Seat 1: Joe Tehan -- 177,000

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Joe Tehan, 32, is a professional poker player from Carpinteria, California. He is one of the four players who bought into this event for $10,000, earning 341.29 player of the year points in the past two WSOP's. Beyond poker, Tehan's interests lie with golf, gambling, and his 13-month old son.

Predominantly a cash game grinder, Tehan has over $3.8 million in career live tournament earnings, and cashed nine times at the 2012 WSOP. In 2008, he made his deepest run in a bracelet event, earning $43,796 for a sixth-place finish in a $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em event.

Tehan's largest career cash came in 2006, when he won the WPT Mandalay Bay Poker Championship, earning $1,033,440. Tehan has six other six-figure scores, including another big win in the 2010 North American Poker Tour Los Angeles Main Event. He earned $725,000 for defeating Christopher DeMaci heads up.

With the shortest stack at the table, Tehan has some work to do. But if he is to double up early on, he will certainly be a threat to his seven opponents at the table.