Seat 6: Alex Wice, 22, Toronto, Canada - PokerStars qualifier - 6,248,000
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Alex has been playing poker since before he went to high school. He carried on playing part-time while at Waterloo University studying Maths before dropping out to play full-time in August 2008 after winning PokerStars’ Sunday Warm Up for $135,000. He is a regular online high stakes MTT player and has also been playing live for the last two years. He cashed at EPT London in season six but his big breakthrough in live events came at last summer’s WSOP where he came third for $102,314 in the $2,500 World Championship Mixed Events 8 game. All his focus since he turned pro has been on improving his game and he does a lot of research analysing hands on his computer. He credits a lot of his success with deep stack tournament play to Xuan Liu, who also played here, and has helped him over the last few months.