Seat 3: Ping Liu, Grand Blanc, MI, USA – 3,095,000
Ping Liu’s first reported live tournament payout came in October 2011. Since then, he’s accrued more than $2.5 million in winnings. His biggest notch was a $599,147 payday for fourth place in the 2018 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. Liu has picked up a few other six-figure prizes over the years, including $156,100 for running deep in this year’s WSOP Main Event (58th place).
While he’s been to several big final tables, he has just three outright victories on his pedigree. The latest, however, came just last week: he took down a $5,000 PokerGO event for $89,600.
In the NAPT Main Event, his run was almost over shortly before the two-table redraw. He needed to spike one of two remaining aces in the deck with one card to come to double through Je Wook Oh. A “Barry Greenstein river” indeed saved him.