{"id":253342,"date":"2023-01-12T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=253342"},"modified":"2023-01-12T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:27:04","slug":"poker-world-mourns-las-vegas-player-hank-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/poker-world-mourns-las-vegas-player-hank-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker World Mourns Las Vegas Mainstay Hank Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"

The poker world is reeling from the loss of Hank Yang, a member of the high-stakes community for more than a decade. His death was announced on Twitter on Wednesday by fellow poker pro Jesse Segall, who called Yang \u201cThe most generous\/friendly player around.”<\/p>\n

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Hank Yang is pictured where he was happiest, on the poker felt in a Las Vegas cash game. (Image: Katerina Lukina)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHis love for poker was obvious, but his love for people was second to none,\u201d Segall wrote. \u201cThe void left behind in his wake will be impossible to fill.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a comment below Segall’s Tweet, fellow poker pro Felipe Ramos wrote that Yang “has to be top 0.00001% people in the history of humanity.”<\/p>\n

Extremely Big Blinds<\/h2>\n

Yang, who hailed from Virginia, wasn\u2019t big on poker tournaments. Though he logged an impressive $178,492 in career tourney cashes, according to PokerNews.com,<\/em> he was more likely to be found playing cash games at the Aria poker room or in private games arranged for players who enjoy betting unusually large sums of money.<\/p>\n

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On a 2018 episode of PokerGo<\/em>\u2019s \u201cPoker After Dark\u201d series, Yang competed in a $20K minimum buy-in game against felt legends that included Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth. Not only did Yang live to tell the tale, he walked away with a table-leading profit of more than $100K.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cHe was such a sick gambler \u2013 in both the best and worst kind of ways,\u201d poker pro Matt Berkey said on his \u201cOnly Friends\u201d podcast. \u201cWhat a joy to be around whenever it came to be in a competitive environment \u2026 He made games great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yang\u2019s Hendon Mob results show just three total cashes, his final one a 40th-place finish for $12,496 in a $3K event at the WPT World Championships last month at Wynn Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Check in the Dark<\/h2>\n

Though Yang\u2019s cause of death has yet to be revealed, Berkey alluded to a deep darkness that may have come into play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to pretend he lived a perfect life and didn\u2019t have his issues,\u201d Berkey said. \u201cIt\u2019s particularly unfortunate to have somebody who I think is a net positive to the community, that may have been struggling a little bit behind the scenes and suffering quietly. It makes you feel very powerless as an onlooker and a peer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The poker world is reeling from the loss of Hank Yang, a member of the high-stakes community for more than a decade. His death was announced on Twitter on Wednesday by fellow poker pro Jesse Segall, who called Yang \u201cThe most generous\/friendly player around.” \u201cHis love for poker was obvious, but his love for people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":253346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886,83771,14],"tags":[82409,84508,23,81907],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPoker World Mourns Las Vegas Mainstay Hank Yang - Casino.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The poker world is reeling from the loss of Hank Yang, a member of the high-stakes community for more than a decade. 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