Hong Kong made its mark at the ongoing 2024 World Series of Poker with Wing Po Liu locking up his career second gold bracelet at Mixed Big Bet and Danny Tang finishing 2nd at the $50K High Roller Pot Limit Omaha. Here are those stories.
Wing Po Liu Wins Career Second Bracelet At Mixed Big Bet
The 2024 WSOP Event 77: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet (6 Handed) is a mix of 7 poker variety games, with each game having pot-limit or no-limit betting, ensuring the pots played would be very sizable and the swings would be particularly wild. Some say this is not for the faint of heart however it did not deter 468 entrants to create a $1,041,300 prize pool. After two days of play, Hong Kong’s Wing Po Liu emerged victorious to lift his career second WSOP gold bracelet and the $209,942 champion’s purse. The win sent Liu past the million marker in live tournament earnings.
Liu has been running well at the WSOP since his first visit last year where he placed 3rd at the $3,000 NLH 6-Handed. Later that year, he collected his first bracelet at the WSOP Europe in the $5,000 PLO for $246,797.
Briefly recapping Liu’s latest gold, he carried a commanding chip lead into the final table and proceeded to eliminate the highly decorated Alex Foxen in 6th place. Recent bracelet winner Xixiang Luo from China locked up his sixth cash with 3rd place finish. After five hours of final table play, Liu defeated Hye Park at heads up in a game of Pot Limit Omaha.
Other Asia Pacific players reaching the money round were Xiacochuan Zhang (24th), Yingui Li (25th), two time WSOP bracelet winner Kahle Burns (28th), Gan Jiang (32nd) Sho Mori (40th), WSOP Bracelet winner Qiang Xu (45th), and Masaki Nakamura (68).
RESULTS – 2024 WSOP $2500 Mixed Big Bet
Danny Tang Takes Runner-Up At the 50K HR PLO
One of the costliest events in the WSOP lineup was the $50,000 High Roller Pot Limit Omaha which attracted 187 entries for a prize pool of $8,929,250. For Asian fans, all eyes were on Hong Kong player Danny Tang who went heads up against Daniel Perkusic for the title. Tang ultimately fell in 2nd place for his seventh seven figure payout of $1,400,217 while Perkusic pocketed $2,100,325.
As Hong Kong’s top ranked poker player Tang won his first WSOP bracelet in 2019 at the $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em, taking home over $1.6 Million. Since then, Tang has seen success at numerous High Roller events around the world including five Triton Super High Roller Series events. To date, Tang now has accumulated over $28.3 Million in live tournament earnings based on Hendon Mob.
Other notable finishes by Asian players were India’s 2-time WSOP bracelet holder and high stakes poker specialist Santhosh Suvarna who cashed in 5th place for $503,085, boosting him to the top as the highest earner so far this 2024 series with over $6 Million following his huge win at the $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em.
RESULTS – 2024 WSOP $50K HR PLO
*Article by JJ Duque
