Michael Soyza is a Malaysian poker player and former Natural8 Ambassador.
Soyza can be seen on the first season of GGPoker's Game of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel.
He first started playing poker in 2008, playing in a $0.03/$0.06 home game as his first introduction to the game. After a three-year foray into the world of investment banking, Soyza jumped into poker full time.
After cashing for over $650,000 in 2017, Soyza followed it up with six tournament wins in 2018 for a total of more than $1.5M. In 2019, at the esteemed Triton Poker Series in Jeju, Soyza defeated Sam Greenwood heads-up to win Event #3: HK$500K Six Max for over $1.4 million.
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He then won the 2019 PokerStars APPT Korea Super High Roller for $157,423
Later that year, he finished fourth in the Triton Super High Roller Series London Main Event for another $1.3 million.
In 2023, GGPoker asked him to be part of thefirst season of Game of Gold a reality-TV series that played out like a poker-themed season of Survivor. Soyza was eliminated in the first week after his team ran extremely badly in the team sit-and-go challenge.