Seat 3: Nicolas Levi (428,000)
The Frenchman has been a professional poker for a few years now and is currently based in London. With seven WSOP cashes to his name and over $765,000 in lifetime earnings, Nicolas Levi is still looking for his breakout victory after many deep runs in events around the world. This one could be it here in the WSOP Europe Main Event and what a dandy it would be.
Checking in on Levi’s WSOP history, he has one Main Event cash in London that came back in 2007, the first year the event was held in Europe. He placed 27th that year. He also has one final table in a WSOP event, placing ninth in 2008 out in Las Vegas in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em event. Earlier this year, Levi scored his best WSOP finish. He placed fifth in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout event for over $92,000, his second largest score to date.
Besides doing well in WSOP events, Levi does a lot of damage on the European felt, especially in EPT events. He final table EPT Dortmund back in 2007, cahsed at EPT Prague in 2009, made it to the final four tables at EPT Deauville in 2010 and then also cashed at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in 2010.
Despite all of his success though, Levi has still yet to score a win. After looking over all of his live scores, not one of them is a victory. It’d be one hell of a thing to win your first event in the WSOP Europe Main Event and that’s what Levi will be looking to do today. He may have to get lucky and do it early with only 428,000 chips, but this is poker and anything can happen.