Qing Liu has the chance to make poker history this week by possibly winning two World Poker Tour (WPT) titles in two days. On Tuesday, he took down the $5,000 buy-in WPT Venetian for $752,880, and on Wednesday he’ll battle it out at the long-delayed final table of the WPT Gardens Poker Championship.
The WPT Venetian, which ran March 5-9, attracted 937 runners ($4,333,625 prize pool), six of which returned Tuesday to play to winner. Despite the final day being marred by a couple of controversies, the final table played out as planned with Liu overcoming a 2:1 heads-up chip deficit against 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Joe McKeehen, who was seeking his first WPT title.