Seat 8: Steve Brecher (246,000)
Steve Brecher from Reno, Nevada holds over $2 million in live tournament earnings and is a Full Tilt Poker Red Pro. He has a few World Series of Poker cashes to his name, but the bulk of his success has come on the World Poker Tour where he has 14 cashes and one title.
At the Bay 101 Shooting Stars event in March 2009, Brecher bested a field of 391 players to take home the $1,025,500 first-place prize. He had to beat tough tournament professional Kathy Liebert heads up to do it, which is no easy task. That's by far Brecher's largest score, but he's had some other decent results to go along with it.
In 2004, Brecher scored sixth place in the WPT Championship for $232,862. In 2005, Brecher scored third place at the United States Poker Championship in Atlantic City for $218,250. In 2009, Brecher won $99,641 for coming in eighth place at the Foxwoods World Poker Finals WPT event.
Brecher holds a degree from Stanford University and is 65 years old. He is a computer software programmer and marketer who frequents the tournament circuit. He'll enter his first-ever WSOP Circuit final table with 246,000 in chips.