Seat 8: Paul Newey (1,035,000)
Paul Newey is the resident "old guy" of this event's final nine, and the former businessman from England will be looking to turn things around as one of the shorter stacks in order to earn his first live poker victory.
Back in 2012, Newey first came onto the poker radar with an appearance in the first-ever World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop. In fact, this was the first real poker tournament he ever played.
"It was my first proper tournament," Newey told PokerNews in a 2014 article. "It was a little bit silly to invest $1 million, but I wanted to be a piece of history. There was a charity element as well."
He failed to cash in that event, but returned in 2014 for another go. It was there that Newey finished in seventh place for over $1.4 million and recorded the largest score of his poker career. Later on that year, Newey competed in the European Poker Tour Prague €50,000 Super High Roller and took second for €557,090.
While Newey has certainly made his mark on the poker scene in recent years, especially in large buy-in events, he hasn't always been a poker player. That's certainly not where he made his fortune, either. In 1991, Newey founded the debt consolidation company Ocean Finance. He later sold that company for a reported ￡200 million in 2006, but stayed on as a chief executive before stepping down in 2009.
All told, Newey boasts over $2.25 million in live tournament earnings coming into this event.