Yan "bixiu" Chen is a professional poker who specializes in Lowball. He currently resides in Orange County, California. Chen has a degree in Political Science from the University in Missouri at Kansas City.
He attended University in New York to study law, but decided that a career in law wasn't what he wanted. Chen has also been working as a Sushi Chef.
A true rags to riches story, Yan "bixiu" Chen was born in Xi’an in China. Yan says that he family was really poor, he explains how he literary had to accept handed down clothing from his older sisters. Watch the interview here.
Chen has a WSOP bracelet from the 2010 2-7 Draw Lowball (No-Limit) and around $500K in tournament winnings.
Chen consider Billy Baxter to be the consummate champion of Lowball and his idol.
The major part of bixiu's winning on Full Tilt comes from Draw games.