Dan Shak will always write on his bio sheets that he is just a simple businessman, but don't let his ho-hum act fool you. The commodities trader has over $5.7 million in career tournament earnings, and many believe he hast the highest ROI in the world in $100,000 buy-in events.
His super high roller résumé is spectacular. In 2009, Shak finished fourth in the Aussie Millions A$100,000 Challenge for $142,000. The following year he won, defeating Phil Ivey heads up and earning $1.1 million. In 2012 he finished runner-up to Viktor Blom in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller, earning $846,700, and last year he finished eighth in the very same event for $228,960.
Shak added two more super high roller cashes in 2013, finishing fourth at Aussie Millions for $250,201 and 23rd in the World Series of Poker One Drop High Roller for $173,723.
He and co-chip leader Vanessa Selbst also have a bit of history beyond the crazy hand they played on Day 2. In April of 2011, Selbst defeated Shak heads up to win the final North American Poker Tour Main Event.
There will be a little extra leg room at the final table today.
Day 2 of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller ended in a double knockout, with Fabian Quoss eliminating both Paul Newey and Mike McDonald on the bubble of the official final table. McDonald started the hand with more chips, so Newey bubbled the money while McDonald pocketed $217,320.
Leading the unorthodox seven-handed final table is Dan Shak (3.7 million), who doubled through Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst (3.645 million) during the final level of play on Day 2. Shak only has a one-big blind edge over Selbst, and combined the two players have more than half of the chips in play.
Antonio Esfandiari (2.83 million) and Fabian Quoss (2.65 million) are the only other players in seven figures, as Matt Glantz (480,000), Tony Gregg (410,000), and Ole Schemion (280,000) all have eight big blinds or fewer.
The cards will be in the air at 1 p.m. local time, but our coverage will run concurrently with the EPT Live stream, which begins at 2 p.m. EST. Be sure to check back to PokerNews for coverage of this final table and the start of the 2014 PCA Main Event.
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