Randy Lew

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Randy Lew
  Personal information  
Date of birth 3rd July 1985
place of birth United StatesUnited States Sacramento
Nickname
nanonokoPokerStars
place of residence United StatesUnited States Mountain View
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 484,617
Total prize money $ 1,624,969
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 17th
Best main event 159th ( 2017 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 1
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 3
Last updated: January 24, 2020

Randy Lap Lew (born July 3, 1985 in Sacramento , California ) is a professional American poker player . He is also a commentator for the Triton Super High Roller Series .

Personal

Lew is the son of Chinese parents. As a child he loved computer games. While studying economics at the University of California at Davis , Lew regularly took part in national tournaments in the Marvel vs. Capcom 2 part. It was at these tournaments that he met friends who introduced him to poker . Lew lives in Mountain View . He is in a relationship with the poker player Celina Lin and has been engaged since March 2018. At the end of October 2019, they became parents to a daughter.

Poker career

On-line

Lew taught himself to play poker and opened an account with the online poker room PokerStars under the nickname nanonoko . In November 2009 he had already earned more than one million US dollars there . From 2007 to 2011 and 2013 he achieved the highest status as Supernova Elite . In January 2012, Lew set a new Guinness World Record by playing a total of 23,493 hands in eight hours online. In 2014 he was inducted into the PokerStars VIP Club Hall of Fame as the second player after George Lind . Lew was also part of Team PokerStars for many years , so was sponsored by PokerStars during this time . You can follow his game regularly on the streaming portal Twitch , where he has over 50,000 followers. His tournament revenue from online tournaments is in excess of a million dollars.

live

Since 2010, Lew can also be seen at renowned live tournaments . In June 2010 he was the first time in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas successful and died in a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em the money. In early 2011, Lew finished tenth in the main event of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne for 100,000 Australian dollars . In November 2011 he won the main event of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) in Macau and thus his highest prize money to date of the equivalent of almost $ 500,000. In early 2012, Lew finished eighth in the high roller event of the European Poker Tour in the Bahamas , for which he received more than $ 100,000. In early November 2013, Lew sat again at the final table of the APPT Main Event and took seventh place for over $ 100,000 in prize money. At the end of May 2015, he landed in fifth place at the APPT high roller event for around $ 100,000.

In total, Lew has made more than $ 1.5 million in poker playing live tournaments. From April to November 2016 he played as part of the Hong Kong Stars in the Global Poker League and made it to the playoffs with his team. Lew is also a commentator on the Triton Super High Roller Series with Lex Veldhuis .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Randy Lew on bluffeurope.com, accessed June 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ "I am nanonoko" - A Documentary About Online Legend Randy Lew on pokerstrategy.com from March 8, 2011, accessed on March 25, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Рэнди Лью (Randy Lew) on propokerpro.org, accessed June 16, 2015 (Russian).
  4. ↑ a b Randy Lew on PokerStars.eu, accessed June 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ Contact | Randy “nanonoko” Lew ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on nanonoko.com, accessed on February 29, 2016 (English).
  6. ↑ Poker Gossip: Celina Lin and nanonoko get married on pokerfirma.com on March 6, 2018, accessed on March 7, 2018.
  7. ↑ Post on Instagram , accessed on October 29, 2019 (English).
  8. ↑ Randy Lew in the World Series of Poker database, accessed February 29, 2016.
  9. ↑ a b nanonoko in the PocketFives database, accessed on March 25, 2017 (English).
  10. ↑ Randy Lew on Twitch, accessed March 25, 2017.
  11. ↑ a b Randy Lew in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 4, 2015.
  12. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 2,500 Limit / No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 25, 2017 (English).
  13. ↑ 2011 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 10,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 25, 2017.
  14. ↑ APPT - Macau (HK $ 30,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 16, 2015.
  15. ↑ PCA - 2012 ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em 8 Max - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 25, 2017.
  16. ↑ APPT 2013 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) (HK $ 95,000 + 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 25, 2017 (English).
  17. ↑ APPT 9 - Macau (HK $ 95,000 + 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller - Event # 11) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 25, 2017.
  18. ↑ Hong Kong Stars on the Global Poker League website, accessed May 13, 2016.
  19. ↑ Dwan, Koon, Greenwood & Co gamble for millions at the Triton Cash Game Marathon in Jeju on hochgepokert.com on August 1, 2018, accessed on February 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lew, Randy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lew, Randy Lap (full name); nanonoko (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player and commentator
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Sacramento , California , United States