2024 World Series of Poker May 28th to July 17th ***No Spoilers***
The 2024 WSOP will take place at Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas from May 28 to July 17, 2024, with the Main Event running from July 3 to July 17. The Main Event – poker’s undisputed freezeout world championship – will have four starting days, beginning on Wednesday, July 3. Players may also register directly on Day 2.
They have a beautiful rotisserie chicken
Lololololol
Nick is amazing
Asian Americans are doing very well in this Main Event. I think as more super smart Asian Americans get into poker, they will crush it.
That's what people said about the Scripps National Spelling Bee 30 years ago and looked how that turned oh wait never mind.
Oddly, the first sentence got me curious. What follows is very much half-assed research where I'm looking at the little flags on the results page plus the person's name. The latter means I might get fooled. After all, a guy like Davin "This is the greatest tournament in the world!" Anderson would miss my eye if I didn't already know him. Meanwhile, someone like a Loni Hui could fool me the other way.
Determining Asian ethnicity might also be tough, as I'll define the western boundary to be any of the countries ending with -stan. This creates a problem, as a lot of names in those countries are Arabic or Persian. So apologies for any omissions there.
Finally, you probably gleaned by now that by American, I mean U.S. even though there are two continents worth of countries that are "American" in its more literal sense. Granted, I don't know how many of these folks are actually citizens of the U.S., so if they have Old Glory by their name on the WSOP website, I'll just assume they are.
Asian-Americans in the final 50 at the WSOP Main Event (Boom Era)
2024 (as of my typing this): Stephen Song, Shundan Xiao, Jonathan Tamayo, Brian Kim, Edward Pak, with Xuejun Huang hovering on the edge of the top 50. Note: I don't want to put exact ranks in case that constitutes a spoiler.
2023: Cong Pham 12th, Henry Chan 31st, Raj Vohra 36th.
2022: Matthew Su 9th, Kenny Tran 17th, Brian Kim 23rd, Mayank Madan 24th, Mack Khan (?) 28th.
2021: Hye Park 6th, Vasu Amarapu 13th, Jung Woo 19th, Roongsak Griffeth (?) 29th
2020 WSOP.com: Sang Lee 19th, Maria Ho 22nd, Jesse Yaginuma 31st, Joseph Cheong 33rd, Mohsin Charania 35th, Vijay Ramani 43rd.
(Is Tyler Cornell Asian? He looks like he has some in him.)
2019: Zhen Cai 6th, Timothy Su 8th, Henry Lu 11th, Duey Duong 19th, Adam Duong 46th
2018: John Cynn 1st, Ryan Phan 11th, Kao Saechao** 16th, Nirath Rean (?) 22nd, Nishant Sharma 34th, Nghia Le 35th, Brian Yoon 41st
2017: Neil Patel 29th, Zu Zhou 37th, Jae Hwang 48th
2016: Qui Nguyen 1st, Jerry Wong 8th, John Cynn 11th, Mike Shin 12th
2015: Matt Guan 13th, Chun Law 35th
2014: Robert Park 33rd
2013: JC Tran 5th, Steve Gee 24th, George Wong 28th
2012: Steve Gee 9th, Danny Wong 14th, Webber Kang 41st, Amit Makhija 47th
2011: Feming Chan 49th
2010: Joseph Cheong 3rd, Soi Nguyen 9th, Duy Le 13th
2009: Jonathan Tamayo 21st, Hung Pham 46th
2008: Chino Rheem 7th, Kelly Kim 8th, Albert Kim 19th, Phi Nguyen 26th, Kido Pham 41st, Tommy Le 47th
2007: Jerry Yang 1st, Hevad Khan 6th, Scotty Nguyen 11st, David Tran 14th, Kenny Tran 16th, Kevin Kim 32nd, Hoa Nguyen 34th, Maria Ho 38th
2006: Richard Lee 6th, Doug Kim 7th, Luke Chung 14th, Lowell Kim 28th, Cuong Do 30th, WeiKai Chang 40th, Cheng Yu 49th
2005: Bernard Lee 13th, Minh Ly 19th, Tommy Vu 22nd, Thien Phan 24th, John Juanda 31st, Bing Wang 34th, Hung La 49th.
2004: Hung La 22nd, Vinh Truong 24th, Davin Anderson 25th, Dung "Gomer" Nguyen 40th
2003: Young Pak 7th, Minh Nguyen 11th, Scotty Nguyen 18th, Men Nguyen 25th, Victor Ramdin*** 29th, Tam "Tony D" Duong 40th, Kevin Song 42nd, Jules Bui 46th, John Inashima 50th. Honorable mention: Barry Greenstein.
What I learned:
1. James McManus might have been onto something when he invoked the term "immigrant-specific genotype" when it comes to Asians at the WSOP.
2. There might be more current crushers among Japanese nationals than from Japanese Americans. And since I'll never be good enough to help the latter cause, I'm now looking at you, Jonathan Tamayo, to make the 2024 FT.
**Same guy? https://www.koin.com/news/crime/accused-...
***Yes, I know Victor is originally from Guyana. But a good chunk of people from Guyana are Indian by ethnicity. Based on his surname, Victor must be among that category, so I included him.
Ooph, Ali with the uhhh potentially controversial Jack in the Box gag
Oh Song
I like Song and I hope he final tables, but ****ing hell did not want a spade there, want to see Astedt play with a stack at this table.
And lol at his shove, think he just wanted to draw the line early dont 3 bet me.
ace X of spades almost beat aces again for a big pile
It's solver approved and he's playing vs a solver so can't be that bad
Rooting for Foxen and Lena900 to make a FT - would be a sick table. Foxen would be such a great representative as first woman to FT such a big main, and Astedt to consolidate his $45M online winnings with a main FT also.
Rooting for Foxen and Lena900 to make a FT - would be a sick table. Foxen would be such a great representative as first woman to FT such a big main, and Astedt to consolidate his $45M online winnings with a main FT also.
And Cantu to fold his way to 3rd but give some restaurant recommendation along the way.
Beautiful
The chip leader Kevin Davis appears to be like 70 years old!? What's the oldest final tablist and / or winner of the main event in recent memory?
it's just cantu you can run over on this table song
Pretty consequential hand there with Song
i think the people who criticize norman chad and lon mceachern lack proper perspective
back in the day, they were really flying blind, taking a largely unknown product and hoping it would find an audience and it did
lon and norm were incredibly good at narrating those highlight reel montages to make it more interesting and accessible to the general audience
it's unfair to judge them for doing live stuff not for the general public on espn, but instead for a niche of highly informed people on a subsc
they've always been terrible even with the prepackaged stuff. people get nostalgic for the boom days.
The chip leader Kevin Davis appears to be like 70 years old!? What's the oldest final tablist and / or winner of the main event in recent memory?
Ensan is the oldest recent winner. He was over 50.
Oldest people at the final table?
Post-boom I would guess Action Dan, Raymond Rahme, Dennis Phillips, Pierre Neuville, Cliff Josephy, John Hesp.
The hands look spewy because he happened to be up against exactly the nuts twice (AA pre-flop, and the nut flush post-flop).
A lot of times they don't have absolute top of range and he gets some folds in those spots.
Must hurt a lot though to blast off like $1M+ in equity taking spots that you didn't strictly speaking need to take.
late night day 6 has a bunch of people going for it and making some strange hero calls or wanting to
The fact that Hellmuth has a life uniform is so strange to me. Any time he’s out of the house it’s the same shirt same track jacket, same hat?
I dont think Davis is 70. Looks more in his 60s.
But yeah Song happened to run into the nuts twice in a row but that’s his game. Those moves would work often against non nutted hands and the pressure cracks many players he goes up against
Omfg, **** this kid…. Wish he shoved there
Foxen is a luckbox. Just life run good
