Nick Wong

Nick Wong has $4,642,208 in recorded live tournament earnings, seventh on Hong Kong's all-time money list and 586th in the world, read on 2 October 2026. Roughly 71 per cent of it came from a single tournament on one night in Macau in August 2012, and his most recent recorded cash is from February 2017. He is the clearest example on this list of what a money-list ranking does not tell you.

One night, HK$25,530,000

On 31 August 2012 Wong finished third in the HK$2,000,000 No Limit Hold'em Super High Roller at the Macau High Stakes Challenge. The payout was HK$25,530,000, recorded by The Hendon Mob as $3,291,513.

That tournament is the single most consequential event in Hong Kong's poker history. Stanley Choi won it — $6,465,574, the largest cash on this market's list by share of a career — and Wong took third. Two of the seven highest-earning players in Hong Kong's recorded history are on the all-time list substantially because of the same afternoon at the same table. A HK$2 million buy-in was close to unprecedented in 2012, and it demonstrated that Asian high-stakes poker could fill a field at a level the rest of the world was not yet offering; the super-high-roller circuit that now runs from Jeju to Montenegro grew out of that proof.

The other 27 cashes

Wong has 28 recorded cashes in total. Set aside the 2012 result and the remaining 27 account for under $1.4 million between them — Macau Poker Cup and Asian Poker Tour events at a small fraction of those stakes.

The two most recent on file give the scale. On 9 December 2016 he took third in the HK$30,000 + 3,000 High Roller at Asian Poker Tour Macau for $18,501. On 13 February 2017 he finished eighth in the HK$95,000 + 5,000 High Roller at Macau Poker Cup 26 for $36,474. That February 2017 cash is the last entry on his record.

What a stale ranking actually means

A player sitting 586th on the global all-time money list has, on these records, been absent from live tournament results for the best part of a decade.

This is worth saying plainly, because all-time money lists are cumulative and never retire anyone. A ranking is a record of money won at some point, not a statement that someone is currently playing, and on a list like Hong Kong's — 2,615 ranked players, built largely on a boom that peaked years ago — a meaningful share of the names near the top are historical rather than active. Compare Wayne Heung, sixth, whose two most recent cashes are both from 2026.

It is also possible that Wong has simply moved to cash games, which no money list records, or stopped playing publicly. We do not know, and we are not going to invent a reason. What we can say is what the results show: nothing since February 2017.

Reading the number

$4,642,208 is what his Hendon Mob profile showed on 2 October 2026 — a figure that, absent new results, will not change. It covers live tournament results only: no online play, no cash games, and no adjustment for staking, which at a HK$2 million buy-in in 2012 would have been near-universal. Both of his notable results were won in Macau, not Hong Kong, which licenses no poker at all.