Faces in the Field

Among the players to sit down for the very first hand are 2016 Main Event third-place finisher Cliff Josephy, Simon Deadman, Samantha Cohen, Paawan Bansal, Marcel Vonk, and New York Times bestselling author turned poker pro Maria Konnikova.

Player	Chips	Progress
Cliff Josephy	26,200 26,200	26,200

Simon Deadman	26,200 26,200	26,200
Sam Cohen	26,200 26,200	26,200
Maria Konnikova	26,200 26,200	26,200

Paawan Bansal	26,200 26,200	26,200
Marcel Vonk	26,200 26,200	26,200

Tags: Cliff Josephy Marcel Vonk Maria Konnikova Paawan Bansal Samantha Cohen Simon Deadman