837 players began the event on Friday meaning the prize pool topped out at an impressive €3,734,694, with the top ten in the competition ranked as follows:
1. Joseph Cheong – 632,000 chips
2. Daniel Neilson – 584,500
3. Mustapha Kanit – 577,000
4. William Thorson – 508,500
5. Sergey Tikhonov – 504,500
6. Vanessa Selbst – 497,000
7. Nick Yunis – 435,500
8. Christopher McClung – 402,000
9. Ondrej Vinklarek – 396,000
10. Jon Spinks – 355,000
Cheong is perhaps best known for being third amongst 2010’s November Nine – known affectionately as the babies for their youthful average age. Now that he’s hit the ripe old age of 25, he will hope to add one part of poker’s triple crown and prove he ain’t no dud; he actually the dude. If he wins the €800,000 he gets to decide when he’s the dude and if he gets to sit around all day drinkin’ White Russians.