Seat 2: Max Steinberg -- 738,000
Max Steinberg, who paid $10,000 to play in this year's National Championship, is just one of two World Series of Poker bracelet winners at today's final table. The 24-year-old from Fairfield, Iowa won his gold bracelet in last year's WSOP Event #33 $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $440,238. Steinberg topped a field of 2,795 in that event including a final table that housed Ryan Laplante (7th-$56,372), David Nicholson (6th-$75,314), Dylan Hortin (4th-$139,258) and Matt Stout (3rd-$192,813).
A professional poker player who has an identical twin brother who also plays poker, Steinberg has five total WSOP cashes for $832,162, including a runner-up finish back in 2010 WSOP Event #8 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em for $352,916. He may not be familiar with the WSOP Circuit, but no one at this final table, with the exception of Brock Parker, has as much experience competing for a WSOP bracelet.