Seat 7: Ivan Luca (2,580,000)
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Ivan Luca is an up-and-coming star of the game, currently having his best year ever on the live felt with nearly $1.3 million in tournament earnings coming into this event and winning his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet his summer.
Luca is from Argentina, but his biggest results have come from elsewhere in the world. At the end of Season 11 of the European Poker Tour, Luca was in Monaco for the Grand Final. There he took eighth in the €50,000 Super High Roller event for €121,700. Right before that, at the EPT stop in Malta, Luca finished runner-up to David Peters in the €10,300 High Roller for €397,000.
He also finished fourth in the FPS Deauville €1,100 Main Event back in February for €68,500 and fifth in the EPT Deauville €10,300 High Roller for €90,960.
At the WSOP this summer, Luca topped a field of 2,150 entries to earn a $353,391 top prize in Event #30: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em. While that win proved the first bracelet of his career, he's someone we expect to win a couple more before he's all said and done.