Seat 5: Faraz Jaka, 26,Chicago, Illinois, USA -- 6,470,000 chips
Faraz Jaka, poker professional, entrepreneur and fashion figure, has dominated large swathes of this tournament having built a huge stack early on Day 2. He has relinquished the chip lead at times, but only briefly, and it never seemed that it was going to lose it for long.
“I’ve been playing professionally for around three years, but I’m going to slow things down to focus more on www.axiscasterboarding.com, which I’m really pushing as a sport,” said Jaka, a player known to be as creative with his dress sense as he is with his poker play.
Jaka has racked up $2,394,969 in live tournament winnings over the last five years with his largest single cash being $774,780. To make a career high score the American will have to get to heads-up play. “Only the top two will do it,” said Jaka, but he starts in the best position to do so as he's at the top of the board entering the day.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars.