game w ...

player currently residing in

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

. He won the £1,050,000 No Limit Hold'em Triton Million for Charity event which has the largest single payout in poker tournament history.

Poker career

Zang got into poker through a friend after he went to university. He regularly deposited money into the partypoker online poker room which he repeatedly gambled away. In 2006, his uncle gave him ¥1,000 which he used to build a bankroll of ¥400,000. In 2007, Zang began playing professionally in Macau. In 2019, Zang won the £1,050,000 No Limit Hold'em Triton Million defeating

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heads up. The tournament had the largest scheduled single payout in poker tournament history with first place receiving £19,000,000 ($23,100,000). However, due to a prize splitting deal agreed with Kenney, Zang ended up receiving £13,779,491 ($16,775,820) for 1st while Kenney received the larger prize of £16,890,509 ($20,563,324) for finishing 2nd. The deal was made when the tournament entered heads up with Kenney holding an over 5:1 chip lead against Zang. Zang made a comeback and eventually won the tournament. For his victory in the 2019 Triton Million event, Zang received the third largest single payout in poker tournament history behind Kenney's 2nd place prize in the same tournament and

Antonio Esfandiari Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari ( fa, امیر اسفندیاری; born December 8, 1978 as Amir Esfandiary), is a professional poker player and former professional magician, known for his elaborate chip tricks. Esfandiari was the face of th ...

's victory prize at 2012

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for $18,346,673. As of August 2020, Zang has won over US$17,600,000 in live poker tournaments, overtaking

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as the most successful Chinese poker player in live tournaments.

Personal life

Zang played ''

Magic: The Gathering ''Magic: The Gathering'' (colloquially known as ''Magic'' or ''MTG'') is a tabletop and digital collectable card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro), ''Magic'' was the first ...

'' during high school and won a Chinese championship in the card game. He graduated from university in 2005. In 2013, he founded a company specializing in Bitcoin in Shenzhen.

References

External links

Aaron Zang on Hendon Mob
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zang, Aaron 1982 births Chinese poker players Living people