Elton Tsang
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 $120,000,000! Unbelievable...
The One Drop winner
Elton Tsang from Hong Kong outlasted a field of 233 players to become the champion of the Poker King Club’s Asian Poker King Tournament Main Event, held at the Level 8 Ballroom of the StarWorld Hotel and Casino, to take home the first prize of HK$ 553,600. Elton Tsang Ka-wai (born 1980) is a Chinese Canadian poker player currently residing in Hong Kong. Considered as one of the five best Asian poker players, Tsang has achieved icon status in the international poker scene with his involvement in several historic achievements including: 1) his role in founding and organising the first ever live poker tournament in Macau, China, 2) his.
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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
Elton Tsang Leon Tsoukernik
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
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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
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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
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 $100 million. Although obviously there aren't any official results from cash games, we really believe what Koon said. Elton Tsang is such an amazing player and we wish him other successes!
After months of demand, it has finally arrived…
The Triton Poker Super High Roller Jeju Cash Game will premiere this weekend Sunday September 9, 2018 at 11.00PM [EST] on the official Twitch channel.
After the premiere broadcast, the episode will then be available as video on demand on Triton Poker’s official YouTube page.
Catch the likes of Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, and Jason Koon battling it out in one of the biggest cash games in poker history, with the game’s Buy-In at an incredible US$ 1,000,000.
Mikita Badziakouski, who took down the Triton Super High Roller Jeju 2018 Main Event pocketing US$ 5.2m, was also involved.
In the previous cash game at the Triton Super High Roller Montenegro 2018 tournament, a pot between Jason Koon and Elton Tsang became the biggest in televised poker history at a massive € 2,090,000 [US$ 2.3m].
New episodes of the Jeju Cash game will premiere every Sunday and Wednesday nights at 11.00PM [EST] on Twitch, with the same 1-hour delay on YouTube.