Seat 1: Mike ��Sowerss�� Sowers - 3,685,000
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Seven years ago, Rounders enticed Mike Sowers to begin playing poker. Sowers spent the next two years studying psychology and business at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, but he eventually abandoned that venture to focus solely on poker.
It would be hard to question that decision now. Sowers has already racked up more than $2.5 million playing online and is one of the most successful and feared tournament players in the online realm. Sowers' biggest score came in September 2009 when he took down the PokerStars WCOOP $10,000 High Roller event for $448,500. Sowers has also cashed for more than $1.5 million in live tournaments �C- including five WSOP cashes and two WSOP final tables in the last three years.
In January 2008, he won the Borgata Winter Open for $399,000. About a year later, he finished third at the L.A. Poker Classic for $654,797. So far he��s made more money online than live, but he is already guaranteed $200,000 so far, and a third-place-or-better finish will push
his live earnings ahead of his online earnings to date.
Sowers is 24 from Thomasville, North Carolina and will enter the final table with 3,685,000 chips.
Partial bio courtesy of PokerStars.