Shirley Ang

PokerNews’ Senior Global Live Events Manager first started playing poker back in 2006 on PartyPoker and PKR as a pastime. She grew up in the Netherlands but resided in England when she joined PokerStars as a customer support agent in 2009. She quickly climbed up the ranks within the company and even moved back to Rotterdam after becoming the marketing manager for the Netherlands.

After 4.5 years with PokerStars, she shifted to another side of the iGaming industry. She became the Deputy Director for GAMING1 and moved to sunny Malta to set up the company there. Task successfully completed, she worked for companies like NetEnt and JackpotJoy.

But in 2017, she was asked by PokerNews to work the World Series of Poker and got thrown right into the deep end as her first day was Day 2 of the COLOSSUS. After the WSOP summer, she got herself stuck into more events that year, and since then, she has been touring worldwide to cover some of the biggest and smaller poker tournaments.

Among the chaos and setbacks like lost luggage, delayed flights, erupting volcanoes, and getting stuck in locations that weren’t home, Shirley has regularly brought updates from the live events. In 2020, though, due to COVID-19, she moved into writing live reporting updates on online poker series and diverse poker-related articles.

In July 2021, she took over the reins from Yori Epskamp and Chad Holloway and was in charge of all global live reporting operations. Since April 2023, she has also taken charge of anything related to events with a promotion to Senior Global Live Events Manager in October 2024.

When she’s not traveling for work, she can be found at home reading, cooking, playing video games, doing arts and crafty stuff, or playing with her cats.