Seat 5: Faraz Jaka, 26,Chicago, Illinois, USA -- 6,470,000 chips
Faraz Jaka, poker professional, entrepreneur and fashion figure, has dominated large swathes of this tournament having built a huge stack early on Day 2. He has relinquished the chip lead at times, but only briefly, and it never seemed that it was going to lose it for long.
��I��ve been playing professionally for around three years, but I��m going to slow things down to focus more on www.axiscasterboarding.com, which I��m really pushing as a sport,�� said Jaka, a player known to be as creative with his dress sense as he is with his poker play.
Jaka has racked up $2,394,969 in live tournament winnings over the last five years with his largest single cash being $774,780. To make a career high score the American will have to get to heads-up play. ��Only the top two will do it,�� said Jaka, but he starts in the best position to do so as he's at the top of the board entering the day.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars.