Seat 2: Alain Zeidan - Lebanon - 1,975,000 (16bb)

All recorded tournament cashes according to the Hendon Mob profile of Alain Zeidan are from Cyprus, a popular destination for poker enthusiasts from Lebanon with plenty of poker festivals throughout the year. Zeidan lists a $67,000 score in a $2,500 buy-in event in Lebanon as his best result and has already eclipsed that with a payday of €120,000 locked up among the final six. On the online felts, Zeidan has $600,000 in cashes to his name.

The 30-year-old hails from Beirut / Lebanon and started playing poker online in 2012, having watched High Stakes Poker on TV. It is the first WPT event the programmer has entered and he reached the final table right away.

Zeidan has studied computer science and will enter the final table of the last six as the shortest stack with 1,975,000.