Paul Sheng is a part-time poker player and full time software engineer currently residing in San Francisco, Californaia. Born in Taiwan, Sheng was a relatively unknown quantity in the poker world. Only managing to pull off one event cash at the 5th Annual 49'er Gold Rush Bonanza in San Francisco in November 2004 and failing to finish in the money in his first two appearances in the World Series of Poker, he soon slipped under the radar, .
That changed dramatically at the 37th World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in July 2006, when he came out of nowhere to not only make the final table, but come agonisingly close to walking away with a gold bracelet. Finishing runner-up in the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em event to Jeff Madsen, the youngest ever World Series of Poker bracelet winner, Sheng took home an impressive haul of $330,485 out of the $2,873,780 prize pool.
