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Nicky Katz has been playing in small-buy-in tournaments around the UK for about 15 years now. He won a £1,000 tournament in Luton in 2002, and he has well over $100,000 in total career cashes.
He'll start the final table in the middle of the pack but just a bit below average. He's right at 150,000 chips to begin play.
Scott Shelley is an amateur player from right here in London, and he works for a European online poker site. It is his second year playing at the WSOPE, though he was without a cash in his first go-round in 2009. It wasn't for lack of trying though; Shelley bubbled this event to leave empty-handed.
One year later, he's qualified for this event through a staff satellite. He's parlaying that entry into something special here, turning in an impressive performance that's led him all the way to the final table. He begins play in the middle of the pack with 148,000 chips, and he's already locked up his first WSOP cash this week.
Seat 1 is the first Brit at the table, Karim Jomeen of England. Jomeen's young professional poker career is on the upswing right now, though this is his first cash of 2010. It's his second career WSOP cash, and this one will certainly be bigger than the ~$6,000 he took for 98th place in a $2,000 event.
Jomeen has a smattering of cash results in Australia, including a runner-up finish in the Joe Hachem Deepstack series and two final tables in Aussie Millions side events. Apart from that little bit we know about him, we're still learning Jomeen ourselves. He's played quite well this week, though, and he's put himself in a position to scoop up what could be the largest paycheck of his poker career.
Jomeen begins the day three from the bottom of the chip counts with 109,000.
Event #3: £1,075 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 3 Started
