Raymond Upping the Ante
Derek Raymond has been spotted in the field playing the $10,000 buy-in event and will be a tough competitor to face. Raymond is a young player from Portland, Maine who graduated from Georgetown University and has been playing poker for the past seven years. He's only 25 years old, but has amassed himself career earnings over $360,000.
A couple months ago, Raymond placed sixth at the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event for $115,000. More importantly, last year at the WSOP Raymond won a bracelet in the $2,500 buy-in Omaha Hi-lo event and took home $229,192. He has three OMaha cashes on his resume and regularly plays this game online. He's not too well known by most of the older regulars on the WSOP scene, which should make for a nice surprise to them when they see this kid's game.