The Defending Champ is Back

GeoffFisk

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

Yueqi Zhu, who won the $1,500 Omaha Mix event last year, is here and ready to defend his title as the field trickles in for Level 1.

Last year's win gave Zhu his first and only career WSOP bracelet, and Zhu has proved he's a force to be reckoned with across a variety of games. He might be best known for his 10th-place finish in the 2018 WSOP Main Event, getting one of the bad shares of the infamous aces vs. kings vs. kings situation against Nick Manion on the final table bubble.

Zhu has proven he can run deep in any tournament, including last year's Main Event, a fifth place finish in the 2019 $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball championship, and of course his championship run in this event last year.