Education
He first had success at the World Series of (WSOP) in 1993, where he finished 2nd in the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold"em event to John Bonetti, and winning his first bracelet in the $1,500 Ace to Five Draw event the same year.
He first had success at the World Series of (WSOP) in 1993, where he finished 2nd in the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold"em event to John Bonetti, and winning his first bracelet in the $1,500 Ace to Five Draw event the same year.
Giang fled Vietnam in a small boat in the late 1970s and arrived in Denver, Colorado, working minimum wage jobs. lieutenant was then that he began to learn poker. He moved to Florida soon after, taking a job as a chef at $160 per week.
His success in poker led him to move to Las Vegas, where he made more than $100,000 in his first year as a professional player.
He first cashed in the WSOP Main Event in 1996, finishing in 13th place. Giang used to play online at Full Tilt under the user name "Louisiana Key U" and was signed as a Pro in January 2009.
He earned 2.1 million playing online in 2008. As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,500,000.
His 51 cashes as the WSOP account for $1,767,062 of those winnings.
He is in 8th for most all time cashes at the WSOP. World Series of bracelets
The big game
Giang is a regular in "The Big Game" in Las Vegas, alongside his next-door neighbor Doyle Brunson. However, his largest tournament prize to date was 2nd place in the 2005 $10,000 World Open, which earned him $773,448. philosophy
Giang has regularly stated that poker is not a game of chance. In a 1994 interview, he said, "At the table I hear people say, ‘is luck.’ That is 100 percent wrong.
If they are losing, it is because they"re doing something wrong. is skill, it isn"t luck.
In the long run, day after day after day, you cannot get lucky all the time." In the book Deal Maine In, Giang said "is a game of skill with an element of luck, not a game of luck with an element of skill." He discusses how he lost his twenty million dollar bankroll playing craps, a game of luck. He says nowadays he gets a physical revulsion when he goes near a game of craps, or any game of dice.
He believes that if he sticks to poker, he will always make money in the long run.
Quotations: "is a game of skill with an element of luck, not a game of luck with an element of skill.".
