The 2016 November Nine: Seat 9, Jerry Wong

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Jerry Wong is far from a household name to poker fans. Even among poker media, despite some good results, he’s something of a face in the crowd – he didn’t appear much in the live updates until just a few hands before he bagged the chip lead on the night of Day 5 of the World Series of Poker Main Event.

And that’s the way it appears he wants to keep it, as he found little time to speak to media during and after his run to the November Nine.

What is known about Wong is this: He has some results that certainly suggest he’s a hell of a poker player.

Even before the 2016 WSOP Main Event, Wong had tallied more than $1.2 million in online cashes. Chief among them was a $750,000 score for third place in the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event eventually won by Dimitar Danchev. The 34-year-old Brooklyn native has also won and cashed in numerous smaller events in his adopted home state of Florida.

The virtual felt has been even more lucrative for Wong, whom November Niner Gordon Vayo called “an OG online player.”

According to online database PocketFives, Wong has cashed for more than $3.3 million online, most of it coming on PokerStars under the name “hummylun”. Just this May, he finished fourth in a Spring Championship of Online Poker $1,000 event for over $270,000. He’s even got a World Championship of Online Poker bracelet, taking down a badugi event in 2014 for $16,146.

So, when the November Nine begins, don’t just gloss over Jerry Wong. His might not be a face or a name that stands out, and he doesn’t exactly have a big stack, coming in eighth in chips; but if his results are any indication, he has both the game and the big stage experience to be a factor.

How He Got Here

When approaching the latter days of the WSOP Main Event, Wong said his mentality was to shut out the world and isolate himself as much as possible.

“Just going day by day, [I’m] trying to be a creature of habit, a creature of routine,” he said of his …

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