Seat 5: Gary Benson (365,000 in chips)
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Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Gary Benson has been a long time visitor to the USA to play the WSOP. One of the stalwarts of Australian poker, Benson has the most experience playing Seven Card Stud and has been notching results since 1995 both here and abroad and was inducted into the Australian Poker Hall of Fame in 2010.
Most notably, Benson claimed gold in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event back in 1996 for $148,200 – which amazingly is a few thousand more than today’s first prize. With 11 WSOP cashes, multiple Aussie Millions titles and over $1 million in lifetime earnings, if Benson captures his second Stud bracelet today he will become the player with the second longest gap between bracelets – 17 years – behind the late and great Chip Reece.