Event #28 of the 2015 World Series of Poker, the famed $1,500 buy-in Monster Stack – the seventh-largest poker tournament in history with 7,192 entrants – saw the final nine players return Wednesday night to battle it our for a share of the $9,709,200 prize pool, and when the dust settled a 25-year-old Florida poker dealer name Perry Shiao emerged victorious to capture the $1,286,942 first-place prize. He also captured a gold bracelet in what was only his second WSOP event.
A month back, Shiao won $7,500 in a tournament in South Florida – where he has dealt for the past seven years – which gave him the necessary funds to come to Vegas.