On December 7, 2024, at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, Sosia Jiang shoved a short stack with king-queen into the ace-king of Daniel Dvoress. The board gave her nothing. She left the $1,000,000 Triton Million in eighth place, with $1,605,000, the largest cash of her career. The event, run as Event #2 of WSOP Paradise, drew 96 entries into a $48,000,000 prize pool, and the battle rapper Alejandro Lococo won it for $12,070,000.
Eighth place in a field like that still made her the most successful live tournament player New Zealand has produced. As of mid-2026, The Hendon Mob credits her with more than $6.1 million in live earnings, first on the country’s all-time money list.
From Inner Mongolia to Auckland
Jiang was born in 1979 in Inner Mongolia. Her family had been sent to live there because of their “unfavourable” standing with the Chinese government, and she has described a childhood in a concrete block house with concrete floors. When she was seven the family moved to New Zealand: her parents and her brother Honglin, who would later teach her the online game.
She arrived without much English and caught up fast. She attended Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, then took a double degree in commerce and Asian studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, followed by graduate law studies at the University of New South Wales.
The career that followed was in finance, not cards. She worked for several brokerage firms and in 2008 was at CLSA in Hong Kong, later running the firm’s Shanghai office. It was there, at a home game her boss invited her to, that she first played poker seriously. Her brother, who has a background in statistics, steered her toward a numbers-first approach to the game, and she has said in interviews that she cares more about the maths than about reading tells.
In 2013 she moved back to New Zealand and became a teacher. For most of her career since, poker has been the second job.
The Macau breakthrough
Her first major result came in April 2017 at the PokerStars Championship Macau. The HK$103,000 High Roller attracted 180 entries and 42 re-entries for a prize pool of HK$17,460,000, and the final table was stacked: Nick Petrangelo, Troy Quenneville, Sergey Lebedev and Dan Smith, one of the best high-roller players of the decade.
Jiang started the last day with the second-shortest stack. She doubled through Smith with queen-jack against his pocket tens, and Smith went out in sixth. Heads-up she beat India’s Raghav Bansal, the chip leader at the start of the day, who told her afterward that she had “played like a boss.” First place paid HK$3,870,000, around half a million US dollars. She had a small fortune-cat figurine called Maximus beside her chips throughout, and her comment on the win was dry: if she was going to run good, she had better do it in a high roller.
A year later, in August 2018, she won the High Roller at the Sydney Championships for A$266,000.
Into the Triton circuit
Triton Poker runs some of the most expensive tournaments in the game, and Jiang became a regular in it. At Triton London in August 2019 she was the only woman in the field of the first Triton Million. In the same series she finished 14th in the £100,000 Main Event for £201,600, going out after her ace-nine lost a flip to Sam Greenwood’s pocket sixes.
Her deepest Triton runs came later:
Swipe the table
| Year | Event | Finish | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Triton Cyprus $200,000 Luxon Invitational | 7th | $820,000 |
| 2024 | WSOP Paradise $1,000,000 Triton Million | 8th | $1,605,000 |
| 2025 | Triton Jeju $60,000 NLH 8-Handed | 2nd | Seven-figure prize |
In Cyprus, in May 2023, her ace-jack suited ran into Sean Winter’s ace-king suited and Winter rivered an ace-high straight. The September 2025 result in Jeju, South Korea, came closest to a title. She reached heads-up against Peter Wang, a player better known from high-stakes cash game streams, and the match ran for an unusually long time before Wang won the $2,046,000 first prize. By Triton’s own count she has cashed seven times on the tour as of the Paradise event, with Jeju and later stops added since.
You will notice that the jump in her total since 2023 comes almost entirely from these few events. That is how high-roller records work: a handful of deep runs decides the whole graph.
Sosia Jiang net worth and the cost of a Triton seat
Searches for her net worth return confident numbers, some above $8 million, and none of them cites anything that can be checked. The same is true for nearly every player on the list of the richest poker players, where most of the real money comes from outside poker.
What is public is the Hendon Mob total of more than $6.1 million as of mid-2026. That figure is gross. It adds up prizes and ignores buy-ins, and in her part of the game the buy-ins are huge: a single Triton Million entry costs $1,000,000, and the $200,000 Luxon Invitational where she won $820,000 cost about a quarter of that prize just to enter. It also ignores any pieces of her action sold to backers before an event, which is routine at those prices, and it says nothing about cash games or online results.
Her life outside poker matters to any estimate too. She had a finance career in Hong Kong and Shanghai before she ever played a high roller, and she has worked as a teacher in New Zealand since 2013. She is wealthy enough to sit in some of the biggest games in the world. Any single figure for what she is worth is guesswork.
Where she sits among Asian-born players
Jiang plays under the New Zealand flag, but her record puts her in the same high-roller rooms as the leading players from China, Hong Kong and Malaysia who dominate the Triton fields. The profile of the top Asian poker players covers several of the names she meets at those tables. If the vocabulary of the high-roller schedule is new to you, re-entries, freezeouts and invitationals are explained in the poker terms glossary.
In May 2026 the results databases logged a small cash for her in a teams event at the Aussie Millions, fourth of 50 teams. The Triton title is still missing.