Chau Giang

Chau Giang ( born July 2, 1955 in Vietnam) is an American professional poker player.

Chau Giang fled in the late 1970s in a small boat from Vietnam and went to Florida. There, worked for the minimum wage. Soon after, he went to Colorado and took a job as a chef, how he earned $ 160 per week. Over time, he learned to play poker and because of its success, he could afford to travel to Las Vegas to draw, where he earned in his first year as a professional poker player over $ 100,000. He had lost at the World Series of Poker in 1993, where he finished second in the $ 1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em tournament and against John Bonetti made ​​his first major success. $ 1,500 Ace to Five Draw tournament in the same year he won his first bracelet.

In the Main Event of the World Series of Poker in 1996, he finished thirteenth place. His second bracelet he won the $ 2,000 Omaha Eight or Better tournament at the World Series of Poker in 1998, the third followed in the $ 2,000 Pot Limit Omaha tournament in 2004, where he was able to prevail against Robert Williamson III, Dave Colclough and Chris Ferguson.

Giang avoided several years to play other tournaments except the WSOP and focused on cash games, where he usually played with a 4.000/8.000- $ limit. He is also a regular in the Big Game in Las Vegas a neighbor of Doyle Brunson. When his children asked him why he was not seen on television, he returned to tournament play. At the first World Poker Tour Championship at Bellagio, he finished ninth. His biggest tournament win, he scored in 2005 with the second place in the $ 10,000 World Poker Open WPT, where he won $ 773,448.

He is married and has three children. To date, he has won over $ 3.7 million in poker tournaments.

Bracelets World Series of Poker

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