Hong Jin-ho, born on 31 October 1982, is a South Korean television personality, poker player and former professional StarCraft player who plays under the alias YellOw. In 2012 he became coach of the Xenics Storm League of Legends pro gaming team, and as a television personality he is best known for the reality survival show The Genius and the variety show Crime Scene. Nicknamed the Storm Zerg, he is known for aggressive, harass-style StarCraft play and for his rivalry with BoxeR, and he is famous for never having won first place in a major StarCraft tournament, finishing second six times, which earned him the title King of Silver. He has made a transition to professional poker after playing online poker on PokerStars since the 2000s, has won major Asian tournaments including the Asian Poker Tour Championships event in Taiwan and the J88Poker Tour Shanghai Main Event, and in 2022 won his first WSOP bracelet in the 1,979 dollar Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold'em event for 276,067 dollars.
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is a South Korean television personality, poker player, and former professional StarCraft player
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born 31 October 1982
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he became the coach of the Xenics Storm League of Legends pro gaming team
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is a South Korean television personality, poker player, and former professional StarCraft player
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Hong has recently made a successful transition to professional poker
Competed In: World Series of Poker, World Series of Poker results
In 2022, Hong won his first WSOP bracelet in the $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty No-Limit Hold'em event
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