Seat 1: Ludovic Lacay - 2,279,000
Ludovic Lacay is one of the most well-known and elite French poker players. Lacay hails from Toulouse, France are holds over $1.5 million in career tournament winnings. This final table marks Lacay's first in a World Series of Poker event, but he is no stranger to playing for large sums of money.
Lacay burst onto the scene back in October of 2007 with a second-place finish in the WPT Spanish Championship in Barcelona. Lacay was runner up to Markus Lehmann and took home $414,747 for his finish. Within the same month, he finished eleventh at the €7,700 EPT Dublin Main Event.
It would be just about a year's time until he recorded another live cash from there. In October, November and December of 2008, Lacay cashed at three different events at EPT stops. Although the money wasn't as much as he banked the previous year, Lacay was just setting himself up for a massive 2009.
More than $900,000 was pocketed by Lacay in 2009 including three WSOP cashes. Highlighting those cashes was a finish of 16th place at the WSOP Main Event where Lacay earned over half a million dollars. A couple months later, Lacay's heater kept up as he scored third at WPT Marrakech for nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
This year, things have been quiet on the felt for the Frenchman. He's only recorded two cashes so far, but one of those was an eighth-place finish at the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Heads Up Championship here at the 2010 Series. That score netted Lacay just shy of $95,000, which he'll be looking to top here.