Seat 8: Galen "GasparLeMarc" Hall - 6,435,000
Galen Hall has been a professional poker player for over a year, but he started playing poker in high school about ten years ago. Initially, he played limit hold'em, but switched to heads-up sit-n-gos early on. Nowadays, he is an all around player and also plays pot-limit Omaha and pot-limit Omaha-8 and, of course, no-limit hold'em.
Hall is ranked in the top 50 on Pocket Fives and last year he cashed for about $1 million total, with around $200,000 of that being profit. Even so, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure payout is huge for Hall and this is by far his best result. Hall has two small cashes in World Series of Poker events. One came in 2009 and one in 2010, both in $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em events.
He said he hadn’t even looked at the payouts yet because, “the most important thing is to just win it.” If he wins the PCA Main Event, Hall plans to put the money towards going to Stanford University in 2012. In his spare time, Hall is involved in the start-up venture Identify.com and his ultimate goal is to start a business of his own.
Hall is 24 years old from San Francisco and will enter the final table with 6,435,000 in chips.
Partial bio courtesy of PokerStars.