Seat 8: Yorane "viirusss�� Kerignard, 26, Aix-en-Provence, France -- 1,680,000
Yorane started playing poker after watching a documentary on television in 2007 featuring French singer and film star Patrick Bruel playing against online qualifiers. The 26-year-old industrial design graduate plays on PokerStars under the username "viirusss".
Favouring MTT events, Kerignard��s first live cash came in 2009 when he finished fifth in a small buy-in event in Cyprus. But just five months later, he hit the big time, finishing fourth in the Season 6 EPT Copenhagen Main Event for DKr 1,050,000 (around �120,000). The biggest cash of his career however came last October when he finished fourth at EPT San Remo for �130,000. He��s also had a number of good EPT side event results including third in the Season 6 EPT Grand Final �1k NL event and fourth in the �2k event the following season. Kerignard spends most of the year in Marrakech, Morocco, which allows him to play on PokerStars.com. Online, his best result was runner-up in the PokerStars Sunday 500 for $78,500; he also won the PokerStars Super Tuesday for $70,000 in 2009.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars.