Seat 8: Matt "ADZ124" Marafioti - 236,000
Although he's best known as a high stakes online cash game professional, Marafioti is now getting great results in live events and has cashed in the last four out of five that he's played. Last summer, he came 12th for $172,120 in the WSOP $40,000 Anniversary Event and in July was runner-up to Christian Harder at the $5,000 Bellagio Cup tournament in Las Vegas for $165,985. His total live tournament winnings now top $600,000.
Marafioti is a SuperNova Elite on PokerStars and had so many Frequent Player Points (FPPs) that he was recently able to trade them in for an Aston Martin. Marafioti missed the first several hours of action in this event and was blinded down to about 33,000 chips from the 50,000 starting stack due to playing in the $5,000 event on the other side of the Imperial Ballroom.
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