![]() ![]() During that tournament, Yang beat poker legends Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman and Barry Greenstein, before losing to eventual winner Annie Duke.Īlthough Yang has not made a second final table at the WSOP, he did finish 9th in a Heartland Poker Tour stop in Fresno. Since his win in the main event, his biggest tournament score has been a 5th place finish in the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Championship, where he took home $75,000 in an impressive run. In addition to his big win, Yang has seven other minor WSOP cashes, not including 2 minor WSOP Circuit event cashes. To his credit, Yang pledged 10% of his winnings the three different charities, including the Make-A-Wish foundation. The 6 on the river gave Yang the winning straight and an $8.25 million dollar payday. A 5/9/Queen flop put Le ahead, but the 7 on the flop gave Yang four more outs. Both players were all-in pre-flop, Yang holding pocket 8’s, vs. Thanks to a good run of cards, some tough calls, (and maybe some help from the big guy upstairs), Yang went on to outlast 6,357 other players win the gold bracelet after an exciting final hand (are there any other types of final hands?) against runner-up Tuan Lam of Canada.
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