Man on the Moon

She Lok Wong has enjoyed a spectacularly successful past six months, finishing as the runner-up in the $2,700 buy-in Borgata Fall Poker Open Main Event Championship last November for a bankroll-building $203,394 score, before taking down top honors at the $2,700 Foxwoods Poker Classic Main Event Championship for another $95,000 haul.

A poker fan first, Wong has made mention of his awestruck attitude several times during the tournament - even as he ran up the biggest stack in the room heading into the dinner break.

Wong just let us know about a recent hand in which his incredible respect for Phil Hellmuth as a player led to a little loss of self-respect for his own game. According to Wong, he peeked down to find under the gun and limped into the pot, with Scott Seiver raising and Hellmuth flatting. Having prompted the raise he was looking for with a well-concealed monster, Wong had a chance to three-bet and build a big pot (or at least take down the pot right then and there), but instead he simply smooth-called to see a flop.

By the end of the hand Seiver had made a straight, and as Wong revealed after he called off a chunk of change to pay Siever off, "I knew he had the straight but I cannot fold my hand... so stupid!" Wong was smiling nonetheless even as he chided his own "bad play." With so many champions in the room today, Wong has every reason to be a little starstruck, but we'll see if being the man on the moon eventually ends his amazing act under one of poker's brightest spotlights.