Aaron Zang

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Aaron Zang
  Personal information  
Date of birth June 21, 1982
place of residence MacauMacau Macau
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 16,775,820
Total prize money $ 17,633,233
Last updated: June 22, 2020

Aaron Zang (born June 21, 1982 ; actually Shu Nu Zang ) is a professional Chinese poker player . He won the Triton Million for Charity in 2019 .

Personal

Zang played Magic: The Gathering during high school and won the Chinese championship this trading card game. He graduated from university in 2005. In 2013, he founded a company specializing in Bitcoin in Shenzhen .

Poker career

After his time at university, he got into poker through a friend. Zang regularly deposited money into the partypoker online poker room , which he repeatedly gambled away. In early 2006, his uncle gave him 1,000 yuan , which he eventually used to build a bankroll of 400,000 yuan. Zang has been playing professionally in Macau since 2007 and also takes part in renowned live tournaments .

At the beginning of May 2014 he finished third at a tournament on the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo and received almost 85,000 euros . At the end of May 2015, he finished second in the high roller event of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) in Macau and secured the equivalent of around 220,000 US dollars . In the same place, he took fifth place in the APPT Super High Roller in November 2016, worth the equivalent of almost 250,000 US dollars. Beginning August 2019 Zang reached at Triton Million for Charity in London , which has a buy-in of one million pounds most expensive poker tournament world, the final table . There he prevailed heads-up against Bryn Kenney and secured prize money equivalent to more than 16.7 million US dollars due to a deal with him.

In total, Zang has earned more than 17.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments, making him the most successful Chinese poker player .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zang takes Triton Million title as Kenney wins biggest ever prize on triton-series.com, accessed on August 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Aaron Zang: From Magic The Gathering to Winning the Triton Million for Charity on triton-series.com, accessed on June 6, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Aaron Zang in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ EPT - 10 - FPS - 4 - Grand Final (€ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo 6 Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ APPT 9 - Macau (HK $ 95,000 + 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller - Event # 11) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 4, 2019.
  6. ↑ 2016 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) (HK $ 480,000 + 20,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 8)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - London (£ 1,050,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Million for Charity (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 3, 2019.
  8. ↑ China All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Zang, Aaron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zang, Shu Nu (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese poker player
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1982