After a thrilling four days on the poker felt, Yang Zhang has topped a record-breaking field in Event #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em to capture his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet and the first-place prize of $717,879. Zhang outlasted a total of 1,735 entries and defeated some of the best players in the world.
Zhang has been absent for three years from the WSOP due to the pandemic but said it's great to finally be back in a place he is familiar with. "I love the game from the beginning until now but because of COVID, I didn't play.