Lee Davy brings you a weekly round-up of news from the 46th Annual World Series of Poker including gold bracelet victories for Michael Wang & Nick Petrangelo, and a starring role from James Woods.

In the past few years, Michael Wang has been knocking on the door. On Saturday, he kicked it down. His victory in Event #2: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) wasn’t impressive because he defeated 422 players, or that the final table was stacked with some of the world’s best known faces. It was impressive because most of them were in scintillating form.

Bryn Kenney, Artur Koren, Jason Wheeler, and Byron Kaverman are experiencing a renaissance of late. Add the powerful combination of Greg Merson, Amir Lehavot and Joe Ebanks into that equation, and you are you are going to have to work hard to earn your coin.

But Wang was also in fine form. He came eighth in the A$1,650 8-Game Dealer’s Choice at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP- APAC), he bubbled the final table of the Season XIII World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Open, and finished third in the Irish Open this year.