Tom Vu Biography
Tom Vu is a Vietnamese American poker player, real estate investor, and speaker who rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an infomercial personality.
Tom Vu Age
Tom was born Tuan Anh Vu on 5 December 1957, in Vietnam. He is 65 years old as of December 2022.
Tom Vu Family
Vu was born in Vietnam to his parents, however, Attempts to establish the identities of his family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Tom Vu Wife- Spouse
He has not gone public with his relationship. However, It is not known whether he is married, engaged, divorced, or single. However, he currently, resides in Orlando, Florida, United States of America.
Tom Vu Career
Vu was surrounded by luxurious products in his late-night commercial, including houses, boats, and costly cars. He was frequently seen with groups of young bikini-clad women. He advertised a free 90-minute class where people could learn the same strategies he used to make millions. He positioned himself as the standard “rags to riches” story as a Vietnamese immigrant. His infomercials advertised free seminars that acted as ads for paid seminars, the most expensive of which was a week-long lecture held solely in Orlando, Florida, which cost up to $16,000. Vu’s investing strategy entailed locating “distressed” properties, such as foreclosures, bankruptcies, divorces, or tax liens, and reselling them for a profit.
Vu’s parallel career as a tournament poker player continues. He had won over $1,975,000 in casino poker events as of 2017, including a second-place finish in a no-limit Texas hold ’em event at the 2007 World Series of Poker. as well as a 22nd-place finish in the World Series of Poker final event in 2005. His ten WSOP cashes account for more than $850,000 of his total tournament winnings. He finished ninth in the Season Five World Poker Tour final event in April 2006, earning $216,585.Vu was also mentioned in Superpumped: The Battle for Uber, episode 6.
Vu and his infomercials and seminars have been parodied numerous times, including on the animated series Courage the Cowardly Dog, King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead, and Family Guy, as well as on the TV sketch shows In Living Colour and Saturday Night Live, the 1995 Troma film Blondes Have More Guns, Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street, and the 2013 Michael Bay film Pain & Gain. Tom Arnold interviewed Vu for his HBO comedy programme Tom Arnold: The Naked Truth. Vu was also included in Renee Tajima-Pea’s documentary series MY AMERICA… (or Honk if You Love Buddha) on Asian Americans.
Tom Vu Net Worth
Vu has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.