Seat 8: Ankit Ahuja, 37, India (32,200,000)
With more than $1.5 million in live tournament winnings, Ankit Ahuja is one of the more accomplished players on the final table. Ahuja’s first small-stakes results came in 2011, but the 37-year-old only really looks back at the last four years when reminiscing about his poker career. “Amateur? Pro? I don’t know,” he described enigmatically.
Ahuja is a versatile player who plays cash games and tournaments, both live and online. While Ahuja hails from India and lives in the Isle of Man, most of his live cashes came in Las Vegas, including a $330,134 career-high score. But Ahuja already thinks ahead, saying that his biggest accomplishment will be “this one when I win.”