Paul Phua

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Paul Phua
  Personal information  
Date of birth April 29, 1964
place of birth MalaysiaMalaysia Miri
Nickname
MalACEsiaPokerStars & Full Tilt Poker
place of residence MalaysiaMalaysia Miri
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 3,113,429
Total prize money $ 19,330,992
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 2
Best main event no cash
Last updated: May 4, 2020

Paul Phua (born April 29, 1964 in Miri ; actually Wei Seng Phua ) is a Malaysian businessman and poker player .

Personal

Phua grew up in his native city, Miri . When he was 15, he moved to Singapore to graduate from school. There he became a passionate bowler and eventually got into the casino business. From then on, Phua worked as a so-called “Junket” for various casinos in Macau and tried to win customers for them in this function. Over time, he became one of the biggest junkets in Macau and worked for the city's largest casinos, including a. for the Wynn and the Sands . Phua also invests in real estate . His fortune is estimated at about 400 million US dollars estimated.

Poker career

Career

Phua played the poker variant Seven Card Stud as a teenager and switched to Texas Hold'em in his early 20s . Since 2012 he has occasionally taken part in live tournaments . Phua almost exclusively plays super high roller events, i.e. tournaments with buy-ins of at least 50,000 US dollars . In 2012 and 2016 he took part in the Big One for One Drop , which was the most expensive poker tournament of the year with a buy-in of one million US dollars and euros , but was unable to place in the prize money on both occasions.

Phua won the Aspers High Roller in London in late September 2012 and was awarded a £ 1 million prize , which at the time was worth more than $ 1.6 million. In mid-April 2013 he took third place at the High Roller Event of the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific in Melbourne, endowed with 325,000 Australian dollars . A few days later, Phua was fourth in the Manila Millions and secured prize money equivalent to more than 400,000 US dollars. At the end of April 2014 he reached the final table of the Super High Roller of the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo and finished the tournament in sixth place, which was paid for with 385,000 euros. In October 2016, Phua won an event held as part of the Big One for One Drop Extravaganza in Monte-Carlo with a prize of over 750,000 euros. In March 2019, he played in the Triton Super High Roller Series in Jeju-do, South Korea, and achieved three money placements. His largest prize money by far, the equivalent of more than two million US dollars, was won for his second place in a tournament in No Limit Hold'em Short Deck Ante-Only . In mid-May 2019, Phua cashed five times at the Triton Series in Budva, Montenegro , thereby securing prize money equivalent to over 3.5 million US dollars. At the beginning of August 2019, he finished second at the Triton Series Main Event in London and received his highest prize money to date of more than three million US dollars due to a deal with the winner Wai Yong . Phua then also reached the final table at the main event in short deck and finished fourth for the equivalent of just under 1.2 million US dollars. At the partypoker Live Millions Super High Roller Series in Sochi , he made the money five times in March 2020. He won u. a. the sixth and tenth tournaments in the series and received a total of more than $ 2.5 million in prize money.

In total, Phua has earned more than US $ 19 million playing poker in live tournaments , making him the most successful Malaysian poker player . Online played Phua from May 2013 to May 2014 with the nickname MalACEsia . On the platforms PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker he recorded cash game losses of more than five million US dollars during this time . Since 2016 he has been running his own poker school under the name Paul Phua Poker . In March 2020, Phua received a Global Poker Award for his work in the Triton Super High Roller Series .

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2012 01,621,297 1
2013 00.746.044 -
2014 00.532.091 -
2015 00,000.000 -
2016 01,631,627 1
2017 00,000.000 -
2018 00.584,981 -
2019 11,619,951 -
2020 02,595,000 2
total 19.330.992 4th

Controversy

Phua and his son were arrested in July 2014 on charges of illegally betting on games in the 2014 World Cup and connections to the 14K triad . The case was dropped in early June 2015. From the dock, the Wynn Macau to have led an illegal gambling ring that Phua was also acquitted in March of 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Phua: Early years on paulphuapoker.com, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Paul Phua: My Early Career on paulphuapoker.com, accessed March 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Poker and Business on paulphuapoker.com, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Detained Paul Phua, allegedly a member of the 14K Triad on pokerolymp.com July 15, 2014, accessed March 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Paul Phua in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ € 1 Million One Drop Extravaganza - 24 players left in the world's most expensive tournament on pokerolymp.com on October 15, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ Aspers 100K High Roller (£ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 12, 2019.
  8. ↑ World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) (A $ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Rebuy) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  9. ↑ APT - Philippines (HK $ 1,000,000 Manila Millions) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 12, 2019.
  10. ↑ EPT - 10 - FPS - 4 - Grand Final (€ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 12, 2019 (English).
  11. ↑ The Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza (€ 96,500 + 3,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 12, 2019 (English).
  12. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Jeju (HK $ 500,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck Ante Only (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 12, 2019.
  13. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Jeju (HK $ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck Ante Only (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 12, 2019.
  14. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Jeju (HK $ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Refresh (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 12, 2019 (English).
  15. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Montenegro Main Event (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 12, 2019.
  16. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton Montenegro Short Deck Main Event (Event # 11)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 12, 2019.
  17. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 200,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold'em - Ante Only Turbo (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 14, 2019.
  18. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 250,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold'em - Ante Only (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 15, 2019.
  19. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 750,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold'em - Ante Only (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 17, 2019.
  20. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - London (£ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton London Main Event (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 7, 2019.
  21. ↑ Triton Poker Super High Roller Series - London (£ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck Main Event (Event # 7)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed August 9, 2019.
  22. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 13, 2020.
  23. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 13, 2020.
  24. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 51,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 13, 2020.
  25. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 13, 2020.
  26. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 20, 2020.
  27. ↑ Malaysia All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 12, 2019.
  28. ↑ a b Paul Phua signs Tom Dwan as a figurehead for his training page on hochgepokert.com from January 8, 2017, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  29. ↑ Poker Player MalACEsia on Full Tilt Poker on highstakesdb.com, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  30. ↑ Poker Player MalACEsia on Pokerstars on highstakesdb.com, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  31. ↑ The Global Poker Awards 2019 are given on pokerfirma.com on March 7, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020.
  32. ↑ Case Dismissed: High-Stakes Player and Businessman Paul Phua Wins Legal Battle on pokernews.com from June 2, 2015, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  33. ↑ Paul Phua acquitted of the Macau prosecution on pokernews.com on March 5, 2019, accessed March 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Phua, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phua, Wei Seng (real name); MalACEsia (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION malaysian businessman and poker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Miri , Malaysia