Seat 6: Brock Parker -- 825,000
In 2009, Brock Parker, a 31-year-old professional poker player from Silver Springs, Maryland, won two World Series of Poker bracelets in back-to-back games—Event #14 $2,500 Limit Hold’em-Six Handed for $223,697 and Event #19 $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em-Six Handed for $552,745.
In the former event, Parker defeated a field of 367 players, including a final table that included Kyle “KPR16” Ray (6th-$31,966), Barry Shulman (5th-$43,201) and Daniel Negreanu (2nd-$138,280). In the latter, Parker topped an even larger field (1,068 players) and defeated the likes of Brian Meinders (8th-$54,777(, Clayton Newman (6th-$76,123) and Joe Serock (2nd-$341,783) on his way to victory.
All told he has 27 WSOP cashes for $1,468,790. Parker will obviously add to that total here today as he seeks his third gold bracelet. It's also worth noting that Parker won the Borgata Fall Open $2,500 Main Event for $372,568, and aside from being a top-notch poker player, he's also accomplished on the Magic the Gathering Pro Tour.
Parker, who paid $10,000 to play the National Championship, enters today's final table as the chip leader with 825,000.