Vinny Vinh is a Vietnamese American professional poker player, settled in Houston, TX, United States. He is very experienced in poker, because he has always been traveling a lot and has participated in some of the largest poker tournaments in the world. That’s why Vinny Vinh has at least 10 first places and more then 40 event participations since 2001, from which he went out in the money. For all his time as an active player, Vinny Vinh has 51 caches and total winnings of $2,292,589.
Vinny Vinh is well-known by the people from the 2007 World Series of Poker. It was really strange when in the $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event, Vinny Vinh was a chip leader and after the first day he immediately disappeared and did not return for the second day. Due to this fact he finished in 20th place, winning $16,212. Vinny Vinh has big experience in the World Series of Poker. He has seven cashes and in two of them msde it in the top 3: 2nd place in the 36 Annual World Series of Poker, winning $282,280; 3rd place in the 2008 WSOP $1,500 Limit Hold'em event for $99,099. Vinny Vinh has also three cashes in World Poker Tour championship events. His best result was at the $9,900 No Limit Hold'em Championship at the WPT 2004 L.A. Poker Classic the 2nd place after Antonio Esfandiari, earning $718,485. Vinny Vinh was also the winner in the World Poker Open Event – Season 5 in 2007 with a prize of $32,932. Another one of his participations that finished in 1st place was in the Caesars Indiana Poker Tournament with a prize of $437,760. In 2002 Vinny Vinh won the Californian State Poker Championship, earning $24,755. In 2003, the leader in the Festa al Lago Poker Tournament was again Vinny Vinh with total winning of $38,630. The biggest prize that Vinny Vinh has ever won is for his 2nd place in the $ 9,900 No Limit Hold'em Championship - $718,485.