Elton Tsang Ka-wai (born 1980) is a Chinese Canadian poker player currently residing in Hong Kong.

Born and raised in Vancouver, and with a bachelor's degree from University of British Columbia, Canada, Tsang first started playing poker online on party-poker in 2001 in $2/$4 Limit Hold'em games.

It was upon returning to Hong Kong after graduating university that he realized poker was still very much non-existent in the neighboring city-state of Macau, where gambling was legal.

[6] But having signed just a one-year deal with Poker Stars and the casino, Tsang was left out the second year and the tournament continued to become what it is today.

Starting off at the HKD$25/$50 ($3/$6) games in Hong Kong, Tsang begun to build his bankroll and moved up to higher stakes.

This was an important win and a significant boost to Tsang's confidence having been crushed and sent back down to lower stakes by Vietnamese John many times before.

He made a lot of great poker friends there and he attributes them for helping him improve his game.

[9] Tsang was now playing in The Big Game alongside the world's biggest names in professional poker which included Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, John Juanda, Tom Dwan, and Johnny Chan.

Tsang struggled to maintain at this game at first, having to drop down the stakes to play Pot Limit Omaha which he frequently used to build his bankroll back up.

Tsang went on to become a regular in the world of super high-stakes poker cash games, winning and losing pots in excess of ten million Hong Kong dollars (US$1.3M).

I think that was in about 2014 or 2015.”[10] In October 2016, Tsang was invited by Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, to participate in the €1,000,000 Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza, an exclusive poker tournament.

By then he had already established himself in the private world of super high-stakes cash games, but still remained largely unknown to the general public.

It was in the newspapers in Hong Kong, so I was happy that my family got to recognise ten years of hard work.”[15] In the same year, an anonymous story emerged alleging that while playing in a private game hosted at Casino Barcelona, Leon Tsoukernik had lost over €3,000,000 to Tsang, but Tsoukernik paid only €1,200,000, refusing to pay the remaining €2,000,000.

[20] In support of Tsang, several prominent poker players came to his defence, including Tong G, Winfred Yu, Philipp Gruissem,[21] and Daniel Negreanu, who posted on Twitter saying "Elton is an honorable guy and is not lying.

He has donated to Mother's Choice, the Po Leung Kuk orphanage, and the Lord Grace Home for the Aged.