Seat 2: Chris Bjorin (368,500)
Ladies and gentlemen, meet your all-time leading WSOPE casher. Chris Bjorin is a Swedish transplant who now makes his home here in London, and this performance is his fifth cash finish over the four seasons. That puts him in the lead now, one ahead of Daniel Negreanu.
Oh yeah, and did we mention Bjorin has more than $4.5 million in career cashes? He is, in fact, the all-time leading Swedish money winner, and he's seventh among all Europeans. Scouring his stat sheet is a time-consuming task as his record spans more than 20 years. This summer in Las Vegas, Bjorin notched an impressive six WSOP cashes, including a final table in a Stud event. He's already tallied two gold bracelets as well, and a third one here would put him in some elite company in the poker world.
Bjorin is in good shape to capture that title, beginning the final table in second place overall.