Live at the Bike
Co-owner and lead producer. Grew peak concurrent viewers from 2,500 to 8,800 and drove a 40% revenue increase. Hosted the PokerCraft Podcast with industry figures including Hellmuth, Negreanu, and Greenstein.
D22-soso Wayne Chiang 1999 Brood War World Champion · WSOP Talent Manager
Media kitFELT // BROADCAST // TALENT
Poker & Advantage Play
From math-driven blackjack bans and poker coaching to Live at the Bike and the World Series of Poker media desk.
TALENT MANAGER
World Series of Poker — Media Team
Full-time WSOP Talent Manager since November 2025 after a trial summer. Oversees the official Vlogger Program—rewarding creators from Negreanu and Masato to StarCraft legend SlayerS_BoxeR, whom Chiang recruited into the roster after interviewing him at the 2025 World Series. Series stops include Prague, Cyprus, and the summer bracelet schedule.
Advantage Play & Poker Coaching
Applied Hi-Lo and Hi-Opt 1 card-counting frameworks as a blackjack specialist—resulting in absolute table bans across major Las Vegas and San Diego properties. Also coaches poker players on decision-making, edge, and bankroll—the same macro skills that win on the ladder and at the felt.
BUILD ORDER // 1996–PRESENT
Esports Origins
From Case’s Ladder to Blizzard’s first official Brood War world title—and the cast, community, and formats that followed. Scroll through each theater. Click a panel to cycle its theme.
THEATER 01 // STARCRAFT: BROOD WAR
StarCraft: Brood War — World Champion
#1 · Case’s Ladder · StarCraft Teams · 1998
April 28, 1999 — Blizzard’s official Battle.net Season 1 Ladder Tournament. Playing Random, D22-soso became the first Season 1 Brood War World Champion ($2,500).
Playing Random, he bested Nautosoft, Shin Ju Young, and Guillaume “Grrrr…” Patry—including a legendary Lost Temple semi—en route to the finals. On Showdown against Crexis (Chris Low), after losing the cliff war Terran vs. Terran, micromanaged infantry, Ghosts, and Siege Tanks closed Game 5 (35:37) for Brood War’s first official world title—$2,500.
- Apr 1998 First StarCraft tournament — Neutral Ground Mountain View vs Jay “Gadianton” Severson ($250)
- Oct 1998 First StarCraft play-by-play caster — PGL Season 3
- May 1999 PGL Season 4 — 2nd place ($7,000)
- Sep 1999 Battle.net World Championship Finals — 3rd place ($1,000)
Built GX StarCraft—Tips of the Day, patch strategy updates, battle reports, and Pimpest Plays—after Thresh and Calbear handed him the keys.
Primary sources: Blizzard Season 1 finals battle report · Liquipedia — Soso
Battle report // Lost Temple semi vs Grrrr…
INTERACTIVE // RANDOM RACE ROLL
THEATER 02 // COMMAND & CONQUER
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn
Case’s Ladder · 1v1 & Teams · #1 · 1996
As SoSOWAC, captaining Team Synergy, Chiang topped the global Case’s Ladder individually and in team play—pre-StarCraft proof that the ladder was the contract.
Before official world titles were staged, rank was the contract—and the war room was a CRT.
THEATER 03 // WARCRAFT II / III
Warcraft II / III
Warcraft II Teams #1 · Kali.net · 1997
Clan C4L claimed the Case’s / Kali.net team ladder peak. In 2004, the same competitive DNA resurfaced on Warcraft III Battle.net US West—FFA #1 and Arranged Teams #2.
- 1997 Warcraft II Tides of Darkness — Team Ladder #1
- 2004 Warcraft III US West FFA #1 / AT #2
#1
Warcraft II
Case’s Ladder · Teams · 1997
THEATER 04 // MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Magic: The Gathering
Pro Tour · New York 2001 · Boston 2002
Two-time Pro Tour competitor—qualified for three—carrying the same ladder discipline from RTS into constructed and limited. The table was different; the reads were not.
From Case’s Ladder to the Pro Tour floor: another format, same refusal to play someone else’s meta.
THEATER 04 // SUBSECTION · CUBE DRAFT
Cube Draft
Format origin · curated draft · “The Cube”
Chiang engineered curated draft pools that became Cube Draft—now a structural staple of the format. Public credit from Brian Weissman and Tom Martell for the majority of the idea.
Kind words from Magic legends Brian Weissman and Tom Martell—crediting him for lugging the original Super Monster Storage Box affectionately called “The Cube.”
THEATER 05 // HEARTHSTONE
Hearthstone — High Legend
Legend · Standard #35 NA · Wild #11 NA
Peak Rank #35 Standard NA, #11 Wild NA, and Top 32 in the Wild Open Americas (2018)—the same hand-reading muscle, new battlefield.
PRINT // KENDALL HUNT · OUT NOW
Betting on Yourself
The playbook behind the career—decision-making from the ladder, the felt, and the age of AI.
Kendall Hunt · Dec 2025 · ISBN 9798319708007 · with Joe Matton
Co-authored with Fortune 500 executive and WSOP champion Joe Matton, Betting on Yourself: Winning in Business, Poker, and the Age of AI distills three decades of high-stakes decision-making into a single, repeatable system.
At its core is the WEB decision framework—a method for weighing expected value, edge, and bankroll the same way a world champion reads a board: fast, honest, and unafraid to commit when the odds are right.
- W Weigh the expected value before the ego
- E Establish your edge—or fold
- B Bet the bankroll you can survive losing
PATENT ARCHIVE // TABLE GAMES
Casino Game Innovation
Protected game catalog—play the mechanics, then read the patents.
2 Hand Hold’em™
U.S. Pat. 11,117,045 · 11,731,032 · 12,005,342
Player is dealt four hole cards, splits them into two independent two-card hands, and plays both against a single board. Stable 4.06% house edge.
Deployed live at Great American Casino Tukwila (WA) via Maverick Gaming. Find live tables on the map.
Click the table to split four hole cards into two hands · Jump to Play 2 Hand Hold’em
Badugi Chase™
U.S. Pat. 11,810,421 · 12,131,608
Single-draw lowball variant. Three community cards deal face-up; the player selects exactly one to complete their hand—leaving the remaining two to the dealer. Structured at a 1.22% house edge of total volume wagered.
Developed with Charles Chang and Joe Shipman, Ph.D.
Hover a community card, click to complete your Badugi Chase™ hand
TABLE OPEN // PLAY IN-SITE
Play 2 Hand Hold’em™
Deal four, split two, one board—play the patented game right here.
Loads the live table inside this page — scaled to fit any screen
Credits
2 Hand Holdem created by StarCraft: Brood War World Champion Wayne “D22-soso” Chiang
TABLE FINDER // LIVE VENUES
Find 2 Hand Hold’em™
Where the dual-hand game is live — explore the map, then open a table.
Live at Great American Casino Tukwila (WA) via Maverick Gaming — more venues as marked on the map.
PERSONNEL FILE // ABOUT
About Wayne Chiang
- Elite Gamer
- Game Designer
- Media Executive
- Author
Welcome! I’m Wayne Chiang—known in the competitive gaming world as D22-soso.
My career has been defined by a single driving passion: understanding strategy, risk, and human competition, whether on a digital battlefield, at a high-stakes poker table, or in the boardroom. From winning world championships in esports to designing an everlasting Magic: The Gathering format, patenting casino games and producing world-class livestreams, I bridge the gap between competitive gaming culture, game design, and modern media.
Whether it’s managing risk at the table, designing a new game mechanic, or producing high-stakes live media, the goal remains the same: master the system, anticipate the meta, and execute.
Read the full story
Esports & Gaming Pioneer
Before organized leagues, global arenas, or streaming platforms existed, I was competing at the bleeding edge of real-time strategy (RTS) games and tabletop strategy.
- World Champion Status
- In 1999, I won the Battle.net Season 1 Ladder World Championship, the first official world title for StarCraft: Brood War. Prior to that, playing under early IPX emulators, I held #1 world rankings in both Command & Conquer and Warcraft II on Case’s Ladder.
- Esports Media & “Pimpest Plays”
- In an era before automated video replays on Thresh’s gamers.com, I wrote detailed tactical Battle Reports. I conceived and launched “Pimpest Plays”—a curated series highlighting high-skill, inventive tactical maneuvers that helped define how tactical gameplay was documented and appreciated.
- Magic: The Gathering
- Two-time Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour competitor and the original creator of the popular Cube Draft format.
Poker, Media & Game Innovation
The strategy, game theory, and risk management skills built in early esports naturally led me into professional poker and gaming development during the 2000s boom.
- Livestream & Executive Producer
- As co-owner and executive producer of Live at the Bike (LATB), I helped build one of the most iconic cash-game livestream broadcasts out of the Parkwest Bicycle Casino. Today, as Senior Creative Producer and Talent Manager at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), I help shape creator programs, rapid-response shoots, and content integration across the global poker ecosystem.
- Casino Game Inventor
- I apply game design directly to live gaming floors as the inventor and patent owner of Badugi Chase, a table game designed to bring Badugi dynamics into physical casino pits, and 2 Hand Hold’Em, a table game designed to bring multi-hand hold’em dynamics into physical casino pits.
Education & Strategic Vision
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B.A. in Economics · UC San Diego · 2007
My academic background in analytical economics provided the underlying framework for everything that followed—from bankroll management and game theory to media analytics and AI optimization.
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Professional Program Screenwriting · UC Los Angeles · 2011
In screenwriting, I was a finalist at Screenplay Expo and Scriptopolooza and interviewed twice for the UCLA Screenwriting MFA before moving on.
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Strategic Collaboration
Licensing, media, talent, and partnership inquiries—one channel for business, then socials and press assets below.