Weiran Pu

Weiran Pu (浦蔚然) is a professional poker player from Chongqing, China. He has played poker for more than thirteen years, developing his game in Macau's high-stakes "Big Game" cash games before expanding into international tournaments. His documented live tournament earnings stand at $2,679,928, with a best live cash of $938,244. He ranks 18th on the China all-time money list and 961st on the overall all-time money list, with a career-best ranking of 945th; he is also 224th on the Global Poker Index. Pu built a large following on Chinese social media as a poker vlogger, documenting hundreds of sessions and trips on his way to the top.

Pu's first major title came in September 2018 at the Poker King Cup Macau Main Event. The HKD 16,500 buy-in attracted 518 entries and built a prize pool of HKD 7,536,900, with 63 players cashing. Pu reached the all-Chinese eight-handed final table as the third-largest stack and eliminated five of his seven opponents to enter heads-up play with a 3-to-1 chip lead over Jian Dong Yu. In the final hand, Yu raised with ace-four and called off his stack when Pu moved in with pocket sixes. The sixes held, giving Pu HKD 1,464,000 ($187,239). "This is my biggest ever win, which I think I'll celebrate by spending the money on playing more poker tournaments," Pu joked at the trophy ceremony. Yu earned HKD 1,026,500 ($131,284) for second; Yang Wang, Li Yu, Jun Fang, Liang Song, Cang Sheng Ni, and Qi Cheng Du filled out the final table. The six-day series awarded HKD 18,512,700 (~$2,370,480) across seven events, drawing 1,076 entries and 134 paid finishers. Poker King Club President Winfred Yu said the turnout showed Macau was still "the number one capital of poker in Asia."

At the 2023 World Series of Poker, Pu captured his first WSOP gold bracelet in Event #65, the $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em tournament. He defeated Norbert Szecsi heads-up in the Thunderdome at Horseshoe Las Vegas to win a career-best $938,244. The final table was broadcast "as live" to PokerGO subscribers, and Pu's rail celebrated long after the final hand. It was the fifth gold bracelet won by Chinese players at that year's WSOP.

The last six players produced quick fireworks. Vitor Dzivielevski moved all in with king-nine and was called by Tyler Cornell's ace-queen; an ace and a queen on the board ended the Brazilian's night in sixth place. Angelina Rich was the last woman standing, but her pocket fours ran into Pedro Garagnani's pocket kings and she exited in fifth. Garagnani then shoved with ace-deuce and ran into Pu's ace-six on an A-8-3 board, with the turn and river changing nothing. After Cornell was eliminated, Pu pulled away and finished the job against Szecsi.

Pu has become a regular on the Triton Poker Series, taking on the world's toughest super high roller fields. At the 2024 Triton Monte Carlo festival, he finished third in the $40,000 NLH Mystery Bounty for $325,000 and collected an additional $240,000 in bounties. At the 2025 Triton Jeju stop he placed fifth for $309,000, and at Triton Jeju Season 5 in 2026 he took 29th in the $25,000 NLH 8-Handed event for $50,000. These results, combined with his Macau cash-game background, have made him one of the most visible Chinese players on the high-stakes circuit.

Pu is respected for combining modern GTO theory with an analytical, exploitative approach. His long hours in the Macau Big Game sharpened his hand-reading and emotional control, allowing him to dominate six-handed and full-ring tournaments while staying patient in volatile spots. His 2026 results show he remains in strong form: second place in the KRW 5,000,000 High Roller at the APT Jeju Classic for $107,300, 14th in the $15,000 High Roller at a Triton One Series event for $71,400, and runner-up in the A$2,500 event at the Melbourne Million for $77,000. With $2,679,928 in career earnings and a WSOP bracelet, Pu ranks among the elite tournament players from mainland China.