Update #6: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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Event 8 - OUR FIRST ASIAN BRACELET OF 2007 IS CLAIMED BY Micheal Chu in the No-Limit Hold'em, $1000 buy-in, Multiple rebuys with 814 Players Entered earning him $585,774 for First Place. Tommy Vu also got our first 2nd placing challenging Micheal Chu heads up. Congrats Micheal! Job well done!!! [COMPLETE]

Event 9 - Omaha High-Low 8/OB, $1500 buy-in (690 entrants) with a first place prize of $228,446. Yueqi "Rich" Zhu takes 6th place and $33,907 for his efforts. [COMPLETE]

Event 10 - No-Limit Hold'em, $2000 buy-in (1531 players entered) has $566,916 up for grabs for first place, but unfortunately, all the Asians who were "in the hunt" for the bracelet failed to make it to the final table. [IN PROGRESS]

Event 11 - World Championship Seven Card Stud, $5000 buy-in (180 players) failed to produce an Asian in the final table. Johnny Chan took home $8460 for his 18th place finish, but the 2nd event without an Asian. [IN PROGRESS]

Event 12 - No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed, $1500 buy-in is underway. 1427 players entered this event for a first place prize $481,698.

Most popular Asian Poker Players on the web - criteria: number of webpages with references to them

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Good looks and history are probably the biggest reasons why the top Asian players on this list of top Professional Asian Poker Players appear on the Internet so much. For example, professional Evelyn Ng has only made $222k on the Poker Tournament circuit along with a very new face in Maria Ho who's barely made a dent earning $26k have tens of thousands of mentions on the Internet. At the same time poker professional Can Kim Hua has made over $2.5 million in only 6 years cashing 106 times and winning over 15 events while fellow poker pro Kevin Song has made over $2.75 million so far on the professional poker tournament circuit and even has a World Series of Poker bracelet in the 1997 Limit Hold'em event. While Kevin has history, perhaps if he looked good in a one piece bathing suit, he would have a few more pages on the Internet dedicated to him. Maybe at the same time, he may like the "under the radar" situation he has going on for him now.

Most popular on the Internet - Study #2
1. Johnny Chan 220,000 results
2. John Juanda 124,000 results
3. Scotty Nguyen 108,000 results
4. J.C. Tran 52,300 results
5. Evelyn Ng 53,600 results
6. David Pham 41,200 results
7. Liz Lieu 36,000 results
8. J.J. Liu ("JJ Liu" + "Joanne Liu") 31,050 results
9. Chau Giang 30,800 results
10. David Chiu 25,900 results

Honorable mention: Men Nguyen 27,400 results, Nam Le 23,500 results , "Mimi" Tran 18,400 results, Maria Ho 17,600 results, William Chen 16,100 results, Tuan Le 15,700 results, Hieu Ngoc "Tony" Ma 14,890 results ("Tony Ma" + "Hieu Ngoc"), Minh Nguyen 11,000 results, Minh Ly 10,800 results, Bernard Lee (poker) 10,600 results, Paul Lee 10,500 results

Other notables: Tim Phan 9210 results, Connie Kim 8760 results, Gioi Luong 5770 results, Hung La 3260 results, Yoshio Nakano 2580 results, Theo Tran 2560 results, Thang "Kido" Pham 1719 results ("Thang Pham" + "Kido Pham" + "Thang 'Kido' Pham"), Kenny Tran 1260 results, Anh Van Nguyen 940 results, Can Kim Hua 866 results, Sang Pham 831 results, Steve Sung 609 results, Kevin Song 606 results, John Hoang 578 results, Danny Wong (poker) 543 results

*Results based on the most used search engine on the Internet as of 6.5.07 through 6.6.07. Searches were conducted in a relatively unscientific manner, but were the number of results returned when conducting each search based on the names the players most commonly use in public.

Update #3: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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In the 327 player $2500 buy-in Omaha/Seven Card Stud/Low 8/OB event (Event #5), John Phan placed 8th earning him $14,422 more than his $2500 buy-in. It was an incredibly tough field to beat out...so making the final table was an accomplishment in itself. He competed on the final table with the infamous Annie Duke, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Chris Bell and David Benyamine. Scotty Nguyen finished in 10th place. [COMPLETE]

In a huge turn of events, Brandon Wong was eliminated before the final table of 9. Brandon was the chip leader with 16 players to go in Event #6, the $1500 Limit Hold-em event. In the initial stages, Wong was in 2nd place, then ended the 2nd day in 7th with 90 players. Hansu Chu though is keeping our hopes alive for the first Asian WSOP bracelet being in 3rd place in chips. Dariush Imani is also on the final table, 8th in chips. Tommy Hang failed to keep his 1st place in chips moving into the final day and placed 42nd (not bad) earning him $5714. In the same position, Nhu Muynh earned the same amount. Micheal Sun (#14 in chips after day #2) and David Chiu (#17 in chips after day #2) unfortunately didn't cash despite their great efforts. [IN PROGRESS]

The above event was updated, but the following will be updated in #4 later today.
In Event #7, $5000 with multiple rebuys buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha, John Juanda (900,000 chips) was overtaken by David "Devil Fish" Ulliot barely (only 47,000 chips) to hold onto a 2nd place standing with 11 people to go. Minh Ly is also on the final table in 9th with 235,000 chips. Chau Giang finished 18th earning him $31,801. Johnny Chan placed 36th failing to cash. Joining these Poker Pros are David "Chip" Reese (7th) and Andrew Black (10th). [IN PROGRESS]

Update #1: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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Event 1 - World Championship $5000 buy-in Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit) 06/03/2007
10th place - Phuong Tran OF SAN GABRIEL, CA - out of 451 players raking in $22,257 [COMPLETE]

Event #2 was a $500 buy-in Casino Employees only tourney, but the limitation didn't limit Asians from shining. Eugene Lang took the highest placing for an Asian @ 3rd taking home $42k, Chris Chau immediately after in 4th earning him $28k and the next highest Asian Loc Hoang in 11th raking him $43-hundred bucks. [COMPLETE]

Edward Lee placed 19th in the 2998 player deep $1500 buy-in Event #3 No-Limit Holdem earning him $23,735 & the highest Asian to place. David Pham was in 6th place yesterday, but couldn't hold on and placed 64th only taking home $9412. Other notables: Sanjeer "Bobby" Bais in (33rd), Scott Ya (42nd), Long Nguyen (45th), Gevin Diep (57th), David Pham (64th), Benny Cho (67th), Nan Wang (68th), Richie Wong (77th), and Maria Ho (97th). [COMPLETE] Click here for more.

Event #4 was a 780 player $1500 Pot Limit Hold-em event where Asians could only reach the 22nd placing with Tommy Le busting out before the final table. Good work Tommy! [COMPLETE] Click here for more.

In the 327 player $2500 buy-in Omaha/Seven Card Stud/Low 8/OB event (Event #5), John Phan has a chance to take the title having 120,000 chips to his name with only 13 players left. Scotty Nguyen is also in the mix with a smaller stack of 35k chips. Tianxiong Fu also has a chance at 55k chips. John, Scotty, and Tianxiong will be going against very popular and well known players Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Chris Bell, Josh Arieh, David Benyamine and Annie Duke. Gary Do placed #14, a $9401 cash, Lua Tran #19 for a $7145 cash and Yueqi "Rich" Zu placed 27th. Tough, rough, tough field...included famous pros & veterans: Mickey Seagle, Cyndy Violette, Shahram "Shawn" Sheikhan, Robert Mizrachi, Greg Raymer, Andrew Black, Chau Giang, Hasan Habib, Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, "Miami" John Cernuto, Jason Strasser, Jeffrey Lisandro, Jeffrey Lisandro, Paul Darden Jr., Amir Vahedi, Can Kim Hua, Sam Grizzle, Alfredo "Toto" Leonidas, Brett Jungblut, ,Kathy Liebert,,Erick Lindgren, Barry Greenstein, Kristy Gazes, David Levi,John Juanda,,Andy Bloch, ,Men Nguyen,Daniel Negreanu,,Max Pescatori, Blair Rodman,Ted Forrest,,Layne Flack, Todd Brunson,Steve Zolotow, Doyle Brunson, Ted Lawson, David Chiu, Johnny Chan, David Sklansky, Phil Ivey, Perry Friedman, Alexandra "Alex" Vuong, James Van Alstyne, Dutch Boyd, and Joanne "J.J." Liu among many other great players. [COMPLETE] CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS.

In a fast start, Brandon Wong is in 2nd place currently in the 910 person deep Event #6 $1500 Limit Hold-em event. Tam "Tommy" Hang represents in a tie for 8th place. John Phan may be potentially playing two tournaments at the same time being in 25th place here as well. [IN PROGRESS]

Johnny Chan is the highest ranking Asian in Event #7, $5000 with multiple rebuys buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha, currently in 17th place in chips. [IN PROGRESS]

The series will be running until mid July (17th) climaxing to the Internationally reknown final $10,000 buy-in World Championship No-Limit Hold-em event televised on ESPN.