Seat 2: Jeffrey Hakim, 26, Beirut, Lebanon - 895,000
Since playing his first EPT in 2008, serial qualifier Jeff ��jeff710�� Hakim has attended around 30 EPTs. ��I almost always win my seat online," says Hakim. "But now I come regardless, even if I don��t qualify. I��m not going to miss any EPTs.��
Hakim��s first EPT Main Event cash was at EPT Snowfest in Austria in Season 6, and his best result so far �� out of six EPT cashes �� was 16th at EPT Berlin in Season 7.
��I��ve definitely won more money online (he won the PokerStars 500 in 2008 for $91,500) but winning a live event means everything,�� he says. ��I don��t think I will ever move on from poker, I won��t feel complete as a player, until I��ve won a major title.��
He is the short stack going in to the final. But he also started Day 5 as virtually the shortest stack, then managed to turn 24 big blinds into more than 1.7 million in the space of 90 minutes.
*Bio courtesy of PokerStars