Big Mak Attack

[user253757]

Level 14 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

We saw a player quietly adding a few more chips to an already sizable stack, and after a bit of investigation, we found out that longtime tournament player Makram Merhom was the proud owner.

While Merhom's name may not ring a bell for the casual poker fan, a quick search of the Hendon Mob database shows that the California circuit grinder rubs elbows with some pretty elite company when it comes to all-time tournament cashes.

Ranked 43rd on that website's comprehensive list of lifetime cashes in poker tournaments played on American soil, with 164 spread out over multiple decades, Merhom has actually made the money more times in U.S. play than Barry Greenstein (156), Phil Ivey (132), and Johnny Chan (130).

The man known as Mak to his friends can add another cash to his impressive resume, after making the money here in the Seniors Championship, and with more than double the average stack at the moment Merhom has put himself in position to snag the biggest score in his illustrious poker career.