Peter Ling is a professional poker player, who currently resides in Victoria, Australia. In January 2007, he entered the live poker world, when he played in Event #11 – Pot-Limit Hold'em Teams Event at the Crown Australian Poker Championship, or the ‘Aussie Millions’ as it became known, held at the Crown Casino, Melbourne. In the same tournament, he also played in Event #12 – No-Limit Hold'em and his fourteenth-place finish earned him prize money worth $1,578.
Peter Ling started his 2008 campaign with an impressive fourth-place finish in the Crown Aussie Millions Championship. In this tournament, he contested in Event #12 - Poker Pages Ranking Main Event – No-Limit Hold'em. It had a total of 780 poker players contesting for $ (AUD) 7,800,000.00, where he reached the final table and played against Michael Chrisanthopoulos, Antonio Casale, Nino Marotta, Erick Seidel, Alexander Kostritsyn, and Peter Mobbs. Though he ranked seventh in chip rankings, he still finished fourth and walked away with a whopping $379,670 in prize money.
On the heels of this good finish, Peter Ling made his maiden appearance at the 39th World Series of Poker 2008 (WSOP) held at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas. He took part in Event #54 – No-Limit Hold'em Championship and added $32,166 to his bank payroll.
As of 2008, Peter Ling has 4 cashes and made $414,102 in tournament winnings. He ranks 16th in the Australia All Time Money List based on his poker earnings. Apart from playing poker, Peter Ling works as a researcher at Ohio State, where he is involved in developing a robotic tomato picking machine to harvest crops grown in space.