Ye "yuan365" Yuan, also known as Tony Yuan, has a tiny amount of cashes on his Hendon Mob profile, with just $6,774 in career tournament earnings outside of one particularly big outlier. Yuan, a Ph.D Candidate of Mathematics and Probability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, overcame the odds and made the final table of the 2020 WSOP $10,000 Main Event, after pushing through a field of 705 entrants.
“I still can’t believe it." Yuan told PokerNews about his run to the final table. "I don’t know how I made it, but someone I did. I was quite lucky to have some big hands. I won a coinflip when short-stacked with pocket nines against my opponent’s ace-jack offsuit." Yuan also was confident in the transition to the live final table, as opposed to online, saying, "I’m a live guy. I think my live play is better than my online play. I can read people.”
Yuan finally succumbed in fifth-place, losing a flip with ace-ten to the pocket fours of Joseph Hebert, but the $286,963 payday certainly helped put a big dent in his college tuition. Now, with another summer of online events waiting, Yuan will be looking to make another deep run payoff in similar fashion.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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10,641
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-4,359 |
. Hegarty bet 2,775 and was called. 
, Hegarty slowed down and checked. Mahadevappa seize the initiative and bet 5,855, Hegarty called.
completed the board. Mahadevappa moved all in for 10,700, Hegarty called and showed the 
while Mahadevappa had the 
and he was busted and elected to buy back in.
flop and action was checked to Alec "Tango_Bravo" Parslow who continued for 685 from middle position.
turn. 
river ended his tournament. 
. The 
river was did not connect Sepiol and Layne won the 6,430 pot.
flop and action was checked to "yavinite" who fired out 360 on the button. 
river secued him the pot as it didn't pair the board.
