Seat 5: Daniel "Oxota" Dvoress, 28, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 1,640,000
Daniel Dvoress has been a fixture in PokerStars' highest buy-in live events since 2015. Back then, the 28-year-old from Toronto had already been renowned for his coaching sessions, widely considered to be one of the best poker mentors in the world. His breakthrough to the high-rolling waters came at EPT11 Malta, where he took €263,000 for third place in the €25,000 event. At that time, Dvoress had already recorded a deep run in the EPT11 Barcelona Main Event, finishing 17th for €54,700. He topped that result the following season when when he appeared on the EPT12 Malta final table, earning €91,550 for a seventh-place finish. In total, he's racked up more than $2.1 million in live cashes, good for 40th place on the Canadian all-time money list. Dvoress also cashed in the last year's edition of the Super High Roller here in the Bahamas; he walked away with a $286,920 seventh-place prize back in January 2016. That was Dvoress' biggest live cash until last November, when he secured close to $300,000 for a runner-up result in the 2016 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) Macau High Roller. And he's a beast online too. Known as "Oxota" on PokerStars, Dvoress recently notched up a SCOOP title worth $317,911.