After a career in business, the 43-year-old Simonyan became a full-time professional poker player in 2006, focusing primarily on mostly no-limit hold'em multi-table tourneys. Today's final table marks a best-ever finish for Simonyan, whose previous best finish was a $10,000 cash in an event in his native Moscow. Simonyan is one of three Russians at our final table (along with Lykov and Tolokonnikov), all of whom are from Moscow.