Seat 6: Chong Cheong – 904,000
A businessman by trade, Chong Cheong's foray into the poker world was anything but ordinary. Cheong had been a high volume Baccarat player at Grand Lisboa, in Macau for the week on holiday from Hong Kong. His luck quickly went sour and after he lost all but $10,000 of his gambling bankroll, he decided he’d had enough and called it quits. All attempts at booking travel back to Hong Kong were thwarted, however, by a lingering typhoon, preventing him from leaving the casino. While waiting for the bad weather to die down, Cheong stumbled upon a live Texas Hold’em cash game, pulled up a seat and has been hooked since.
The 55-year-old favors tournaments over cash games and has won a handful of local events held at the PokerStars Macau Poker Room. His biggest cash to date came in December of 2008 when he won the Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon Event, earning just over HKD $210,000 (approximately $30,000 USD). Cheong enters the final table with 904,000 in chips.
Bios courtesy of PokerStars