View the profiles of people named Elton Tsang. Join Facebook to connect with Elton Tsang and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to. Elton Tsang Ka-wai (born 1980) is a Chinese Canadian poker player currently residing in Hong Kong. Elton Tsang won the 28-entrant €1m buy-in Monte Carlo One Drop Extravaganza, back in 2016, for €11,111,111, and Tsang joins the battle courtesy of an invite from Wang Qiang. Tan Xuan – a player. Summary: Elton Tsang is 40 years old today because Elton's birthday is on. Previously city included Allston MA. Other names that Elton uses includes Elton K Tsang. Elton's personal network of family, friends, associates & neighbors include Alfred Benjamin, Yao Huang, Russell Ramos, Herman Rosales and Badnaagarav Garmaa.
Elton Tsang is a leading actor on the Triton poker scene. He was involved in the record-breaking €2,090,000 TV potagainst Jason Koon. He is primarily a cash game player, and he is suspected to be the biggest winner of all-time! Jason Koon said in the Joe Ingram's podcast that this Chinese Canadian player won in his career over $120,000,000! Unbelievable..
The One Drop winner
38-year-old Tsang appears at the tournament tables only occasionally, in fact, he does not have any cashes recorded by the HendonMob database in the last two years. But what a tournament he took down in 2016! He collected the astounding €11,111,111 in the Big One for One Drop Extravaganza in Monte Carlo. His second biggest cash is equal to $162,212 for 5th place in the A$ 50,000 High Roller Rebuy at WSOP APAC (Melbourne) in 2013. He didn't capture any other 6+ digit scores; therefore, the majority of his total live earnings ($12,752,989) come from his great performance in Monte Carlo.
No games in Macau
This outstanding player was born and raised in Vancouver. He graduated from the University of British Colombia. He started playing online poker on partypoker in 2001. After he finished his studies, he moved to Hong Kong. He claims that he couldn't find any poker game in Macau back then, and he started looking for business opportunities. He realised that he knew the owner of one of the casinos in Macau and he offered him organising a poker tournament. He encouraged Matt Savage to become the tournament director, and also his event was sponsored by PokerStars. That's how APPT Macau series started.
The first victory
He met a lot of professional poker players during the tournament and he was attracted to flexible lifestyle poker allowed them to have. In 2008, he won a seat at PCA, where he finished 37th for $32,000. Then, he started playing full-time $3/$6 cash games in Hong Kong. He was climbing up to higher stakes slowly and all his earnings were coming from poker. In 2010, he won his first tournament during Asian PokerKing festival in Macau for over $71,000. 'It was a critical moment. I was sure at that time that the win increased my bankroll at least by 50%.', he said.
Real high stakes
He stayed in Macau for two years, still playing high stakes cash games, he eventually moved up to HKD$300/$600 (HKD$600 is equal to about 76 USD), and soon to HKD$1000/$2000. Then he climbed up to 'real high stakes', as he called these games. 'When that game died down, in 2012, I started playing the real high stakes game. Which was HKD$10,000/$20,000 (USD 1.25k/$2.5k) & HKD$20,000/$40,000 (USD$2.5k/$5k), and that was the game that all the big pros play, and sometimes there is a good businessman who will play. That was a juicy game.”
Over $12.7 million pots?!
He was battling against players like Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, John Juanda, Tom Dwan, and Johnny Chan. What was his biggest win and loss? It's hard to believe what he said. 'The thing is, now the stakes I play are so huge that I am not sure I want to reveal how big they are? When we play in the very big games, we often sell pieces. The biggest pots I have won and lost are over hundred million Hong Kong dollars (USD$12.7m). The games get pretty big.'
Memorable game
He talked about the memorable game against Tom Dwan. 'I was in Macau playing three-handed with Tom Dwan and the Chairman. That game, we were playing HKD Ten Million dollar buy-in (USD$1.2m) HK$50,000/HK$100,000 (USD$6/$12k) No-Limit. After playing 24-hours, I had lost HKD$60 million (USD$7.6m). That was my stop-limit. I was ready to quit. But then I ended up giving it one more bullet. I bought in for another HKD$20m (USD$2.5m) and had I lost it I would have had to move down in stakes and start all over. I was fortunate enough to win all my money back, and HKD$60m on top of that. It was the most important game of my life. I think that was in about 2014 or 2015.”
Everything but poker
Tsang is also an entrepreneur. He invests in IT, internet firms, and travel agencies. 'I would focus on something else. In the past two years I have been focusing a lot on business; everything but poker. I have not been playing nearly enough poker.”, he said in the interview with CalvinAyre.com in 2017.
Unique tournament
He claims that The Big One for One Drop differed from other tournaments. 'I try to stay away from tournaments because it’s such a long process, and then get first, which is a swing of a cash game for me, so it puts me on tilt. The One Drop was different as it’s much bigger and means much more to me. It was like hitting the jackpot. I bought in for the whole lot but did sell some shares to my good friends. I didn’t do it because I needed to.”
They banned me
What is the other reason that he didn't enjoy playing tournaments? 'When I won the first small tournament I was still playing in some small private cash games. Eventually, they banned me from playing. I started to realise that when you get recognised as a good player, people in the private games start banning you. So in my mind, playing tournaments wasn’t worth it. '
Millions of debts Live dealer baccarat online casino.
He claims that people owe him a lot of money. 'I would say at one point the debts reached over a hundred million Hong Kong dollar (USD$12.7m).”One of the players that Tsang accused of dishonesty is Leon Tsoukernik. Apparently, the owner of King's Casino owes him €2,000,000, after losing such a huge amount in a private game hosted at Casino Barcelona in 2016.
The biggest winner of all-time?
Is Elton Tsang really the biggest winner of all-time? Jason Koon believes in it. He states that Tsang won over $120,000,000 in his career! He claims that the games in China are really juicy, and there are few fishes who lost in these games over $100 million. Although obviously there aren't any official results from cash games, we really believe what Koon said. Elton Tsang is such an amazing player and we wish him other successes!
Elton Tsang – a Canadian born, Hong-Kong based businessman – took down this weekend´s Big One for One Drop Extravaganza Main Event for €11,111,111.
Elton Tsang – a Canadian born, Hong-Kong based businessman – took down this weekend´s Big One for One Drop Extravaganza Main Event for €11,111,111.
This weekend´s Big One for One Drop Extravaganza Main Event was the biggest recorded buy-in poker tournament in history. Twenty-six players ponied up the €1,000,000 buy-in and – after €111,111 was deducted from each buy-in for the One Drop charity – the prize pool reached €24,888,892 due to two of the players re-entering.
Despite being promoted as an event from which professional players were banned, several well-known faces appeared at the Casino de Monte Carlo tables. Paul Newey, Andrew Pantling and Mark Teltscher bought directly into the event, while Talal Shakerchi picked up his seat in a live satellite at the beginning of the Extravaganza schedule.
Pantling Leads at Start of Final Day – for Three Hands
Going into the final day of three, Andrew Pantling held a 15 Big Blind advantage over Rick Salomon and Elton Tsang, with 2010 WSOP Europe Main Event winner James Bord and previous WSOP Big One for One Drop final tablist Cary Katz among the eight remaining players.
As only six players were due to cash in the event, the action was anticipated to be tense – but nobody told Elton Tsang. Within three hands Tsang moved into the chip lead after twice forcing folds from Pantling in two valuable pots.
Pantling´s chip stack continued to freefall, but it was Haralabos Voulgaris who was first to leave the final table after moving all-in with K♥ 3♥ and failing to improve past Anatoly Gurtovoy´s A♣ Q♠. Gurtovoy moved into third place in the chip counts, but was still almost 50 million chips behind Tsang as the blinds increased to 300,000/600,000.
Brandon Steven Bubbles Big One for One Drop
After a quiet spell of “no flops, no drops”, Brandon Steven bubbled the Big One for One Drop – calling Cary Katz´s pre-flop shove with K♥ Q♠ and running into Katz´s A♣ K♦. With the remaining six players guaranteed of a €1.5 million payday the action picked up, and Andrew Pantling wasted no time in losing the last of his chips with K♠ 3♠ against Elton Tsang´s A♦ 9♣.
Elton Tsang´s good fortune continued when he bust Cary Katz in fifth place K♠ J♠ > A♣ J♦ and, as the blinds increased to 400,000/800,000, Tsang´s chip stack was double the combined size of the three other players´ stacks at the table – Anatoly Gurtovoy, Rick Salomon and James Bord.
Anatoly Gurtovoy emerged as the challenger to Tsang´s dominance – busting James Bord in fourth place A♣ K♦ > A♠ 10♠ and Rick Salomon in third place A♥ Q♣ > Q♠ J♣ – but going into the head-ups, Tsang still had a commanding advantage of 93.7 million chips vs Gurtovoy’s 46.3 million chips.
A Fitting Hand to Conclude an Extravaganza
The heads-up lasted almost fifty hands, during which time Tsang´s dominance continued. Prior to the final hand, Elton Tsang held a chip lead of 118.2 million vs 21.8 million, and it was Anatoly Gurtovoy who made the deciding move in the final hand, moving all in on a board of Q♣ 3♣ 4♣ / 2♥. Tsang snap-called and the cards were on their backs.
- Gurtovoy: A♥ 5♦ for a Five-high straight.
- Tsang: 6♣ 5♥ for a Six-high Straight.
Elton Tsang Net Worth
The River (J♣) improved Tsang´s hand to a Jack-high Flush and enabled him to take down the first place of €11,111,111 – Gurtovoy being rewarded with €5,427,781 for his second place finish. The full list of payouts is as follows:
1 | Elton Tsang | € 11,111,111 |
2 | Anatoly Gurtovoy | € 5,427,781 |
3 | Rick Salomon | € 3,000,000 |
4 | James Bord | € 2,100,000 |
5 | Cary Katz | € 1,750,000 |
6 | Andrew Pantling | € 1,500,000 |