David Einhorn is a 43-year-old hedge fund manager from Rye, New York. He is the Founder and President of Greenlight Capital. Greenlight Capital is a "long-short value-oriented hedge fund." Started in 1996 with $900,000, Greenlight’s annualized return for investors is about 22 percent. When not running his successful business, Einhorn has been known to play cards, and play them well. In the 2006 WSOP Main Event — the largest poker tournament in history with 8,773 entrants — Einhorn finished in 18th place and went on to donate his $659,000 in winnings to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
An active philanthropist, Einhorn has stated his intent to donate to the City Year Foundation for this event. City Year is an education-focused non-profit that partners with high-need public schools to provide full-time targeted student interventions.
Biggest Cash: 18th-place finish in 2006 WSOP Main Event — $659,730
Michael Mizrachi is 31 years old and resides in Miami, Florida. “The Grinder” is the proud owner of three WSOP bracelets, after having recently taken down the 2012 WSOP Poker Players’ Championship. Mizrachi also won the Poker Players’ Championship in 2010. Mizrachi started playing in tournaments in 2004 and has accumulated more than $14 million in career earnings. He was named CardPlayer Magazine’s Player of the Year in 2006, and has two WPT titles.
Biggest Cash: 5th-place finish in 2010 WSOP Main Event — $2,332,992
From Minneapolis, Minnesota, 71-year-old John L. Morgan serves as the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Winmark Corporation. In addition, he currently serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Tomsten, Inc. Morgan doesn't often travel for poker, but he frequently plays in Heartland Poker Tour events when they're held in Shakopee, a city located near his home. He has one WSOP cash.
Biggest Cash: 3rd-place finish in $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event at the Midwest Poker Classic — $26,888
Jonathan Duhamel, 24, is a professional poker player from Montreal, Canada. He is one of the 5 PokerStars Pros in the field. In 2010, Duhamel became the 41st Annual World Series of Poker No-Limit Hold ‘Em Main Event Champion at the age of 22.
Although he is a poker player now, Duhamel originally went to college to pursue a career in finance. Since his 2010 WSOP Main Event victory, Duhamel has been busy traveling the worldwide tournament circuit, performing quite admirably and continually serving as one of the game’s great ambassadors.
Biggest Cash: 2010 WSOP Main Event Championship — $8,944,310
Known as one of the toughest professional poker players in the world, Tom Dwan currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. At only 25 years of age, Dwan has participated in some of the highest buy-in tournaments and cash games in the world.
Most commonly known in the poker community by his online handle “durrrr,” Dwan attended Boston University before deciding to pursue poker professionally. Since then, he has played numerous live poker tournaments and cash games, including the Million Dollar Cash Game and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. With tournament earnings exceeding $2,000,000, Dwan has proven he is one to be reckoned with at the poker table.
Roland De Wolfe is a 33-year-old, London-based professional poker player. He has 17 World Series of Poker cashes and earned a bracelet in 2009’s $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event.
Ilya Bulychev is a 34-year-old businessman and poker player from Moscow, Russia. He has earned three World Series of Poker cashes, including a 15th-place finish in the 2010 $50,000 Poker Players Championship. He is no stranger to high stakes poker tournaments. Bulychev is one of two Russian-born players in the field.
Biggest Cash: 15th-place finish in 2010 WSOP Poker Players Championship — $98,330
Bob Bright is 72 years old and resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bright began playing cards in high school, and his passion served him well during his days serving in the Army. It is said that he earned many times his monthly salary by playing cards during that time. Additionally, Bright received perfect scores on his standardized math tests (both in high school and for the Army). He now serves as CEO for Bright Trading, LLC. Bright Trading, a Las-Vegas-based company, is recognized as one of the largest professional proprietary stock trading firms in the United States.
Frederic Banjout is 42-years-old and lives in France. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of French-based shoe retailer, Eden Shoes. He is making his World Series of Poker debut in The Big One for One Drop.
Bobby Baldwin is a 62-year-old resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, and a longtime casino industry executive. In 1978, he cemented his standing as a premier poker player by winning the $10,000 World Series of Poker World Championship . In all, Baldwin has nearly $1 million in lifetime tournament winnings and is the owner of four WSOP gold bracelets, a rare distinction among the world’s millions of poker players.
Baldwin, who served for a time as a consultant for the Golden Nugget Casino, was named its president in 1984. He has also headed The Mirage and was named president of the Bellagio in 1998. He served under Steve Wynn as Chief Financial Officer of Mirage Resorts from 1999-2000. He now serves as President and CEO of City Center.
Biggest Cash: 1978 WSOP Main Event Championship — $210,000
