Seat 1: Connor Drinan (943,000)
Second place in the chip counts to start the final day of the 2016 Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge belongs to Connor Drinan. Despite boasting an impressive pile of live tournament results totaling nearly $7.65 million in winnings, Drinan's biggest poker moment — or at least the one he's most recognized for — would be when he lost with his own pocket aces to the pocket aces of Cary Katz in the $1 million Big One for One Drop at the 2014 World Series of Poker.
Although that would be a huge hit to take, Drinan has done just fine for himself in the time since. One of the results he's posted recently was a third-place finish in the $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl at Aria in Las Vegas for $3.225 million. Another recent score saw him finish runner-up to Steve O'Dwyer in the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $50,000 Single-Day High Roller for $870,625.
Drinan is from Illinois and will enter the day with 943,000 in chips.