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Jerry Yang is a poker player of Laotian descent who won the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. In 2011, he authored a book called 'All In'. Biography. Yang was born in Laos...
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In 2009, Jerry Yang opened his Merced, California restaurant Pocket 8’s Sushi and Grillwith around half a million dollars of his poker winnings. Then, in 2015, Yang opened his second eatery, Dynamite Grill, in Las Vegas. Sadly, however, after Dynamite Grill opened, Yang’s father was diagnosed with colon cancer. Family was and continues to be very i...
Back in March 2013, the IRS posted that it would be auctioning Jerry Yang’s belongings to pay delinquent taxes.Among these items were his 2007 WSOP Championship Corum bracelet, the Corum watch he also won at the Main Event, and several other expensive pieces of jewelry and watches. Rumor has itthat the bracelet was auctioned off in April 2013 to a ...
Jerry Yang hasn’t played much poker since winning the Main Event. His biggest tournament payout since his heralded world championship was 5thplace in the 2010 National Heads-Up Championship where he took home $75,000. He managed several more cashes until 2016 in WSOP, World Poker Tour (WPT), Heartland Poker Tour(HPT), Bay 101, and various other Las...
The 51-year-old Yang has been working hard managing his successful—and busy—restaurant. Pocket 8’s has been doing well.For the past several years, it has been named Merced County’s “Best Restaurant” and “Best Japanese Restaurant.” Yang loves being a businessman and restaurateur and interacting with his customers. While poker was fun at the time, he...
Aug 6, 2008 · Jerry Yang is a family man, a philanthropist, a poker player, and a world champion. While he is all of those things, if you were to ask him which of his many roles in life is the most...
Name: Jerry Yang. Nickname: The Shadow. Birth Date: 1968. Birth Place: Laos. Current Residence: Temecula, California, U.S.A. Poker Room: Full Tilt Poker. Xao ‘ Jerry’ Yang was originally born in Southeast Asia, in Laos and is a professional poker player. His family escaped to Thailand after the communists invaded the country back in the ...
Jul 13, 2011 · The World Series of Poker main event has historically been home to some of poker’s most infamous and interesting hands. 2007 was no exception, as an amateur player named Jerry Yang, who...
Jun 30, 2011 · On Thursday, Concordia University in St. Paul will welcome an unusual guest for a Lutheran liberal arts school — world champion poker player Jerry Yang. There's a lot that's unusual about Yang ...
Jul 18, 2022 · But in the wee hours of July 18, 2007, Jerry Yang — a Laotian immigrant and married father of six from Temecula, California — outlasted the World Series of Poker’s Main Event field of 6,358...
